[EXTERNAL] Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability

[Kevin Rushforth]

The tag has also been propagated to both the jdk17 and jdk17u repos.

-- Kevin


On 9/15/2021 12:43 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>> NOTE: My working day may not be your working day! Please don’t feel 
>> obliged to read or reply to this e-mail outside of your normal 
>> working hours.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: jdk-dev <jdk-dev-retn at openjdk.java.net> on behalf of 
>> mark.reinhold at oracle.com <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 15:23
>> To: announce at openjdk.java.net <announce at openjdk.java.net>
>> Cc: jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> 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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