JDK 10: General Availability

[Martijn Verburg]

Everyone has done an amazing job to get 9 and 10 out according to the new
release schedule.  That's not easy, so kudos!

Cheers,
Martijn

On 20 March 2018 at 15:55, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> JDK 10, the first 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 46 almost two weeks ago, so that
> is the official GA release, ready for production use.
>
> GPL'd binaries from Oracle are available here:
>
>   http://jdk.java.net/10
>
> (There are links on that page to Oracle's commercial binaries, for
> those who are interested.)  Binaries from other implementors will no
> doubt be available in short order.
>
> This release includes twelve features:
>
>   Local-Variable Type Inference
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286
>   Consolidate the JDK Forest
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/296
>   Garbage-Collector Interface
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/304
>   Parallel Full GC for G1
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/307
>   Application Class-Data Sharing
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310
>   Thread-Local Handshakes
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/312
>   Remove the Native-Header Generation Tool
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/313
>   Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/314
>   Heap Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/316
>   Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/317
>   Root Certificates
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/319
>   Time-Based Release Versioning
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322
>
> along with, of course, hundreds of smaller enhancements.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 10, whether directly or
> indirectly.  Considering the enormous change that we just made to
> the release model, this all went pretty smoothly!
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-
> September/004281.html
>