Posted by Rory O'Donnell on Dec 14, 2019; 4:26pm
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/JDK-14-enters-Rampdown-Phase-One-tp7421.html

 Hi All,

Per the JDK 14 schedule , we are now in Rampdown Phase One

Please advise if you have found any issues while testing the latest Early Access build.

• Schedule for JDK 14
• 2019/12/12 Rampdown Phase One
• 2020/01/16 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2020/02/06 Initial Release Candidate
• 2020/02/20 Final Release Candidate
• 2020/03/17 General Availability

• The overall feature set is frozen.
  
• No further JEPs will be targeted to this release
• For more details , see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev mailing list [1] 

• Features included in JDK 14:.
• JEP 305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)
  
• JEP 343: Packaging Tool (Incubator)
  
• JEP 345: NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1
  
• JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming
  
• JEP 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers
  
• JEP 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions
  
• JEP 359: Records (Preview) JEP 359: Records (Preview)
  
• JEP 361: Switch Expressions (Standard)
• JEP 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports
  
• JEP 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep Garbage Collector
  
• JEP 364: ZGC on macOS
  
• JEP 365 ZGC on Windows
• JEP 366: Deprecate ParallelScavenge  SerialOld GC Combination
  
• JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API
  
• JEP 368: Text Blocks (Second Preview)
• JEP 370: Foreign-Memory Access API (Incubator)

JDK 14 Early Access build 27 is available at : - jdk.java.net/14/

• Release notes
  
• https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes
• Recent fixes that might be of interest
• Build 27:
• JDK-8212780: Packaging Tool Implementation
• JDK-8234370: Implementation of JEP 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports
• JDK-8190492: Remove SSLv2Hello and SSLv3 from default enabled TLS protocols
• JDK-8214481: freetype path does not disable TrueType hinting with AA+FM hints
• JDK-8234076: JVM crashes on Windows 10 using --module=NAME
• JDK-8222756: Plural support in CompactNumberFormat
• JDK-8234211: allow discoverable javac plugins to be invoked by default
• Build 26:
• JDK-8233223: Add Amazon Root CA certificates
• JDK-8235263: Revert TLS 1.3 change that wrapped IOExceptions
• JDK-8234893: ARM32: build failure after JDK-8234387

Rgds, Rory

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-December/003795.html

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