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    <p>Hi David &amp; Richard,<b><br>
      </b> </p>
    <p><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>JDK 12 Early Access
          build 15 is available at : - jdk.java.net/12/</b></span></p>
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          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
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            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#rdp-1">Rampdown Phase
            One</a></li>
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            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#rdp-2">Rampdown Phase
            Two</a></li>
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            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#rc">Release-Candidate
            Phase</a></li>
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          Availability</li>
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            style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">Release
            Notes for JDK 12 [</span></span><span
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            style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">]</span></span></li>
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              style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
              Roman&quot;">325: Switch Expressions (Preview [2]) -
              Integrated<br>
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              style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
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                  style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
                  Roman&quot;">- Integrated</span></span><br>
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              style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
              Roman&quot;">340: <a
                href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/340">One AArch64
                Port, Not Two</a> - </span></span><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span
              style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
              Roman&quot;">Targeted</span></span></li>
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              style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
              Roman&quot;">341: <a
                href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/341">Default CDS
                Archives </a></span></span><span
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                  style="mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New
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        email</li>
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          341: Default CDS Archives<br>
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          </span>LDAPS Communication Failure <span class="issuelink">(<a
              href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211107">JDK-8211107</a>)
            <br>
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          </span>Support dns_canonicalize_hostname in krb5.conf <span
            class="issuelink">(<a
              href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210821">JDK-8210821</a>)</span></li>
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          </span>Removal of com.sun.awt.SecurityWarning Class <span
            class="issuelink">(<a
              href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210692">JDK-8210692</a>)</span></li>
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    <br>
    <b>JDK 8u202 planning [3]</b><br>
    <ul>
      <li> 8u202 is proposed to be the last Oracle led release for this
        OpenJDK Project. <br>
      </li>
      <li>A proposed timeline is as follows :</li>
      <ul>
        <li>July 2018 8u-dev forest begins collecting 8u202 fixes</li>
        <li>Mid October 2018 RampDown 2</li>
        <li>Mid January 2019 GA</li>
      </ul>
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    <p>Rgds, Rory</p>
    <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> [</span><span
      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="color:windowtext">1</span>]
    </span><a href="http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes"><span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes</span></a><br>
    [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/12">http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/12</a><br>
    [3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007923.html">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007923.html</a><a
      href="http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes"><span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span
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href="https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jmc7/core/common/docs/api/overview-summary.html"><span
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland </pre>
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