Hi Galder,

Per the JDK 14 schedule , we are now in Rampdown Phase One

Please advise if you have found any issues while testing the latest Early Access build.

Schedule for JDK 14

2019/12/12 Rampdown Phase One
2020/01/16 Rampdown Phase Two
2020/02/06 Initial Release Candidate
2020/02/20 Final Release Candidate
2020/03/17 General Availability

The overall feature set is frozen.

No further JEPs will be targeted to this release
For more details , see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev mailing list [1]

Features included in JDK 14:.

JEP 305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)
JEP 343: Packaging Tool (Incubator)
JEP 345: NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1
JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming
JEP 352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers
JEP 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions
JEP 359: Records (Preview) JEP 359: Records (Preview)
JEP 361: Switch Expressions (Standard)
JEP 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports
JEP 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep Garbage Collector
JEP 364: ZGC on macOS
JEP 365 ZGC on Windows
JEP 366: Deprecate ParallelScavenge SerialOld GC Combination
JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API
JEP 368: Text Blocks (Second Preview)
JEP 370: Foreign-Memory Access API (Incubator)

JDK 14 Early Access build 27 is available at : - jdk.java.net/14/

Release notes

https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes

Recent fixes that might be of interest

Build 27:

JDK-8212780: Packaging Tool Implementation

JDK-8234370: Implementation of JEP 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports

JDK-8190492: Remove SSLv2Hello and SSLv3 from default enabled TLS protocols

JDK-8214481: freetype path does not disable TrueType hinting with AA+FM hints

JDK-8234076: JVM crashes on Windows 10 using --module=NAME

JDK-8222756: Plural support in CompactNumberFormat

JDK-8234211: allow discoverable javac plugins to be invoked by default

Build 26:

JDK-8233223: Add Amazon Root CA certificates

JDK-8235263: Revert TLS 1.3 change that wrapped IOExceptions

JDK-8234893: ARM32: build failure after JDK-8234387

Rgds, Rory

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-December/003795.html

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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland