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<span style="color:black"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Ceki,
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b><span style="color:black">Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are now in
the Release Candidate Phase [1][2].</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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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black;
background:white"> <b>2021/08/05 Initial Release
Candidate </b></li>
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background:white"> 2021/08/19 Final Release Candidate </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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margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm"> Features integrated in JDK
17: </li>
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margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm"> JEP 306: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306">Restore
Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics</a> </li>
<li class="x_x_x_x_x_x_xxxmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm;
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black;
margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm"> JEP 356: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">Enhanced
Pseudo-Random Number Generators</a> </li>
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margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm"> JEP 382: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382">New macOS Rendering
Pipeline</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; 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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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> JEP
407: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407">Remove RMI
Activation</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> JEP
409: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409">Sealed
Classes</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; 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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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> JEP
411: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411">Deprecate
the Security Manager for Removal</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> JEP
412: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412">Foreign
Function & Memory API (Incubator)</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> JEP
414: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414">Vector API
(Second Incubator)</a> </li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; 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 </span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt">Access</span><span style="color:black"> build 35 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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color:black"> <span style="font-size:11pt">These early-access ,
open-source builds are provided under the </span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black"><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"><span style="font-size:11pt">GNU General Public License,
version 2, with the Classpath Exception</span></a></span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="color:black"><br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black; font-size:11pt">Release Notes are
available at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes"><span style="font-size:11pt">https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes</span></a></span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt"> </span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black; font-size:11pt">Changes in recent builds
that maybe of interest: </span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black; font-size:11pt">JDK-</span><span style="color:black"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);
font-size:11pt">8270866: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath()</span></span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt"> [build 33]</span></li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black; font-size:11pt">Reported</span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt"> by jOOQ</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black"><b><b><span style="color:black">Topics of
Interest: </span> </b><br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </p>
<ul>
<li> The latest Newscast covers 17's <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">JEP 356</a>: Enhanced
Pseudo-Random Number Generators - <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://inside.java/2021/07/29/insidejava-newscast-009/">Here</a><br>
</li>
<li>The latest JEP Café cover 17's <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409">JEP 409</a> : Sealed
Classes - <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://inside.java/2021/07/22/jepcafe2/">Here</a><br>
</li>
<li>A few updates to <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411">JEP 411</a>:
Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2021-July/026806.html">Here</a><br>
</li>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <span style="color:black; font-size:11pt"><b>OpenJDK</b></span><span style="color:black"><b> 18 Early Access build 9 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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<li class="x_x_x_x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt;
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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</ul>
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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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Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: <br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8225082: Remove IdenTrust certificate that is expiring in
September 2021 [build 9]<br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8251329: Zip File System Provider Throws ZipException when
entry name element contains "." or ".." [build 9]<br>
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font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8271359: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">NPE in
DocTreePath.getTreePath()</span> [build 8]</li>
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Reported by jOOQ</li>
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<p><b>July 2021 Critical Patch Update Released</b></p>
<ul>
<li>As part of the July 2021, we released JDK 16.0.2, JDK 11.0.12
LTS, JDK 8u301 and JDK 7u311 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.2 (publicly
available)<br>
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<span style="color:black">[1] </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005894.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005894.html</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html</a><br>
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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