java/openjdk8 and jre

[Jung-uk Kim]

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On 11/16/15 09:57 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, at 08:20, Robert Simmons wrote:
>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/ That page lists it as
>> released.
> 
> Ok, here's the actual Oracle release notes on it which is a far
> more useful reference.
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u66-relnotes-2692847.ht
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>
>  The most frustrating part of this is not understanding their
> crazy version scheme. I get that the next release is 8u66, but it
> took far too long to find that the patch file is b17
> (patch-8u66-b17.xz) and now I still don't know what
> JDK_BUILD_NUMBER is supposed to be incremented to as that gets
> updated every time there's a new release.

Oracle does not release OpenJDK source tarballs except for GA release.

http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk8

Patches for FreeBSD ports tree are maintained by glewis and it is
directly generated from public Mercurial, AFAIK.

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u

Jung-uk Kim
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