OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 21 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 (proposed)

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 386: Alpine Linux Port
JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace
JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port

Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:

Build 21

JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class
JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP Authentication Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate Over Clear Connections
JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and EdDSA
JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling
JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry() to recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size

Build 20

JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false on a writeable root directory (win)
- Reported by JUnit5
JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation
- Reported by JUnit5
JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated java.awt.PeerFixer class
JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return false for interface implementors

Found by Hibernate Validator

JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as part of tzdata2020b

Build 19

JDK-8253761: Wrong URI syntax printed by jar --describe-module

Reported by JUnit5

Project Lanai Early-Access Build: EA 6 Build 16-lanai+2-229 (2020/10/4)

These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
These builds are based upon the latest state of the current in development JDK, and so may contain new features and unresolved bugs unrelated to Project Lanai. Project Lanai Wiki: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main
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.

Project Panama Early-Access Build: Build 16-panama+2-193 (2020/10/1)

These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
These builds are based on an incomplete version of JDK 16.
Please send feedback via e-mail to panama-dev@openjdk.java.net. To send e-mail to this address you must first subscribe to the mailing list.

Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated [1]

Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519 and x448 named elliptic curve groups to TLS.
Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021 CPU release.

Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html