[jetty-dev] JDK 16 Early Access build 24 is now available

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

Hi Simone,

OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 24 is now available at http://jdk.java.net/16

• These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the
  
• GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

• Schedule
  

            2020/12/10         Rampdown Phase One

            2021/01/14         Rampdown Phase Two
            2021/02/04         Initial Release Candidate
            2021/02/18         Final Release Candidate
            2021/03/16         General Availability 

• Features:
  
• JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far:
• JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)
• JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features
• JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
• JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub
• JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
• JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels
  
• JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port
• JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace
• JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port
• JEP 392: Packaging Tool
• JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (Third Incubator)
• JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
• JEP 395: Records

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

• Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest:
• Build 24
  
• JDK-8231599: NPE when loading a preview classfile from a future Java version
  • Reported by JUnit5
• JDK-8254661: arm32: additional cleanup after fixing SIGSEGV
  • Reported by JaCoCo
• JDK-8255584: `HttpPrincipal::getName` returns incorrect name
• JDK-8255226: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020d
• Build 23
  
• JDK-8254876: (fs) NullPointerException not thrown when first argument to Path.of or Paths.get is null
• JDK-8255576: (fs) Files.isHidden() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (unix)
• Reported by JUnit5
• JDK-8255616: Removal of experimental features AOT and Graal JIT
• Build 22
• JDK-8243583: Change 'final' error checks to throw ICCE
• JDK-8254982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020c

Project Loom Early-Access Build: Build 16-loom+7-285 (2020/11/4)

• Want to know more - check out - https://inside.java/2020/11/11/project-loom-at-nyc-java-sig/
• These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception
• These builds are based on jdk-16+20
• These EA builds are produced for the purpose of gathering feedback. Use for any other purpose is at your own risk.
• Please send feedback via e-mail to loom-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To send e-mail to this address you must first subscribe to the mailing list.

Rgds,Rory

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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland