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<div class="moz-forward-container">OpenJDK 16 <span
style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal">Early Access build 24</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>
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<li>These early-access , open-source builds are provided under
the<br>
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<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>
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<ul>
<li>Schedule <br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"> 2020/12/10
Rampdown Phase One <br>
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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>
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<li>JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:</li>
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<ul>
<li>JEP 338: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338"
moz-do-not-send="true">Vector API (Incubator)</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 347: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347"
moz-do-not-send="true">Enable C++14 Language
Features </a></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>JEP 357: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357"
moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate from Mercurial to Git</a></font></li>
</ul>
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<li>JEP 369: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369"
moz-do-not-send="true">Migrate to GitHub</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 376: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376"
moz-do-not-send="true">ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack
Processing</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 380: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/380"
moz-do-not-send="true">Unix-Domain Socket Channels</a><br>
</font></li>
<li>JEP 386: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386"
moz-do-not-send="true">Alpine Linux Port</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 387: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387"
moz-do-not-send="true">Elastic Metaspace</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 388: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388"
moz-do-not-send="true">Windows/AArch64 Port</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 392: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392"
moz-do-not-send="true">Packaging Tool</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 393: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/393"
moz-do-not-send="true">Foreign-Memory Access API
(Third Incubator)</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 394: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/394"
moz-do-not-send="true">Pattern Matching for
instanceof</a></font></li>
<li>JEP 395: <font color="#f9f9fa"><a
href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/395"
moz-do-not-send="true">Records</a></font></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginal"></span><b><span
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<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></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:</li>
<ul>
<li>Build 24<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8231599: NPE when loading a preview classfile from a
future Java version
<ul>
<li><b>Reported by JUnit5</b></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>JDK-8254661: arm32: additional cleanup after fixing
SIGSEGV
<ul>
<li><b>Reported by JaCoCo</b></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>JDK-8255584: `HttpPrincipal::getName` returns incorrect
name</li>
<li>JDK-8255226: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020d</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 23<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8254876: (fs) NullPointerException not thrown when
first argument to Path.of or Paths.get is null</li>
<li>JDK-8255576: (fs) Files.isHidden() throws
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (unix)</li>
<ul>
<li><b>Reported by JUnit5</b></li>
</ul>
<li>JDK-8255616: Removal of experimental features AOT and
Graal JIT</li>
</ul>
<li>Build 22</li>
<ul>
<li>JDK-8243583: Change 'final' error checks to throw ICCE</li>
<li>JDK-8254982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020c</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>Project Loom Early-Access Build: <a
href="http://jdk.java.net/loom/" moz-do-not-send="true">Build
16-loom+7-285</a> (2020/11/4)<br>
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<ul>
<li><b>Want to know more</b> - check out - <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/</a></li>
<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>
<ul>
<li>These builds are based on <a
href="https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/releases/tag/jdk-16%2B20"
moz-do-not-send="true">jdk-16+20</a></li>
<li>These EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering
feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk.</li>
<li>Please send feedback via e-mail to <a
href="mailto:loom-dev@openjdk.java.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">loom-dev@openjdk.java.net</a>. To
send e-mail to this address you must first <a
href="http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/loom-dev"
moz-do-not-send="true">subscribe to the mailing list</a>.</li>
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Regards<br>
Deepak<br>
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