Hi all, as you may already be aware, the intention is to make OpenJDK 7 the default Java implementation in Wheezy LTS to ensure full security support until 31 May 2018. The switch will happen on 26 June 2016. I would like to ask everyone who uses Java in server or desktop environments to test their applications with OpenJDK 7 and to prepare for the switch. This can be achieved by installing either openjdk-7-jre or openjdk-7-jre-headless. In case OpenJDK 6 is already installed on your system, you can switch to OpenJDK 7 by using the update-alternatives mechanism: sudo update-alternatives --config java On 26 June default-jre, default-jre-headless and default-jdk will no longer point to OpenJDK 6 but to OpenJDK 7 instead. This will be achieved by updating the java-common package. I have prepared updated packages of java-common for testing that can be downloaded from: https://people.debian.org/~apo/wheezy-lts/ Important note for users of Tomcat and Jetty: We strongly recommend to change the JAVA_HOME variable in /etc/default/tomcat7 and /etc/default/jetty to JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/openjdk-7-jdk and to replace OpenJDK 6 with OpenJDK 7 at your earliest convenience. Regards, Markus
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