JDK 10
JDK 10 is the open-source reference implementation of the Java SE 10 Platform as defined by JSR 383 in the Java Community Process.
JDK 10 reached General Availability on 20 March 2018. Production-ready binaries under the GPL are available from Oracle; binaries from other vendors will follow shortly.
The features and schedule of this release were proposed and tracked via the JEP Process, as amended by the JEP 2.0 proposal.
Features
286: Local-Variable Type Inference
296: Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository
304: Garbage-Collector Interface
307: Parallel Full GC for G1
310: Application Class-Data Sharing
312: Thread-Local Handshakes
313: Remove the Native-Header Generation Tool (javah)
314: Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions
316: Heap Allocation on Alternative Memory Devices
317: Experimental Java-Based JIT Compiler
319: Root Certificates
322: Time-Based Release Versioning
Schedule
2017/12/14 Rampdown Phase One 2018/01/11 All Tests Run 2018/01/18 Rampdown Phase Two 2018/02/08 Initial Release Candidate 2018/02/22 Final Release Candidate 2018/03/20 General Availability
Phases
We stabilized the release in an increasingly-rigorous sequence of phases, listed here for the record:
During those phases we used three processes to coordinate our work:
- Bug-deferral process (RDP 1 and later)
- Late-enhancement request request process
- Fix-request process (RDP 2 and later)
Last update: 2018/3/21 19:05 UTC