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<span lang="EN-US">Hi Ceki, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Release Announcement:
General Availability of Java 16 / JDK 16 </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">JDK 16, the reference
implementation of Java 16, is now Generally Available. [1]</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds
from Oracle are available here: <a href="http://jdk.java.net/16/">http://jdk.java.net/16/</a></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-US">JDK 16 <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/16-relnotes.html">Release
notes</a></span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">JDK 16 includes the
following features [2]:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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JEP 338:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338">Vector API
(Incubator)</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 347:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable C++14
Language Features</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 357:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate from
Mercurial to Git</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 369:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate to GitHub</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 376:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376">ZGC: Concurrent
Thread-Stack Processing</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 380:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380">Unix-Domain Socket
Channels</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 386:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386">Alpine Linux Port</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 387:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387">Elastic Metaspace</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 388:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
Port</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 389:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/389">Foreign Linker API
(Incubator)</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 390:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/390" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/390">Warnings for
Value-Based Classes</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 392:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392">Packaging Tool</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 393:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393">Foreign-Memory
Access API (Third Incubator)</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 394:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394">Pattern Matching
for instanceof</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 395:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395">Records</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 396:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/396" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/396">Strongly
Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default</a><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
JEP 397:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/397" title="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/397">Sealed Classes
(Second Preview)</a><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks to everyone who
contributed to JDK 16, whether by creating features or
enhancements, logging bugs, or <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">downloading and testing
the early-access builds.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">OpenJDK 17 Early Access
build 13 is now available at <a href="http://jdk.java.net/17/">http://jdk.java.net/17</a><br>
</span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">These early access, open source builds are
provided under the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html" target="_blank">GNU General Public License, version 2, with
the Classpath Exception</a>.<br>
<span lang="EN-US"></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JEPs targeted to JDK 17, so
far:</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JEP 356: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">Enhanced
Pseudo-Random Number Generators</a></span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<o:p></o:p>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">Release Notes are available at
<a href="http://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes</a></span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">Significant changes since the
last availability email:</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JDK-8259709: Disable SHA-1 XML Signatures
(b13)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3">JDK-6323374:
(coll) Optimize Collections.unmodifiable* and synchronized*<span lang="EN-US">(b13)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JDK-8139348: Deprecate 3DES and RC4 in
Kerberos </span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">(b12)</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JDK-8259662: Don't wrap SocketExceptions into
SSLExceptions in SSLSocketImpl </span><span lang="EN-US">(b11)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JDK-8235139: Deprecate the socket impl
factory mechanism</span><span lang="EN-US">(b10)</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US">JDK-8225081: Remove Telia Company CA
certificate expiring in April 2021</span><span lang="EN-US">(b9)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<br>
<b>Project Lanai Early-Access Builds<br>
</b>
<ul>
<li>EA 10 Build 17-lanai+3-133 (2021/3/2) <span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is available - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/lanai/">http://jdk.java.net/lanai/</a><br>
</span></li>
<li>These early access, open source builds are provided under
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html" target="_blank">GNU General Public License, version 2, with
the Classpath Exception</a>.</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b>Project Loom Early-Access Builds</b><br>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Build 17-loom+4-174
(2021/3/12) </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is
available - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/loom/">http://jdk.java.net/loom/</a></span></li>
<li>These early access, open source builds are provided under
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html" target="_blank">GNU General Public License, version 2, with
the Classpath Exception</a>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br>
<b>Project Panama Early-Access Builds<br>
</b>
<ul>
<li>Build 17-panama+2-51 (2021/2/12) <span style="font-weight:
normal;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">is
available - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/panama/">http://jdk.java.net/panama/</a></span>
</li>
<li>These early access, open source builds are provided under
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html" target="_blank">GNU General Public License, version 2, with
the Classpath Exception</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rgds,Rory</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-March/005188.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-March/005188.html</a><br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/">https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/16/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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