Hi
David & Richard,
Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in
Rampdown Phase One.
Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest
Early Access builds.
The overall feature set is frozen. No
further JEPs will be targeted to this release.
- Features integrated in JDK
17:
OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 28 is
available at https://jdk.java.net/17
- These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
- Release
Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes
-
Changes in build 28 that maybe of interest:
- JDK-8269028:
[BACKOUT] JDK-8196415 Disable SHA-1 Signed JARs
- JDK-8268774: Residual logging output
written to STDOUT, not STDERR [Reported by Apache Ant]
-
JDK-8264843: Javac crashes with NullPointerException when
finding unencoded XML in <pre> tag [Reported by
Apache Lucene]
OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 3 is now
available at https://jdk.java.net/18
- These
early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
- Changes in recent builds that maybe of
interest:
- JDK-8266791: Annotation property which
is compiled as an array property but changed to a single
element throws NPE [Reported by Byte Buddy]
- Coming in a future
JDK 18 build
- Removal of Biased
Locking in JDK 18 - Details
Other Topics of Interest:
Quality Report for June 2021 was
published here [1].
- Thanks to
everyone who contributed by creating features or enhancements,
logging bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access
builds.
Rgds,Rory
[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+Report+June+2021
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland