JDK 10: Release Candidate & JDK 11 Early Access builds available

[Rory O'Donnell]

  Hi Luke,

JDK 10 build 45 is our JDK 10 Release Candidate and now available at http://jdk.java.net/10/

• Schedule, status & features
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/
• Release Notes
• http://jdk.java.net/10/release-notes
  
• Summary of changes in b45:
  
• JDK-8198658 - Docs still point to JDK 9 docs

JDK 11 EA build 3, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are now available at http://jdk.java.net/11 .

• Schedule, status & features
  
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/
  
• Release Notes:
• http://jdk.java.net/11/release-notes
• Summary of changes
  
• https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk11/2/jdk-11+2.html
• JEPs targeted to JDK 11, so far
  
• 309: Dynamic Class-File Constants
• 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector
• 320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
• This build includes JEP 320, so build is significantly smaller (nine fewer modules, 22 fewer megabyteson Linux/x64).
• 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
• Open Source Project fixes in JDK 11 build 1
  
• JDK-8195096 - Apache Tomcat
• Exception with custom LogManager on starting Apache Tomcat
  
• JDK-8193802   - Apache Maven
• NullPointerException from JarFileSystem.getVersionMap()
  
• JDK-8191842 - jOOQ
  
• JShell: Inferred type information is lost when assigning types to a "var"

Finally, the Crypto roadmap was updated - 23-Feb-2018

• Add support for AEAD TLS Cipher Suites
• Target date changed from 2018-04-17 to 2018-07-17

Regards,
Rory
 

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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland