JDK 17 is now in Rampdown Phase Two

[Deepak Damodaran]

Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase Two [1].


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

  *   Schedule:
     *   2021/07/15        Rampdown Phase Two
     *   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 31 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




OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 6 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-8269697: JNI_GetPrimitiveArrayCritical() should not accept object array [build 6]
     *   JDK-8253119: Remove the legacy PlainSocketImpl and PlainDatagramSocketImpl implementation [build 6]
     *   JDK-8268960: Prohibit Null for Header Keys and Values in com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers [build 5]
     *   JDK-8256425: Obsolete Biased Locking in JDK 18 [build 4]



Topics of Interest:

  *   ‘Inside Java’ Podcast #18: Java's steady march towards strong encapsulation<https://inside.java/2021/06/29/podcast-018/>




Regards

Deepak



[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html