JDK 16 EA build 18 is now available

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Oleg,

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 18 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

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

• Features:
  
• JEPs proposed to target JDK 16
• JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
  
• JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
  
• JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
  
• JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
• JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
• JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
• JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
• JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
• JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace
  

• Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
  

• Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
• Build 17
  
• JDK-8247281: Object monitors no longer keep strong references to their associated object
• JDK-8202473: A type variable with multiple bounds does not correctly place type annotation
  • Reported by ByteBuddy
    
• JDK-8234808: jdb quoted option parsing broken
  • Reported by Apache Tomcat
• Build 16
  
• JDK-8172366: SUN, SunRsaSign, and SunEC Providers Supports SHA-3 Based Signature Algorithms
• JDK-8244706: GZIPOutputStream now sets the GZIP OS Header Field to the correct default value

• Quality Report for September 2020 was published here [1].  Thanks to everyone who contributed by creating features or enhancements, logging  bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access builds.

Rgds,Rory

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020

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