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From: "Rory O'Donnell" <rory.odonnell@oracle.com>
Subject: Early Access builds of JDK 8u122 b01 & JDK 9 EA b138 are available.
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        balchandra.vaidya@oracle.com,
        Muneer Kolarkunnu
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:17:36 +0100
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Hi Benedikt,

Early Access b01 <https://jdk8.java.net/download.html> for JDK 8u122 is 
available on java.net.

Early Access b138 <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> for JDK 9 is 
available on java.net, summary of  changes are listed here 
<http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/changes/jdk-9+138.html>.

Early Access b138 <https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/> (#5561) for JDK 9 with 
Project Jigsaw is available on java.net, summary of  changes are listed 
here 
<http://www.java.net/download/java/jigsaw/archive/138/binaries/jdk-9+138.html>. 


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

  * 8038348 - b137 - Instance field load is replaced by wrong data Phi
  * 8041480 - b137 - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when JTable contains
    certain string
  * 8145542 - b137 - The case failed automatically and thrown
    java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception.
  * 8151725 - b137  - [macosx] ArrayIndexOOB exception when displaying
    Devanagari text in JEditorPane

There are two proposals requesting feedback via mailing lists :

  - More proposals for open JPMS issues [1]

  * One proposal to call out is #AwkwardStrongEncapsulation as this
    proposes to change setAccessible(true) so that it can't be used to
    break into non-public types/members in exported packages. This is a
    non-issue when using setAccessible to get access to non-public
    types/members of classes on the class path but will be an issue for
    code that uses this method to break into JDK-internals. We would
    appreciate as much help as possible testing these builds. If
    InaccessibleObjectException is thrown then examine the stack trace
    (run with -Dsun.reflect.debugModuleAccessChecks=true to uncover
    failed access attempts in code that shallows exceptions). If it
    looks like a library is attempting to access a non-public method or
    field of a platform class and make sure to *submit a bug in the
    issue tracker for the library.*

  - Proposal to Reorganize source classes in src.zip by modules [2]

  * This proposal might have a compatibility impact on IDEs or other
    tools that look in src.zip
  * Feedback via the jigsaw-dev mailing list

Other points of interest:

  * JavaOne Presentations
      o Recorded Presentations
        <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDhYMT2USoLdh4SZIsu_1g>
  * JDK 9 Schedule change proposal
      o for proposed schedule proposal see [3]


Rgds,Rory

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-September/009365.html
[2] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-October/009550.html
[3] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-September/004887.html


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


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