Hi Mark & Gavin,
*Per the JDK 15 schedule , we are now in the Initial Release Candidate
Phase
*
***Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.***
* Schedule for JDK 15
o *2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate*
o 2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate
o 2020/09/15 General Availability
**
* The overall feature set is frozen.
o Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1 bugs.
* Features included in JDK 15:
o JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/339>
o JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/360>
o JEP 371: Hidden Classes <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/371>
o JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372>
o JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/373>
o JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/374>
o JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375>
o JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/377>
o JEP 378: Text Blocks <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378>
o JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/379>
o JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/381>
o JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383>
o JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/384>
o JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385>
*JDK 15 **Early Access build 35 *is now available at http://jdk.java.net/15
* Release notes
o http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes
* Recent fixes that might be of interest
o Build 34
+ JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working
*JDK 16 Early Access build 9 ***is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16
* JEP Candidate
o JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388>
* JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
o JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369>
o JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357>
o JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347>
**
* Recent fixes that might be of interest
o
Build 9
+ JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root CA program
+ JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root CA program
o Build 8
+ JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working
+ JDK-8248655: Support supplementary characters in String case
insensitive operations
o Build 7
+ JDK-8246032: Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14
Language Features
*__*
Rgds,Rory
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland
