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How to match OpenJFX GA release versions with github tag versions?

I'm trying to figure out how to match the versions of OpenJFX general availability releases like 13.0.2 with any tags available in https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/releases. The numbering format of those tags is always something like X+Y. Then how can I know OpenJFX 13, 13.0.1 and 13.0.2 match with which tags?

Solution

  • Repositories

    OpenJFX has been developed in the HG Mercurial repository openjfx/jfx-dev/rt, up until it was made read only and migrated to the new official GitHub openjdk/jfx repository (see Proposal: Migrate official jfx repo to GitHub + Skara tooling). This happened at the end of September 2019, right after the release of JavaFX 13.

    Whenever there was a major release, the OpenJFX repo was branched (under HG):

    and the development continued in the master branch openjfx/jfx-dev/rt, which is now at https://github.com/openjdk/jfx

    Note that the repository https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx was a temporary mirror of HG. As you can read now:

    This repository is an obsolete GIT mirror of the formerly-official HG repo on OpenJDK.

    JavaFX 14 hasn't been released yet, but as mentioned, all the development is happening now at GitHub (there are a few commits in HG of the last days of September though).

    Early access

    All the tags that you see before a release are early access snapshots, like 14-ea+1,..., 14-ea+7, or even 15-ea+1.

    Of course, you can still find the old early access tags for released versions, like 13-ea+14.

    Minor releases

    Since the releases (11, 12, 13) are at HG, the tags related to new minor releases, like 13.0.1, can be found there:

    Maven artifacts

    For every tag (early access and minor release) there are published artifacts to Maven Central.

    Maven Central

    LTS

    Note that regarding JavaFX 11, you won't find the maven artifacts for the releases since 11.0.3, as these are LTS. You can find them here.