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      <p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> <b>Per the JDK 15 schedule, we
          are now in the Initial Release Candidate Phase <br>
        </b></p>
      <p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><b><b><b>Please advise if you
              have any open high priority issues.</b></b></b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>Schedule for JDK 15</li>
        <ul>
          <li><b>2020/08/06 Initial Release Candidate</b></li>
          <li>2020/08/20 Final Release Candidate</li>
          <li>2020/09/15 General Availability</li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <p class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><b> </b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>The overall feature set is frozen.</li>
        <ul>
          <li>Per the JDK Release Process [1] we now turn our focus to
            P1 bugs.</li>
        </ul>
        <li>Features included in JDK 15:</li>
        <ul>
          <li>JEP 339: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/339"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Edwards-Curve Digital Signature
              Algorithm (EdDSA)</a></li>
          <li>JEP 360: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/360"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Sealed Classes (Preview)</a></li>
          <li>JEP 371: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/371"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Hidden Classes</a></li>
          <li>JEP 372: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Remove the Nashorn JavaScript
              Engine</a></li>
          <li>JEP 373: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/373"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Reimplement the Legacy
              DatagramSocket API</a></li>
          <li>JEP 374: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/374"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Disable and Deprecate Biased
              Locking</a></li>
          <li>JEP 375: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/375"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Pattern Matching for instanceof
              (Second Preview)</a></li>
          <li>JEP 377: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/377"
              moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage
              Collector</a></li>
          <li>JEP 378: <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/378"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Text Blocks</a></li>
          <li>JEP 379: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/379"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time
              Garbage Collector</a></li>
          <li>JEP 381: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/381"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports</a></li>
          <li>JEP 383: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/383"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Foreign-Memory Access API (Second
              Incubator)</a></li>
          <li>JEP 384: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/384"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Records (Second Preview)</a> </li>
          <li>JEP 385: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/385"
              moz-do-not-send="true">Deprecate RMI Activation for
              Removal</a></li>
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      <b>JDK 15 </b><b><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
          Access build 35 </span></b>is now available at <a
        class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://jdk.java.net/15"
        moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/15</a><span
        style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span>
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        <ul>
          <li>Release notes <br>
          </li>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes"
                moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/15/release-notes</a></li>
          </ul>
          <li>Recent fixes that might be of interest</li>
          <ul>
            <li>Build 34<br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"></span><span
                  style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                    rgb(0,0,0);">8246094: [macos] Sound Recording and
                    playback is not working</span></span></li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <p><b>JDK 16 Early Access build 9 </b><b><span
              style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b>is now
          available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="http://jdk.java.net/16" moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/16</a></p>
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        <ul>
          <li>JEP Candidate</li>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 388: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Windows/AArch64 Port</a></li>
          </ul>
          <li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
          <ul>
            <li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate to GitHub</a></li>
            <li>JEP 357: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate from Mercurial to Git</a></li>
            <li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Enable C++14 Language Features </a></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
      <div class="moz-forward-container">
        <ul>
          <li>Recent fixes that might be of interest </li>
          <ul>
            <li>
              <p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color:
                rgb(23, 43, 77); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
                font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
                normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;
                text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
                none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
                -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color:
                rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
                text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color:
                  rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 9<br>
                </span></p>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-8243320: Add SSL root certificates to Oracle Root
                CA program<br>
              </li>
              <li>JDK-8243321: Add Entrust root CA - G4 to Oracle Root
                CA program</li>
            </ul>
            <li>Build 8<br>
            </li>
            <ul>
              <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span>8246094:
                [macos] Sound Recording and playback is not working</li>
              <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span><span
                  style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8248655: Support
                  supplementary characters in String case insensitive
                  operations</span></li>
            </ul>
            <li>Build 7</li>
            <ul>
              <li>JDK-<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">8246032:
                  Implementation of JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language
                  Features</span></li>
            </ul>
          </ul>
        </ul>
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      <div class="moz-forward-container"> Regards</div>
      <div class="moz-forward-container">Deepak Damodaran</div>
      <div class="moz-forward-container">Quality Outreach</div>
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