Hi Ceki,

JDK 8u152 Early Access b01 is available on java.net

JDK 9 Early Access b159 is available on java.net, summary of changes are listed here .

There have been a number of fixes to bugs reported by Open Source projects since the last availability email :

b159 - JDK-8175261 : Per-protocol cache setting not working for JAR URLConnection
b158 - JDK-8173028 : Incorrect processing of supplementary-plane characters in text fields
b158 - JDK-8172967 : [macosx] Exception while working with layout for text containing unmappable character
b158 - JDK-8173804 : javadoc throws UnsupportedOperationException: should not happen
b157 - JDK-8174073 : NPE caused by @link reference to class
b156 - JDK-8172726 : ForkJoin common pool retains a reference to the thread context class loader

The following changeset is included in jdk-9+158:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/8b0d55e02f54

If you have a user-defined Policy implementation that grants FilePermission on ${user.dir}/-, reading a file in the current directory using its base name will fail. Still the same solution: Ensure that the path used in permission granting has the same style as the one how you access the file.

Setting -Djdk.security.filePermCompat=true will take you back to the jdk-9+140 behavior.
Setting -Djdk.io.permissionsUseCanonicalPath=true will take you back to the jdk8 behavior.
Feedback is welcome on jdk9-dev@openjdk.java.net

Other areas of interest

JDK 9 Developer Guide [1]
JDK 9 Migration Guide [2]
JDK Cryptographic Roadmap [3]

Finaly, Dalibor and I gave a presentation at FOSDEM the video is available here [4]

Rgds,Rory

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/javase-docs.htm
[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/migrate/toc.htm#JSMIG-GUID-7744EF96-5899-4FB2-B34E-86D49B2E89B6
[3] https://www.java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html
[4] https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/outreach/

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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
Quality Engineering Manager
Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland