RELEASE NOTES FOR: 25.0.4
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Notes generated: Fri Mar 20 06:46:33 CET 2026

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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-8297191: [macos] Printing a page range with starting page > 1 results in missing pages
  (P3) JDK-8375065: Update LCMS to 2.18

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-8298823: [macos] java/awt/Mouse/EnterExitEvents/DragWindowTest.java continues to fail with "No MouseReleased event on label!"
  (P3) JDK-8376233: Clean up code in Desktop native peer
  (P3) JDK-8225787: java/awt/Window/GetScreenLocation/GetScreenLocationTest.java fails on Ubuntu
  (P4) JDK-8213530: Test java/awt/Modal/ToFront/DialogToFrontModeless1Test.java fails on Linux
  (P4) JDK-8203004: UnixMultiResolutionSplashTest.java fails on Ubuntu16.04

client-libs/javax.imageio:
  (P4) JDK-8377167: javax/imageio/ReadAbortTest.java throw NPE when x11 unavailable

client-libs/javax.sound:
  (P4) JDK-8374727:  Audio configuration Platform class - use nio for getting endianness of the underlying platform

client-libs/javax.swing:
  (P3) JDK-8365625: Can't change accelerator colors in Windows L&F
  (P3) JDK-8374506: Incorrect positioning of arrow icon in parent JMenu in Windows L&F
  (P3) JDK-8373650: Test "javax/swing/JMenuItem/6458123/ManualBug6458123.java" fails because the check icons are not aligned properly as expected
  (P4) JDK-8068293: [TEST_BUG] Test closed/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/motif/InternalFrame/4150591/bug4150591.java fails with GTKLookAndFeel
  (P4) JDK-8068310: [TEST_BUG] Test javax/swing/JColorChooser/Test4234761.java fails with GTKL&F
  (P4) JDK-8365379: SU3.applyInsets may produce wrong results
  (P4) JDK-8376151: Test javax/swing/JFileChooser/4966171/bug4966171.java is failing with OOME
  (P4) JDK-8373847: Test javax/swing/JMenuItem/MenuItemTest/bug6197830.java failed because The test case automatically fails when clicking any items in the “Nothing” menu in all four windows (Left-to-right)-Menu Item Test and (Right-to-left)-Menu Item Test

core-libs:
  (P4) JDK-8373718: jdk/internal/misc/VM/RuntimeArguments.java test fails in Virtual threads mode

core-libs/java.io:
  (P4) JDK-8377910: Minor cleanup of java/io/FileDescriptor/Sharing.java
  (P4) JDK-8355339: Test java/io/File/GetCanonicalPath.java failed: The specified network name is no longer available
  (P4) JDK-8351010: Test java/io/File/GetXSpace.java failed: / usable space 56380809216 > free space 14912244940

core-libs/java.lang:
  (P4) JDK-8370370: Add still more cases to WorstCaseTests

core-libs/java.net:
  (P4) JDK-8347167: Reduce allocation in com.sun.net.httpserver.Headers::normalize
  (P4) JDK-8369950: TLS connection to IPv6 address fails with BCJSSE due to IllegalArgumentException

core-libs/java.text:
  (P4) JDK-8368001: java/text/Format/NumberFormat/NumberRoundTrip.java timed out

core-svc/java.lang.management:
  (P3) JDK-8369736: Add management interface for AOT cache creation

hotspot/compiler:
  (P3) JDK-8376104: C2 crashes in PhiNode::Ideal(PhaseGVN*, bool) accessing NULL pointer
  (P3) JDK-8361699: C2: assert(can_reduce_phi(n->as_Phi())) failed: Sanity: previous reducible Phi is no longer reducible before SUT
  (P3) JDK-8370502: C2: segfault while adding node to IGVN worklist
  (P3) JDK-8370939: C2: SIGSEGV in SafePointNode::verify_input when processing MH call from Compile::process_late_inline_calls_no_inline()
  (P3) JDK-8339526: C2: store incorrectly removed for clone() transformed to series of loads/stores
  (P4) JDK-8374744: Enable dumping of APX EGPRs (R16–R31) in JVM fatal error logs
  (P4) JDK-8371792: Refactor barrier loop tests out of TestIfMinMax
  (P4) JDK-8358772: Template-Framework Library: Primitive Types
  (P4) JDK-8358600: Template-Framework Library: Template for TestFramework test class
  (P4) JDK-8325482: Test that distinct seeds produce distinct traces for compiler stress flags
  (P5) JDK-8378888: jdk/incubator/vector/Float16OperationsBenchmark.java uses wrong package name

hotspot/gc:
  (P4) JDK-8364927: Add @requires annotation to TestReclaimStringsLeaksMemory.java
  (P4) JDK-8319326: GC: Make TestParallelRefProc use createTestJavaProcessBuilder
  (P4) JDK-8319540: GC: Make TestSelectDefaultGC use createTestJavaProcessBuilder
  (P4) JDK-8367708: GenShen: Reduce total evacuation burden
  (P4) JDK-8378561: Mark gc/shenandoah/compiler/TestLinkToNativeRBP.java as /native
  (P4) JDK-8367450: Shenandoah: Log the composition of the collection set 

hotspot/jvmti:
  (P4) JDK-8368159: Significant performance overhead when started with jdwp agent and unattached debugger

hotspot/runtime:
  (P4) JDK-8377932: AOT cache is not rejected when JAR file has changed
  (P4) JDK-8376402: Dependencies::print_statistics() and AbstractClassHierarchyWalker::print_statistics() are not called from PRODUCT code
  (P4) JDK-8374998: Failing os::write - remove bad file
  (P4) JDK-8363949: Incorrect jtreg header in MonitorWithDeadObjectTest.java
  (P4) JDK-8367485: os::physical_memory is broken in 32-bit JVMs when running on 64-bit OSes
  (P4) JDK-8357086: os::xxx functions returning memory size should return size_t
  (P4) JDK-8374769: PPC: MASM::pop_cont_fastpath() should reset _cont_fastpath if SP == _cont_fastpath

hotspot/test:
  (P4) JDK-8378810: Enable missing FFM test via jtreg requires for RISC-V
  (P4) JDK-8379464: Enable missing stack walking test via jtreg requires for RISC-V

infrastructure:
  (P4) JDK-8378774: Bump update version for OpenJDK: jdk-25.0.4

security-libs/java.security:
  (P4) JDK-8373690: Unexpected Keystore message using jdk.crypto.disabledAlgorithms

security-libs/jdk.security:
  (P4) JDK-8368524: Tests are skipped and shown as passed in test/jdk/sun/security/pkcs11/Cipher/KeyWrap

xml/jaxp:
  (P4) JDK-8364315: Remove unused xml files from test/jaxp/javax/xml/jaxp/functional/javax/xml/transform/xmlfiles