Hi Stefan/Jaikiran,
OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 24**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
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 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380>
+ 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>
+ JEP 392: Packaging Tool <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392>
+ JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393>
+ JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394>
+ JEP 395: Records <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395>
**
* Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
<http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes>
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o Build 24
+ JDK-8231599: NPE when loading a preview classfile from a
future Java version
# *Reported by JUnit5*
+ JDK-8254661: arm32: additional cleanup after fixing SIGSEGV
# *Reported by JaCoCo*
+ JDK-8255584: `HttpPrincipal::getName` returns incorrect name
+ JDK-8255226: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020d
o Build 23
+ JDK-8254876: (fs) NullPointerException not thrown when first
argument to Path.of or Paths.get is null
+ JDK-8255576: (fs) Files.isHidden() throws
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (unix)
# *Reported by JUnit5*
+ JDK-8255616: Removal of experimental features AOT and Graal JIT
o Build 22
+ JDK-8243583: Change 'final' error checks to throw ICCE
+ JDK-8254982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020c
Project Loom Early-Access Build: Build 16-loom+7-285
<http://jdk.java.net/loom/> (2020/11/4)
* *Want to know more* - check out -
https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/
* 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>
o These builds are based on jdk-16+20
<https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/releases/tag/jdk-16%2B20>
o These EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering
feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk.
o Please send feedback via e-mail to loom-...@openjdk.java.net
<mailto:loom-...@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this
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<http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/loom-dev>.
Rgds,Rory
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland
