Proposed schedule: JDK 12 to be released March 19, 2019
JDK 11 will be released soon but we’re also keeping an eye on JDK 12 which, as it turns out, is due in March 2019 (thank you, six-month release cadence). The proposed schedule has just been released – let’s have a look at it!
You might already be familiar with our JDK 12 patrol thread, in which case you know that we’re keeping track of everything that’s going live.
The good news is that we now know when JDK 12 should be out: March 19, 2019. It has a nice ring to it, right?
Mark Reinhold, the Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, announced in a message to the OpenJDK mailing list that the proposed schedule for JDK 12 is as follows:
2019/01/17 Rampdown Phase Two
2019/02/07 Release-Candidate Phase
2019/03/19 General Availability
The milestone definitions are the same as for JDK 11. As always, if no —reasoned— objections are raised by 23:00 UTC next Thursday, 20 September, or if they’re raised and then satisfactorily answered, this will be the schedule for JDK 12.
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