Re: FYI: Snyk JVM Ecosystem Report 2021

[Patrick Hunt]

If you download the "detailed" pdf report it shows that 15 is on the uptake
already...

Patrick

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 8:19 AM Christopher  wrote:

> The report says that over 60% of developers use Java 11 in
> *production*. That's higher than I would have expected. I figured most
> production users were still running 8. Nevertheless, if that many are
> using 11 in production, I can imagine the number of developers
> planning for 11 or higher in their *next* releases would be much
> higher. I think this gives real credibility to the idea that current
> main/master/next/develop branches for Java projects should probably be
> focusing on 11 or higher.
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:35 PM Patrick Hunt  wrote:
> >
> > Questions come up every so often on what jvm versions we should
> > support/test/etc... Granted this is larger than our community but I think
> > it provides some useful insight:
> > https://snyk.io/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Patrick
>

Re: FYI: Snyk JVM Ecosystem Report 2021

[Christopher]

The report says that over 60% of developers use Java 11 in
*production*. That's higher than I would have expected. I figured most
production users were still running 8. Nevertheless, if that many are
using 11 in production, I can imagine the number of developers
planning for 11 or higher in their *next* releases would be much
higher. I think this gives real credibility to the idea that current
main/master/next/develop branches for Java projects should probably be
focusing on 11 or higher.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 9:35 PM Patrick Hunt  wrote:
>
> Questions come up every so often on what jvm versions we should
> support/test/etc... Granted this is larger than our community but I think
> it provides some useful insight:
> https://snyk.io/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick

JDK 17 Early Access build 28 & JDK 18 build 3 are available

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Enrico, **

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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
   
 o JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
   
 o JEP 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline
   
 o JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port 
 o JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
   
 o JEP 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals
   
 o JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)
   
 o JEP 407: Remove RMI Activation 
 o JEP 409: Sealed Classes 
 o JEP 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler
   
 o JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal
   
 o JEP 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
   
 o JEP 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
   
 o JEP 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters
   


*OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 28 is available at 
**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 
 * Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes
   
 * 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  tag [*Reported by Apache Lucene*]


*OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 3 is now available at 
**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 
 * 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
   

*Other Topics of Interest: *

 * State of Loom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG24inClY2M
   
 * State of Panama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8k9QGvPxC0
   
 * What's a JEP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VrmvyIEpM
   


*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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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland