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    <p>Hi Ceki, </p>
    <p><b><b>Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 / JDK
          15 [1] <br>
        </b></b></p>
    <ul>
      <li>JDK 15, the reference implementation of Java 15, is now
        Generally Available. </li>
      <li>GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: <a
          href="http://jdk.java.net/15/">http://jdk.java.net/15/</a></li>
      <li>JDK 15 <a
href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/15-relnote-issues.html">Release
          notes</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div class="moz-forward-container">JDK 15 includes fourteen features
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      <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>
      <p>Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 15, whether by
        creating features or enhancements, logging  bugs, or downloading
        and testing the early-access builds. </p>
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      OpenJDK 16 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access
        build 15</span><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span></b>is
      now available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="http://jdk.java.net/16">http://jdk.java.net/16</a><span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span>
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        <ul>
          <li>JEPs integrated to JDK 16:</li>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable
                C++14 Language Features </a></li>
            <li>JEP 357: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate
                from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
          </ul>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate
                to GitHub</a></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <ul>
          <li>Release Notes are available at <a
              href="http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes</a><br>
          </li>
        </ul>
        <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
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        <ul>
          <li>Significant changes since the last availability email:</li>
          <ul>
            <li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 15<br>
              </span> </li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-8244090: public lookup should find public members
                of public exported types (Reported by Eclipse Jetty) </li>
              <li>JDK-8250968: Symlinks attributes not preserved when
                using jarsigner on zip files</li>
            </ul>
            <li>Build 14<br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span>8189744:
                Deprecate the JDK-specific API for setting socket
                options, jdk.net.Sockets</li>
              <li>JDK-8241003: Deprecate "denigrated" java.security.cert
                APIs that represent DNs as Principal or String objects</li>
              <li>JDK-8245462: <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
                  data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
                    rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
                      style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
                      #000000;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
                        data-mce-style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span>The
                default HttpClient implementation returns cancelable
                futures</li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
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        <b><u><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
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      <div class="moz-forward-container"> Rgds,Rory</div>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html</a><br>
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    [2] <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/"
      moz-do-not-send="true">https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/</a><br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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