JDK 15 is now in Rampdown Phase Two

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Evgeny/Marc,

Per the JDK 15 schedule, we are in Rampdown Phase Two [1]

Per the JDK Release Process [2] we now turn our focus to P1 and P2 bugs, which can be fixed with approval [3].

Late enhancements are still possible, with approval [4], but the bar is now extraordinarily high.

Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.

• Schedule for JDK 15
• 2020/07/16 Rampdown Phase Two
• 2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate
• 2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate
• 2020/09/15 General Availability

• Features included in JDK 15:
• JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
• JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview)
• JEP 371: Hidden Classes
• JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
• JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
• JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
• JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
• JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
• JEP 378: Text Blocks
• JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
• JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
• JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
• JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
• JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal

JDK 15 Early Access build 32 is available at : - jdk.java.net/15/

These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

• Release notes
  
• http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes
• Recent fixes that might be of interest

• Build 32

• 8231800: Better listing of arrays
• 8234836: Improve serialization handling
• Build 31
  
• JDK-8248505: Unexpected NoSuchAlgorithmException when using secure random impl from BCFIPS provider
• Build 29
• JDK-8233014: Enable ShowCodeDetailsInExceptionMessages by default

JDK 16 Early Access build 6 is available at : - jdk.java.net/16/

These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

• JEP Candidate
• JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
• JEPs proposed to target
• JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
• JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
• JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
• JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
  

• Recent fixes that might be of interest

• Build 32

• 8231800: Better listing of arrays
• 8234836: Improve serialization handling
• Build 5
  
• JDK-8218021: Have jarsigner preserve posix permission attributes
• JDK-8245302: Upgrade LogRecord to support long thread ids and remove its usage of ThreadLocal
• JDK-8248505: Unexpected NoSuchAlgorithmException when using secure random impl from BCFIPS provider

Cryptoroadmap updated 

• https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html

The "Best of the JDK" feature face-off tournament: Result!

• JDK Mission Control is the winner based on the Twitter poll.

The Quality Outreach Report for June 2020 is available via the Quality Wiki page: June 2020

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-July/004536.html
[2] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#Fix-Request-Process
[4] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3#Late-Enhancement-Request-Process

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

[Marc Hoffmann]

Hi Rory,

our JaCoCo tests against latest version of JDK 15 are green (which includes tag jdk-15+32).

Cheers,

-marc

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[Rory O'Donnell]

Thanks Marc!

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