*Hi Rick, *
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*Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase One.*
*Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early
Access builds.*
The overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs will be targeted
to this release.
* Features integrated in JDK 17:
o JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306>
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
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398>
o JEP 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403>
o JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406>
o JEP 407: Remove RMI Activation
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407>
o JEP 409: Sealed Classes <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409>
o JEP 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410>
o JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411>
o JEP 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412>
o JEP 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414>
o JEP 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415>
*OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 28 is available at
**https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jdk.java.net/17*__;Kg!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBRLVvx9Q$
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jdk.java.net/17__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBYY5FMDA$
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* These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
Exception <https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>
* Release Notes are available at
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBEpuRUvE$
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBEpuRUvE$
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* Changes in build 28 that maybe of interest:
o *JDK-8269028: [BACKOUT] JDK-8196415 Disable SHA-1 Signed JARs *
o JDK-8268774: Residual logging output written to STDOUT, not
STDERR [*Reported by Apache Ant*]
o JDK-8264843: Javac crashes with NullPointerException when
finding unencoded XML in <pre> tag [*Reported by Apache Lucene*]
*OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 3 is now available at
**https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jdk.java.net/18*__;Kg!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBxEaP7bY$
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* These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
Exception <https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o JDK-8266791: Annotation property which is compiled as an array
property but changed to a single element throws NPE [*Reported
by Byte Buddy*]
* Coming in a future JDK 18 build
o Removal of Biased Locking in JDK 18 - Details
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/4522__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBPWENC5k$
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*Other Topics of Interest: *
* State of Loom:
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* State of Panama:
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* What's a JEP:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VrmvyIEpM__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!eEdRDqL96pl4sSo99AD0cH8cJ0_uqCzFwqItq-P5nFKnT8X2U3JyW-PN_acBA0TQems$
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*Quality Report for June 2021 was published here [1]. ***
* Thanks to everyone who contributed by creating features or
enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing the
early-access builds.
Rgds,Rory
[1]
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+Report+June+2021*
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