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<p><b>Per the JDK 14 schedule , we are now in Rampdown Phase One</b></p>
<p><b>Please advise if you have found any issues while testing the
latest Early Access build.<br>
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<li>Schedule for JDK 14</li>
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<li><b>2019/12/12 Rampdown Phase One</b></li>
<li>2020/01/16 Rampdown Phase Two</li>
<li>2020/02/06 Initial Release Candidate</li>
<li>2020/02/20 Final Release Candidate</li>
<li>2020/03/17 General Availability</li>
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<li>The overall feature set is frozen. <br>
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<li>No further JEPs will be targeted to this release</li>
<li>For more details , see Mark Reinhold's email to jdk-dev
mailing list [1] </li>
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<li>Features included in JDK 14:.</li>
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<li class=""><span class="">JEP 305: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Pattern Matching for instanceof
(Preview)</a> <br>
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<li class=""><span class="">JEP 343: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/343" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Packaging Tool (Incubator)</a> <br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 345: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/345" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">NUMA-Aware Memory Allocation for G1</a>
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<li><span class="">JEP 349: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/349" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">JFR Event Streaming</a> <br>
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<li>JEP 352: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/352"
moz-do-not-send="true">Non-Volatile Mapped Byte Buffers</a>
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<li>JEP 358: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/358"
moz-do-not-send="true">Helpful NullPointerExceptions</a> <br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 359: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Records (Preview)</a> <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">JEP 359: Records (Preview)</a> <br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 361: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/361" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Switch Expressions (Standard)</a></li>
<li>JEP 362: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/362"
moz-do-not-send="true">Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC
Ports </a><br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 363: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/363" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep
Garbage Collector</a> <br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 364: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/364" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC on macOS</a> <br>
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<li>JEP 365 <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/365"
moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC on Windows</a></li>
<li><span class="">JEP 366: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/366" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Deprecate ParallelScavenge
SerialOld GC Combination</a> <br>
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<li><span class="">JEP 367: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/367" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Remove the Pack200 Tools and API</a>
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<li><span class="">JEP 368: </span><a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/368" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">Text Blocks (Second Preview)</a></li>
<li>JEP 370: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/370"
moz-do-not-send="true">Foreign-Memory Access API
(Incubator) </a></li>
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<b>JDK 14 </b><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
Access build 27 </span></b><b>is available</b><b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> at : - jdk.java.net/14/</span></b>
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<li>Release notes <br>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://jdk.java.net/14/release-notes</a></li>
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<li>Recent fixes that might be of interest</li>
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<li>Build 27:</li>
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<li>JDK-8212780: Packaging Tool Implementation</li>
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<li>JDK-8234370: Implementation of JEP 362: Deprecate the
Solaris and SPARC Ports</li>
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<li>JDK-8190492: Remove SSLv2Hello and SSLv3 from default
enabled TLS protocols</li>
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<li>JDK-8214481: freetype path does not disable TrueType
hinting with AA+FM hints</li>
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<li>JDK-8234076: JVM crashes on Windows 10 using
--module=NAME</li>
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<li>JDK-8222756: Plural support in CompactNumberFormat</li>
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<li>JDK-8234211: allow discoverable javac plugins to be
invoked by default</li>
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<li>Build 26:</li>
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<li>JDK-8233223: Add Amazon Root CA certificates</li>
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<li>JDK-8235263: Revert TLS 1.3 change that wrapped
IOExceptions</li>
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<li>JDK-8234893: ARM32: build failure after JDK-8234387</li>
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