Announcing: Early-Access builds of JDK 9 for Alpine Linux/musl at  jdk.java.net/9/ [1]

• As of today there are pre-built Early-Access (EA) JDK binaries for Alpine Linux/musl at  jdk.java.net/9/
• look for “Alpine Linux”. [1]
• The Alpine Linux build is compatible with linux distributions that use the musl C library. [2]
  

Proposed schedule change for JDK 9 [3]

JDK 9 Project continues to work toward the current goal of producing an initial Release Candidate build on 22 June.
This proposal is to adjust the GA date in order to accommodate the additional time required to move through the JCP process.
To be specific, we propose to move the GA date out by eight weeks, from 27 July to 21 September.

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