JDK 8 M5

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Dec 4 14:10:37 PST 2012


The final build of M5 was promoted last week (b66).  I've updated the
milestone and feature pages [1][2] to reflect what did and didn't get
done.

Code for these JEPs wasn't integrated as scheduled in M5 but work on
them continues, so I've retargeted them to M6:

  103 Parallel Array Sorting
  110 New HTTP Client
  119 javax.lang.model Implementation Backed by Core Reflection
  140 Limited doPrivileged

JEP 112 (Charset Implementation Improvements) was actually integrated
in M4 rather than M5, so I've retargeted it to M4 in order to set the
record straight.

JEP 136 (Enhanced Verification Errors) was integrated in M5.

Finally, the owner of JEP 111 (Additional Unicode Constructs for Regular
Expressions) asked that it be dropped from JDK 8 due to lack of time.
Part of that JEP was, however, implemented in M2 (7014640 [3]).

These changes are also summarized on the features page [4].

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/features
[3] http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7014640
[4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/features#changes-m5


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