Hi Ceki, *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.* * Schedule: o *2021/07/15 Rampdown Phase Two* o 2021/08/05 Initial Release Candidate o 2021/08/19 Final Release Candidate o 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: o JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306> o JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356> o JEP 382: New macOS Rendering Pipeline <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/382> o JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/391> o JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/398> o JEP 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403> o JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/406> o JEP 407: Remove RMI Activation <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/407> o JEP 409: Sealed Classes <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409> o JEP 410: Remove the Experimental AOT and JIT Compiler <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/410> o JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411> o JEP 412: Foreign Function & Memory API (Incubator) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/412> o JEP 414: Vector API (Second Incubator) <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/414> o JEP 415: Context-Specific Deserialization Filters <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/415> * * *OpenJDK 17 Early Access build 31 is available at **https://jdk.java.net/17* <https://jdk.java.net/17> * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception <https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html> * Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes <https://jdk.java.net/17/release-notes> * * *OpenJDK 18 Early Access build 6 is available at * *https://jdk.java.net/18* <https://jdk.java.net/18> * These early-access , open-source builds are provided under the o GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception <https://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html> * Release Notes are available at https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes <https://jdk.java.net/18/release-notes> * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: o JDK-8269697: JNI_GetPrimitiveArrayCritical() should not accept object array [build 6] o JDK-8253119: Remove the legacy PlainSocketImpl and PlainDatagramSocketImpl implementation [build 6] o JDK-8268960: Prohibit Null for Header Keys and Values in com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers [build 5] o JDK-8256425: Obsolete Biased Locking in JDK 18 [build 4] *Topics of Interest: * * ‘Inside Java’ Podcast #18: Java's steady march towards strong encapsulation <https://inside.java/2021/06/29/podcast-018/> Rgds,Rory [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-July/005752.html>