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Revision as of 12:42, 10 April 2018
java-openjdk 10 - rolling release for Short Term Support releases of OpenJDK
Summary
OpenJDK have release cadence of 6 months. but 3/4 of them are Short Term Supported for 6 months only. This package is designed to harbore them. Currently it is build on openJDK 10. LTSs (next is 11) will go as separate packages.
See announcement: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html
See java SIG plans: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/devconf/2018/changesInjavaReleaseProcess.pdf
Owner
- Name: Jiri Vanek
- Email: jvanek@redhat.com
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 28
- Last updated: 2018-04-10
- Tracker bug: 1557371
Detailed Description
JDK10 is next major release of Java platform. It is bringing many cool improvements - http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/ and is landing to your Fedora. Where it will be maintained for f27 and newer. Unluckily, it is STS (short term support) version. Between individual LTS will be always several STS. Again, please See announcement: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html and See java SIG plans: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/devconf/2018/changesInjavaReleaseProcess.pdf . So this is rolling release of all STSs to come. Its fate during the release of fresh LTS is yet to be decided. You will always be allowed to install Used LTS in fedora build root, alongside with latest STS via alternatives.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora will keep on top of java technology, All developers and interested parties will have latest OpenJDK available (currently 10). As another benefit of this approach, build stack will not be affected, and will continue to be build by most stable LTS (currently 8, in year or so replaced by JDK 11).
Scope
- Proposal owners:
This is isolated change. The maintainers of OpenJDK in Fedora must build the binaries, and keep them working. Still, to keep this rolling release will be soem packaging challenge. Lets see this when JDK12 (or maybe already 11) come out.
- Other developers: Should slowly start to check theirs packages against JDK10
- Release engineering: #7433
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
java-openjdk can coexists with java-1.8.0-openjdk (and possibly also with eoled java-9-openjdk). It should coexist with java-11-openjdk in future too. The update of java-openjdk v10 to v11 or v12 should be smooth and transparent.
Please note, that since java-9-openjdk config files of JDK are in /etc/java. Still, you can have several JDKs installed in parallel.
How To Test
dnf install java-openjdk
alternatives --config java
[select JDK10]
java -version
[should be 10]
alternatives --config javac
[select JDK10]
javac -version
[should be 10]
And happy hacking!
User Experience
Users will be able to write programs for JDK10 and to enjoy runtime for JDK10 specific applications
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? N/A
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)