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Fedora will compile/produce artifacts that run on a publicly supported version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Only after a JVM version has been end of lifed will Fedora take advantage of the next more current Java's version features A minimum of two months advance notice to the fedora-community mailing list will be provided before requiring a new version of the JVM.
Where:
Publicly supported
- Is defined as a Java version that has passed its "general availability" date , as specified by Oracle's support roadmap.
End of Lifed
- Is defined as a Java version that has passed but has not yet reached its "end of public updates" date, as specified by Oracle's support roadmap.
Example 1
- Java8 was released on March, 2014.
- Java7 will be EOL'd on April, 2015.
Fedora 4 will build/run on Java7 until April, 2015. After April, 2015, Fedora 4 will require a Java8 JVM.
Example 2
In the above example, if Java9 were also (hypothetically) released on June, 2014...
- Java9 was released on June, 2014.
- Java8 was released on March, 2014.
- Java7 will be EOL'd on April, 2015.
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