OpenJDK 15 EA build 18 is now available

 Hi All,

OpenJDK 15 EA build 18 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/15

• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
• Schedule for JDK 15
  
• 2020/06/11 Rampdown Phase One
• 2020/07/16 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate
• 2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate
• 2020/09/15 General Availability
• Features
• Proposed to target JDK 15
• JEP 371:   Hidden Classes
  
• JEPs targeted to JDK 15
  
• JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
• JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
  
• JEP 378: Text Blocks
  
• JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
  
• Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
  
• build 18
  
• JDK-8240169: javadoc fails to link to non-modular api docs
  
  • Reported by JUnit5
• JDK-8241670: Enhance heap region size ergonomics to improve OOTB performance
• JDK-8240745: Implementation: JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Production)
• JDK-8225319: Remove rmic from the set of supported tools
• JDK-8237490: Add support notarizing jpackage app-image and dmg
• build 17
  
• JDK-8240676 - Meet not symmetric failure when running lucene on jdk8
• Reported by Apache Lucene
• Build 16
  
• JDK-8241039 - Retire the deprecated SSLSession.getPeerCertificateChain() method 
• JDK-8219989 - Retire the com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider name
• JDK-8237859 - C2: Crash when loads float above range check
  • Reported by Apache Lucene
• JDK-8202469 - (ann) Type annotations on type variable bounds that are also type variables are lost
• Reported by ByteBuddy
• Build 15
• JDK-8214245 - Case insensitive matching doesn't work correctly for some character classes ()

• Quality Report for March 2020 was published here [1]
  
• Thanks again for all the bug reports and feeback!

Does your Project support JDK 14 - #AllTestsGreenOnJDK14

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2020

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