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 o *2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate* o 2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate o 2020/09/15 General Availability ** * The overall feature set is frozen. o Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1 bugs. * Features included in JDK 15: o JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/339> o JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/360> o JEP 371: Hidden Classes <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/371> o JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372> o JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/373> o JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/374> o JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375> o JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/377> o JEP 378: Text Blocks <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378> o JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/379> o JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/381> o JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383> o JEP 384: Records (Second Preview) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/384> o JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385> *JDK 15 **Early Access build 35 *is now available at http://jdk.java.net/15 * Release notes o http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes * Recent fixes that might be of interest o 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 o JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388> * JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far: o JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369> o JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357> o JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347> ** * Recent fixes that might be of interest o 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 o Build 8 + JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working + JDK-8248655: Support supplementary characters in String case insensitive operations o Build 7 + JDK-8246032: Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features *__* Rgds,Rory 
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3 -- Rgds, Rory O'Donnell Quality Engineering Manager Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland