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<span lang="EN-US">Hi Ceki, </span><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>OpenJDK
17 Early Access build 21 is now available at </b><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17"><b><span style="color:windowtext">https://jdk.java.net/17</span></b></a></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">These early-access ,
open-source builds are provided under the</span></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo1"><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">GNU General Public
License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception</span></a></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Schedule</span></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo2">2021/06/10
Rampdown Phase One </li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo2">2021/07/15
Rampdown Phase Two</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo2">2021/08/05
Initial Release Candidate</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo2">2021/08/19
Final Release Candidate</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l3 level2 lfo2">2021/09/14
General Availability </li>
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</ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo3"> JEPs targeted to JDK 17, so far:</li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level2 lfo3"> JEP 356: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">Enhanced
Pseudo-Random Number Generators</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level2 lfo3"> JEP 382: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382">New macOS Rendering
Pipeline</a></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">JEP
391: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391">
macOS/AArch64 Port</a></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">JEP
398: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398"> Deprecate
the Applet API for Removal</a></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">JEP
410: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410"> Remove the
Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Release Notes are available
at </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes">https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes</a></span></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">Changes
in recent builds that maybe of interest: </li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">Build
21:</li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8196415:
JARs signed with SHA-1 algorithms are restricted by default.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8265989:
System property for the native character encoding name.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8265137:
java.util.Random suddenly has new public methods nowhere
documented. <br>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">[<b>Reported
by Apache Lucene]</b></li>
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</ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">Build
20</li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8037397:
RegEx pattern matching loses character class after
intersection (&&) operator. </li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8264208:
A new public method that returns the `Charset` used in the
`Console.</li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3">Build
19</li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8228988:
AnnotationParser throws NullPointerException on incompatible
member type. <br>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3"><b>[Reported
by ByteBuddy]</b></li>
</ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8258794:
Support for CLDR version 39.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8262108:
SimpleDateFormat formatting broken for sq_MK Locale. <br>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3"><b>[</b><b>Reported
by ApacheCommons]</b></li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level2 lfo3"><span style="color:black">Build </span>18</li>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8260693:
Provide the support for specifying a signer in keytool
-genkeypair.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3">JDK-8263763:
Synthetic constructor parameters of enum are not considered
for annotation indices. <br>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l2 level3 lfo3"><b>[Reported
by ByteBuddy]</b></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Topics
of interest from 'Insider Java':</b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4">Security
and Sandboxing Post SecurityManager : <a href="https://inside.java/2021/04/23/security-and-sandboxing-post-securitymanager/">Link</a></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l5 level1 lfo4">Foreign
Memory Access and NIO channels - Going Further : <a href="https://inside.java/2021/04/21/fma-and-nio-channels/">Link</a></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Project
Loom Early-Access Build: </b><a href="https://jdk.java.net/loom/"><b><span style="color:windowtext">Build 17-loom+6-225</span></b></a><b>
(2021/4/1)</b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo5"> These early-access builds are provided under the <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"> GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
Exception</a>.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">These
builds are produced for the purpose of gathering feedback. Use
for any other purpose is at your own risk.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5">Please
send feedback via e-mail to <a href="mailto:loom-dev@openjdk.java.net">loom-dev@openjdk.java.net</a>.
To send e-mail to this address you must first <a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/loom-dev">subscribe
to the mailing list</a>.<b> </b></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>April
2021 Critical Patch Update Released:</b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6">As
part of the April 2021 CPU we released JDK 16.0.1, JDK 11.0.11
LTS, JDK 8u291 and JDK 7u301 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.1 (publicly
available). </li>
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Rgds,Rory
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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