RELEASE NOTES: JDK 17.0.21.1

Notes generated: Mon Nov 02 05:42:37 CET 2026

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

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FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8394492 Update FreeType to 2.15.0

client-libs/java.awt

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8393195 Update Libpng to 1.6.59

hotspot/compiler

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8394581 [17u] TestSHA512Intrinsics.java and TestSHA512MultiBlockIntrinsics.java fail with JDK 17 on Graviton Hosts

infrastructure

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8394665 Bump update version for OpenJDK: jdk-17.0.21.1