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    <p>Hi Ceki, </p>
    <div class="moz-forward-container">OpenJDK 16 <span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access build 24</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 <br>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="moz-forward-container">            2020/12/10        
      Rampdown Phase One <br>
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                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: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338">Vector API
                  (Incubator)</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 347: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347">Enable C++14
                  Language Features </a></font></li>
          </ul>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 357: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357">Migrate from
                  Mercurial to Git</a></font></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <ul>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 369: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369">Migrate to
                  GitHub</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 376: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376">ZGC:
                  Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 380: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380">Unix-Domain
                  Socket Channels</a><br>
              </font></li>
            <li>JEP 386: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386">Alpine Linux
                  Port</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 387: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387">Elastic
                  Metaspace</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 388: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388">Windows/AArch64
                  Port</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 392: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392">Packaging
                  Tool</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 393: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393">Foreign-Memory
                  Access API (Third Incubator)</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 394: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394">Pattern
                  Matching for instanceof</a></font></li>
            <li>JEP 395: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
                  href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395">Records</a></font></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
          style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
    <ul>
      <li>Release Notes are available at <a
          href="http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes">http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes</a></li>
    </ul>
    <ul>
      <li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
      <ul>
        <li>Build 24<br>
        </li>
        <ul>
          <li>JDK-8231599: NPE when loading a preview classfile from a
            future Java version
            <ul>
              <li><b>Reported by JUnit5</b></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>JDK-8254661: arm32: additional cleanup after fixing
            SIGSEGV
            <ul>
              <li><b>Reported by JaCoCo</b></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>JDK-8255584: `HttpPrincipal::getName` returns incorrect
            name</li>
          <li>JDK-8255226: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020d</li>
        </ul>
        <li>Build 23<br>
        </li>
        <ul>
          <li>JDK-8254876: (fs) NullPointerException not thrown when
            first argument to Path.of or Paths.get is null</li>
          <li>JDK-8255576: (fs) Files.isHidden() throws
            ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (unix)</li>
          <ul>
            <li><b>Reported by JUnit5</b></li>
          </ul>
          <li>JDK-8255616: Removal of experimental features AOT and
            Graal JIT</li>
        </ul>
        <li>Build 22</li>
        <ul>
          <li>JDK-8243583: Change 'final' error checks to throw ICCE</li>
          <li>JDK-8254982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020c</li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
    </ul>
    <p>Project Loom Early-Access Build: <a
        href="http://jdk.java.net/loom/">Build 16-loom+7-285</a>
      (2020/11/4)<br>
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li><b>Want to know more</b> - check out - <a
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/">https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/</a></li>
      <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>
      <ul>
        <li>These builds are based on <a
            href="https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/releases/tag/jdk-16%2B20">jdk-16+20</a></li>
        <li>These EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering
          feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk.</li>
        <li>Please send feedback via e-mail to <a
            href="mailto:loom-dev@openjdk.java.net">loom-dev@openjdk.java.net</a>.
          To send e-mail to this address you must first <a
            href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/loom-dev">subscribe
            to the mailing list</a>.</li>
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    <p>Rgds,Rory<br>
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland</pre>
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