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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>
</ul>
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</ul>
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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
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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>
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<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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<b><u><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);"></span></span></u></b></div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"> Regards</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Deepak Damodaran</div>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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