# Pastebin VnEvKnAo
I would like to start a thread ahead the today's Governance meeting and the tomorrow's Platform SIG meeting. As discussed at the previous meetings, we got a good progress towards Java 11 support preview availability in Jenkins. As a Platform SIG leader and the Jenkins JEP-211 BDFL Delegate, I would like to briefly summarize the status of the "Preview Availability" milestone (EPIC - JENKINS-52012).

    By Nov 19 2018 we have integrated all Jenkins core patches we planned for the preview availability. The results were presented at the Platform SIG meeting (meeting notes, status update slides)
    At that call we identified 3 main blockers, see below
    Pipeline: Support plugin release with Java 11 compatibility patches (JENKINS-52187)
        The final patch is in progress
        We agreed that we will be deploying an experimental release for Java11-only, The release is prepared in workflow-support-plugin/pull/82
        To deploy the patch, we will create a special update center for Java 11 experimental releases (INFRA-1870). The approach is confirmed with the Jenkins infrastructure team members
        Users of standard and experimental Jenkins update centers will not see the experimental release
    Docker packaging
        Jenkins master and 3 agent packages already offer the "jdk11" tags as well as versioned releases (e.g. "2.154-jdk11"). Thanks to Baptiste, Carlos and Olivier for that!
        There is an open action item for the BlueOcean packaging, but we ship experimental versions in https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/jenkins-experimental/ based on this repo. It is enough for the preview availability announcement
    Test automation
        Jenkins Core CI flow includes testing with JDK 11 for almost 1 month (link)
        Jenkins Acceptance Test Harness has been executed for Java 11, there is no major regressions discovered (link)
        Jenkins Plugin POMs have been updated to support build with OpenJDK11
        Jenkins Pipeline Library was updated to support testing with Java 11 in buildPlugin() and other steps (example)
        Plugin Compatibility Tester now supports Java 11, we are executing tests now. So far so good
        There was a lot of exploratory testing performed