Hi Ceki, ** * * *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: 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 28 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> * Changes in build 28 that maybe of interest: o *JDK-8269028: [BACKOUT] JDK-8196415 Disable SHA-1 Signed JARs * o JDK-8268774: Residual logging output written to STDOUT, not STDERR [*Reported by Apache Ant*] o 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* <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> * Changes in recent builds that maybe of interest: o 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 o Removal of Biased Locking in JDK 18  - Details <https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/4522> *Other Topics of Interest: * * State of Loom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG24inClY2M <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG24inClY2M> * State of Panama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8k9QGvPxC0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8k9QGvPxC0> * What's a JEP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VrmvyIEpM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VrmvyIEpM> *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+2... * -- Rgds, Rory O'Donnell Quality Engineering Manager Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland