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    <p>Hi Ceki, </p>
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      <div class="moz-forward-container">OpenJDK 16 <span
          style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access build 21</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>
        <ul>
          <li>These early-access , open-source builds are provided under
            the<br>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
                General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                Exception</a>.</li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <ul>
          <li>Schedule (proposed)</li>
        </ul>
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      <div class="moz-forward-container">            2020/12/10        
        Rampdown Phase One <br>
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      <div class="moz-forward-container">            2021/01/14        
        Rampdown Phase Two<br>
                    2021/02/04         Initial Release Candidate<br>
                    2021/02/18         Final Release Candidate<br>
                    2021/03/16         General Availability  <br>
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          <ul>
            <li>Features:<br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <ul>
                <li>JEP 338: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338">Vector API
                    (Incubator)</a></li>
                <li>JEP 347: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable
                    C++14 Language Features </a></li>
              </ul>
              <ul>
                <li>JEP 357: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate
                    from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <ul>
              <ul>
                <li>JEP 369: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate to
                    GitHub</a></li>
                <li>JEP 376: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376">ZGC:
                    Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing</a></li>
                <li>JEP 386: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386">Alpine
                    Linux Port</a></li>
                <li>JEP 387: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387">Elastic
                    Metaspace</a></li>
                <li>JEP 388: <a
                    href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
                    Port</a></li>
              </ul>
            </ul>
          </ul>
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          <ul>
            <li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
            <ul>
              <li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 21<br>
                </span> </li>
              <ul>
                <li>JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class</li>
                <li>JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP
                  Authentication Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate Over
                  Clear Connections</li>
                <li>JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and
                  EdDSA</li>
                <li>JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling</li>
                <li>JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry()
                  to recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size</li>
              </ul>
              <li>Build 20<br>
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li>JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false on
                  a writeable root directory (win) <br>
                  <ul>
                    <li>Reported by JUnit5</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li>JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in
                  ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation
                  <ul>
                    <li>Reported by JUnit5</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li>JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated java.awt.PeerFixer
                  class</li>
                <li>JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return
                  false for interface implementors</li>
                <ul>
                  <li>Found by Hibernate Validator <br>
                  </li>
                </ul>
                <li>JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as
                  part of tzdata2020b</li>
              </ul>
              <li>Build 19</li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                      rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-8253761:
                        Wrong URI syntax printed by jar
                        --describe-module</span></span></span></li>
                <ul>
                  <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span
                        style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                          rgb(0,0,0);">Reported by JUnit5</span></span></span></li>
                </ul>
              </ul>
            </ul>
          </ul>
          <p>Project Lanai Early-Access Build: <a
              href="http://jdk.java.net/lanai/">EA 6 Build
              16-lanai+2-229</a> (2020/10/4)<br>
          </p>
          <ul>
            <li>These early-access builds are provided under the <a
                href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html">GNU
                General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                Exception</a>.</li>
            <li>These builds are based upon the latest state of the
              current in development JDK, and so may contain new
              features and unresolved bugs unrelated to Project Lanai.
              Project Lanai Wiki: <a
                href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main</a></li>
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          <p>Project Panama Early-Access Build: <a
              href="http://jdk.java.net/panama/">Build 16-panama+2-193</a>
            (2020/10/1)</p>
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              under the <a
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                with the Classpath Exception</a>.</li>
            <li>These builds are based on an incomplete version of JDK
              16.</li>
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          <p>Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated
            [1]</p>
          <ul>
            <li>Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519 and
              x448 named elliptic curve groups to TLS.</li>
            <li>Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021 CPU
              release. </li>
          </ul>
          <p>Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020</p>
          <ul>
            <li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html">https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html</a></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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        <div class="moz-forward-container">[1] <a
            href="https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html">https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html</a></div>
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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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