Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11
by Rory O'Donnell
Hi Galder,
*1) Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11 *
* 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.
* GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:
https://jdk.java.net/11
This release includes seventeen features:
* 181: Nest-Based Access Control <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181>
* 309: Dynamic Class-File Constants <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309>
* 315: Improve Aarch64 Intrinsics <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/315>
* 318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318>
* 320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/320>
* 321: HTTP Client (Standard) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/321>
* 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/323>
* 324: Key Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/324>
* 327: Unicode 10 <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/327>
* 328: Flight Recorder <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328>
* 329: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329>
* 330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330>
* 331: Low-Overhead Heap Profiling <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/331>
* 332: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/332>
* 333: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Experimental)
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/333>
* 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335>
* 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/336>
2) Quality Outreach Report for September 2018 is available*
*
* Quality Outreach report September 2018
*Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 11 by downloading and testing
the early-access builds.
In particular the following developers who logged **18 issues in the JDK
Bug System.*
* Netty
* Eclipse Jetty
* Apache Lucene
* JUnit5
* Apache Tomcat
* Apache Ant
* Apache POI
* AssertJ
* Eclipse Collections
* Byte Buddy
* RxJava
3) JDK 12 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are
now available at http://jdk.java.net/11 .
* Schedule , Status & Features
o http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/
* Release Notes:
o http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes
**
Rgds,Rory
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin,Ireland
6 years, 3 months
9.4.0.Final: one extra sprint
by Tristan Tarrant
Hi all,
in view of the current status of the master branch and the fact that
some essential items still are not ready to be merged, we are going to
add an extra sprint.
We will therefore release 9.4.0.CR3 tomorrow Friday 14th and cut Final
on Friday October 5th.
Tristan
6 years, 3 months
