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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b>JDK 9 Early Access</b> <a href="https://jdk9.java.net/download/">b162</a> is available on java.net, summary of changes are listed <a href="http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/changes/jdk-9+162.html">here </a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is one fix for a bug reported by Open Source projects since the last availability email :<o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>b161 - JDK 8176265 Method overload resolution on a covariant base type doesn't work in 9<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal>Other change that maybe of interest: <o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'>b162 - JDK 8176503 security-libs Disable SHA-1 TLS Server Certificates<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><br><b>Better tools for adjusting to strong encapsulation -</b> please read Mark Reinhold's email on this topic [1]<br><b><br>Quality Outreach Report for March 2017 </b>is available [2], many thanks for your continued support <br>and welcome to the new projects!<br><br><b>Schedule - JDK 9 Rampdown Phase 2</b>: Proposal accepted [3]. <br>The overall goal of this process is to ensure that we fix just the bugs that must be fixed in order to ensure a successful release.<br><br>Oracle's JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated since last availability email [4]<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-March/011763.html">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2017-March/011763.html</a><br>[2] <a href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2017">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+March+2017</a><br>[3] <a href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2017-March/005689.html">http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2017-March/005689.html</a><br>[4] <a href="https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html">https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html</a><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Regards,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Abdul Muneer Kolarkunnu<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Quality Engineer<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Oracle, Bangalore, India<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>