Hi All,
OpenJDK 16
Early Access build 21 is now
available at
http://jdk.java.net/16
- These early-access , open-source builds are provided under
the
2020/12/10
Rampdown Phase One
2021/01/14
Rampdown Phase Two
2021/02/04 Initial Release Candidate
2021/02/18 Final Release Candidate
2021/03/16 General Availability
- Features:
- JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
- Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
- Build 21
- JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class
- JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP
Authentication Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate Over
Clear Connections
- JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and
EdDSA
- JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling
- JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry()
to recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size
- Build 20
- JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false on
a writeable root directory (win)
- JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in
ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation
- JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated java.awt.PeerFixer
class
- JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return
false for interface implementors
- Found by Hibernate Validator
- JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as
part of tzdata2020b
- Build 19
- JDK-8253761:
Wrong URI syntax printed by jar
--describe-module
Project Lanai Early-Access Build: EA 6 Build
16-lanai+2-229 (2020/10/4)
Project Panama Early-Access Build: Build 16-panama+2-193
(2020/10/1)
Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated
[1]
- Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519 and
x448 named elliptic curve groups to TLS.
- Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021 CPU
release.
Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020
Rgds,Rory
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland