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<p><b><b>Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 /
JDK 15 [1] <br>
</b></b></p>
<ul>
<li>JDK 15, the reference implementation of Java 15, is now
Generally Available. </li>
<li>GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: <a
href="http://jdk.java.net/15/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/15/</a></li>
<li>JDK 15 <a
href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/15-relnote-issues.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Release notes</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="moz-forward-container">JDK 15 includes fourteen
features [2]:
<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>
<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 15, whether by
creating features or enhancements, logging bugs, or
downloading and testing the early-access builds. </p>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p>
OpenJDK 16 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
Access build 15</span><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><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"> </span>
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<ul>
<li>JEPs integrated to JDK 16:</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 347: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347"
moz-do-not-send="true">Enable C++14 Language Features
</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>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369"
moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate to GitHub</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Release Notes are available at <a
href="http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
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<ul>
<li>Significant changes since the last availability email:</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 15<br>
</span> </li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8244090: public lookup should find public
members of public exported types (Reported by Eclipse
Jetty) </li>
<li>JDK-8250968: Symlinks attributes not preserved when
using jarsigner on zip files</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 14<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-</span>8189744:
Deprecate the JDK-specific API for setting socket
options, jdk.net.Sockets</li>
<li>JDK-8241003: Deprecate "denigrated"
java.security.cert APIs that represent DNs as
Principal or String objects</li>
<li>JDK-8245462: <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span style="color:
rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"><span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"
data-mce-style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span>The
default HttpClient implementation returns cancelable
futures</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<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html</a><br>
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[2] <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/</a><br>
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