[hibernate-dev] Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11

[Rory O'Donnell]

Thanks Sanne, look forward to the update in a couple of weeks!

Rgds,Rory


On 27/09/2018 10:40, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> Thanks Rory!
>
> we have no specific problems to report, yet users will need to be
> aware of some changes but I guess that's of no surprise to you all.
>
> One is that people won't be able to blindly rely on our dependencies
> being defined by Maven descriptors, as the dependencies need to be
> different on various JVM versions, because e.g. the removal of some
> XML parsing modules from the JDK distributions.
>
> Also people will momentarily need to use some flags, as not all our
> dependencies are ready for JDK11 yet without the flags, but we expect
> this to change now that the release was done.
>
> I'll give it a couple of weeks for our dependencies to settle down on
> changes, then we'll likely spin new releases out with better
> instructions and a blog.
>
> -- Sanne
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 10:15, Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sanne,
>>
>> *1) Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11 *
>>
>>    * JDK 11, the reference implementation of Java 11 and the first
>>      long-term support release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence
>>      release model [1][2], is now Generally Available.
>>    * GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:
>>      https://jdk.java.net/11
>>
>> This release includes seventeen features:
>>
>>    * 181: Nest-Based Access Control <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181>
>>    * 309: Dynamic Class-File Constants <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309>
>>    * 315: Improve Aarch64 Intrinsics <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/315>
>>    * 318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318>
>>    * 320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/320>
>>    * 321: HTTP Client (Standard) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/321>
>>    * 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/323>
>>    * 324: Key Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/324>
>>    * 327: Unicode 10 <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/327>
>>    * 328: Flight Recorder <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328>
>>    * 329: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329>
>>    * 330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330>
>>    * 331: Low-Overhead Heap Profiling <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/331>
>>    * 332: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/332>
>>    * 333: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Experimental)
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/333>
>>    * 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335>
>>    * 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API
>>      <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/336>
>>
>>
>> 2) Quality Outreach Report for September 2018 is available*
>> *
>>
>>    * Quality Outreach report September 2018
>>
>> *Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 11 by downloading and testing
>> the early-access builds.
>> In particular the following developers who logged **18 issues in the JDK
>> Bug System.*
>>
>>    * Netty
>>    * Eclipse Jetty
>>    * Apache Lucene
>>    * JUnit5
>>    * Apache Tomcat
>>    * Apache Ant
>>    * Apache POI
>>    * AssertJ
>>    * Eclipse Collections
>>    * Byte Buddy
>>    * RxJava
>>
>> 3) JDK 12 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are
>> now available at http://jdk.java.net/11 .
>>
>>    * Schedule , Status & Features
>>        o http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/
>>    * Release Notes:
>>        o http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes
>>
>> **
>>
>> Rgds,Rory
>>
>> --
>> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>> Quality Engineering Manager
>> Oracle EMEA, Dublin,Ireland
>>
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland