Hi David & Richard, *Per the JDK 16 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase Two* *[1] . * *Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early Access builds.* * Schedule for JDK 16 o *2021/01/14  Rampdown Phase Two* o 2021/02/04  Initial Release Candidate o 2021/02/18  Final Release Candidate o 2021/03/16  General Availability * Release Notes [2] OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 32**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 <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>;. * Features [3] - the overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs will be targeted to this release. * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: o Build 32: + JDK-8259028 - ClassCastException when using custom filesystem with wrapper FileChannel impl # Apache Lucene found. + JDK-8253996 - Javac error on jdk16 build 18: invalid flag: -Xdoclint:-missing # Apache Zookeeper found. o Build 31: + JDK-8259027: NullPointerException in makeMappedSegment due to NULL Unmapper when length of segment is 0 # Reported by Apache Lucene o Build 30: + JDK-8254023: A module declaration is not allowed to be a target of an annotation that lacks an @Target meta-annotation # Reported by JUnit5 + JDK-8256693: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes types too eagerly * JDK 16 - topics of interest o Investigating MD5 overheads: https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html o Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup performance https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html o Migrating OpenJDK to Git & GitHub - GitHub Universe 2020 session replay https://inside.java/2020/12/11/skara-github-universe/ Project Panama/foreign EA Build 16-panama+3-385 (2020/12/10) <https://jdk.java.net/panama/> is available now [4] * What's new o jextract is now fully compatible with Java 16 o New architecture based on Foreign-Memory Access API (JEP 370 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370>;, JEP 383 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383>;, JEP 393 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393>) and Foreign Linker API (JEP 389 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389>) * These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html> * EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk. * Please send feedback via e-mail to panama-dev(a)openjdk.java.net <panama-dev(a)openjdk.java.net&gt;. To send e-mail to this address you must first subscribe to the mailing list <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/panama-dev>;. * Project Panama - topics of interest o “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz https://inside.java/2020/11/17/podcast-007/ o “The Foreign Memory Access API” with Maurizio Cimadamore and Jorn Vernee https://inside.java/2020/12/11/podcast-009/ o “The Foreign Linker API” with Maurizio Cimadamore and Jorn Vernee https://inside.java/2020/12/21/podcast-010/ OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 5**is now available at http://jdk.java.net/17 * These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>;. * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: o Build 4: + JDK-8258800: Deprecate -XX:+AlwaysLockClassLoader o Build 3: + JDK-8246005: KeyStoreSpi::engineStore(LoadStoreParameter) spec mismatch to its behavior + JDK-8258765: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes types too eagerly * JDK 17 - topic of interest o Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup performance: + https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html Java Cryptographic Roadmap [5] has been updated * Removing root certificates with 1024-bit keys in July 2021 CPU. * Disabling of SHA-1 JARS signed after 2019-01-01 has been postponed to July 2021 CPU. Rgds, Rory [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-January/005001.html [2] https://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/ <http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/> [4] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.html <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.h... [5] https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html <https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html>