Fwd: Java 11 / JDK 11: General Availability

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Now that JDK 11 is available, what are the plans to bump up the boot JDK 
version?

-- Jon


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Java 11 / JDK 11: General Availability
Date: 	Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:23:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Reply-To: 	discuss at openjdk.java.net
To: 	announce at openjdk.java.net
CC: 	jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net



JDK 11, the reference implementation of Java 11 and the first long-term
support release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence release model
[1][2], is now Generally Available.  We've identified no P1 bugs since we
promoted build 28 over four weeks ago so that’s the official GA release,
ready for production use.

GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:

   https://jdk.java.net/11

Builds from other implementors will no doubt be available soon.

This release includes seventeen features [3]:

   181: Nest-Based Access Control
   309: Dynamic Class-File Constants
   315: Improve Aarch64 Intrinsics
   318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector (Experimental)
   320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
   321: HTTP Client (Standard)
   323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
   324: Key Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448
   327: Unicode 10
   328: Flight Recorder
   329: ChaCha20 & Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms
   330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
   331: Low-Overhead Heap Profiling
   332: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
   333: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Experimental)
   335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
   336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API

along with, of course, hundreds of smaller enhancements and countless
bug fixes.

Thanks to everyone who contributed JDK 11, whether by creating features
or enhancements, removing old features, fixing bugs, or downloading and
testing the early-access builds.

Onward, to JDK 12!

- Mark


[1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
[2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11