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    <p>Hi Ceki,  </p>
    <p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> <b>Per the JDK 15 schedule  , we
        are now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase <br>
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      <b><b><b>Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.</b></b></b></p>
    <ul>
      <li>Schedule for JDK 15</li>
      <ul>
        <li><b>2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate</b></li>
        <li>2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate</li>
        <li>2020/09/15 General Availability</li>
      </ul>
    </ul>
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    <ul>
      <li>The overall feature set is frozen.</li>
      <ul>
        <li>Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1
          bugs.</li>
      </ul>
      <li>Features included in JDK 15:</li>
      <ul>
        <li>JEP 339: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/339">Edwards-Curve
            Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 360: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/360">Sealed
            Classes (Preview)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 371: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/371">Hidden
            Classes</a></li>
        <li>JEP 372: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372">Remove
            the Nashorn JavaScript Engine</a></li>
        <li>JEP 373: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/373">Reimplement
            the Legacy DatagramSocket API</a></li>
        <li>JEP 374: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/374">Disable
            and Deprecate Biased Locking</a></li>
        <li>JEP 375: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375">Pattern
            Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 377: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/377">ZGC: A
            Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector</a></li>
        <li>JEP 378: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378">Text
            Blocks</a></li>
        <li>JEP 379: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/379">Shenandoah:
            A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector</a></li>
        <li>JEP 381: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/381">Remove
            the Solaris and SPARC Ports</a></li>
        <li>JEP 383: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383">Foreign-Memory
            Access API (Second Incubator)</a></li>
        <li>JEP 384: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/384">Records
            (Second Preview)</a> </li>
        <li>JEP 385: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385">Deprecate
            RMI Activation for Removal</a></li>
      </ul>
      <ul>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <p> </p>
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    <b>JDK 15 </b><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
        Access build 35 </span></b>is now available at <a
      class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/15"
      moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/15</a><span
      style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span>
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      <ul>
        <li>Release notes <br>
        </li>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes</a></li>
        </ul>
        <li>Recent fixes that might be of interest</li>
        <ul>
          <li>Build 34<br>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"></span><span
                style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                  rgb(0,0,0);">8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and
                  playback is not working</span></span></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <p><b>JDK 16 Early Access build 9 </b><b><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b>is now
        available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://jdk.java.net/16" moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/16</a></p>
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      <ul>
        <li>JEP Candidate</li>
        <ul>
          <li>JEP 388: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
              Port</a></li>
        </ul>
        <li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
        <ul>
          <li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate
              to GitHub</a></li>
          <li>JEP 357: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate
              from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
          <li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable
              C++14 Language Features </a></li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
          style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
    <div class="moz-forward-container">
      <ul>
        <li>Recent fixes that might be of interest </li>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(23,
              43, 77); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
              font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
              font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:
              start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
              white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
              -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
              255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
              text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:
                rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 9<br>
              </span></p>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li>JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root CA
              program<br>
            </li>
            <li>JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root CA
              program</li>
          </ul>
          <li>Build 8<br>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span>8246094:
              [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working</li>
            <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span><span
                style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8248655: Support
                supplementary characters in String case insensitive
                operations</span></li>
          </ul>
          <li>Build 7</li>
          <ul>
            <li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8246032:
                Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language
                Features</span></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
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    <div class="moz-forward-container"> Rgds,Rory</div>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3">http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3</a><br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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