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<p>Hi Ceki, </p>
<p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> <b>Per the JDK 15 schedule , we
are now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase <br>
</b></p>
<p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><br>
<b><b><b>Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.</b></b></b></p>
<ul>
<li>Schedule for JDK 15</li>
<ul>
<li><b>2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate</b></li>
<li>2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate</li>
<li>2020/09/15 General Availability</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><b> </b></p>
<ul>
<li>The overall feature set is frozen.</li>
<ul>
<li>Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1
bugs.</li>
</ul>
<li>Features included in JDK 15:</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 339: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/339">Edwards-Curve
Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)</a></li>
<li>JEP 360: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/360">Sealed
Classes (Preview)</a></li>
<li>JEP 371: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/371">Hidden
Classes</a></li>
<li>JEP 372: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372">Remove
the Nashorn JavaScript Engine</a></li>
<li>JEP 373: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/373">Reimplement
the Legacy DatagramSocket API</a></li>
<li>JEP 374: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/374">Disable
and Deprecate Biased Locking</a></li>
<li>JEP 375: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375">Pattern
Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)</a></li>
<li>JEP 377: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/377">ZGC: A
Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector</a></li>
<li>JEP 378: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378">Text
Blocks</a></li>
<li>JEP 379: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/379">Shenandoah:
A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector</a></li>
<li>JEP 381: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/381">Remove
the Solaris and SPARC Ports</a></li>
<li>JEP 383: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383">Foreign-Memory
Access API (Second Incubator)</a></li>
<li>JEP 384: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/384">Records
(Second Preview)</a> </li>
<li>JEP 385: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385">Deprecate
RMI Activation for Removal</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
<b>JDK 15 </b><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
Access build 35 </span></b>is now available at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/15"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/15</a><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span>
<div class="moz-forward-container">
<ul>
<li>Release notes <br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Recent fixes that might be of interest</li>
<ul>
<li>Build 34<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"></span><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);">8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and
playback is not working</span></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><b>JDK 16 Early Access build 9 </b><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></p>
</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">
<ul>
<li>JEP Candidate</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 388: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
Port</a></li>
</ul>
<li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate
to GitHub</a></li>
<li>JEP 357: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate
from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
<li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable
C++14 Language Features </a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">
<ul>
<li>Recent fixes that might be of interest </li>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(23,
43, 77); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 9<br>
</span></p>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root CA
program<br>
</li>
<li>JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root CA
program</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 8<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span>8246094:
[macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working</li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8248655: Support
supplementary characters in String case insensitive
operations</span></li>
</ul>
<li>Build 7</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8246032:
Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language
Features</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<b><u><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);"></span></span></u></b></div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"> Rgds,Rory</div>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3">http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3</a><br>
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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