Comment 30 for bug 1368094
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| Mark Kirk (mklists) wrote Re: Please backport openjdk-8 8u40~b04-2 (universe) from utopic | #30 |
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I'm dismayed that this has been going on for a year now (several other tickets plead for Java 8 on 14.04). It seriously makes me question whether Ubuntu is the right server distro to be running. I thought Canonical was going to support 14.04 LTS for 5 years. Support shouldn't mean frozen in time.
Java 7 defaults to older TLS versions (especially on client connections) and it's sometimes difficult to force TLSv1.2 when you can't change the source code of a library. Java 8 bypasses these problems, so getting 8 on 14.04 is really a security issue, too.
It seems like doing this is mired in some weird bureaucratic black hole.