Per the JDK 17 schedule , we
are in Rampdown Phase Two [1].
Please advise if you find
any issues while testing the latest Early Access
builds.
- 2021/07/15
Rampdown Phase Two
- 2021/08/05
Initial Release Candidate
- 2021/08/19
Final Release Candidate
- 2021/09/14
General Availability
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
31 is available at https://jdk.java.net/17
OpenJDK 18 Early Access build
6 is available at https://jdk.java.net/18
- These early-access , open-source
builds are provided under the
- Release Notes are available at
https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes
- Changes in recent builds that maybe of
interest:
- JDK-8269697:
JNI_GetPrimitiveArrayCritical() should not accept
object array [build 6]
- JDK-8253119: Remove the legacy
PlainSocketImpl and PlainDatagramSocketImpl
implementation [build 6]
- JDK-8268960: Prohibit Null for
Header Keys and Values in
com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers [build 5]
- JDK-8256425: Obsolete Biased Locking
in JDK 18 [build 4]
Topics of Interest:
Rgds,Rory
[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html