Proposed schedule for JDK 18

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Fri Nov 12 17:11:53 UTC 2021


2021/11/1 12:40:57 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> With JDK 17 now enjoying its time the limelight, here’s a proposed
> schedule for JDK 18:
> 
>   2021/12/09  Rampdown Phase One
>   2022/01/20  Rampdown Phase Two
>   2022/02/10  Initial Release Candidate
>   2022/02/24  Final Release Candidate
>   2022/03/22  General Availability
> 
> The phases are defined in JEP 3 [1].
> 
> Comments on this proposal from JDK Committers and Reviewers [2] are
> welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections are
> raised by 23:00 UTC next Monday, 8 November, or if they’re raised
> and satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [3]
> this will be the schedule for JDK 18.

Hearing no objections, this is now the schedule for JDK 18.

- Mark


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