Re: JDK 17 is now in the Release Candidate Phase

2021-08-07 Thread Jaikiran Pai 

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
   
 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 Accessbuild 35 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 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
   : Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number
   Generators - Here
   
 * The latest JEP Café cover 17's JEP 409
    : Sealed Classes - Here
   
 * A few updates to JEP 411 :
   Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - Here


*
*

*OpenJDK**18 Early Access build 9 is 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 
 * Release Notes are available at 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

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[2] 
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html




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JDK 17 is now in the Release Candidate Phase

2021-08-07 Thread Rory O'Donnell 

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
   
 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 Accessbuild 35 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 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
   : Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number
   Generators - Here
   
 * The latest JEP Café cover 17's JEP 409
    : Sealed Classes - Here
   
 * A few updates to JEP 411 :
   Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - Here
   

*
*

*OpenJDK**18 Early Access build 9 is 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 
 * Release Notes are available at 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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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland