JDK 17 is now in the Release Candidate Phase

[Deepak Damodaran]

Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are now in the Release Candidate Phase [1][2].



Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early Access builds.

  *   Schedule:
     *   2021/08/05       Initial Release Candidate
     *   2021/08/19        Final Release Candidate
     *   2021/09/14        General Availability


The overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs will be targeted to this release.



  *   Features integrated in JDK 17:

     *   JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306>
     *   JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356>
     *   JEP 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382>
     *   JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391>
     *   JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398>
     *   JEP 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403>
     *   JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406>
     *   JEP 407: Remove RMI Activation<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407>
     *   JEP 409: Sealed Classes<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409>
     *   JEP 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410>
     *   JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411>
     *   JEP 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412>
     *   JEP 414: Vector API (Second Incubator)<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414>
     *   JEP 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415>



OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 35 is available at https://jdk.java.net/17

  *   These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
     *   GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception<https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>
  *   Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes
  *   Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
     *   JDK-8270866: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath() [build 33]
        *   Reported by jOOQ



Topics of Interest:

  *   The latest Newscast covers 17's JEP 356<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356>: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators - Here<https://inside.java/2021/07/29/insidejava-newscast-009/>
  *   The latest JEP Café cover 17's JEP 409<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409> : Sealed Classes - Here<https://inside.java/2021/07/22/jepcafe2/>
  *   A few updates to JEP 411<https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411>: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - Here<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2021-July/026806.html>



OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 9 is available at https://jdk.java.net/18

  *   These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
     *   GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception<https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>
  *   Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes
  *   Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
     *   JDK-8225082: Remove IdenTrust certificate that is expiring in September 2021 [build 9]
     *   JDK-8251329: Zip File System Provider Throws ZipException when entry name element contains "." or ".." [build 9]
     *   JDK-8271359: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath() [build 8]
        *   Reported by jOOQ

July 2021 Critical Patch Update Released

  *   As part of the July 2021, we released JDK 16.0.2, JDK 11.0.12 LTS, JDK 8u301 and JDK 7u311 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.2 (publicly available)



Regards

Deepak


[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005894.html
[2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html