Hi David & Richard,

OpenJDK builds  - JDK 14 - Early Access build 25 is available at http://jdk.java.net/14/

These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

• Next Milestone
• 12-Dec-2019 Rampdown Phase One.
  

• Release notes
  
• https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes
  
• JEP proposed to target JDK 14
• JEP 365 ZGC on Windows
  
• JEPs targeted to JDK 14, so far:
• JEP 305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview) was proposed to target.
• JEP 343: Packaging Tool (Incubator) was proposed to target.
• JEP 345: NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1 was integrated.
• JEP 349: JFR Event Streaming was integrated.
• JEP 352:  Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers was targeted.
• JEP 358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions was integrated.
• JEP 359: Records (Preview) JEP 359: Records (Preview) was proposed to target.
• JEP 361: Switch Expressions (Standard) was intergrated.
  
• JEP 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector was targeted.
  
• JEP 364: ZGC on macOS was targeted.
  
• JEP 366: Deprecate the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld GC Combination was proposed to target.
  
• JEP 367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API was targeted to JDK 14.
  
• JEP 368: Text Blocks (Second Preview) was proposed to target.

• Recent Bug fixes of Interest

• Build 25:
• JDK-8233301: Implementation of JEP 366: Deprecate the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld GC Combination
  
• JDK-8233296: The behavior of MulticastSocket getOption/setOption for IP_MULTICAST_LOOP is changed to conform the specification of StandardSocketOptions.IP_MULTICAST_LOOP
• Build 24:
• JDK-8233141 :DatagramSocket.send and MulticastSocket.send throw IllegalArgumentException when the socket is not connected and the packet doesn't contain any address )
• JDK-8214024: Remove the default keytool -keyalg value
• JDK-8232019: Add LuxTrust certificate updates to the existing root program
• Build 23
• JDK 8232365: Implementation for JEP 363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector
• JDK 8224817: Implementation of JEP 364: ZGC on macOS

• Changes in this build

jpackage EA - Build 14-jpackage+1-70 (2019/11/12)

• This is an early access build of JEP 343: Packaging Tool, aimed at testing a prototype implementation of  jpackage, which is a new tool for packaging self-contained Java applications along with a Java Runtime Environment.
• These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
• Build is now available http://jdk.java.net/jpackage/
• Please send feedback via e-mail to core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net

Rgds,Rory

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