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    <p>Hi David &amp; Richard,   </p>
    <p><b>Per the JDK 14 schedule , we are now in Rampdown Phase One</b></p>
    <p><b>Please advise if you have found any issues while testing the
        latest Early Access build.<br>
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      <li>Schedule for JDK 14</li>
      <ul>
        <li><b>2019/12/12 Rampdown Phase One</b></li>
        <li>2020/01/16 Rampdown Phase Two</li>
        <li>2020/02/06 Initial Release Candidate</li>
        <li>2020/02/20 Final Release Candidate</li>
        <li>2020/03/17 General Availability</li>
      </ul>
    </ul>
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      <li>The overall feature set is frozen. <br>
      </li>
      <ul>
        <li>No further JEPs will be targeted to this release</li>
        <li>For more details , see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev
          mailing list [1]  </li>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <ul>
      <li>Features included in JDK 14:.</li>
      <ul>
        <li class=""><span class="">JEP 305: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305" class="">Pattern
            Matching for instanceof (Preview)</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li class=""><span class="">JEP 343: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/343" class="">Packaging
            Tool (Incubator)</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 345: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/345" class="">NUMA-Aware
            Memory Allocation for G1</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 349: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/349" class="">JFR Event
            Streaming</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li>JEP 352: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/352">Non-Volatile
            Mapped Byte Buffers</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li>JEP 358: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/358">Helpful
            NullPointerExceptions</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 359: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359" class="">Records
            (Preview)</a> <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359"
            class="">JEP 359: Records (Preview)</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 361: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/361" class="">Switch
            Expressions (Standard)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 362: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/362">Deprecate
            the Solaris and SPARC Ports </a><br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 363: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/363" class="">Remove the
            Concurrent Mark Sweep Garbage Collector</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 364: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/364" class="">ZGC on
            macOS</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li>JEP 365 <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/365">ZGC on
            Windows</a></li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 366: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/366" class="">Deprecate
            ParallelScavenge  SerialOld GC Combination</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 367: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/367" class="">Remove the
            Pack200 Tools and API</a> <br>
        </li>
        <li><span class="">JEP 368: </span><a
            href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/368" class="">Text Blocks
            (Second Preview)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 370: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370">Foreign-Memory
            Access API (Incubator) </a></li>
      </ul>
      <ul>
      </ul>
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    <b>JDK 14 </b><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
        Access build 27 </span></b><b>is available</b><b><span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> at : - jdk.java.net/14/</span></b>
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    </ul>
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      <ul>
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      <li>Release notes <br>
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      <ul>
      </ul>
      <ul>
        <ul>
        </ul>
        <li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes">https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes</a></li>
        <ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <li>Recent fixes that might be of interest</li>
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        <ul>
        </ul>
        <li>Build 27:</li>
        <ul>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8212780: Packaging Tool Implementation</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8234370: Implementation of JEP 362: Deprecate the
            Solaris and SPARC Ports</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8190492: Remove SSLv2Hello and SSLv3 from default
            enabled TLS protocols</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8214481: freetype path does not disable TrueType
            hinting with AA+FM hints</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8234076: JVM crashes on Windows 10 using --module=NAME</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8222756: Plural support in CompactNumberFormat</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8234211: allow discoverable javac plugins to be
            invoked by default</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <ul>
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        <li>Build 26:</li>
        <ul>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8233223: Add Amazon Root CA certificates</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8235263: Revert TLS 1.3 change that wrapped
            IOExceptions</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8234893: ARM32: build failure after JDK-8234387</li>
          <ul>
          </ul>
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    <p>Rgds, Rory</p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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