RELEASE NOTES FOR: 17
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Notes generated: Fri Jan 22 02:26:38 CET 2021

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AND (summary !~ 'problem list') AND (summary !~ 'release note') AND (issuetype != CSR) AND
fixVersion = 17

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  JEP 356: Enhanced Pseudo-Random Number Generators

      Provide new interface types and implementations for pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs),
      including jumpable PRNGs and an additional class of splittable PRNG algorithms (LXM).


RELEASE NOTES, BY COMPONENT:

core-libs/java.time:

  JDK-8260227: JDK time-zone data upgraded to tzdata2020f

      The JDK update incorporates tzdata2020f. The main change is
      
      * 'make rearguard_tarballs' no longer generates a bad rearguard.zi, fixing a 2020e bug.
      
      * There are no changes to the data since 2020e.
      
      Please refer to https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-December/000064.html for more
      information.


ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P2) JDK-8258484: AIX build fails in Harfbuzz with XLC 16.01.0000.0006

client-libs/javax.swing:
  (P3) JDK-8255880: UI of Swing components is not redrawn after their internal state changed

core-libs:
  (P4) JDK-8253497: Core Libs Terminology Refresh

core-libs/java.lang:
  (P4) JDK-8226810: Failed to launch JVM because of NullPointerException occured on System.props

core-libs/java.net:
  (P3) JDK-7146776: deadlock between URLStreamHandler.getHostAddress and file.Handler.openconnection

core-libs/java.time:
  (P4) JDK-8259048: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2020f

hotspot/compiler:
  (P2) JDK-8258015: [JVMCI] JVMCI_lock shouldn't be held while initializing box classes
  (P3) JDK-8259339: AllocateUninitializedArray C2 intrinsic fails with void.class input
  (P3) JDK-8257513: C2: assert((constant_addr - _masm.code()->consts()->start()) == con.offset())
  (P3) JDK-8257800: CompileCommand TypedMethodOptionMatcher::parse_method_pattern() may over consume
  (P3) JDK-8258225: compiler/c2/cr6340864/TestIntVect.java runs faster in interpreter
  (P4) JDK-8259706: C2 compilation fails with assert(vtable_index == Method::invalid_vtable_index) failed: correct sentinel value
  (P4) JDK-8259049: Uninitialized variable after JDK-8257513

hotspot/gc:
  (P4) JDK-8258534: Epsilon: clean up unused includes
  (P4) JDK-8259231: Epsilon: improve performance under contention during virtual space expansion

hotspot/jfr:
  (P2) JDK-8258396: SIGILL in jdk.jfr.internal.PlatformRecorder.rotateDisk()

hotspot/runtime:
  (P2) JDK-8259446: runtime/jni/checked/TestCheckedReleaseArrayElements.java fails with stderr not empty
  (P3) JDK-8258077: Using -Xcheck:jni can lead to a double-free after JDK-8193234
  (P4) JDK-8260029: aarch64: fix typo in verify_oop_array

hotspot/svc-agent:
  (P4) JDK-8258471: "search codecache" clhsdb command does not work

security-libs/javax.crypto:
  (P3) JDK-8023980: JCE doesn't provide any class to handle RSA private key in PKCS#1

security-libs/javax.net.ssl:
  (P3) JDK-8253368: TLS connection always receives close_notify exception