Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 16 / JDK 16

Hi All,

 

Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 16 / JDK 16

 

• JDK 16, the reference implementation of Java 16, is now Generally Available. [1]
• GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: http://jdk.java.net/16/
• JDK 16 Release notes

 

JDK 16 includes the following features [2]:

• JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
• JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
• JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
• JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
• JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
• JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels
• JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
• JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace
• JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
• JEP 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)
• JEP 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• JEP 392: Packaging Tool
• JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator)
• JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
• JEP 395: Records
• JEP 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default
• JEP 397: Sealed Classes (Second Preview)

 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 16, whether by creating features or enhancements, logging bugs, or

downloading and testing the early-access builds.

 

OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 13 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/17

• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
  
• JEPs targeted to JDK 17, so far:
• JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators

• Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes

• Significant changes since the last availability email:
• JDK-8259709: Disable SHA-1 XML Signatures (b13)
• JDK-6323374: (coll) Optimize Collections.unmodifiable* and synchronized*(b13)
• JDK-8139348: Deprecate 3DES and RC4 in Kerberos (b12)
• JDK-8259662: Don't wrap SocketExceptions into SSLExceptions in SSLSocketImpl (b11)
• JDK-8235139: Deprecate the socket impl factory mechanism(b10)
• JDK-8225081: Remove Telia Company CA certificate expiring in April 2021(b9)

Project Lanai Early-Access Builds

• EA 10 Build 17-lanai+3-133 (2021/3/2) is available - http://jdk.java.net/lanai/
  
• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

Project Loom Early-Access Builds

• Build 17-loom+4-174 (2021/3/12)  is available - http://jdk.java.net/loom/
• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

Project Panama Early-Access Builds

• Build 17-panama+2-51 (2021/2/12) is available - http://jdk.java.net/panama/
• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

 

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-March/005188.html

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/