RELEASE NOTES: JDK 8u11

Notes generated: Fri Nov 01 08:02:36 CET 2024

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

None.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8023990	Regression: postscript size increase from 6u18

client-libs/java.awt

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8041572	[macosx] huge native memory leak in AWTWindow.m
P2	JDK-8036056	Running forms URL throws NullPointerException in Javaconsole.
P3	JDK-8041987	[macosx] setDisplayMode crashes
P3	JDK-8031765	[TEST] Child process error stream is not empty!
P4	JDK-8017456	[TEST_BUG] java/awt/DataFlavor/MissedHtmlAndRtfBug/MissedHtmlAndRtfBug.html: test frames remain after test execution

client-libs/java.awt:i18n

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8019990	IM candidate window appears on the South-East corner of the display.

core-libs

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8037012	(tz) Support tzdata2014a
P3	JDK-8038306	(tz) Support tzdata2014b
P3	JDK-8037180	[TEST_BUG] test/sun/util/calendar/zi/Zoneinfo.java incorrectly calculates raw GMT offset change time
P4	JDK-8032678	[TEST_BUG] sun/misc/Version/Version.java doesn't understand two-digit HotSpot minor version numbers

core-libs/java.net

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8035897	Better memory allocation for file descriptors greater than 1024 on macosx
P4	JDK-8036584	Review comments from 8035897

core-libs/java.nio

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8027212	TEST_BUG: java/nio/channels/Selector/SelectAfterRead.java fails intermittently

core-libs/java.util:i18n

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8043012	(tz) Support tzdata2014c

core-libs/jdk.nashorn

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8033231	[TEST_BUG] test/script/basic/JDK-8026161.js fails with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError

deploy

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8033578	Deploy unit test to 100% pass rate
P2	JDK-8041964	JUnit test compilation error on non Windows platform
P2	JDK-8043587	Relaunch to JRE 5 does not work
P2	JDK-8019274	RMI thread can no longer call out to AWT thread for webstart app
P4	JDK-8038724	[Nightly test failure]: PreloaderDelegateTest.testEarlyError
P4	JDK-8036938	BaseDirTest.testUserDir Failure on linux
P4	JDK-8030975	Both testcases testLoadClassFromLazyBlackListJar and testLoadClassFromLazyBlackListJar_NoCache caused an error
P4	JDK-8032833	Both testCheckConnectWithContext and testCheckConnect started failing after recent sync from the sandbox
P4	JDK-8041520	CacheTest Failure
P4	JDK-8028812	com.sun.deploy.cache.CacheEntryTest.testReadSigningData failed
P4	JDK-8028821	com.sun.deploy.registration.RegisterDeployTest failed
P4	JDK-8029313	com.sun.deploy.uitoolkit.impl.awt.ui.DownloadWindowForServiceTest: progress should be hidden after download
P4	JDK-8029308	com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownloadHttpsTest failed
P4	JDK-8033415	com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest: crash
P4	JDK-8030075	com.sun.jnlp.DownloadServiceImplTest.testRemoveAndLoadPart: NPE at ToolkitStore.get().getAppContext()
P4	JDK-8031410	com.sun.jnlp.JNLPPreverifyClassLoaderTest.testInternalGzip: JNLPPreverifyClassLoader.initialize: FAILED
P4	JDK-8037480	DeployCacheHandlerTest NPE due to server resourse cleanup
P4	JDK-8037536	Disable CacheUtilTest.testNoCodebase on Linux
P4	JDK-8033481	Disable crashing deploy unit tests
P4	JDK-8039128	Disable SecurityBaseline.backgroundUpdate for JUnit test
P4	JDK-8039540	Disable timeout junit tests
P4	JDK-8036746	Exclude some tests that failed or causes error on Linux
P4	JDK-8035721	FileNotFoundException when SetupHelper.blackListJarFile
P4	JDK-8036631	Fix Deployment Unit Test Timeout on Hudson
P4	JDK-8037782	Fix server issue in some tests and WebServer
P4	JDK-8034990	hudson junit test JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest.java failures observed on mac but not windows
P4	JDK-8034917	Improve com/sun/deploy/security/RootCertStore.java so that it warns about missing system certificates file
P4	JDK-8035806	Investigate com.sun.javaws.security.JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest.DISABLED_testWarmupValidationWithSignedJNLP
P4	JDK-8038598	Investigate MemoryCacheTest, JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest, JVMManagerTest and JnlpUpdateTest
P4	JDK-8037119	jdk9-client build failure caused by a jar not found
P4	JDK-8035895	Make the starting web server port in sun.tests.helpers.WebServer configurable via an environment variable
P4	JDK-8037883	new unit test failure on linux-amd64: com.sun.javaws.PreloaderTest.testProgressInOfflineMode
P4	JDK-8033492	Provide a way to override the default junit timeout of 10 minutes when running the deployment test suite
P4	JDK-8029641	SetupHelpers.blackListJarFile is out dated
P4	JDK-8036959	Some JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest tests fail on linux-amd64
P4	JDK-8030931	sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2ClassLoaderTest -- Your security settings have blocked an untrusted application from running
P4	JDK-8033293	sun.plugin2.applet.Applet2DownloadTest : Caused an ERROR
P4	JDK-8032497	sun.plugin2.applet.AWTAppletLifecycleTest.testAppletHasParentBeforeInit test failure
P4	JDK-8033406	sun.plugin2.applet.FXAppletSecurityManagerTest: Error and Failure
P4	JDK-8031824	sun.plugin2.applet.JNLP2ClassLoaderTest.testFindGetBasics: Error
P4	JDK-8031407	sun.plugin2.applet.JNLP2ClassLoaderTest: 11 errors
P4	JDK-8031533	sun.plugin2.applet.JNLPAppletPreloaderTest: 5 errors
P4	JDK-8032599	sun.plugin2.applet.SerialAppletTest.testInitNormalSerialApplet: Caused an ERROR
P4	JDK-8031365	sun.plugin2.applet.SignedAsBLOBJarTest: 5 similar errors due to ExitException
P4	JDK-8030688	sun.plugin2.applet.SignedCachedJarTest failed
P4	JDK-8030357	sun.plugin2.applet.viewer.JNLP2ViewerTest failed on Mac
P4	JDK-8030066	sun.plugin2.main.server.JVMManagerTest Failed
P4	JDK-8030225	sun.plugin2.message.LaunchJVMAppletMessageTest failed
P4	JDK-8038354	The fix for https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037883 is still not good enough - unit test failure on linux-i586: com.sun.javaws.PreloaderTest.testProgressInOfflineMode
P4	JDK-8033708	Typo in the fix for 8033492
P4	JDK-8028684	Unit test error PolicyParserTest

deploy/deployment_toolkit

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8039011	JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest sometimes timeout on Windows

deploy/javafx

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8038621	[nightly] Plugin doesn't work for javafx applets since from build 25.03.2014
P4	JDK-8098098	Sign demo jar files with Client.jar using make files

deploy/plugin

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8046821	Browser throws ClassNotFoundException when javaws.args present in deployment.properties on Windows
P1	JDK-8042163	Regression- Java Control Panel Advanced tab failed to display
P2	JDK-8035449	security prompt is shown twice when 'Do not show' checkbox is checked
P3	JDK-8030636	Accessibility class in jar on -xbootclasspath/a is not loaded by jvm
P3	JDK-8034230	Applet caller check should not compare URLs
P3	JDK-8030945	FX native mixcoded dialog doesn't show up on linux

deploy/webstart

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8042415	[nightly] JNLP file invalid parsing
P3	JDK-8042640	Java trusted certificate warning not showing
P3	JDK-8041339	JNLP with java-vm-args whose length exceeded 512 chars failed to get loaded with CouldNotLoadArgumentException

docs

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8033656	List URLPermission in JDK 8 Networking Enhancements
P1	JDK-8033654	Update "Permissions in the Java Development Kit (JDK)" Document

docs/guides

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8033655	Add information about lambdas and streams to Collections Framework Enhancements in Java SE 8
P3	JDK-8033653	Documenting JDK 8 deployment requirement for permissions attribute
P3	JDK-8033098	Guides pages needs to be updated to fix API links
P4	JDK-8034570	Update fix table script to ignore HTML pages generated by DARB

docs/release_notes

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8048216	System config pages should refer to OS X and not to Mac OS X

hotspot/compiler

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8050076	maven build of elasticsearch 1.0.3

infrastructure/build

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8044541	Increment hsx 25.11 build to b03 for 8u11-b11
P4	JDK-8040163	Increment hsx 25.11 build to b02 for 8u11-b04
P4	JDK-8039216	Update hsx version to hs25.11 with b01 for 8u11 release

javafx/application-lifecycle

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8097532	[JFXPanel] SecurityException in PlatformUtil when running SwingInterop with security manager

javafx/build

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8094590	Mac: Intermittent build failures in task graphics:ccMacFontT2K

javafx/controls

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8094500	[CSS] css code should not set logging level

javafx/other

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8097534	Create regression tests that run JavaFX apps with a security manager

javafx/samples

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8097527	Testing OTN Ensemble applet loaded with java.lang.StackOverflowError

javafx/window-toolkit

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8096523	Gtk: SecurityException using WebView when running app with security manager

xml/jaxb

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8041263	With active Securitymanager JAXBContext.newInstance fails