Hi All, JDK 9 Early Access HYPERLINK "https://jdk9.java.net/download/"b162 is available on java.net, summary of changes are listed HYPERLINK "http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/changes/jdk-9+162.html"here . There is one fix for a bug reported by Open Source projects since the last availability email : b161 - JDK 8176265 Method overload resolution on a covariant base type doesn't work in 9 Other change that maybe of interest: b162 - JDK 8176503 security-libs Disable SHA-1 TLS Server Certificates Better tools for adjusting to strong encapsulation - please read Mark Reinhold's email on this topic [1] Quality Outreach Report for March 2017 is available [2], many thanks for your continued support and welcome to the new projects! Schedule - JDK 9 Rampdown Phase 2: Proposal accepted [3]. The overall goal of this process is to ensure that we fix just the bugs that must be fixed in order to ensure a successful release. Oracle's JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated since last availability email [4] [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-March/011763.html [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+... [3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2017-March/005689.html [4] https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html -- Regards, Abdul Muneer Kolarkunnu Quality Engineer Oracle, Bangalore, India