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Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 / JDK 15

Posted by Rory O'Donnell on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Release-Announcement-General-Availability-of-Java-15-JDK-15-tp8258.html

Hi All,

Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 / JDK 15 [1]

JDK 15, the reference implementation of Java 15, is now Generally Available.
GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: http://jdk.java.net/15/
JDK 15 Release notes

JDK 15 includes fourteen features [2]:

JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview)
JEP 371: Hidden Classes
JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
JEP 378: Text Blocks
JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal

Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 15, whether by creating features or enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access builds.

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 15 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

JEPs integrated to JDK 16:

JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git

JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub

Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes

Significant changes since the last availability email:

Build 15

JDK-8244090: public lookup should find public members of public exported types (Reported by Eclipse Jetty)
JDK-8250968: Symlinks attributes not preserved when using jarsigner on zip files

Build 14

JDK-8189744: Deprecate the JDK-specific API for setting socket options, jdk.net.Sockets
JDK-8241003: Deprecate "denigrated" java.security.cert APIs that represent DNs as Principal or String objects
JDK-8245462: The default HttpClient implementation returns cancelable futures

Rgds,Rory

 [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland