Thanks for the update Rick!
On 11/05/2021 20:50, Rick Hillegas wrote:
Hi Rory,
Derby built and tested cleanly with early access build 21, except for
one probably transient or environmental problem. See
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7110?focusedCommentId=17342832&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel*comment-17342832__;Iw!!GqivPVa7Brio!N-FU-a1axu2ELjhUdaZIMdcVT079sw12uOSJr6fXWPJqbPcsrv_ubApUT0LG_eryLck$
Cheers,
-Rick
On 5/10/21 1:29 AM, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
Hi Rick, *** *
*OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 21 is now available at
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* Schedule
o 2021/06/10 Rampdown Phase One
o 2021/07/15 Rampdown Phase Two
o 2021/08/05 Initial Release Candidate
o 2021/08/19 Final Release Candidate
o 2021/09/14 General Availability
* JEPs targeted to JDK 17, so far:
o JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356>
o JEP 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382>
o JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391>
o JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
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* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o Build 21:
+ JDK-8196415: JARs signed with SHA-1 algorithms are
restricted by default.
+ JDK-8265989: System property for the native character
encoding name.
+ JDK-8265137: java.util.Random suddenly has new public
methods nowhere documented.
# [*Reported by Apache Lucene]*
o Build 20
+ JDK-8037397: RegEx pattern matching loses character class
after intersection (&&) operator.
+ JDK-8264208: A new public method that returns the `Charset`
used in the `Console.
o Build 19
+ JDK-8228988: AnnotationParser throws NullPointerException on
incompatible member type.
# *[Reported by ByteBuddy]*
+ JDK-8258794: Support for CLDR version 39.
+ JDK-8262108: SimpleDateFormat formatting broken for sq_MK
Locale.
# *[**Reported by ApacheCommons]*
o Build 18
+ JDK-8260693: Provide the support for specifying a signer in
keytool -genkeypair.
+ JDK-8263763: Synthetic constructor parameters of enum are
not considered for annotation indices.
# *[Reported by ByteBuddy]*
*Topics of interest from 'Insider Java':*
* Security and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager : Link
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* Foreign Memory Access and NIO channels - Going Further : Link
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*Project Loom Early-Access Build: **Build 17-loom+6-225*
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>*(2021/4/1)*
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*April 2021 Critical Patch Update Released:*
* As part of the April 2021 CPU we released JDK 16.0.1, JDK 11.0.11
LTS, JDK 8u291 and JDK 7u301 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.1 (publicly
available).
Rgds,Rory
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland
