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Re:Java 9 has six weeks to live by marcodave on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:42PM (#16317868)
on one hand, I'm pretty ok with this, it helps more understanding that "hey, you're several security patches behind!" rather than just hiding the information in a build number. what's not really clear at least from the article, how will new APIs be rolled out with this faster release cycle?
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Re:Java 9 has six weeks to live by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:00PM (#16320761)
New APIs will be part of the every 6 months feature releases. Which means if you aren't on the LTS, you need to stay up with feature releases to get security updates after 6 months.
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Re:Java 9 has six weeks to live by needusername on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:16AM (#16322381)
Also old APIs can be removed part of the every 6 months feature releases. In theory an API can be deprecated in Java 10 and removed in Java 11.
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