JDK 15 is now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Oleg,

Per the JDK 15 schedule  , we are now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase

Please advise if you have any open high priority issues.

• Schedule for JDK 15
• 2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate
• 2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate
• 2020/09/15 General Availability

• The overall feature set is frozen.
• Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to P1 bugs.
• 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 35 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/15

• Release notes
  
• http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes
• Recent fixes that might be of interest
• Build 34
  
• JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working

JDK 16 Early Access build 9 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

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

• Recent fixes that might be of interest

• Build 9
  

• JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root CA program
  
• JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root CA program
• Build 8
  
• JDK-8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working
• JDK-8248655: Support supplementary characters in String case insensitive operations
• Build 7
• JDK-8246032: Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features

Rgds,Rory


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/3

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