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<b><span style="color:black">Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in Rampdown Phase Two [1].</span></b><span style="color:black">
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<span style="color:black"><b>Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early Access builds.</b>
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Schedule: </li><ul>
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<b>2021/07/15 Rampdown Phase Two</b> </li><li class="x_x_x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">
2021/08/05 Initial Release Candidate </li><li class="x_x_x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">
2021/08/19 Final Release Candidate </li><li class="x_x_x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">
2021/09/14 General Availability </li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">The overall feature set is frozen. No further JEPs will be targeted to this release. </span></p>
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Features integrated in JDK 17: </li></ul>
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JEP 306: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306">Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm">
JEP 356: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356">Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black; margin-top:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm">
JEP 382: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382">New macOS Rendering Pipeline</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 391: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391">macOS/AArch64 Port</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 398: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398">Deprecate the Applet API for Removal</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 403: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403">Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 406: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406">Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 407: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407">Remove RMI Activation</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 409: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409">Sealed Classes</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 410: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410">Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 411: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411">Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 412: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412">Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator)</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 414: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414">Vector API (Second Incubator)</a> </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JEP 415: <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415">Context-Specific Deserialization Filters</a> </li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:black">OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 31 is available at </span>
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These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the </li><ul>
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<span style="color:black">Release Notes are available at <a href="https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes">
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<span style="color:black"><b>OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 6 is available at </b>
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Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: </li><ul>
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JDK-8269697: JNI_GetPrimitiveArrayCritical() should not accept object array [build 6]</li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8253119: Remove the legacy PlainSocketImpl and PlainDatagramSocketImpl implementation [build 6]</li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8268960: Prohibit Null for Header Keys and Values in com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers [build 5] </li><li class="x_x_x_xxxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">
JDK-8256425: Obsolete Biased Locking in JDK 18 [build 4] </li></ul>
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<span style="color:windowtext">‘Inside Java’ Podcast #18: <a href="https://inside.java/2021/06/29/podcast-018/">
Java's steady march towards strong encapsulation</a></span></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">[1] </span><a href="https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html">https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html</a></p>
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