Not entirely true - Redhat customers will get until at least November (so a further 6 months) and even after that the company could be paying Oracle for extended support.
Richard. On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 at 22:39 James Nord <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:33:09 UTC, Jesse Glick wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Connolly >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Which is why I think going for JDK7 now is a better plan than trying to >> jump >> > all the way to JDK8 >> >> Painful as it is, I tend to agree. To be clear, by current LTS policy, >> switching the baseline to Java 8 means that someone whose corporate IT >> supports installation of only Java 7 will not receive even security >> fixes in about three months. (CloudBees customers get an extra nine >> months’ reprieve.) Otherwise they are left to backport for themselves. >> > > But they will have a JDK that won't get security fixes in less time than > this unless they have some commercial support - so I don't get what your > point is here? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui947BtONSiD4Wh%3DuT3AZ%2BUCFNgS2qOJEf4iBzXnfpoECaAg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
