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<p>Hi Galder, </p>
<p>Best wishes for the New Year.</p>
<p>Dalibor and I will be at FOSDEM '17, Brussels 4 & 5 February.
Let us know if you will be there, hopefully we can meet up ! </p>
<b>JDK 9 Early Access</b> <a
href="https://jdk9.java.net/download/">b151</a> is available on
java.net<br>
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There have been a number of fixes to bugs reported by Open Source
projects since the last availability email :
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<li>JDK-8171377 : Add sun.misc.Unsafe::invokeCleaner</li>
<li><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext">JDK-8075793 : </span><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">Source incompatibility for
inference using -source 7 </span> </li>
<li>JDK-8087303 : LSSerializer pretty print does not work anymore</li>
<li>JDK-8167143 :CLDR timezone parsing does not work for all
locales</li>
</ul>
<p>Other changes that maybe of interest:<br>
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<ul>
<li>JDK-8066474 : Remove the lib/$ARCH directory from Linux and
Solaris images
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<li>JDK-8170428 : Move src.zip to JDK/lib/src.zip
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<p><b>JEPs intergrated:</b></p>
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<li> <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295">JEP 295</a>:
Ahead-of-Time Compilation
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has been integrated in b150.</li>
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<b>Schedule - Milestones since last availability email </b> <br>
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<b>Feature Extension Complete 22nd of December 2016</b><br>
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<li><b>Rampdown Started 5th of January 2017 <br>
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<li>Phases in which increasing levels of scrutiny are applied to
incoming changes. <br>
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<ul>
<li>In phase 1, only P1-P3 bugs can be fixed. In phase 2 only
showstopper bugs can be fixed.</li>
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<p>Rgds,Rory</p>
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland </pre>
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