[wildfly-dev] JDK 16 Early Access build 24 is now available

Hi David & Richard, OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 24**is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16 * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>;. * Schedule             2020/12/10 Rampdown Phase One             2021/01/14         Rampdown Phase Two             2021/02/04         Initial Release Candidate             2021/02/18         Final Release Candidate             2021/03/16         General Availability * Features: o JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far: + JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338> + JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347> + JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357> + JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369> + JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376> + JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380> + JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386> + JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387> + JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388> + JEP 392: Packaging Tool <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392> + JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393> + JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394> + JEP 395: Records <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395> ** * Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes <http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes> * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: o Build 24 + JDK-8231599: NPE when loading a preview classfile from a future Java version # *Reported by JUnit5* + JDK-8254661: arm32: additional cleanup after fixing SIGSEGV # *Reported by JaCoCo* + JDK-8255584: `HttpPrincipal::getName` returns incorrect name + JDK-8255226: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020d o Build 23 + JDK-8254876: (fs) NullPointerException not thrown when first argument to Path.of or Paths.get is null + JDK-8255576: (fs) Files.isHidden() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (unix) # *Reported by JUnit5* + JDK-8255616: Removal of experimental features AOT and Graal JIT o Build 22 + JDK-8243583: Change 'final' error checks to throw ICCE + JDK-8254982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020c Project Loom Early-Access Build: Build 16-loom+7-285 <http://jdk.java.net/loom/> (2020/11/4) * *Want to know more* - check out - https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/ * 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> o These builds are based on jdk-16+20 <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/releases/tag/jdk-16%2B20> o These EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk. o Please send feedback via e-mail to loom-dev(a)openjdk.java.net <mailto:loom-dev@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address you must first subscribe to the mailing list <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/loom-dev>;. Rgds,Rory -- Rgds, Rory O'Donnell Quality Engineering Manager Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland