Hi Ceki, *Per the JDK 17 schedule , we are now in the Release Candidate Phase [1][2].* * * *Please advise if you find any issues while testing the latest Early Access builds.* * Schedule: 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 Accessbuild 35 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 recent builds that maybe of interest: o JDK-8270866: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath()[build 33] + Reportedby jOOQ **Topics of Interest: * * * The latest Newscast covers 17's JEP 356 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/356>: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators - Here <https://inside.java/2021/07/29/insidejava-newscast-009/> * The latest JEP Café cover 17's JEP 409 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/409> : Sealed Classes - Here <https://inside.java/2021/07/22/jepcafe2/> * A few updates to JEP 411 <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/411>: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal - Here <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2021-July/026806.html> * * *OpenJDK**18 Early Access build 9 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-8225082: Remove IdenTrust certificate that is expiring in September 2021 [build 9] o JDK-8251329: Zip File System Provider Throws ZipException when entry name element contains "." or ".." [build 9] o JDK-8271359: NPE in DocTreePath.getTreePath() [build 8] + Reported by jOOQ *July 2021 Critical Patch Update Released* * As part of the July 2021, we released JDK 16.0.2, JDK 11.0.12 LTS, JDK 8u301 and JDK 7u311 as well as OpenJDK 16.0.2 (publicly available) Rgds,Rory [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005894.html [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2021-August/005906.html -- Rgds, Rory O'Donnell Quality Engineering Manager Oracle EMEA, Dublin, Ireland