JDK 16 is now in Rampdown Phase Two
by Rory O'Donnell
Hi David & Richard,
*Per the JDK 16 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase Two* *[1] .
*
*Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early
Access builds.*
* Schedule for JDK 16
o *2021/01/14 Rampdown Phase Two*
o 2021/02/04 Initial Release Candidate
o 2021/02/18 Final Release Candidate
o 2021/03/16 General Availability
* Release Notes [2]
OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 32**is now available at
http://jdk.java.net/16
* These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
<http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.
* Features [3] - the overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs
will be targeted to this release.
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o Build 32:
+ JDK-8259028 - ClassCastException when using custom
filesystem with wrapper FileChannel impl
# Apache Lucene found.
+ JDK-8253996 - Javac error on jdk16 build 18: invalid flag:
-Xdoclint:-missing
# Apache Zookeeper found.
o Build 31:
+ JDK-8259027: NullPointerException in makeMappedSegment due
to NULL Unmapper when length of segment is 0
# Reported by Apache Lucene
o Build 30:
+ JDK-8254023: A module declaration is not allowed to be a
target of an annotation that lacks an @Target meta-annotation
# Reported by JUnit5
+ JDK-8256693: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes types
too eagerly
* JDK 16 - topics of interest
o Investigating MD5 overheads:
https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html
o Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup performance
https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html
o Migrating OpenJDK to Git & GitHub - GitHub Universe 2020 session
replay
https://inside.java/2020/12/11/skara-github-universe/
Project Panama/foreign EA Build 16-panama+3-385 (2020/12/10)
<https://jdk.java.net/panama/> is available now [4]
* What's new
o jextract is now fully compatible with Java 16
o New architecture based on Foreign-Memory Access API (JEP 370
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370>, JEP 383
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383>, JEP 393
<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393>) and Foreign Linker API (JEP
389 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389>)
* These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public
License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
<http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>
* EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering feedback. Use
for any other purpose is at your own risk.
* Please send feedback via e-mail to panama-dev(a)openjdk.java.net
<panama-dev(a)openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address you
must first subscribe to the mailing list
<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/panama-dev>.
* Project Panama - topics of interest
o “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz
https://inside.java/2020/11/17/podcast-007/
o “The Foreign Memory Access API” with Maurizio Cimadamore and
Jorn Vernee
https://inside.java/2020/12/11/podcast-009/
o “The Foreign Linker API” with Maurizio Cimadamore and Jorn Vernee
https://inside.java/2020/12/21/podcast-010/
OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 5**is now available at http://jdk.java.net/17
* These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
<http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>.
* Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
o Build 4:
+ JDK-8258800: Deprecate -XX:+AlwaysLockClassLoader
o Build 3:
+ JDK-8246005: KeyStoreSpi::engineStore(LoadStoreParameter)
spec mismatch to its behavior
+ JDK-8258765: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes types
too eagerly
* JDK 17 - topic of interest
o Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup performance:
+ https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html
Java Cryptographic Roadmap [5] has been updated
* Removing root certificates with 1024-bit keys in July 2021 CPU.
* Disabling of SHA-1 JARS signed after 2019-01-01 has been postponed
to July 2021 CPU.
Rgds, Rory
[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-January/005001.html
[2] https://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/
<http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/>
[4]
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.html
<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.html>
[5] https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
<https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html>
3 years, 10 months
WildFly 22 is released!
by Brian Stansberry
Hello everyone,
It's a new year so it's time for a new WildFly! I'm pleased to announce
that WildFly 22.0.0.Final is now available for download at
https://wildfly.org/downloads/. Please try it out and give us your feedback.
This release includes support for use of log4j2 in applications, new base
health and metrics subsystems to provide server observability for users who
don't need the application instrumentation that comes with MicroProfile
Health and Metrics, and a number of other features related to management,
provisioning, messaging and security. Plus numerous bug fixes, enhancements
and component upgrades.
We've also released an updated version of the new tech-preview WildFly
Preview distribution that we're providing to let our community have a look
at what we're doing for Jakarta EE 9 support, along with other changes in
the server architecture that we're expecting to appear in the main WildFly
later in 2021.
Learn more in my post at
https://www.wildfly.org/news/2021/01/13/WildFly22-Final-Released/
<https://www.wildfly.org/news/2020/01/13/WildFly22-Final-Released/>.
Folks are already busily at work on WildFly 23!
Thank you for your support of WildFly.
Best regards,
Brian
3 years, 10 months
