|  Hi
              Simone,
 
 Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are in
          Rampdown Phase One.  Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest
          Early Access builds.
 The overall feature set is frozen. No
      further JEPs will be targeted to this release.
 
 
       Features integrated in JDK
        17:    OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 28 is
        available at  https://jdk.java.net/17
 
 
      These early-access , open-source builds are provided under theRelease
        Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes 
        
        Changes in build 28 that maybe of interest: 
         JDK-8269028:
            [BACKOUT] JDK-8196415 Disable SHA-1 Signed JARs  JDK-8268774: Residual logging output
            written to STDOUT, not STDERR [Reported by Apache Ant] 
          JDK-8264843: Javac crashes with NullPointerException when
          finding unencoded XML in <pre> tag [Reported by
            Apache Lucene]  
 OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 3 is now
        available at  https://jdk.java.net/18
 
 
      Other Topics of Interest: These
        early-access , open-source builds are provided under theChanges in recent builds that maybe of
          interest:
         JDK-8266791: Annotation property which
            is compiled as an array property but changed to a single
            element throws NPE [Reported by Byte Buddy]  Coming in a future
        JDK 18 build
        Removal of Biased
          Locking in JDK 18  -  Details 
 Quality Report for June 2021 was
        published here [1].
 
 
       Thanks to
        everyone who contributed by creating features or enhancements,
        logging bugs, or downloading and testing the early-access
        builds.     Rgds,Rory   [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+Report+June+2021
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Rgds, Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland |