Hi David & Richard,

JDK 12 Early Access build 15 is available at : - jdk.java.net/12/

JDK 12 Schedule is confirmed.

2018/12/13 Rampdown Phase One
2019/01/17 Rampdown Phase Two
2019/02/07 Release-Candidate Phase
2019/03/19 General Availability

Release Notes for JDK 12 [1]
JEPs targeted to JDK 12, so far

325: Switch Expressions (Preview [2]) - Integrated

326: Raw String Literals (Preview [2]) - Integrated
340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two - Targeted
341: Default CDS Archives - Integrated

Important fixes since last email

(b15) Implementation of JEP 341: Default CDS Archives
(b14) LDAPS Communication Failure (JDK-8211107)
(b14) Support dns_canonicalize_hostname in krb5.conf (JDK-8210821)
(b14) Removal of com.sun.awt.SecurityWarning Class (JDK-8210692)

JDK 8u202 planning [3]

8u202 is proposed to be the last Oracle led release for this OpenJDK Project.
A proposed timeline is as follows :

July 2018 8u-dev forest begins collecting 8u202 fixes
Mid October 2018 RampDown 2
Mid January 2019 GA

Rgds, Rory

[1] http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/12
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007923.html

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