[EXTERNAL] Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Martijn,

Looks like https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/releases/tag/jdk-17-ga has 
been tagged meanwhile. Happy hacking!

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 14.09.2021 19:06, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Congratulations to everyone involved!  The Release train just keeps on rolling ��.
> 
> One small question on tagging, will we see the -ga​ tag added to the jdk17 and/or jdk17u repositories alongside the 17+35​ tag?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martijn (He/Him)
> 
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 15:23
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability
> 
> JDK 17, the reference implementation of Java 17, is now Generally
> Available.  We shipped build 35 as the first Release Candidate of
> JDK 17 on 6 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then.
> Build 35 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use.
> 
> GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:
> 
>    https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjdk.java.net%2F17&data=04%7C01%7Cmartijn.verburg%40microsoft.com%7Ceb34dbc35c45497a8c5308d9778b4ab1%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637672262416224274%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=pxiy%2BO0PKdmDoWgE0ltUnYafN8cCTtEG%2FWFBsCx%2FGy4%3D&reserved=0
> 
> Builds from other vendors will no doubt be available soon.
> 
> This release includes fourteen JEPs [1]:
> 
>    306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
>    356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators
>    382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline
>    391: macOS/AArch64 Port
>    398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
>    403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals
>    406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)
>    407: Remove RMI Activation
>    409: Sealed Classes
>    410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler
>    411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal
>    412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)
>    414: Vector API (Second Incubator)
>    415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters
> 
> along with hundreds of smaller enhancements and almost two thousand
> bug fixes.
> 
> JDK 17 will be a long-term-support (LTS) release from most vendors,
> including Oracle.  If you’re upgrading from the previous LTS release,
> JDK 11, then you have many more JEPs to look forward to, summarized
> here:
> 
>    https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenjdk.java.net%2Fjdk%2F17%2Fjeps-since-jdk-11&data=04%7C01%7Cmartijn.verburg%40microsoft.com%7Ceb34dbc35c45497a8c5308d9778b4ab1%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637672262416224274%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DsxWzvJQe6cmjNF2scbnU51jpo%2F33EIT5%2FXO7wcUbDg%3D&reserved=0
> 
> plus thousands of smaller enhancements and almost ten thousand bug
> fixes.
> 
> Thank you to everyone who contributed this release, whether by
> designing and implementing features or enhancements, by fixing bugs,
> or by downloading and testing the early-access builds!
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenjdk.java.net%2Fprojects%2Fjdk%2F17%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cmartijn.verburg%40microsoft.com%7Ceb34dbc35c45497a8c5308d9778b4ab1%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637672262416224274%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=WXxCUvQl4%2Bclhow9CgLnoW%2BlNYbLR0PIOMs8umm8ZXI%3D&reserved=0
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