RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u144
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Notes generated: Mon Apr 01 15:24:30 CEST 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

security-libs/java.security:

    JDK-8184993: java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry() now always returns the ZipEntry instance with a '/' ended entry name for directory entry

      The `java.util.zip.ZipEntry` API doc specifies "A directory entry is defined to be one whose
      name ends with a '/'". However, in previous JDK releases
      `java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry(String entryName)` may return a `ZipEntry` instance with an
      entry name that does not end with '/' for an existing zip directory entry when:
      
      * the passed in argument `entryName` does not end with a '/', and * there is a matching zip
      directory entry with name `entryName` + '/' in the zip file. 
      
      With this release, the name of the `ZipEntry` instance returned from
      `java.util.zip.ZipFile.getEntry()` always ends with '/' for any zip directory entry.
      
      To revert to the previous behavior, set the system property `jdk.util.zip.ensureTrailingSlash`
      to "false".
      
      This change was made in order to fix a regression introduced in JDK 8u141 when verifying
      signed JARs and has caused some WebStart applications to fail to load. See JDK-8184993 for
      more information. 


ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

core-libs/java.net:
  (P3) JDK-8184328: JDK 8u131 socketRead0 hang at SSL read

deploy/webstart:
  (P3) JDK-8074544: webstart app fails with CouldNotLoadArgumentException when account in Japanese

hotspot/compiler:
  (P2) JDK-8158639: C2 compilation fails with SIGSEGV
  (P2) JDK-8134389: Crash in HotSpot with jvm.dll+0x42b48 ciObjectFactory::create_new_metadata
  (P4) JDK-8185572: Enable AssumeMP by default on SPARC machines

hotspot/gc:
  (P1) JDK-8180048: Interned string and symbol table leak memory during parallel unlinking

security-libs/java.security:
  (P2) JDK-8184993: Jar file verification failing with SecurityException: digest missing xxx