Hi Simone, 
    Best wishes for the New Year.
    Dalibor and I will be at FOSDEM '17, Brussels 4 & 5 February.
      Let us know if you will be there, hopefully we can meet up ! 
    JDK 9 Early Access  b151  is available on
    java.net
    
    There have been a number of fixes to bugs reported by Open Source
    projects since the last availability email  :
    
      - JDK-8171377 : Add sun.misc.Unsafe::invokeCleaner
 
      - JDK-8075793 : Source incompatibility for
          inference using -source 7  
 
      - JDK-8087303  : LSSerializer pretty print does not work anymore
 
      - JDK-8167143 :CLDR timezone parsing does not work for all
        locales
 
    
    Other changes that maybe of interest:
    
    
      - JDK-8066474 : Remove the lib/$ARCH directory from Linux and
        Solaris images
        
      
 
      - JDK-8170428 : Move src.zip to JDK/lib/src.zip
        
      
 
    
    JEPs intergrated:
    
      -  JEP 295:
        Ahead-of-Time Compilation
        
        has been integrated in b150.
 
    
    Schedule - Milestones since last availability email  
    
      - 
        
        Feature Extension Complete 22nd of December 2016
       
      - Rampdown Started 5th of January 2017 
         
      
        - Phases in which increasing levels of scrutiny are applied to
          incoming changes. 
         
      
      
        - In phase 1, only P1-P3 bugs can be fixed. In phase 2 only
          showstopper bugs can be fixed.
 
      
    
    Rgds,Rory
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland