We're hiring! The Java Platform Group is responsible for developing the JDK. Most work is in open source (OpenJDK). This opening is for the Java Security Libraries team in the US or in Ireland.
Three weeks ago, the quarterly (security and stability) updates to various Java source code repositories were released. This means, new packages for OpenJDK versions 8, 11 and 17 are now in my Slackware repository. It took a while but hey, here they are.
For OpenJDK 8 I still use icedtea to compile the Java sources because it is convenient. The more modern
JEP 478: Key Derivation API (Preview), now a Candidate.
“Introduce an API for Key Derivation Functions (KDFs), which are cryptographic algorithms for deriving additional keys from a secret key and other data. This is a preview API.”
[..] only Wayland will be supported in RHEL 10 and
subsequent releases.
[..] We would also like to add support in Java SE 17 for functionality required by some Post-Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) algorithms.