Hi Rory, I've just ran Tomcat's build and tests on JDK 16-ea+21-1209 - no problems found!
Regards, Martin On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:13 PM Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonn...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > OpenJDK 16 Early Access build 21**is now available at > http://jdk.java.net/16 > > * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the > o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath > Exception <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>. > > * Schedule (proposed) > > 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: > o JEPs targeted to JDK 16, so far: > + JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator) > <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338> > + JEP 347: Enable C++14 Language Features > <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/347> > + JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git > <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357> > + JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369> > + JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing > <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/376> > + JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/386> > + JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387> > + JEP 388: Windows/AArch64 Port > <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/388> > > ** > > * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: > o Build 21 > + JDK-8236862: Enhance support of Proxy class > + JDK-8237990: Added Property to Control LDAP Authentication > Mechanisms Allowed to Authenticate Over Clear Connections > + JDK-8242068: Signed JAR support for RSASSA-PSS and EdDSA > + JDK-8245417: Improve certificate chain handling > + JDK-8253952: Refine ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry() to > recalculate ZipEntry's compressed size > o Build 20 > + JDK-8232092: (fs) Files::isWritable returns false on a > writeable root directory (win) > # Reported by JUnit5 > + JDK-8248262: Wrong link target in > ModuleDescriptor#isAutomatic's API documentation > # Reported by JUnit5 > + JDK-8253965: Delete the outdated java.awt.PeerFixer class > + JDK-8253566: clazz.isAssignableFrom will return false for > interface implementors > # Found by Hibernate Validator > + JDK-8254177: US/Pacific-New Zone name removed as part of > tzdata2020b > o Build 19 > + JDK-8253761: Wrong URI syntax printed by jar --describe-module > # Reported by JUnit5 > > Project Lanai Early-Access Build: EA 6 Build 16-lanai+2-229 > <http://jdk.java.net/lanai/> (2020/10/4) > > * These early-access builds are provided under the GNU General Public > License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception > <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>. > * These builds are based upon the latest state of the current in > development JDK, and so may contain new features and unresolved bugs > unrelated to Project Lanai. Project Lanai Wiki: > https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/lanai/Main > * Please send feedback via e-mail tolanai-...@openjdk.java.net > <mailto:lanai-...@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address > you must firstsubscribe to the mailing list > <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/lanai-dev>. > > Project Panama Early-Access Build: Build 16-panama+2-193 > <http://jdk.java.net/panama/> (2020/10/1) > > * These early-access, open-source builds are provided under the GNU > General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception > <http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html>. > * These builds are based on an incomplete version of JDK 16. > * Please send feedback via e-mail topanama-...@openjdk.java.net > <mailto:panama-...@openjdk.java.net>. To send e-mail to this address > you must firstsubscribe to the mailing list > <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/panama-dev>. > > Oracle JRE and JDK Cryptographic Roadmap has been updated [1] > > * Oracle has announced plans to add support for x25519 and x448 named > elliptic curve groups to TLS. > * Support is targeted for JDK 11 with the January 2021 CPU release. > > Oracle Critical Patch Update released 21-Oct-2020 > > * https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html > > > *__* > Rgds,Rory > > [1] https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html > > -- > Rgds, Rory O'Donnell > Quality Engineering Manager > Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland > >
