•  New options for the jdeps tool: -genmoduleinfo to generate draft module-info.java files, and -ct to do a compile-time analysis of references (i.e., follow all references leaving all classes in each referenced JAR file) rather than the default run-time analysis (which only follows references leaving referenced classes).
  
•  jlink no longer does service binding by default.
• Class::getPackage fixed to return null for array types, primitives, and void (bug reported by Chris Newland).
  
• Improved messages in IllegalAccessExceptions thrown by core reflection.
• java -verbose now works with -Xpatch . 
• The special token ALL-SYSTEM can be used with the -addmods option to add all system modules. 
• New methods Module::{addUses,canUse}, which are dynamic equivalents of service-use clauses in module declarations.
  

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