On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > major (LTS or other) OpenJDK release during the lifetime of stable > > release, maybe even on a regular cadence as a 'rolling' default. > > A rolling default JRE might be interesting, that would reduce the number > of JDKs maintained (assuming unstable, stable and oldstable are all > aligned on the same release at some point in time) and provide more > recent updates to our users. But this requires a near perfect backward > compatibility of the JDK APIs and tools, because we can't push an update > that would break applications in production. I'm under the impression
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