RELEASE NOTES: JDK 16.0.1

Notes generated: Wed Feb 01 04:30:37 CET 2023

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

security-libs/java.security

Issue Description
JDK-8256421

Added 2 HARICA Root CA Certificates


The following root certificates have been added to the cacerts truststore: ``` + HARICA + haricarootca2015 DN: CN=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions RootCA 2015, O=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions Cert. Authority, L=Athens, C=GR

  • haricaeccrootca2015 DN: CN=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions ECC RootCA 2015, O=Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions Cert. Authority, L=Athens, C=GR ```

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8261170 Upgrade to FreeType 2.10.4
P3 JDK-8260380 Upgrade to LittleCMS 2.12

client-libs/java.awt

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8261231 Windows IME was disabled after DnD operation

core-libs/java.lang

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8253702 BigSur version number reported as 10.16, should be 11.nn
P4 JDK-8253409 Double-rounding possibility in float fma
P4 JDK-8226810 Failed to launch JVM because of NullPointerException occured on System.props
P4 JDK-8260934 java/lang/StringBuilder/HugeCapacity.java fails without Compact Strings
P4 JDK-8261753 Test java/lang/System/OsVersionTest.java still failing on BigSur patch versions after JDK-8253702
P4 JDK-8262018 Wrong format in SAP copyright header of OsVersionTest

core-libs/java.net

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-7146776 Deadlock between URLStreamHandler.getHostAddress and file.Handler.openconnection
P4 JDK-8259628 jdk/net/ExtendedSocketOption/AsynchronousSocketChannelNAPITest.java fails intermittently

core-libs/java.nio

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8252971 WindowsFileAttributes does not know about Unix domain sockets

core-libs/java.time

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8260356 (tz) Upgrade Timezone Data to tzdata2021a
P4 JDK-8259048 (tz) Upgrade Timezone Data to tzdata2020f

core-libs/java.util.jar

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8260010 UTF8ZipCoder not thread-safe since JDK-8243469

core-libs/java.util.logging

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8252883 AccessDeniedException caused by delayed file deletion on Windows

core-libs/jdk.nashorn

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8198540 Dynalink leaks memory when generating type converters
P3 JDK-8261483 jdk/dynalink/TypeConverterFactoryMemoryLeakTest.java failed with "AssertionError: Should have GCd a method handle by now"

hotspot/compiler

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8261522 [PPC64] AES intrinsics write beyond the destination array
P2 JDK-8261912 Code IfNode::fold_compares_helper more defensively
P2 JDK-8261022 Fix incorrect result of Math.abs() with char type
P3 JDK-8259339 AllocateUninitializedArray C2 intrinsic fails with void.class input
P3 JDK-8259619 C1: 3-arg StubAssembler::call_RT stack-use condition is incorrect
P3 JDK-8258243 C2: assert failed ("Bad derived pointer") with -XX:+VerifyRegisterAllocator
P3 JDK-8257513 C2: assert((constant_addr - _masm.code()->consts()->start()) == con.offset())
P3 JDK-8258946 Fix optimization-unstable code involving signed integer overflow
P3 JDK-8259777 Incorrect predication condition generated by ADLC
P3 JDK-8256215 Shenandoah: re-organize saving/restoring machine state in assembler code
P3 JDK-8260338 Some fields in HaltNode is not cloned
P4 JDK-8259706 C2 compilation fails with assert(vtable_index == Method::invalid_vtable_index) failed: correct sentinel value
P4 JDK-8259773 Incorrect encoding of AVX-512 kmovq instruction
P4 JDK-8259049 Uninitialized variable after JDK-8257513
P5 JDK-8259576 Misplaced curly brace in Matcher::find_shared_post_visit

hotspot/gc

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8251944 Add Shenandoah test config to compiler/gcbarriers/UnsafeIntrinsicsTest.java
P4 JDK-8258534 Epsilon: clean up unused includes
P4 JDK-8259231 Epsilon: improve performance under contention during virtual space expansion
P4 JDK-8259954 gc/shenandoah/mxbeans tests fail with -Xcomp
P4 JDK-8261752 Multiple GC test are missing memory requirements
P4 JDK-8261413 Shenandoah: Disable class-unloading in I-U mode
P4 JDK-8258490 Shenandoah: Full GC does not need to remark threads and drain SATB buffers
P4 JDK-8259849 Shenandoah: Rename store-val to IU-barrier
P4 JDK-8260048 Shenandoah: ShenandoahMarkingContext asserts are unnecessary
P4 JDK-8259580 Shenandoah: uninitialized label in VerifyThreadGCState
P4 JDK-8261251 Shenandoah: Use object size for full GC humongous compaction

hotspot/runtime

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8261310 PPC64 Zero build fails with 'VMError::controlled_crash(int)::FunctionDescriptor functionDescriptor' has incomplete type and cannot be defined
P2 JDK-8259446 runtime/jni/checked/TestCheckedReleaseArrayElements.java fails with stderr not empty
P3 JDK-8260349 Cannot programmatically retrieve Metaspace max set via JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
P3 JDK-8261860 Crash caused by lambda proxy class loaded in Shutdown hook
P3 JDK-8260009 InstanceKlass::has_as_permitted_subclass() fails if subclass was redefined
P3 JDK-8257746 Regression introduced with JDK-8250984 - memory might be null in some machines
P3 JDK-8261397 try catch Method failing to work when dividing an integer by 0
P3 JDK-8258077 Using -Xcheck:jni can lead to a double-free after JDK-8193234
P3 JDK-8259392 Zero error reporting is broken after JDK-8255711
P4 JDK-8260029 aarch64: fix typo in verify_oop_array
P4 JDK-8261334 NMT: tuning statistic shows incorrect hash distribution
P4 JDK-8261585 Restore HandleArea used in Deoptimization::uncommon_trap
P4 JDK-8260933 runtime/cds/serviceability/ReplaceCriticalClassesForSubgraphs.java fails without CompactStrings
P4 JDK-8253910 UseCompressedClassPointers depends on UseCompressedOops in vmError.cpp

hotspot/svc

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8259451 Zero: skip serviceability/sa tests, set vm.hasSA to false

hotspot/svc-agent

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8258471 "search codecache" clhsdb command does not work

infrastructure

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8258909 update jdk16u jcheck conf

infrastructure/build

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8259679 GitHub actions should use MSVC 14.28
P3 JDK-8261261 The version extra fields needs to be overridable in jib-profiles.js
P4 JDK-8259949 x86 32-bit build fails when -fcf-protection is passed in the compiler flags

security-libs/java.security

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8256421 Add 2 HARICA roots to cacerts truststore

security-libs/javax.net.ssl

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8241372 Several test failures due to javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection reset
P3 JDK-8253368 TLS connection always receives close_notify exception

tools/jpackage

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8260592 jpackage tests fail when Desktop is not supported

xml/jaxp

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8249867 XML declaration is not followed by a newline
P4 JDK-8261209 isStandalone property: remove dependency on pretty-print