RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u11
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Notes generated: Sun Jun 02 05:08:34 CEST 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P3) JDK-8023990: Regression: postscript size increase from 6u18

client-libs/java.awt:
  (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:
  (P4) JDK-8019990: IM candidate window appears on the South-East corner of the display.

core-libs:
  (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:
  (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:
  (P4) JDK-8027212: TEST_BUG: java/nio/channels/Selector/SelectAfterRead.java fails intermittently

core-libs/java.util:i18n:
  (P3) JDK-8043012: (tz) Support tzdata2014c

core-libs/jdk.nashorn:
  (P4) JDK-8033231: [TEST_BUG] test/script/basic/JDK-8026161.js fails with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError

deploy:
  (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:
  (P4) JDK-8039011: JNLPSignedResourcesHelperTest sometimes timeout on Windows

deploy/javafx:
  (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:
  (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:
  (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:
  (P1) JDK-8033656: List URLPermission in JDK 8 Networking Enhancements
  (P1) JDK-8033654: Update "Permissions in the Java Development Kit (JDK)" Document

docs/guides:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8048216: System config pages should refer to OS X and not to Mac OS X

hotspot/compiler:
  (P4) JDK-8050076: maven build of elasticsearch 1.0.3

infrastructure/build:
  (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:
  (P2) JDK-8097532: [JFXPanel] SecurityException in PlatformUtil when running SwingInterop with security manager

javafx/build:
  (P3) JDK-8094590: Mac: Intermittent build failures in task graphics:ccMacFontT2K

javafx/controls:
  (P3) JDK-8094500: [CSS] css code should not set logging level

javafx/other:
  (P2) JDK-8097534: Create regression tests that run JavaFX apps with a security manager

javafx/samples:
  (P4) JDK-8097527: Testing OTN Ensemble applet loaded with java.lang.StackOverflowError

javafx/window-toolkit:
  (P3) JDK-8096523: Gtk: SecurityException using WebView when running app with security manager

xml/jaxb:
  (P3) JDK-8041263: With active Securitymanager JAXBContext.newInstance fails