Fwd: Java 11 / JDK 11: General Availability

[Erik Joelsson]

The plan is that we do, given the recently adopted policy.

/Erik


On 2018-09-25 10:31, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> 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
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