Posted by Rory O'Donnell on Aug 10, 2019; 10:18am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/JDK-13-is-now-in-the-Release-Candidate-Phase-tp7062.html

Hi All,

JDK 13 is now in the Release Candidate Phase - if you are aware of any issues, please let us know.

Per the JDK 13 schedule [1], we are now in the Release Candidate phase.
The stabilization repository, jdk/jdk13, is open for P1 bug fixes per the JDK Release Process (JEP 3) [2].
All changes require approval via the Fix-Request Process [3].

For more details, see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev mailing list [4] 

• Milestone Schedule:
• Initial RC Build 33 - Aug 9, 2019
• GAC - Aug 22, 2019
• GAR - Sept 5, 2019
• GA - Sept 17, 2019

OpenJDK 13 build 33 is available at http://jdk.java.net/13/

• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
• Schedule, status & features
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/13/
• Release Notes
• http://jdk.java.net/13/release-notes
  
• Bug fixes reported by Open Source Projects  :
• JDK-8228764 - fixed in b32 -reported by Apache Tomcat
  

OpenJDK 14 EA build 9 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/14

• These early access, open source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
• Release Notes
  
• http://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes
• JEPs targeted to JDK 14
• JEP 352 - Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers
• Changes in this build
• Bug fixes reported by Open Source Projects  :
• JDK-8227170 - fixed in b8 -reported by Apache Ant
• JDK-8228485 - fixed in b8 -reported by JaCoCo
• JDK-8222791 - fixed in b7 -reported by Apache Lucene

Project Panama Early-Access Builds

• Build jdk-14-panama+1-15 (2019/8/8) is available at 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.

Regards,
Rory

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/13/#Schedule
[2] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#Fix-Request-Process
[4] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-August/003250.html

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