Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11

[Rory O'Donnell]

Hi Benedikt,

*1) Release Announcement: General Availability of JDK 11 *

* JDK 11, the reference implementation of Java 11 and the first
long-term support release produced under the six-month rapid-cadence
release model [1][2], is now Generally Available.
* GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:
https://jdk.java.net/11

This release includes seventeen features:

* 181: Nest-Based Access Control <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181>
* 309: Dynamic Class-File Constants <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/309>
* 315: Improve Aarch64 Intrinsics <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/315>
* 318: Epsilon: A No-Op Garbage Collector
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318>
* 320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/320>
* 321: HTTP Client (Standard) <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/321>
* 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/323>
* 324: Key Agreement with Curve25519 and Curve448
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/324>
* 327: Unicode 10 <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/327>
* 328: Flight Recorder <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/328>
* 329: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 Cryptographic Algorithms
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/329>
* 330: Launch Single-File Source-Code Programs
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330>
* 331: Low-Overhead Heap Profiling <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/331>
* 332: Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/332>
* 333: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Experimental)
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/333>
* 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335>
* 336: Deprecate the Pack200 Tools and API
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/336>


2) Quality Outreach Report for September 2018 is available*
*

* Quality Outreach report September 2018

*Thanks to everyone who contributed to JDK 11 by downloading and testing
the early-access builds.
In particular the following developers who logged **18 issues in the JDK
Bug System.*

* Netty
* Eclipse Jetty
* Apache Lucene
* JUnit5
* Apache Tomcat
* Apache Ant
* Apache POI
* AssertJ
* Eclipse Collections
* Byte Buddy
* RxJava

3) JDK 12 EA build 12, under both the GPL and Oracle EA licenses, are
now available at http://jdk.java.net/11 .

* Schedule , Status & Features
o http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/
* Release Notes:
o http://jdk.java.net/12/release-notes

**

Rgds,Rory