Hi David & Richard,
1) Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 12 / JDK
12 [1]
- JDK 12, the reference implementation of Java 12, is now
Generally Available.
- GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: https://jdk.java.net/12
This release includes the following eight features:
- JEP 189: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
(Experimental)
- JEP 230: Microbenchmark Suite
- JEP 334: JVM Constants API
- JEP 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
- JEP 341: Default CDS Archives
- JEP 344: Abortable Mixed Collections for G1
- JEP 346: Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1
Thanks to everyone who contributed JDK 12, whether by creating
features or enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing
the early-access builds.
2) JDK 13 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA
licenses, is now available at http://jdk.java.net/13 .
- Proposed - Schedule for JDK 13 [2]
- 2019/06/13 Rampdown Phase One
- 2019/07/18 Rampdown Phase Two
- 2019/08/08 Initial Release Candidate
- 2019/08/22 Final Release Candidate
- 2019/09/17 General Availability
- Recent Bug fixes of Interest
- Build 9:
- 8214719: Deprecate -Xverify:none option
- 8216360: Deprecate -XX:CompilationPolicyChoice
- Build 10:
- 8218995: Deprecate the -XX:FailOverToOldVerifier option
- Build 12 : 8160247: Mark deprecated javax.security.cert APIs
with forRemoval=true
- 8220050: Deprecate -XX:-ThreadLocalHandshakes
- Apache Lucene Reported - 8219448: split-if update_uses
accesses stale idom data
- Changes in this build [3]
Rgds,Rory
[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-March/002718.html
[2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-March/002716.html
[3] Changes
in this build
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland