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<p>Hi David & Richard,<b><br>
</b> </p>
<b>1) Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11 </b><br>
<ul>
<li>JDK 11, the reference implementation of Java 11 and the first
long-term support release produced under the six-month
rapid-cadence release model [1][2], is now Generally Available.
</li>
<li>GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: <a
href="https://jdk.java.net/11">https://jdk.java.net/11</a> </li>
</ul>
This release includes seventeen features: <br>
<ul>
<li>181: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181">Nest-Based
Access Control</a></li>
<li> 309: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309">Dynamic
Class-File Constants</a></li>
<li> 315: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/315">Improve
Aarch64 Intrinsics</a></li>
<li> 318: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318">Epsilon: A
No-Op Garbage Collector</a></li>
<li> 320: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/320">Remove the
Java EE and CORBA Modules</a></li>
<li> 321: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/321">HTTP Client
(Standard)</a></li>
<li> 323: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/323">Local-Variable
Syntax for Lambda Parameters</a></li>
<li> 324: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/324">Key
Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448</a></li>
<li> 327: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/327">Unicode 10</a></li>
<li> 328: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328">Flight
Recorder</a></li>
<li> 329: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329">ChaCha20 and
Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms</a></li>
<li> 330: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330">Launch
Single-File Source-Code Programs</a></li>
<li> 331: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/331">Low-Overhead
Heap Profiling</a></li>
<li> 332: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/332">Transport
Layer Security (TLS) 1.3</a></li>
<li> 333: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/333">ZGC: A
Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Experimental)</a></li>
<li> 335: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335">Deprecate
the Nashorn JavaScript Engine</a></li>
<li> 336: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/336">Deprecate
the Pack200 Tools and API</a></li>
</ul>
<br>
2) Quality Outreach Report for September 2018 is available<b><br>
</b>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+for+September+2018"
moz-do-not-send="true">Quality Outreach report September 2018</a></li>
</ul>
<b>Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 11 by downloading and
testing the early-access builds.<br>
In particular the following developers who logged </b><strong>18
issues in the JDK Bug System.</strong><br>
<ul class="diff-block-target">
<li>Netty</li>
<li>Eclipse Jetty</li>
<li>Apache Lucene</li>
<li>JUnit5</li>
<li>Apache Tomcat</li>
<li>Apache Ant</li>
<li>Apache POI</li>
<li>AssertJ</li>
<li>Eclipse Collections</li>
<li>Byte Buddy</li>
<li>RxJava</li>
</ul>
<p>3) JDK 12 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses,
are now available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jdk.java.net/11">http://jdk.java.net/11</a> .<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Schedule , Status & Features<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/">http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Release Notes:</li>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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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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