Shenandoah 11.0.8+ release candidate

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Hi,

We are pleased to announce that most of the recent bugfixes and improvements have been backported to
Shenandoah 11u tree. That tree is based on upstream OpenJDK 11.0.8+ project, and Shenandoah-enabled
downstream distributions should be released at the same time with 11.0.8 release, in mid-July.

Since we do not expect very active 11u work until that release happens, what we have in Shenandoah
11u tree is now the Release Candidate. Please test! Next 1..3 weeks are the perfect time to identify
problems with it and put in critical fixes that would land in July release.

As usual, you can try it by:
 a) Building from source yourself: https://hg.openjdk.java.net/shenandoah/jdk11/
 b) Taking our nightly builds: https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-shenandoah-jdk11/
 c) Using the Docker containers with nightly builds: shipilev/openjdk-shenandoah:11

Enjoy!

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Thanks,
-Aleksey