Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 10

[Vincent Privat]

Hi Rory,
Thanks for the heads-up.
I am particularly unhappy about [3] and [4] as Oracle is removing on
purpose key technologies used by JOSM, without replacement nor acceptable
explanation (for WebStart).
WebStart removal will have negative impacts for our project, this is not a
good news at all.
As a consequence I won't invest any second of my benevol time anymore to
help you to improve the adoption of JDK. I'm thinking in particular about
the previous request to try to enable JDK coverage in our unit tests. As we
have no interest in this, and Oracle has no interest in maintaining the key
technologies we use, I am sure you will understand.
Regards,
Vincent

2018-03-21 11:30 GMT+01:00 Rory O'Donnell <rory.odonnell at oracle.com>:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> A number of items to share with you today :
>
>
> *1) JDK 10 General Availability *
>
>
> JDK 10, the first release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence
> release model [1][2], is now Generally Available.
> We've identified no P1 bugs since we promoted build 46 almost two weeks
> ago, so that is the official GA release, ready for production use.
> GPL'd binaries from Oracle are available here: http://jdk.java.net/10
>
> This release includes twelve features:
>
>    - 286: Local-Variable Type Inference <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286>
>    - 296: Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/296>
>    - 304: Garbage-Collector Interface <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/304>
>    - 307: Parallel Full GC for G1 <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/307>
>    - 310: Application Class-Data Sharing
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/310>
>    - 312: Thread-Local Handshakes <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/312>
>    - 313: Remove the Native-Header Generation Tool (javah)
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/313>
>    - 314: Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/314>
>    - 316: Heap Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/316>
>    - 317: Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler
>    <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/317>
>    - 319: Root Certificates <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/319>
>    - 322: Time-Based Release Versioning <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/322>
>
>
> *2) JDK 11 EA build 5, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are now
> available at **http://jdk.java.net/11 <http://jdk.java.net/11>** .*
>
>    - Schedule, status & features
>    - http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/
>       - Release Notes:
>       - http://jdk.java.net/11/release-notes
>    - Summary of changes
>       - https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk11/5/jdk-11+5.html
>
> *3) The Z Garbage Collector Project, early access builds available : *
>
>
> The first EA binary from from The Z Garbage Collector Project, also known
> as ZGC, is now available. ZGC is a scalable low latency garbage collector.
> For information on how to enable and use ZGC, please see the project wiki.
>
>    - Project page: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/zgc/
>    - Wiki: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main
>
>
>
>
>
> *4) Quality Outreach Report for **March 2018 *
> *is available *
>
>    - https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+
>    Outreach+report+March+2018
>
> * 5) *
> *Java Client Roadmap Update *
>
>    - We posted a blog [3] and related white paper [4] detailing our plans
>    for the Java Client.
>
>
>
> Rgds,Rory
> [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-
> September/004281.html
> [3] Blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-future-of-
> javafx-and-other-java-client-roadmap-updates
> [4] Whitepaper: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/
> javaclientroadmapupdate2018mar-4414431.pdf
>
> --
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>
>