Re: Early Access builds of JDK 9 b134 are available on java.net

[Rick Hillegas <ri...@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Rory. Derby compiles and tests cleanly when I use build 134 of 
JDK 9.

Thanks,
-Rick

On 9/5/16, 10:51 AM, Rory O'Donnell wrote:
>
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> Early Access b134 <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> for JDK 9 is 
> available on java.net, summary of  changes are listed here 
> <http://www.java.net/download/java/jdk9/changes/jdk-9+134.html>.
>
>  There have been a number of fixes , since the last availability email 
> , to bugs reported by Open Source projects :
>
>     * 8156841    sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11 poller thread retains a
>       strong reference to the context class loader
>     * 8146961   Fix PermGen memory leaks caused by static final
>       Exceptions
>     * 8163353   NPE in ConcurrentHashMap.removeAll()
>     * 8160328   ClassCastException: sun.awt.image.BufImgSurfaceData
>       cannot be cast to sun.java2d.xr.XRSurfaceData after xrandr
>       change output
>
> Secondly, there are a number of interesting items to bring to our 
> attention
>
>     * JDK 9 Rampdown Phase 1: Process proposal [1]
>     * The Java team has published the \u201cOracle JRE and JDK
>       Cryptographic Roadmap\u201d [2] java.com/cryptoroadmap
>       <http://java.com/cryptoroadmap>
>     * The Quality Report for September 2016 is now available [3],
>       thank you for your continued support!
>
>
> Highlights from the Quality Report for September :
>
>     * 21 new Open Source projects have joined the Outreach program
>     * Projects filed 35 new issues in the JDK Bug System, this is
>       almost double the number of bugs in the previous six months!
>     * Continuing to provide excellent feedback via the OpenJDK dev
>       mailing lists
>
> Thank you!
>
> Rgds,Rory
>
> [1] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-August/004777.html
> [2] java.com/cryptoroadmap <http://java.com/cryptoroadmap>
> [3] 
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+Report+September+2016
> -- 
> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
> Quality Engineering Manager
> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland