Hi David & Richard,

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 26 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.

Schedule: JDK 16 Rampdown Phase One Starts on 2020/12/10 [1]

Features [1]: Most recent Integrations:

Integrated JEP 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator) with this release.

JEP 389 introduces an API that offers statically-typed, pure-Java access to native code.
This API, together with the JEP 383, will considerably simplify the otherwise error-prone process of binding to a native library.

Release Notes [2]

Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:

Build 26

JDK-8202343: Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1
JDK-8251317: Support for CLDR version 38
JDK-8212879: Make JVMTI TagMap table concurrent
JDK-8236926: Concurrently uncommit memory in G1
JDK-8243559: Removed Root Certificates with 1024-bit Keys
JDK-8253459: Argument index of zero or unrepresentable by int throws IllegalFormatException
JDK-8256643: Terminally deprecate ThreadGroup stop, destroy, isDestroyed, setDaemon and isDaemon

Build 25

JDK-8247781: Day period support added to java.time formats
JDK-8202471: (ann) Cannot read type annotations on generic receiver type's type variables [Reported by ByteBuddy]
JDK-8255947: [macos] Signed macOS jpackage app doesn't filter spurious '-psn' argument [Reported by JOSM]
JDK-8256063: Module::getPackages returns the set of package names in this module

JDK 16 - topics of interest

Inside Java Episode 7 “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz

https://inside.java/2020/11/17/podcast-007/

Biased locking Obsoletion update

https://inside.java/2020/11/17/biased-locking-obsoletion/

Project Loom with Ron Pressler

https://inside.java/2020/11/24/podcast-008/

Update on 64-bit ARM Support for Oracle OpenJDK and Oracle JDK

https://inside.java/2020/11/12/arm-support-update/

Project Lanai Early-Access: EA 7 Build 16-lanai+3-278 (2020/11/17)

These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
These 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 lanai-dev@openjdk.java.net. To send e-mail to this address you must first subscribe to the mailing list.

The Java Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated [3]:

Distrust TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 by default

TLS protocol versions 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer considered secure and have been superseded by more secure and modern versions (TLS 1.2 and 1.3). This change has been integrated with JDK 16 Early Access build 26.

Upgrade of default algorithms used to encrypt PKCS12 keystores

The new algorithms are based on AES-256 and SHA-256 and are stronger than the old algorithms which were based on RC2, DESede, and SHA-1.This change is already included in JDK 16 Early Access build 23.

RgdsRory

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/
[2] https://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
[3] https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html

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