Comment 93 for bug 1368094
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| Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote Re: [Bug 1368094] Re: Please backport openjdk-8 from Xenial to Trusty | #93 |
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On 2017-07-27 12:24 PM, Steven Darnell wrote:
> I'm sure what @stevenschlansker is describing is that Java 7 itself has
> been EOL since April 2015: https:/
Stewardship moved from Oracle to Red Hat according to [1]. Red Hat seems
to be committed to keep providing OpenJDK 7 updates till June 2018 [2].
> Although the openjdk-7 packages continues to be supported, it will not
> receive any new critical patch or security updates, which leaves users
> open to years-worth of vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Java 8.
OpenJDK 7 was updated in May 2017 with security fixes. Since the package
is in main for Trusty, it will keep receiving security fixes for the
whole lifetime of the LTS.
HTH,
Simon
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