Following the proposed 4-month delay of Java 9's release date going unopposed, the new schedule has been proposed on the Java newsgroup. The schedule information is also available on the JDK 9 project page. Here are the proposed dates for the interim milestones: 2016/05/26 Feature Complete 2016/12/22 Feature Extension Complete 2017/01/05 Rampdown Start 2017/02/09 All … [Read more...]
General availability of Java 9 further delayed into 2017
Earlier this month, Mark Reinhold, the Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, proposed a delay to the Java 9 general availability release date. In the thread, it was stated that unless objections were raised in reply by a deadline of yesterday, the new proposed schedule would be adopted. All responses were positive and in agreement to introduce the four month … [Read more...]