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<p>Hi Ceki, </p>
<p>OpenJDK 16 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access
build 18</span><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span></b>is
now available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jdk.java.net/16">http://jdk.java.net/16</a></p>
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<li>These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
Exception</a>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li>Features:<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JEPs proposed to target JDK 16</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 376: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376">ZGC:
Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing</a><br>
</li>
<li>JEP 386: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386">Alpine
Linux Port</a><br>
</li>
<li>JEP 388: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
Port</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 338: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338">Vector
API (Incubator)</a></li>
<li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable
C++14 Language Features </a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 357: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate
from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate
to GitHub</a></li>
<li>JEP 387: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387">Elastic
Metaspace</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Release Notes are available at <a
href="http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
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<li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 17<br>
</span> </li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;">JDK-8247281:</span></span></span></span>
Object monitors no longer keep strong references to their
associated object<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"></span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;">JDK-8202473:
A type variable with multiple bounds does not
correctly place type annotation</span></span></span>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Reported by
ByteBuddy<br>
</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;">JDK-8234808:
jdb quoted option parsing broken</span></span></span>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;">Reported by
Apache Tomcat</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 16<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8172366: SUN, SunRsaSign, and SunEC Providers
Supports SHA-3 Based Signature Algorithms</li>
<li>JDK-8244706: GZIPOutputStream now sets the GZIP OS
Header Field to the correct default value</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Quality Report for September 2020 was published here [1].
Thanks to everyone who contributed by creating features or
enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing the
early-access builds. </li>
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</ul>
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<b><u><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> Rgds,Rory</div>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">[1] <a
href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020</a></div>
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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