Call for Testing: OpenJDK 11 packages in bionic-proposed and cosmic-proposed

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS shipped with OpenJDK 10 with the intent to update to OpenJDK 11, which unlike OpenJDK 10 is covered by LTS upstream security support that is more suitable for the lifetime of an Ubuntu LTS. Both OpenJDK 10 and 11 dropped some APIs, got stricter with the javadoc tools, and had some other incompatible build changes, which are mostly fixed now in our packages for the upcoming 19.04 release. Instead of backporting single patches for 250+ packages, we decided to backport the packages to 18.04 LTS and 18.10 where necessary. The backports are currently available in the bionic-proposed and cosmic-proposed pockets. We are planning to copy these packages to both the security and updates pockets in the last week of March. Please test these packages (see the end of the email for a list) and file new bug reports for any issue with these planned updates, subscribing the openjdk-11-transition team to the bug report. As an alternative, feel free to contact us on the #ubuntu-java IRC channel. WARNING: In order to resolve any issues found, we might need to remove some packages from -proposed or SRU them at a lower version number, so please don’t do the tests in your production environment; and be ready to downgrade packages if they are not propagated to the updates and security pockets. It is of particular importance to get more feedback on end-user applications, which may be affected in ways not identifiable in automated testing. These packages are free of all known regressions; but it’s possible there are unknown regressions, which is why we are asking for your help. Please check that your favorite applications continue to work. Some application packages that are known to be affected by OpenJDK API changes, and have had some manual testing but warrant additional testing are: jabref, jedit, jhove, libreoffice, mobile-atlas-creator, netbeans, tomcat8, tomcat9, sweethome3d, and virtualbox. The uploads themselves are tracked in the following bug reports: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1784196 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1814133 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1818647 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1819448 The updates include the OpenJDK 11 packages itself, and the packages found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/~openjdk-11-transition/+packagebugs OpenJDK 8 in 18.04 LTS (bionic) remains in the community-supported universe component. We will provide OpenJDK 8 updates for 18.04 LTS as long as we provide them for the 16.04 LTS (xenial) release. On behalf of the OpenJDK 11 transition team, Matthias Klose -- List of packages in -proposed: activemq afterburner.fx android-framework-23 android-platform-art android-platform-build android-platform-dalvik android-platform-development android-platform-external-boringssl android-platform-external-libselinux android-platform-external-libunwind android-platform-frameworks-base android-platform-frameworks-data-binding android-platform-frameworks-native android-platform-libcore android-platform-libnativehelper android-platform-system-core android-platform-system-extras android-platform-system-tools-aidl android-platform-tools-apksig angular-maven-plugin annotation-indexer ant ant-contrib antlr4 apache-directory-server apktool asm aspectj aspectj-maven-plugin batik bindex bnd bridge-method-injector carrotsearch-hppc cava clojure clojure-maven-plugin clojure1.8 commons-httpclient dd-plist dummydroid ecj eclipse-debian-helper eclipse-jdt-core eclipse-jdt-debug eclipse-jdt-ui eclipse-platform-debug eclipse-platform-resources eclipse-platform-runtime eclipse-platform-team eclipse-platform-text eclipse-platform-ua eclipse-platform-ui eclipselink el-api elki enjarify equinox-bundles equinox-framework equinox-p2 f2fs-tools figtree fontawesomefx fonts-liberation2 gettext gluegen2 gmbal gmbal-commons gmbal-pfl gradle gradle-apt-plugin gradle-completion gradle-debian-helper groovy hikaricp hsqldb hsqldb1.8.0 insubstantial istack-commons jabref jackson-core jackson-databind jackson-dataformat-xml jackson-module-jaxb-annotations jarjar-maven-plugin java-common java3d javafxsvg javamail javatools jaxb jaxb-api jaxe jaxrpc-api jaxrs-api jaxws jaxws-api jboss-classfilewriter jboss-jdeparser2 jboss-modules jcommander jersey1 jetty9 jftp jhove jmdns jnr-posix jruby jruby-openssl jsp-api jtreg jts junit4 jws-api jxgrabkey jython libapache-poi-java libbtm-java libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-collections4-java libcommons-compress-java libcommons-lang3-java libeclipse-emf libequinox-osgi-java libgoogle-gson-java libgpars-groovy-java libhibernate-validator-java libjackson-json-java libjavaewah-java libjdo-api-java libjdom1-java libjgoodies-looks-java libjogl2-java libnb-javaparser-java libnb-platform18-java libnetx-java libpdfbox2-java libpicocontainer-java libquartz-java libreoffice libreoffice-l10n libsambox-java libscout libscram-java libsejda-java libsmali-java libspring-java libstax2-api-java libswingx-java libwoodstox-java libxml-security-java libxstream-java logback lucene-solr mapsforge mariadb-connector-java maven maven-ant-helper maven-bundle-plugin maven-cache-cleanup maven-clean-plugin maven-compiler-plugin maven-debian-helper maven-dependency-analyzer maven-dependency-plugin maven-doxia-tools maven-enforcer maven-jar-plugin maven-javadoc-plugin maven-jaxb2-plugin maven-parent maven-plugin-testing maven-plugin-tools maven-processor-plugin maven-repo-helper maven-resolver maven-resources-plugin maven-shade-plugin maven-shared-utils mavibot mckoisqldb metro-policy mimepull mobile-atlas-creator mockito mojo-executor msv netbeans obantoo objenesis openhft-chronicle-bytes openhft-chronicle-core openhft-lang openjdk-11-jre-dcevm openjdk-lts openjfx openjpa orthanc-imagej pdfsam plexus-io plexus-languages procyon properties-maven-plugin rdp-alignment rdp-classifier rdp-readseq resteasy3.0 rome rsyntaxtextarea saaj saaj-ri scala scilab servlet-api shiro sitemesh snakeyaml stax-ex string-template-maven-plugin surefire svgsalamander sweethome3d swt4-gtk testng timingframework tomcat-native tomcat8 tomcat9 trove3 uimaj unsafe-mock virtualbox visualvm wala websocket-api writer2latex xml-maven-plugin xmlbeans