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<p> <font size="+1">Hi Jason/Tomaz, </font> </p>
<p>A number of items to share with you today :<br>
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<b>1) JDK 10 General Availability </b>
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</ul>
</ul>
JDK 10, the first release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence
release model [1][2], is now Generally Available. <br>
We've identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 46 almost two
weeks ago, so that is the official GA release, ready for production
use. <br>
GPL'd binaries from Oracle are available here: <a
href="http://jdk.java.net/10">http://jdk.java.net/10</a><br>
<br>
This release includes twelve features:
<ul>
<li>286: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286">Local-Variable
Type Inference</a></li>
<li> 296: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/296">Consolidate
the JDK Forest into a Single Repository</a></li>
<li> 304: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/304">Garbage-Collector
Interface</a></li>
<li> 307: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/307">Parallel
Full GC for G1</a></li>
<li> 310: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310">Application
Class-Data Sharing</a></li>
<li> 312: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/312">Thread-Local
Handshakes</a></li>
<li> 313: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/313">Remove the
Native-Header Generation Tool (javah)</a></li>
<li> 314: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/314">Additional
Unicode Language-Tag Extensions</a></li>
<li> 316: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/316">Heap
Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices</a></li>
<li> 317: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/317">Experimental
Java-Based JIT Compiler</a></li>
<li> 319: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/319">Root
Certificates</a></li>
<li> 322: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322">Time-Based
Release Versioning</a></li>
</ul>
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<b>2) JDK 11 EA build 5, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses,
are now available at </b><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jdk.java.net/11">http://jdk.java.net/11</a></b><b>
.</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Schedule, status & features<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/">http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Release Notes:</li>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jdk.java.net/11/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/11/release-notes</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Summary of changes </li>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk11/5/jdk-11+5.html">https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk11/5/jdk-11+5.html</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<b>3) The Z Garbage Collector Project, early access builds available
: </b><br>
<ul>
</ul>
The first EA binary from from The Z Garbage Collector Project, also
known as ZGC, is now available. ZGC is a scalable low latency
garbage collector. For information on how to enable and use ZGC,
please see the project wiki.<br>
<ul>
<li>Project page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zgc/">http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zgc/</a> </li>
<li>Wiki: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main</a></li>
</ul>
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<b>4) Quality Outreach Report for </b><b>March 2018 </b><b>is
available<br>
</b>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2018">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2018</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<b> 5) </b><b>Java Client Roadmap Update<br>
</b>
<ul>
<li>We posted a blog [3] and related white paper [4] detailing our
plans for the Java Client.</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<p>Rgds,Rory</p>
[1] <a href="https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster">https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster</a>
<br>
[2] <a
href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html</a>
<br>
[3] Blog: <a
href="https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates"
class="">https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates</a><br>
[4] Whitepaper: <a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javaclientroadmapupdate2018mar-4414431.pdf"
class="">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javaclientroadmapupdate2018mar-4414431.pdf</a><br>
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland </pre>
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