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    Hi Simone,  
    Early Access b134 for
    JDK 9 is available on java.net, summary of  changes are listed here
    . 
     
     There have been a number of fixes , since the last availability
    email , to bugs reported by Open Source projects : 
    
      - 8156841    sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11 poller thread retains
        a strong reference to the context class loader 
 
      - 8146961   Fix PermGen memory leaks caused by static final
        Exceptions 
 
      - 8163353   NPE in ConcurrentHashMap.removeAll()
 
      - 8160328   ClassCastException: sun.awt.image.BufImgSurfaceData
        cannot be cast to sun.java2d.xr.XRSurfaceData after xrandr
        change output
 
     
    Secondly, there are a number of interesting items to bring to our
      attention 
     
    
      -  JDK 9 Rampdown Phase 1: Process proposal [1]
 
      -  The Java team has published the “Oracle JRE and JDK
        Cryptographic Roadmap” [2]  java.com/cryptoroadmap
        
 
      - The Quality Report for September 2016 is now available [3],
        thank you for your continued support!
 
     
     
    Highlights from the Quality Report for September :  
    
      - 21 new Open Source projects have joined the Outreach program
 
      - Projects filed 35 new issues in the JDK Bug System, this is
        almost double the number of bugs in the previous six months! 
 
       
      - Continuing to provide excellent feedback via the OpenJDK dev
        mailing lists
 
     
    Thank you! 
     
    Rgds,Rory 
     
    [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-August/004777.html 
    [2]  java.com/cryptoroadmap
     
    [3] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+Report+September+2016 
    -- 
Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland  
  
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