JDK 12 Early Access build 15 is available

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Luke,

JDK 12 Early Access build 15 is available at : - jdk.java.net/12/

• JDK 12 Schedule is confirmed.
• 2018/12/13 Rampdown Phase One
• 2019/01/17 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2019/02/07 Release-Candidate Phase
• 2019/03/19 General Availability
• Release Notes for JDK 12 [1]
• JEPs targeted to JDK 12, so far
• 325: Switch Expressions (Preview [2]) - Integrated
  
• 326: Raw String Literals (Preview [2]) - Integrated
  
• 340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two - Targeted
• 341: Default CDS Archives - Integrated
• Important fixes since last email
• (b15)  Implementation of JEP 341: Default CDS Archives
  
• (b14) LDAPS Communication Failure (JDK-8211107)
  
• (b14) Support dns_canonicalize_hostname in krb5.conf (JDK-8210821)
• (b14) Removal of com.sun.awt.SecurityWarning Class (JDK-8210692)

JDK 8u202 planning [3]

• 8u202 is proposed to be the last Oracle led release for this OpenJDK Project.
  
• A proposed timeline is as follows :
• July 2018 8u-dev forest begins collecting 8u202 fixes
• Mid October 2018 RampDown 2
• Mid January 2019 GA

Rgds, Rory

[1] http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/12
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-September/007923.html

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