Hello Rory,
I ran our Ant testsuite on a Linux setup against both Java 17 and Java
18 EA releases. No new issues noticed and things look fine.
-Jaikiran
On 07/08/21 8:23 pm, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
Hi Stefan/Jaikiran,
*Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are now in the Release Candidate Phase
[1][2].*
*
*
*Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early
Access builds.*
* Schedule:
o *2021/08/05 Initial Release Candidate *
o 2021/08/19 Final Release Candidate
o 2021/09/14 General Availability
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 Accessbuild 35 is available at
**https://jdk.java.net/17* <https://jdk.java.net/17>
* 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://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes
<https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes>
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o JDK-8270866: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath()[build 33]
+ Reportedby jOOQ
**Topics of Interest: *
*
* The latest Newscast covers 17's JEP 356
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356>: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number
Generators - Here
<https://inside.java/2021/07/29/insidejava-newscast-009/>
* The latest JEP Café cover 17's JEP 409
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409> : Sealed Classes - Here
<https://inside.java/2021/07/22/jepcafe2/>
* A few updates to JEP 411 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411>:
Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - Here
<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2021-July/026806.html>
*
*
*OpenJDK**18 Early Access build 9 is available at
**https://jdk.java.net/18* <https://jdk.java.net/18>
* 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://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes
<https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes>
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o JDK-8225082: Remove IdenTrust certificate that is expiring in
September 2021 [build 9]
o JDK-8251329: Zip File System Provider Throws ZipException when
entry name element contains "." or ".." [build 9]
o JDK-8271359: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath() [build 8]
+ Reported by jOOQ
*July 2021 Critical Patch Update Released*
* As part of the July 2021, we released JDK 16.0.2, JDK 11.0.12 LTS,
JDK 8u301 and JDK 7u311 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.2 (publicly available)
Rgds,Rory
[1]
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005894.html
[2]
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html
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