Posted by Rory O'Donnell on Mar 20, 2019; 8:43am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Release-Announcement-General-Availability-of-Java-12-JDK-12-tp6817.html


  Hi All,

1) Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 12 / JDK 12 [1]

• JDK 12, the reference implementation of Java 12, is now Generally Available.
• GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: https://jdk.java.net/12

This release includes the following  eight features:

• JEP 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector (Experimental)
• JEP 230: Microbenchmark Suite
• JEP 334: JVM Constants API
• JEP 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
• JEP 341: Default CDS Archives
• JEP 344: Abortable Mixed Collections for G1
• JEP 346: Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1
• JEP 325: Switch Expressions (Preview)

Thanks to everyone who contributed JDK 12, whether by creating features or enhancements, logging  bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access builds.

2) JDK 13 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, is now available at http://jdk.java.net/13 .

• Proposed - Schedule for JDK 13 [2]
  
• 2019/06/13 Rampdown Phase One
• 2019/07/18 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2019/08/08 Initial Release Candidate
• 2019/08/22 Final Release Candidate
• 2019/09/17 General Availability
• Recent Bug fixes of Interest
• Build 9:
• 8214719: Deprecate -Xverify:none option
• 8216360: Deprecate -XX:CompilationPolicyChoice
  
• Build 10: 
• 8218995: Deprecate the -XX:FailOverToOldVerifier option
• Build 12 : 8160247: Mark deprecated javax.security.cert APIs with forRemoval=true
• 8220050: Deprecate -XX:-ThreadLocalHandshakes
• Apache Lucene Reported - 8219448: split-if update_uses accesses stale idom data
• Changes in this build [3]

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-March/002718.html
[2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-March/002716.html
[3] Changes in this build

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