RELEASE NOTES FOR: 25.0.3
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Notes generated: Sun Dec 07 08:58:12 CET 2025

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

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ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P3) JDK-8361381: GlyphLayout behavior differs on JDK 11+ compared to JDK 8 
  (P4) JDK-8369032: Add test to ensure serialized ICC_Profile stores only necessary optional data
  (P4) JDK-8368882: NPE during text drawing on machine with JP locale
  (P5) JDK-8371759: Add missing @Override annotations in com.sun.imageio package

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P4) JDK-8372048: Performance improvement on Linux remote desktop

client-libs/java.beans:
  (P5) JDK-8370197: Add missing @Override annotations in com.sun.beans package

client-libs/javax.swing:
  (P5) JDK-8359418: Test "javax/swing/text/GlyphView/bug4188841.java" failed because the phrase of text pane does not match the instructions

core-libs/java.io:
  (P4) JDK-8359182: Use @requires instead of SkippedException for MaxPath.java

core-libs/java.lang:
  (P4) JDK-8354894: java/lang/Thread/virtual/Starvation.java timeout on server with high CPUs

core-libs/java.nio:
  (P4) JDK-8317838: java/nio/channels/Channels/SocketChannelStreams.java running into timeout (aix)
  (P4) JDK-8366128: jdk/jdk/nio/zipfs/TestPosix.java::testJarFile uses wrong file

core-libs/java.rmi:
  (P4) JDK-7191877: TEST_BUG: java/rmi/transport/checkLeaseInfoLeak/CheckLeaseLeak.java failing intermittently

core-libs/java.text:
  (P3) JDK-8369050: DecimalFormat Rounding Errors for Fractional Ties Near Zero
  (P4) JDK-8368328: CompactNumberFormat.clone does not produce independent instances

core-libs/java.util.concurrent:
  (P4) JDK-8370887: DelayScheduler.replace method may break the 4-ary heap in certain scenarios

core-libs/java.util:i18n:
  (P4) JDK-8367901: Calendar.roll(hour, 24) returns wrong result

core-svc/debugger:
  (P4) JDK-8370636: com/sun/jdi/TwoThreadsTest.java should wait for completion of all threads

core-svc/java.lang.management:
  (P4) JDK-8030957: AIX: Implement OperatingSystemMXBean.getSystemCpuLoad() and .getProcessCpuLoad() on AIX

hotspot/compiler:
  (P3) JDK-8370405: C2: mismatched store from MergeStores wrongly scalarized in allocation elimination
  (P3) JDK-8341039: compiler/cha/TypeProfileFinalMethod.java fails with assertEquals expected: 0 but was: 2
  (P4) JDK-8361492: [IR Framework] Has too restrictive regex for load and store
  (P4) JDK-8370244: [PPC64] Several vector tests fail on Power8
  (P4) JDK-8360049: CodeInvalidationReasonTest.java fails with ZGC on AArch64
  (P4) JDK-8372046: compiler/floatingpoint/TestSubNodeFloatDoubleNegation.java fails IR verification
  (P4) JDK-8368787: Error reporting: hs_err files should show instructions when referencing code in nmethods
  (P4) JDK-8359064: Expose reason for marking nmethod non-entrant to JVMCI client
  (P4) JDK-8362284: RISC-V: cleanup NativeMovRegMem
  (P4) JDK-8366747: RISC-V: Improve VerifyMethodHandles for method handle linkers

hotspot/gc:
  (P4) JDK-8371316: Adjust assertion (GC pause time cannot be smaller than the sum of each phase) in G1GCPhaseTimes::print
  (P4) JDK-8372412: Increase buffer size for ring-buffer events in CollectedHeap
  (P4) JDK-8361363: ShenandoahAsserts::print_obj() does not work for forwarded objects and UseCompactObjectHeaders

hotspot/jfr:
  (P3) JDK-8370242: JFR: Clear event reference eagerly when using EventStream

hotspot/jvmti:
  (P4) JDK-8358679: [asan] vmTestbase/nsk/jvmti tests show memory issues
  (P4) JDK-8349192: jvmti/scenarios/contention/TC05/tc05t001 fails: ERROR: tc05t001.cpp, 281: (waitedThreadCpuTime - waitThreadCpuTime) < (EXPECTED_ACCURACY * 1000000)

hotspot/runtime:
  (P3) JDK-8313770: jdk/internal/platform/docker/TestSystemMetrics.java fails on Ubuntu
  (P3) JDK-8366951: Test runtime/logging/StressAsyncUL.java is timing out
  (P4) JDK-8364741: [asan] runtime/ErrorHandling/PrintVMInfoAtExitTest.java fails because output differs slightly
  (P4) JDK-8357570: [macOS] os::Bsd::available_memory() might return too low values
  (P4) JDK-8354937: Cleanup some sparc related coding in os_linux
  (P4) JDK-8357591: Re-enable CDS test cases for jvmci after JDK-8345826
  (P4) JDK-8370708: RISC-V: Add VerifyStackAtCalls
  (P4) JDK-8371966: RISC-V: Incorrect pointer dereference in TemplateInterpreterGenerator::generate_native_entry
  (P4) JDK-8368754: runtime/cds/appcds/SignedJar.java log regex is too strict
  (P4) JDK-8307495: Specialize atomic bitset functions for aix-ppc
  (P4) JDK-8343340: Swapping checking do not work for MetricsMemoryTester failcount
  (P4) JDK-8370646: TestLargeUTF8Length.java needs lots of memory
  (P4) JDK-8366908: Use a different class for testing JDK-8351654

hotspot/svc:
  (P3) JDK-8359472: JVM crashes when attaching a dynamic agent before JVMTI_PHASE_LIVE
  (P4) JDK-8370730: Test serviceability/attach/EarlyDynamicLoad/EarlyDynamicLoad.java needs to be resilient about warnings

hotspot/test:
  (P4) JDK-8370649: Add intermittent tag for gc/shenandoah/generational/TestOldGrowthTriggers.java

infrastructure:
  (P4) JDK-8372320: Bump update version for OpenJDK: jdk-25.0.3

security-libs/java.security:
  (P4) JDK-8357470: src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/util/Debug.java implement the test for args.toLowerCase 
  (P4) JDK-8346962: Test CRLReadTimeout.java fails with -Xcomp on a fastdebug build

security-libs/javax.net.ssl:
  (P4) JDK-8366182: Some PKCS11Tests are being skipped when they shouldn't
  (P4) JDK-8333857: Test sun/security/ssl/SSLSessionImpl/ResumeChecksServer.java failed: Existing session was used
  (P4) JDK-8357277: Update OpenSSL library for interop tests

security-libs/jdk.security:
  (P4) JDK-8360562: sun/security/tools/keytool/i18n.java add an ability to add comment for failures

tools/launcher:
  (P4) JDK-8370393: Cleanup handling of ancient Windows versions from GetJavaProperties java_props_md

xml/jaxp:
  (P4) JDK-8336695: Update Commons BCEL to Version 6.10.0