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<p>OpenJDK 16 <span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early
Access build 18</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></p>
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<li>These early-access , open-source builds are provided under
the<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">GNU General Public License,
version 2, with the Classpath Exception</a>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li>Features:<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JEPs proposed to target JDK 16</li>
<ul>
<li>JEP 376: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376"
moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack
Processing</a><br>
</li>
<li>JEP 386: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386"
moz-do-not-send="true">Alpine Linux Port</a><br>
</li>
<li>JEP 388: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388"
moz-do-not-send="true">Windows/AArch64 Port</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>JEP 338: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338"
moz-do-not-send="true">Vector API (Incubator)</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>
<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>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 369: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369"
moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate to GitHub</a></li>
<li>JEP 387: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387"
moz-do-not-send="true">Elastic Metaspace</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
</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>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span></b></div>
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<li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
<ul>
<li>Build 18<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8235710: Removal of Legacy Elliptic Curves</li>
<li>JDK-8245527: LDAP Channel Binding support for Java
GSS/Kerberos</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8252739: Deflater.setDictionary(byte[], int off,
int len) ignores the starting offset for the dictionary
<ul>
<li>Reported by Apache Lucene</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 17<br>
</span> </li>
<ul>
<li><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;">JDK-8247281:</span></span></span></span>
Object monitors no longer keep strong references to
their associated object<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
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
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" data-mce-style="color:
#000000;"></span></li>
<li><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;">JDK-8202473: A type variable with
multiple bounds does not correctly place type
annotation</span></span></span>
<ul>
<li><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;">Reported by
ByteBuddy<br>
</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><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;">JDK-8234808: jdb quoted option parsing
broken</span></span></span>
<ul>
<li><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;">Reported by
Apache Tomcat</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 16<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8172366: SUN, SunRsaSign, and SunEC Providers
Supports SHA-3 Based Signature Algorithms</li>
<li>JDK-8244706: GZIPOutputStream now sets the GZIP OS
Header Field to the correct default value</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Quality Report for September 2020 was published here [1].
Thanks to everyone who contributed by creating features or
enhancements, logging bugs, or downloading and testing the
early-access builds. </li>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> Regards</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Deepak<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">[1] <a
href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+September+2020</a></div>
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