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<p>Hi David & Richard,<b><br>
</b> </p>
<pre wrap=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>NOTE:- </b>The <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/">JDK 12 schedule</a> rampdown phase 1 of the release is coming up in a few weeks on Dec. 13, 2018.</font></pre>
<p><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">JDK 12 Early Access
build 22 </span></b><b>is now available </b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>at : - jdk.java.net/12/</b></span>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Release Note updates since last email <b><br>
</b></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:windowtext">Build 21 - </span>Deprecating
the default keytool -keyalg value (JDK-8212003)</li>
<li><span style="color:windowtext">Build 21 - </span>Change to
X25519 and X448 encoded private key format (JDK-8213363)<span
style="color:windowtext"></span></li>
<li><span style="color:windowtext">Build 20 - </span>New
command-line flag for more extensive error reporting in crash
logs (JDK-8211845)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Build 20 -Initial Value of user.timezone System Property
Changed (JDK-8185496)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JEPs proposed for JDK 12 :<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color:windowtext">JEP </span>189: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/189"><span
style="color:#666666">Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage
Collector</span><span
style="color:#666666;text-decoration:none"> </span><span
style="color:#666666">(Experimental)</span></a></li>
<li><span style="color:windowtext"></span><span
style="color:#666666"><span style="color:windowtext">JEP </span></span>334: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/334"><span
style="color:#666666">JVM Constants API</span></a></li>
<li><span style="color:windowtext">JEP </span><span
style="color:windowtext">344: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/344"><span
style="color:#666666">Abortable Mixed Collections for G1</span></a>
</span><br>
<span style="color:#666666"><span style="color:windowtext"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color:#666666"><span style="color:windowtext">JEP
</span></span><span style="color:#666666"><span
style="color:windowtext">346: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/346"><span
style="color:#666666">Promptly Return Unused Committed
Memory from G1</span></a></span></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JEPs targeted to JDK 12, so far </li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 230: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/230">Microbenchmark
Suite</a></li>
<li>JEP 325: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/325">Switch
Expressions (Preview)</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="">JEP 326: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/326">Raw String Literals
(Preview)</a></li>
<li class="">JEP 340: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/340">One AArch64 Port,
Not Two</a></li>
<li class="">JEP 341: <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/341">Default CDS Archives</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>Rgds,Rory</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland </pre>
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