Hi All,
OpenJDK
17 Early Access build 21 is now available at https://jdk.java.net/17
- These early-access ,
open-source builds are provided under the
- Schedule
- 2021/06/10
Rampdown Phase One
- 2021/07/15
Rampdown Phase Two
- 2021/08/05
Initial Release Candidate
- 2021/08/19
Final Release Candidate
- 2021/09/14
General Availability
- JEPs targeted to JDK 17, so far:
- Changes
in recent builds that maybe of interest:
- Build
21:
- JDK-8196415:
JARs signed with SHA-1 algorithms are restricted by default.
- JDK-8265989:
System property for the native character encoding name.
- JDK-8265137:
java.util.Random suddenly has new public methods nowhere
documented.
- [Reported
by Apache Lucene]
- Build
20
- JDK-8037397:
RegEx pattern matching loses character class after
intersection (&&) operator.
- JDK-8264208:
A new public method that returns the `Charset` used in the
`Console.
- Build
19
- JDK-8228988:
AnnotationParser throws NullPointerException on incompatible
member type.
- JDK-8258794:
Support for CLDR version 39.
- JDK-8262108:
SimpleDateFormat formatting broken for sq_MK Locale.
- [Reported
by ApacheCommons]
- Build 18
- JDK-8260693:
Provide the support for specifying a signer in keytool
-genkeypair.
- JDK-8263763:
Synthetic constructor parameters of enum are not considered
for annotation indices.
Topics
of interest from 'Insider Java':
- Security
and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager : Link
- Foreign
Memory Access and NIO channels - Going Further : Link
Project
Loom Early-Access Build: Build 17-loom+6-225
(2021/4/1)
April
2021 Critical Patch Update Released:
- As
part of the April 2021 CPU we released JDK 16.0.1, JDK 11.0.11
LTS, JDK 8u291 and JDK 7u301 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.1 (publicly
available).
Rgds,Rory
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland