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    Hi Ceki, 
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      <p><b>Per the JDK 16 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase Two</b> <b>[1]
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      <p><b>Please advise if you find any issues while testing the
          latest Early Access builds.</b></p>
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        <li>Schedule for JDK 16</li>
        <ul>
          <li><b>2021/01/14  Rampdown Phase Two</b></li>
          <li>2021/02/04  Initial Release Candidate<br>
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          <li>2021/02/18  Final Release Candidate</li>
          <li>2021/03/16  General Availability</li>
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        <li>Release Notes [2]</li>
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      <p>OpenJDK 16 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
          Access build 32</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" moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/16</a>
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            <li> These early-access, open-source builds are provided
              under the <a
                href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
                General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                Exception</a>.</li>
            <li>Features [3] - the overall feature set is frozen. No
              further JEPs will be targeted to this release.</li>
            <li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
            <ul>
              <li>Build 32:<span style="color: rgb(0, 101, 255);
                  text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer;"
                  class="issue-link"> </span><span style="cursor:
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              <ul>
                <li><span style="cursor: pointer;" class="issue-link">JDK-8259028
                    - ClassCastException when using custom filesystem
                    with wrapper FileChannel impl</span></li>
                <ul>
                  <li><span style="cursor: pointer;" class="issue-link">Apache
                      Lucene found.</span></li>
                </ul>
                <li><span style="cursor: pointer;" class="issue-link">JDK-8253996
                    - Javac error on jdk16 build 18: invalid flag:
                    -Xdoclint:-missing</span></li>
                <ul>
                  <li><span style="cursor: pointer;" class="issue-link">Apache
                      Zookeeper found.</span></li>
                </ul>
              </ul>
              <li>Build 31:</li>
              <ul>
                <li>JDK-8259027: NullPointerException in
                  makeMappedSegment due to NULL Unmapper when length of
                  segment is 0 <br>
                </li>
                <ul>
                  <li>Reported by Apache Lucene</li>
                </ul>
              </ul>
              <li>Build 30:</li>
              <ul>
                <li>JDK-8254023: A module declaration is not allowed to
                  be a target of an annotation that lacks an @Target
                  meta-annotation <br>
                </li>
                <ul>
                  <li>Reported by JUnit5<br>
                  </li>
                </ul>
                <li>JDK-8256693: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes
                  types too eagerly</li>
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          <ul>
            <li>JDK 16 - topics of interest</li>
            <ul>
              <li>Investigating MD5 overheads:<br>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html">https://cl4es.github.io/2021/01/04/Investigating-MD5-Overheads.html</a></li>
              <li>Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup
                performance<br>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                  href="https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html">https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html</a></li>
              <li>Migrating OpenJDK to Git & GitHub - GitHub
                Universe 2020 session replay<br>
                <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                  href="https://inside.java/2020/12/11/skara-github-universe/">https://inside.java/2020/12/11/skara-github-universe/</a></li>
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        <p>Project Panama/foreign EA <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://jdk.java.net/panama/">Build 16-panama+3-385
            (2020/12/10)</a> is available now [4]<br>
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        <ul>
          <li>What's new<br>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li>jextract is now fully compatible with Java 16</li>
            <li>New architecture based on Foreign-Memory Access API (<a
                href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370">JEP 370</a>, <a
                href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383">JEP 383</a>, <a
                href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393">JEP 393</a>)
              and Foreign Linker API (<a
                href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389">JEP 389</a>)</li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <ul>
          <li>These early-access builds are provided under the <a
              href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"
              moz-do-not-send="true">GNU General Public License,
              version 2, with the Classpath Exception</a></li>
          <li>EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering
            feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk.</li>
          <li>Please send feedback via e-mail to <a
              moz-do-not-send="true" href="panama-dev@openjdk.java.net">panama-dev@openjdk.java.net</a>.
            To send e-mail to this address you must first <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/panama-dev">subscribe
              to the mailing list</a>.</li>
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        <ul>
          <li>Project Panama - topics of interest</li>
          <ul>
            <li>“The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz<br>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://inside.java/2020/11/17/podcast-007/">https://inside.java/2020/11/17/podcast-007/</a></li>
            <li>“The Foreign Memory Access API” with Maurizio Cimadamore
              and Jorn Vernee<br>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://inside.java/2020/12/11/podcast-009/">https://inside.java/2020/12/11/podcast-009/</a></li>
            <li>“The Foreign Linker API” with Maurizio Cimadamore and
              Jorn Vernee<br>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://inside.java/2020/12/21/podcast-010/">https://inside.java/2020/12/21/podcast-010/</a></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        OpenJDK 17 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
          Access build 5</span><b><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span></b>is now
        available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://jdk.java.net/17" moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/17</a></div>
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        <ul>
          <li>These early-access, open-source builds are provided under
            the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
              General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
              Exception</a>.</li>
          <li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
          <ul>
            <li>Build 4:</li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-8258800: Deprecate -XX:+AlwaysLockClassLoader<br>
              </li>
            </ul>
            <li>Build 3:<br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-8246005:
                KeyStoreSpi::engineStore(LoadStoreParameter) spec
                mismatch to its behavior</li>
              <li>JDK-8258765: getAnnotatedReceiverType parameterizes
                types too eagerly</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK 17 - topic of interest</li>
          <ul>
            <li>Towards OpenJDK 17 - a quick update on startup
              performance: <br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                  href="https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html">https://cl4es.github.io/2020/12/06/Towards-OpenJDK-17.html</a></li>
            </ul>
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        <p>Java Cryptographic Roadmap [5] has been updated<br>
        </p>
        <ul>
          <li>Removing root certificates with 1024-bit keys in July 2021
            CPU.</li>
          <li>Disabling of SHA-1 JARS signed after 2019-01-01 has been
            postponed to July 2021 CPU.    <br>
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        Rgds, Rory<br>
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        [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-January/005001.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-January/005001.html</a><br>
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      <div class="moz-forward-container"> [2] <a
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes"
          moz-do-not-send="true">https://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes</a></div>
      <div class="moz-forward-container">[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/">http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/</a></div>
      <div class="moz-forward-container">[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2020-December/011605.html</a><br>
        [5] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html">https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html</a><br>
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