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by gunnarmorling 1526 days ago
For folks on RHEL, the java-17-openjdk package for RHEL 8 has been updated: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1445.

> The official OpenJDK project lists the planned release date of 17.0.3 as April 19th, still the latest available GA release is 17.0.2

> (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/JDK+17u).

I don't think there 17.0.3 ever will be available from openjdk.java.net; there's no LTS for upstream builds, and since Java 18 is out already, no further builds of 17 should be expected there. IMO, this warrants some clarification on that site though.

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> I don't think there 17.0.3 ever will be available from openjdk.java.net

https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html

These are the official upstream builds by the updates project built by Red Hat. Not to be confused by Red Hat Java, not to be confused by the AdoptOpenJDK/Adoptium builds. These can‘t be hosted on openjdk.java.net because they host only builds done by Oracle, not to be confused by Oracle JDK.

This site doesn't provide anything newer than OpenJDK 11 and references the Adoptium projects for July 2021 and future releases. But Adoptium only provide their own Temurin distribution. Looks like a dead end for an OpenJDK 17.0.3 upstream build.
Thanks for the clarification. The site is not clear on that topic and actually suggests otherwise by listing the planned release dates in the timeline.

On the other hand, the problem that many popular server distributions like CentOS and Debian still haven't updated their Java 17 packages remains and I wonder if this is due to their own package build process or because they are waiting for an upstream process to complete.

If they actually rely on the upstream builds from openjdk.java.net that would mean that the fix will not make it to their repositories at all.