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    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Hi Ceki,<br>
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          Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase One [1].</b></span></font><br>
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    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><font face="Calibri,
            sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="color:black">Please advise if you find any
                  issues while testing the latest Early Access builds</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="color:
                  black;">.</span></b></span></font></b></span></font><br>
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              Roman"">Schedule:</span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman"">2021/06/10       Rampdown Phase One</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">2021/07/15        Rampdown Phase Two</span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">2021/08/05        Initial Release Candidate</span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">2021/08/19        Final Release Candidate</span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">2021/09/14        General Availability</span></span></font></li>
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    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><font face="Calibri,
          sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">The
            overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs will be
            targeted to this release.</span></font></span></font><br>
    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><font face="Calibri,
          sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></font></span></font>
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              sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></font></b></span></font></p>
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      <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level1
        lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
              Roman"">Important JEPs have been integrated –
              Attention Required!</span></span></font></li>
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        lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 411: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman";color:black">Deprecate the Security
                  Manager for Removal</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
              Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Deprecate, for removal, most Security
                Manager related classes and methods.</span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Warning message at startup if the Security
                Manager is enabled on the command line.</span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level3
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Warning message at run time if a Java
                application or library installs a Security Manager
                dynamically.</span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level3
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Deprecation is in concert with the legacy
                Applet API (JEP 398).</span></span></font></li>
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      <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level2
        lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 407: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman";color:black">Remove RMI Activation</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
              Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level3
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Removal the Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
                Activation mechanism, while preserving the rest of RMI.</span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level3
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">It was deprecated for removal by </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">JEP 385</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                Roman""> in Java SE 15.</span></span></font></li>
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      <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level2
        lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 403: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman";color:black">Strongly Encapsulate JDK
                  Internals</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
              Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">Strongly encapsulate all internal elements
                of the JDK, except for critical internal APIs such as <i>sun.misc.Unsafe</i>.
              </span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 108.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">It will no longer be possible to relax the
                strong encapsulation of internal elements via a single
                command-line option.</span></span></font></li>
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    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </font><font face="Calibri,
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        mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:
            _MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
              Roman"">Other features </span></span></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:
            _MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
              Roman""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                    Roman"">integrated </span></span></font>in JDK
              17:</span></span></font></li>
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        <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
          auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman"">JEP 306: </span></span></b><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                    Roman"">Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point
                    Semantics</span></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
          auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 356: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
          auto;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 382: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">New macOS Rendering Pipeline</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 391: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">macOS/AArch64 Port</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 398: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">Deprecate the Applet API for Removal</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman"">JEP 406: </span></span></b><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                    Roman";color:black">Pattern Matching for switch
                    (Preview)</span></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 409: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">Sealed Classes</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 410: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT
                  Compiler</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JEP 412: </span></span><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                  Roman"">Foreign Function & Memory API
                  (Incubator)</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level2
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman"">JEP 414: </span></span></b><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                    Roman"">Vector API (Second Incubator)</span></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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          lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                  Roman"">JEP 415: </span></span></b><a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415"><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
                    Roman"">Context-Specific Deserialization
                    Filters</span></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman""></span></span></font></li>
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    <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>OpenJDK 17 Early Access
            build 26 is available at </b></span><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>https://jdk.java.net/17</b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></font></p>
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              Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">These early-access
              , open-source builds are provided under the</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
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                  Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">GNU General
                  Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                  Exception</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
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              Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Release Notes are
              available at </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><a href="https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes"><span style="mso-bookmark: _MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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              Roman"">Changes in recent builds that maybe of
              interest: </span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">Build 26:</span></span></font></b></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8268241: deprecate JVM TI Heap
                functions 1.0 <br>
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                Roman"">JDK-8266846: Add java.time.InstantSource <br>
              </span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8248268: Support KWP in addition to KW
                <br>
              </span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level1
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                Roman"">JDK-8204686: Dynamic parallel reference
                processing support for Parallel GC</span></span></font></li>
        <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list:l1 level1
          lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
                Roman"">JDK-8259530: Generated docs contain
                MIT/GPL-licenced works without reproducing the licence [<b>Reported
                  by Apache Maven</b>]</span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8266766: Arrays of types that cannot be
                an annotation member do not yield exceptions [<b>Reported
                  by ByteBuddy</b>]</span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8266598: Exception values for
                AnnotationTypeMismatchException are not always
                informative [<b>Reported by ByteBuddy</b>]<br>
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                Roman"">Build 25</span></span></font></b></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8266653: Change update mode for JDK
                rpm/deb installers as it breaks "yum update" for JDK11+</span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8263202: Update
                Hebrew/Indonesian/Yiddish ISO 639 language codes to
                current</span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8229517: Support for optional
                asynchronous/buffered logging</span></span></font></li>
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                Roman"">JDK-8182043: Access to Windows Large Icons</span></span></font></li>
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        _MailOriginal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>OpenJDK 18 Early
              Access build 1 is now available at </b></span><a href="https://jdk.java.net/18"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>https://jdk.java.net/18</b></span></a><br>
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              Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">These early-access
              , open-source builds are provided under the</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
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                  Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">GNU General
                  Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                  Exception</span></span></a></font></li>
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        lfo2;tab-stops:list 72.0pt">Issues addressed in this build - <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/compare/jdk-18%2B0...jdk-18%2B1">here</a><br>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><b>Other Topics which might
            be of Interest: </b></span></font></p>
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    <p><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
          font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; font-style:
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          auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color:
          rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline
          !important; float: none;"> </span></b></p>
    <ul>
      <li><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
          font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
          normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
          text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
          word-spacing: 0px; -moz-text-size-adjust: auto;
          -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
          255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important;
          float: none;">Java Cryptographic Roadmap [2] has been updated</span>.</li>
      <li>Inside Java Newscast #6 [3]</li>
      <ul>
        <li>a closer look at the list of JEPs of JDK 17 as well as the
          development process<br>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <li>Inside Java Newscast #7 [4]</li>
      <ul>
        <li>discusses in greater detail `pattern matching for switch`,
          previewed in JDK 17<br>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </ul>
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    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Rgds,Rory<br>
        </span></font></p>
    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> [1] </span></font><a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-June/005690.html"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-June/005690.html</span></font></a><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-June/005690.html"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"><a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-June/005690.html">
        </a></span></font><br>
    <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">[2] <a href="https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html">https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html</a><br>
        [3] </span></font><a target="_blank" class="c-link" data-stringify-link="https://inside.java/2021/06/10/insidejava-newscast-006/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" href="https://inside.java/2021/06/10/insidejava-newscast-006/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color:
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      font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;
      font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
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      text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
      word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">https://inside.java/2021/06/10/insidejava-newscast-006/</a><br>
    [4] <a target="_blank" class="c-link" data-stringify-link="https://inside.java/2021/06/13/podcast-017/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" href="https://inside.java/2021/06/13/podcast-017/" rel="noopener
      noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color:
      rgba(var(--sk_highlight,18,100,163),1); text-decoration: none;
      font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;
      font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
      normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
      text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
      word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">https://inside.java/2021/06/13/podcast-017/</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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