Re: JDK 16 EA build 18 is now available

[Rory O'Donnell]

Thanks Gavin!

On 02/10/2020 10:51, Gavin McDonald wrote:

Thanks Rory,

This is rolling out to all our build nodes as we speak , for projects to
use in testing.

HTH



On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:04 AM Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonn...@oracle.com>
wrote:

Hi Mark & Gavin,

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 18**is now available at
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://jdk.java.net/16__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!N4rs0T8HxlDcTKWRgZdG-4ETnLrsCkheilUE2XQE0MTjQ42rTLvRtdl5hO6vRWJqAyQ$

   * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
       o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
         Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.

   * Features:
       o JEPs proposed to target JDK 16
           + JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
             <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376>
           + JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386>
           + JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
             <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388>
       o JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
           + JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
             <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338>
           + JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
             <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347>
           + JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
             <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357>
           + JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369>
           + JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387>

   * Release Notes are available at 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!N4rs0T8HxlDcTKWRgZdG-4ETnLrsCkheilUE2XQE0MTjQ42rTLvRtdl5hO6v11a10vw$

**

   * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
       o Build 17
           + JDK-8247281: Object monitors no longer keep strong
             references to their associated object
           + JDK-8202473: A type variable with multiple bounds does not
             correctly place type annotation
               # Reported by ByteBuddy
           + JDK-8234808: jdb quoted option parsing broken
               # Reported by Apache Tomcat
       o Build 16
           + JDK-8172366: SUN, SunRsaSign, and SunEC Providers Supports
             SHA-3 Based Signature Algorithms
           + JDK-8244706: GZIPOutputStream now sets the GZIP OS Header
             Field to the correct default value

   * Quality Report for September 2020 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+September+2020

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

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