Java 14 / JDK 14: General Availability

[Andrew Hughes]

On 17/03/2020 17:37, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> JDK 14, the reference implementation of Java 14, is now Generally
> Available.  We’ve identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 36
> over five 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/14
> 
> Builds from other implementors will no doubt be available soon.
> 
> This release includes sixteen features [1]:
> 
>   305: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Preview)
>   343: Packaging Tool (Incubator)
>   345: NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1
>   349: JFR Event Streaming
>   352: Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers
>   358: Helpful NullPointerExceptions
>   359: Records (Preview)
>   361: Switch Expressions (Standard)
>   362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports
>   363: Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector
>   364: ZGC on macOS
>   365: ZGC on Windows
>   366: Deprecate the ParallelScavenge + SerialOld GC Combination
>   367: Remove the Pack200 Tools and API
>   368: Text Blocks (Second Preview)
>   370: Foreign-Memory Access API (Incubator)
> 
> along with, as usual, hundreds of smaller enhancements and thousands
> of bug fixes.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 14, whether by creating
> features or enhancements, fixing bugs, or downloading and testing
> the early-access builds.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/14
> 

Is this going to be pushed to
https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk14u/?

I don't see the expected *-ga tag as yet.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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