JDK 17 Early Access build 21 is available

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JDK 17 Early Access build 21 is available

Rory O'Donnell


Hi All,

OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 21 is now available at https://jdk.java.net/17

  • 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 
  • 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.
        • [Reported by ByteBuddy]
      • 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.
        • [Reported by ByteBuddy]

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