Hi David & Richard,

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 18 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the

GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

Features:

JEPs proposed to target JDK 16

JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port

JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:

JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features

JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git

JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace

Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes

Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:

Build 18

JDK-8235710: Removal of Legacy Elliptic Curves
JDK-8245527: LDAP Channel Binding support for Java GSS/Kerberos

JDK-8252739: Deflater.setDictionary(byte[], int off, int len) ignores the starting offset for the dictionary
- Reported by Apache Lucene

Build 17

JDK-8247281: Object monitors no longer keep strong references to their associated object
JDK-8202473: A type variable with multiple bounds does not correctly place type annotation
- Reported by ByteBuddy
JDK-8234808: jdb quoted option parsing broken
- Reported by Apache Tomcat

Build 16

JDK-8172366: SUN, SunRsaSign, and SunEC Providers Supports SHA-3 Based Signature Algorithms
JDK-8244706: GZIPOutputStream now sets the GZIP OS Header Field to the correct default value

Quality Report for September 2020 was published here [1]. Thanks to everyone who contributed by creating features or enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access builds.

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020

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