Hi David & Richard,  

Happy New Year !

Per the JDK 14 schedule , we are now in Rampdown Phase One

Please advise if you have found any issues while testing the latest Early Access build.

• The overall feature set is frozen.
  
• No further JEPs will be targeted to this release
• For more details , see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev mailing list [1] 

JDK 14 Early Access build 30 is available at : - jdk.java.net/14/

• These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
  
• GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
• Release notes
  
• https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes
• Recent fixes that might be of interest
• Build 29:
• JDK-8233228: Disable weak named curves by default in TLS, CertPath, and Signed JAR

• Build 28:
• JDK-8234049: Implementation of Memory Access API (Incubator)
• JDK-8235668: LineNumberReader#getLineNumber() returns wrong line number (one fewer) in Lucene test
  • Reported by Apache Lucene

JDK 15 Early Access build 4 is available at : - jdk.java.net/15/

• These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
  
• GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
• Release notes
  
• http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes

The Quality Outreach Report for Decemeber 2019 was published since the last email

• https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+December+2019
• Many thanks to all those who contributed to testing, logging bugs etc against the Early Access builds.
  

Rgds, Rory

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