RELEASE NOTES FOR: 18.0.1
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Notes generated: Wed Apr 03 08:00:30 CEST 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs:
  (P4) JDK-8276819: javax/print/PrintServiceLookup/FlushCustomClassLoader.java fails to free

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-8274751: Drag And Drop hangs on Windows

client-libs/java.awt:i18n:
  (P3) JDK-8278472: Invalid value set to CANDIDATEFORM structure

core-libs/java.net:
  (P4) JDK-8280414: Memory leak in DefaultProxySelector

core-libs/java.util:
  (P2) JDK-8280950: RandomGenerator:NextDouble() default behavior non conformant after JDK-8280550 fix
  (P2) JDK-8281183: RandomGenerator:NextDouble() default behavior partially fixed by JDK-8280950
  (P4) JDK-8280550: SplittableRandom#nextDouble(double,double) can return result >= bound

core-libs/javax.naming:
  (P3) JDK-8272996: JNDI DNS provider fails to resolve SRV entries when IPV6 stack is enabled
  (P3) JDK-8277795: LDAP connection timeout not honoured under contention

core-svc/debugger:
  (P3) JDK-8276990: Memory leak in invoker.c fillInvokeRequest() during JDI operations

docs/guides:
  (P3) JDK-8273941: G1 GC tuning guide updates for JDK18
  (P3) JDK-8283516: Remove 3 krb5.conf settings from The Kerberos 5 GSS-API Mechanism
  (P4) JDK-6584403: Request to add a CA/CSR certificate cookbook to JSSE Reference Guide

hotspot/compiler:
  (P3) JDK-8279225: [arm32] C1 longs comparison operation destroys argument registers
  (P3) JDK-8279437: [JVMCI] exception in HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.translate can exit the VM
  (P3) JDK-8279412: [JVMCI] failed speculations list must outlive any nmethod that refers to it
  (P3) JDK-8273139: C2: assert(f <= 1 && f >= 0) failed: Incorrect frequency
  (P3) JDK-8280526: x86_32 Math.sqrt performance regression with -XX:UseSSE={0,1}
  (P4) JDK-8280123: C2: Infinite loop in CMoveINode::Ideal during IGVN
  (P4) JDK-8258814: Compilation logging crashes for thread suspension / debugging tests

hotspot/runtime:
  (P3) JDK-8267341: macos attempt_reserve_memory_at(arg1, arg2, true) failure
  (P3) JDK-8281275: Upgrading from 8 to 11 no longer accepts '/' as filepath separator in gc paths
  (P4) JDK-8278384: Bytecodes::result_type() for arraylength returns T_VOID instead of T_INT

infrastructure:
  (P4) JDK-8278869: Bump version numbers for OPENJDK 18.0.1

infrastructure/build:
  (P3) JDK-8279223: Define version in .jcheck/conf
  (P3) JDK-8280910: Update openjdk project in jcheck to "jdk-updates" for jdk18u
  (P4) JDK-8279445: Update JMH devkit to 1.34
  (P4) JDK-8281262: Windows builds in different directories are not fully reproducible

security-libs/java.security:
  (P3) JDK-8277488: Add expiry exception for Digicert (geotrustglobalca) expiring in May 2022
  (P3) JDK-8278851: Correct signer logic for jars signed with multiple digest algorithms

security-libs/javax.xml.crypto:
  (P4) JDK-8278186: org.jcp.xml.dsig.internal.dom.Utils.parseIdFromSameDocumentURI throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when calling substring method