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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b><span style="color:black">Per the JDK 17 schedule , we
are in Rampdown Phase Two [1].</span></b><span style="color:black"> <br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> <b>Please advise if you find
any issues while testing the latest Early Access
builds.</b> <br>
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Rampdown Phase Two</b> </li>
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Initial Release Candidate </li>
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Final Release Candidate </li>
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General Availability </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black">The overall feature set is
frozen. No further JEPs will be targeted to this
release. </span></p>
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Features integrated in JDK 17: </li>
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JEP 306: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306">Restore
Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics</a> </li>
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JEP 356: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">Enhanced
Pseudo-Random Number Generators</a> </li>
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JEP 382: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382">New
macOS Rendering Pipeline</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 391: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391">macOS/AArch64
Port</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JEP 398: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398">Deprecate
the Applet API for Removal</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JEP 403: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403">Strongly
Encapsulate JDK Internals</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JEP 406: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406">Pattern
Matching for switch (Preview)</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 407: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407">Remove
RMI Activation</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 409: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409">Sealed
Classes</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 410: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410">Remove
the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 411: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411">Deprecate
the Security Manager for Removal</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 412: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412">Foreign
Function & Memory API (Incubator)</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 414: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414">Vector
API (Second Incubator)</a> </li>
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color:black"> JEP 415: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415">Context-Specific
Deserialization Filters</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b><span style="color:black">OpenJDK 17 Early Access build
31 is available at </span> </b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17"><b>https://jdk.java.net/17</b></a>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black"><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the
Classpath Exception</a> <br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black">Release Notes are available at
<a href="https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes">
https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes</a> </span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black"><b>OpenJDK 18 Early Access build
6 is available at </b> <a href="https://jdk.java.net/18"><b>https://jdk.java.net/18</b></a> </span></p>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> These early-access , open-source
builds are provided under the </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black"><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
General Public License, version 2, with the
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black">Release Notes are available at
<a href="https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes">
https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes</a> <br>
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interest: </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JDK-8269697:
JNI_GetPrimitiveArrayCritical() should not accept
object array [build 6]</li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JDK-8253119: Remove the legacy
PlainSocketImpl and PlainDatagramSocketImpl
implementation [build 6]</li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black"> JDK-8268960: Prohibit Null for
Header Keys and Values in
com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers [build 5] </li>
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color:black"> JDK-8256425: Obsolete Biased Locking
in JDK 18 [build 4] </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b><span style="color:black">Topics of Interest: </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
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color:black"> <span style="color:windowtext">‘Inside
Java’ Podcast #18: <a href="https://inside.java/2021/06/29/podcast-018/">
Java's steady march towards strong encapsulation</a></span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black">[1] </span><a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html</a></p>
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