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Annotations Pipeline 2.0

JEP 217 may affect source code that uses annotations due to the refactoring of the javac annotation pipeline, which should not be externally noticeable except where bugs were fixed and correctness improved.

HTML5 Javadoc

JEP 224 may affect source code with Javadoc comments since the -Xdoclint feature of javadoc will be modified to validate input comments based upon the requested markup.

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Removed support for 1.5 and earlier source and target options

JDK-8011044 may affect source code that uses javac -source or -target options below 6/1.6 to compile.

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