Hi David & Richard,

Per the JDK 15 schedule , we are now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase

Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.

Schedule for JDK 15

2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate
2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate
2020/09/15 General Availability

The overall feature set is frozen.

Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1 bugs.

Features included in JDK 15:

JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview)
JEP 371: Hidden Classes
JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
JEP 378: Text Blocks
JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal

JDK 15 Early Access build 35 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/15

Release notes

http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes

Recent fixes that might be of interest

Build 34

JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working

JDK 16 Early Access build 9 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

JEP Candidate

JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port

JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:

Recent fixes that might be of interest

Build 9

JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root CA program
JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root CA program

Build 8

JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working
JDK-8248655: Support supplementary characters in String case insensitive operations

Build 7

JDK-8246032: Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features

Rgds,Rory

 [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3

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