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During the later stages of a release cycle, the release enters rampdown. If a change needs to be pushed to a release in rampdown, push approval can still be requested using the jdk23u-critical-request label. As the name of this tag suggests, this process is intended for fixes such as major regressions that must make the release. The maintainers may approve with jdk23u-critical-yes. Once the requester has pushed a critically approved fix it will automatically be included in the targeted release.
At the end of the month prior to the release month, the jdk21u repository is declared frozen so embargoed security fixes can be added in private during the final few weeks. On release day, the final version will be pushed to the jdk21u repository and source bundles made available.
[Outstanding requests] [All Requests] [All Approvals]
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