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Hi Jason/Tomaz, <br>
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Early Access <a href="https://jdk8.java.net/download.html">b04</a>
for JDK 8u76 is available on java.net, summary of changes are
listed <a
href="http://www.java.net/download/jdk8u76/changes/jdk8u76-b04.html">here
</a>.<br>
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Early Access <a href="https://jdk9.java.net/download/">b104</a> for
JDK 9 is available on java.net, summary of changes are listed <a
href="http://download.java.net/jdk9/changes/jdk-9+104.html">here </a>.<br>
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JEP 280: Indify String Concatenation [0] <br>
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This JEP proposed to change the static <code class="prettyprint">String</code>-concatenation
bytecode sequence generated by <code class="prettyprint">javac</code>
to use <code class="prettyprint">invokedynamic</code> calls to JDK
library functions. This will enable future optimizations of <code
class="prettyprint">String</code> concatenation without requiring
further changes to the bytecode emitted by <code
class="prettyprint">javac</code>.
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Early Access <a href="https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/">b104</a> for
JDK 9 with Project Jigsaw is available on java.net.<br>
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Great to meet so many of you at FOSDEM this year, videos of some of
the presentations are available [1]<br>
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Rgds,Rory<br>
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[0] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/280">http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/280</a>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://video.fosdem.org/2016/h1301/">http://video.fosdem.org/2016/h1301</a>
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland </pre>
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