RELEASE NOTES FOR: 16.0.2
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Notes generated: Tue Jun 03 08:53:34 CEST 2025

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P3) JDK-8262829: Native crash in Win32PrintServiceLookup.getAllPrinterNames()

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-8262446: DragAndDrop hangs on Windows

client-libs/javax.accessibility:
  (P4) JDK-8263136: C4530 was reported from VS 2019 at access bridge

core-libs/java.nio:
  (P4) JDK-8262844: (fs) FileStore.supportsFileAttributeView might return false negative in case of ext3

hotspot/compiler:
  (P2) JDK-8263587: C2: JVMS not cloned when needs_clone_jvms() is true
  (P2) JDK-8261914: IfNode::fold_compares_helper faces non-canonicalized bool when running JRuby JSON workload

hotspot/gc:
  (P4) JDK-8263030: Remove Shenandoah leftovers from ReferenceProcessor
  (P4) JDK-8261505: Test test/hotspot/jtreg/gc/parallel/TestDynShrinkHeap.java killed by Linux OOM Killer

hotspot/runtime:
  (P4) JDK-8260236: better init AnnotationCollector _contended_group
  (P4) JDK-8263557: Possible NULL dereference in Arena::destruct_contents()
  (P4) JDK-8263430: Uninitialized Method* variables after JDK-8233913

infrastructure:
  (P4) JDK-8266205: Update milestone to fcs for jdk16.0.2+4

security-libs/java.security:
  (P4) JDK-8263069: Exclude some failing tests from security/infra/java/security/cert/CertPathValidator