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        <div class="moz-forward-container">OpenJDK 16 <span
            style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access build 21</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>
          <ul>
            <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>
          <ul>
            <li>Schedule (proposed)</li>
          </ul>
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        <div class="moz-forward-container">            2020/12/10    
              Rampdown Phase One <br>
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        <div class="moz-forward-container">            2021/01/14    
              Rampdown Phase Two<br>
                      2021/02/04         Initial Release Candidate<br>
                      2021/02/18         Final Release Candidate<br>
                      2021/03/16         General Availability  <br>
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              <li>Features:<br>
              </li>
              <ul>
                <li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
              </ul>
              <ul>
                <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 376: <a
                      href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC: Concurrent
                      Thread-Stack Processing</a></li>
                  <li>JEP 386: <a
                      href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Alpine Linux Port</a></li>
                  <li>JEP 387: <a
                      href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Elastic Metaspace</a></li>
                  <li>JEP 388: <a
                      href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Windows/AArch64 Port</a></li>
                </ul>
              </ul>
            </ul>
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              <li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
              <ul>
                <li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build 21<br>
                  </span> </li>
                <ul>
                  <li>JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class</li>
                  <li>JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP
                    Authentication Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate
                    Over Clear Connections</li>
                  <li>JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and
                    EdDSA</li>
                  <li>JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling</li>
                  <li>JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry()
                    to recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size</li>
                </ul>
                <li>Build 20<br>
                </li>
                <ul>
                  <li>JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false
                    on a writeable root directory (win) <br>
                    <ul>
                      <li>Reported by JUnit5</li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                  <li>JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in
                    ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation
                    <ul>
                      <li>Reported by JUnit5</li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                  <li>JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated
                    java.awt.PeerFixer class</li>
                  <li>JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return
                    false for interface implementors</li>
                  <ul>
                    <li>Found by Hibernate Validator <br>
                    </li>
                  </ul>
                  <li>JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as
                    part of tzdata2020b</li>
                </ul>
                <li>Build 19</li>
                <ul>
                  <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span
                        style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                          rgb(0,0,0);">JDK-8253761: Wrong URI syntax
                          printed by jar --describe-module</span></span></span></li>
                  <ul>
                    <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span
                          style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
                            rgb(0,0,0);">Reported by JUnit5</span></span></span></li>
                  </ul>
                </ul>
              </ul>
            </ul>
            <p>Project Lanai Early-Access Build: <a
                href="http://jdk.java.net/lanai/" moz-do-not-send="true">EA
                6 Build 16-lanai+2-229</a> (2020/10/4)<br>
            </p>
            <ul>
              <li>These early-access builds are provided under the <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>
              <li>These builds are based upon the latest state of the
                current in development JDK, and so may contain new
                features and unresolved bugs unrelated to Project Lanai.
                Project Lanai Wiki: <a
                  href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main"
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            <p>Project Panama Early-Access Build: <a
                href="http://jdk.java.net/panama/"
                moz-do-not-send="true">Build 16-panama+2-193</a>
              (2020/10/1)</p>
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              <li>These early-access, open-source builds are provided
                under the <a
                  href="http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">GNU General
                  Public License, version 2, with the Classpath
                  Exception</a>.</li>
              <li>These builds are based on an incomplete version of JDK
                16.</li>
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            <p>Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated
              [1]</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519
                and x448 named elliptic curve groups to TLS.</li>
              <li>Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021
                CPU release. </li>
            </ul>
            <p>Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020</p>
            <ul>
              <li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                  href="https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html</a></li>
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            <b><u><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="color:
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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://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html"
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