Hi David & Richard,

NOTE:- The JDK 12 schedule rampdown phase 1 of the release is coming up in a few weeks on Dec. 13, 2018.

JDK 12 Early Access build 22 is now available at : - jdk.java.net/12/

• Release Note updates since last email
  
• Build 21 - Deprecating the default keytool -keyalg value (JDK-8212003)
• Build 21 - Change to X25519 and X448 encoded private key format (JDK-8213363)
• Build 20 - New command-line flag for more extensive error reporting in crash logs  (JDK-8211845)
• Build 20 -Initial Value of user.timezone System Property Changed (JDK-8185496)

• JEPs proposed for JDK 12 :
  
• JEP 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector (Experimental)
• JEP 334: JVM Constants API
• JEP 344: Abortable Mixed Collections for G1
  
• JEP 346: Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1

• JEPs targeted to JDK 12, so far
• JEP 230: Microbenchmark Suite
• JEP 325: Switch Expressions (Preview)
• JEP 326: Raw String Literals (Preview)
• JEP 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
• JEP 341: Default CDS Archives

Rgds,Rory

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