Hi All, A number of items to share with you today :
1) JDK 10 General Availability JDK 10, the first release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence release model [1][2], is now Generally Available. We've identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 46 almost two weeks ago, so that is the official GA release, ready for production use. GPL'd binaries from Oracle are available here: http://jdk.java.net/10 This release includes twelve features: 286: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286"Local-Variable Type Inference 296: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/296"Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository 304: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/304"Garbage-Collector Interface 307: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/307"Parallel Full GC for G1 310: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310"Application Class-Data Sharing 312: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/312"Thread-Local Handshakes 313: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/313"Remove the Native-Header Generation Tool (javah) 314: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/314"Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions 316: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/316"Heap Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices 317: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/317"Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler 319: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/319"Root Certificates 322: HYPERLINK "http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322"Time-Based Release Versioning 2) JDK 11 EA build 5, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are now available at http://jdk.java.net/11 . Schedule, status & features http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/ Release Notes: http://jdk.java.net/11/release-notes Summary of changes https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk11/5/jdk-11+5.html 3) The Z Garbage Collector Project, early access builds available : The first EA binary from from The Z Garbage Collector Project, also known as ZGC, is now available. ZGC is a scalable low latency garbage collector. For information on how to enable and use ZGC, please see the project wiki. Project page: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zgc/ Wiki: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main 4) Quality Outreach Report for March 2018 is available https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2018 5) Java Client Roadmap Update We posted a blog [3] and related white paper [4] detailing our plans for the Java Client. [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html [3] Blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates [4] Whitepaper: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javaclientroadmapupdate2018mar-4414431.pdf -- Regards, Abdul Muneer Quality Engineer Oracle, Bangalore, India
