[jetty-dev] Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 / JDK

["Rory O'Donnell" <rory.odonnell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simone,

Release Announcement: General Availability of Java 15 / JDK 15 [1]

• JDK 15, the reference implementation of Java 15, is now Generally Available.
• GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here: http://jdk.java.net/15/
• JDK 15 Release notes

JDK 15 includes fourteen features [2]:

• JEP 339: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
• JEP 360: Sealed Classes (Preview)
• JEP 371: Hidden Classes
• JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn _javascript_ Engine
• JEP 373: Reimplement the Legacy DatagramSocket API
• JEP 374: Disable and Deprecate Biased Locking
• JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
• JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector
• JEP 378: Text Blocks
• JEP 379: Shenandoah: A Low-Pause-Time Garbage Collector
• JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and SPARC Ports
• JEP 383: Foreign-Memory Access API (Second Incubator)
• JEP 384: Records (Second Preview)
• JEP 385: Deprecate RMI Activation for Removal

Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 15, whether by creating features or enhancements, logging  bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access builds.

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 15 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

• JEPs integrated to JDK 16:
• JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
• JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
• JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub

• Release Notes are available at http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
  

• Significant changes since the last availability email:
• Build 15
  
• JDK-8244090: public lookup should find public members of public exported types (Reported by Eclipse Jetty)
• JDK-8250968: Symlinks attributes not preserved when using jarsigner on zip files
• Build 14
  
• JDK-8189744: Deprecate the JDK-specific API for setting socket options, jdk.net.Sockets
• JDK-8241003: Deprecate "denigrated" java.security.cert APIs that represent DNs as Principal or String objects
• JDK-8245462: The default HttpClient implementation returns cancelable futures

Rgds,Rory


[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004733.html

    [2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland