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

GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

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:

JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:

JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features

JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git

JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels
JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace
JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
JEP 392: Packaging Tool
JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator)
JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
JEP 395: Records

Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes

Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:

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

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

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 (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

These builds are based on jdk-16+20
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Rgds,Rory

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