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We’ve rebased the HotSpot 23 support in the upcoming 1.13.x release of IcedTea (currently HEAD, no branch as yet) so that it uses HotSpot from the u25 tag in the OpenJDK repositories rather than the IcedTea 2.3.x version. This gives the potential ... [More] for this same version of HotSpot to be added upstream in OpenJDK 6. Users, especially those on ARM32, are strongly encouraged to test the latest HEAD revision. [Less]

This week on the Java Spotlight podcast, Roger Brinkley interviewed Milton Smith, Sr. Principal Security PM at Oracle, about the fresh JavaOne Security Track and security features & futures. Coincidentally, the recording of Milton's presentation ... [More] about "Securing the future with Java" from Devoxx UK has been been published this week on Parleys, as well.Enjoy! [Less]

This week again brought a few new Early Access builds of the JDK and related projects.On the JDK 7 side, the JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access Releases have been updated to 7u40 Build b40.This week's 7u40 build also contains the changes introduced in b39 ... [More] (there was only one):a fix for issue 8022548: "SPECJVM2008 has errors introduced in 7u40-b34" in the XML processing area, which may be interesting if you happen to use an XML parser that uses a different configuration then the default JDK one.On the JDK 8 side, the JDK 8 Early Access Releases Build b103 is now available for testing.This build updates HotSpot in JDK 8 to HotSpot 25 build 45. In addition, this build contains several javac and doclint warning fixes across the core class libraries and adds support for Project Lambda concepts in core reflection, along with a number of bug fixes.An extensive list of changes since the previous build is linked off the download site.Happy testing! [Less]

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This week again brought a few new Early Access builds of the JDK and related projects.On the JDK 7 side, the JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access Releases have been updated to 7u40 Build b38. A list of changes in this build since the previous one is ... [More] available here. On the JDK 8 side, the JDK 8 Early Access Releases Build b102 is now available for testing.This build updates HotSpot in JDK 8 to HotSpot 25 build 44, which turns on Tiered Compilation by default. In addition, this build contains another batch of JSR 310 DateTime API and Nashorn updates, along with a number of bug fixes.An extensive list of changes since the previous build is linked off the download site.Happy testing! [Less]

Another week, another set of video and audio material around the JDK:As I mentioned a little while ago, Artem Ananiev gave a presentation at JUG.ru in St. Petersburg on OpenJDK. The video recording is now available online.The latest epidoe of the ... [More] Java Spotlight podcast contains the second part of an interview with Dr. Heinz Kabutz on the Secrets of Concurrency. [Less]

This week brought new Early Access builds of the JDK and related projects.On the JDK 7 side, the JDK 7 Update 40 Early Access Releases have been updated to 7u40 Build b36. A list of changes in this build since b35 is available here. In addition ... [More] , there is an updated page listing the 7u40 Early Access Features and Changes in a concise form, with links to further documentation. If you are curious about OS X Retina support, for example, make sure to take a look at that page.On the JDK 8 side, the JDK 8 Early Access Releases Build b101 is now available for testing. An extensive list of changes since b100 is linked off the download site. This build updates HotSpot in JDK 8 to HotSpot 25 build 43.Like many other things, testing JDK 8 EA builds is probably more fun together, so Adopt OpenJDK has started an effort to test major open source Java/JVM projects with JDK 8 EA builds. If you'd like to participate, join the Adopt OpenJDK forum, and join the conversation.Happy testing! [Less]

There is a couple of weeks to go until JavaOne, and it's been a couple of weeks after the JVM Language summit, so here is some audio and video for your media players:In the last episode of the Java Spotlight podcast, Roger interviewed Dr. Heinz ... [More] Kabutz, Java Champion, on the secrets of concurrency.Yolande Poirier interviewed Octavio Santana about Adopt OpenJDK at the TDC2013 conference in Brazil.Last but not least, Stuart Marks' presentation on OpenJDK Testing Pitfalls has been added to the Oracle Java YouTube channel. [Less]

@xranby @fcassia Awesome! — Jolla (@JollaHQ) August 6, 2013 Ji Gong project announcement

August 7th - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation: JUG.ru meeting with Artem AnanievAugust 17th - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation: JUG.ru OpenJDK Test Fest.If you know of an event I have missed, let @OpenJDK know on Twitter.