Hello Rory,

I just ran our Ant project against the JDK 16 EA build 16-ea+22-1329 on
our Linux setup[1] and no unexpected failures showed up. All looks fine.

[1]
https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Ant/job/Ant%20Master%20(latest%20EA%20JDK)/9/jdk_axis=jdk16_ea,label_exp=ubuntu/

-Jaikiran

On 23/10/20 2:59 pm, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
> Hi Stefan/Jaikiran,
>
> OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 21**is now available at
> http://jdk.java.net/16
>
>  * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
>      o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
>        Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.
>
>  * Schedule (proposed)
>
>             2020/12/10 Rampdown Phase One
>             2021/01/14 Rampdown Phase Two
>             2021/02/04         Initial Release Candidate
>             2021/02/18         Final Release Candidate
>             2021/03/16         General Availability
>
>  * Features:
>      o JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
>          + JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
>            <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338>
>          + JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
>            <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347>
>          + JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
>            <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357>
>          + JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369>
>          + JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
>            <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376>
>          + JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386>
>          + JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387>
>          + JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
>            <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388>
>
> **
>
>  * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
>      o Build 21
>          + JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class
>          + JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP Authentication
>            Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate Over Clear Connections
>          + JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and EdDSA
>          + JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling
>          + JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry() to
>            recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size
>      o Build 20
>          + JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false on a
>            writeable root directory (win)
>              # Reported by JUnit5
>          + JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in
>            ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation
>              # Reported by JUnit5
>          + JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated java.awt.PeerFixer class
>          + JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return false for
>            interface implementors
>              # Found by Hibernate Validator
>          + JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as part of
>            tzdata2020b
>      o Build 19
>          + JDK-8253761: Wrong URI syntax printed by jar --describe-module
>              # Reported by JUnit5
>
> Project Lanai Early-Access Build: EA 6 Build 16-lanai+2-229
> <http://jdk.java.net/lanai/> (2020/10/4)
>
>  * These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public
>    License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.
>  * These builds are based upon the latest state of the current in
>    development JDK, and so may contain new features and unresolved bugs
>    unrelated to Project Lanai. Project Lanai Wiki:
>    https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main
>  * Please send feedback via e-mail tolanai-...@openjdk.java.net
>    <mailto:lanai-...@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address
>    you must firstsubscribe to the mailing list
>    <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/lanai-dev>.
>
> Project Panama Early-Access Build: Build 16-panama+2-193
> <http://jdk.java.net/panama/> (2020/10/1)
>
>  * These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU
>    General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.
>  * These builds are based on an incomplete version of JDK 16.
>  * Please send feedback via e-mail topanama-...@openjdk.java.net
>    <mailto:panama-...@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address
>    you must firstsubscribe to the mailing list
>    <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/panama-dev>.
>
> Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated [1]
>
>  * Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519 and x448 named
>    elliptic curve groups to TLS.
>  * Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021 CPU release.
>
> Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020
>
>  * https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
>
>
> *__*
> Rgds,Rory
>
> [1] https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
>

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