RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u31
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Notes generated: Mon Apr 01 03:46:40 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-8040617: [macosx] Large JTable cell results in a OutOfMemoryException

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-8041990: [macosx] Language specific keys does not work in applets when opened outside the browser
  (P3) JDK-8068283: Mac OS Incompatibility between JDK 6 and 8 regarding input method  handling
  (P3) JDK-8043610: Sorting columns in JFileChooser fails with AppContext NPE

client-libs/javax.swing:
  (P2) JDK-8051359: [headless] JPopupMenu creation in headless mode with JDK9b23 causes NPE 

core-libs/java.io:
  (P2) JDK-8055949: ByteArrayOutputStream capacity should be maximal array size permitted by VM

core-libs/java.net:
  (P3) JDK-8042622: Check for CRL results in IllegalArgumentException "white space not allowed"

core-libs/java.util:i18n:
  (P2) JDK-8057747: Several test failing after update to tzdata2014g 
  (P3) JDK-8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
  (P3) JDK-8059206: (tz) Support tzdata2014i
  (P3) JDK-8064560: (tz) Support tzdata2014j
  (P3) JDK-8055222: Currency update needed for ISO 4217 Amendment #159

deploy:
  (P3) JDK-8048089: ClientConfig.refreshIfNeeded() doesn't restore properties with "active." prefix.
  (P3) JDK-8050838: JRE Install Error in localized Windows 8.1 after join in AD domain
  (P4) JDK-8037417: javaws fails to launch app with empty href in jnlp file if Application-Library-Allowable-Codebase is used

deploy/deployment_toolkit:
  (P3) JDK-8037471: The warning message displays the app name and publisher as "UNKNOWN" if cache is disabled

deploy/javafx:
  (P1) JDK-8097089: JavaFX applets do not start on Mac OS X yosemite
  (P3) JDK-8097418: Regression: Parameters passed into dtjava.js are ignored

deploy/plugin:
  (P2) JDK-8054126: regression - java_arguments not accepted after Update to 7u65

deploy/webstart:
  (P2) JDK-8061342: javaws help message in Japanese is corrupted
  (P2) JDK-8062392: Jnlp fails to load with CouldNotLoadArgumentException
  (P3) JDK-8056979: Roaming user profiles by USER_JPI_PROFILE env variables doesn't work anymore
  (P3) JDK-8044290: Shortcuts are not created for javaws x64 with JRE 7u55 on Windows OS

hotspot/compiler:
  (P1) JDK-8054883: Segmentation error while running program

hotspot/gc:
  (P3) JDK-8026303: CMS: JVM intermittently crashes with "FreeList of size 258 violates Conservation Principle" assert
  (P3) JDK-8044406: JVM crash with JDK8 (build 1.8.0-b132) with G1 GC

hotspot/runtime:
  (P1) JDK-8050485: super() in a try block in a ctor may need to cause VerifyError
  (P2) JDK-8058715: stability issues when being launched as an embedded JVM via JNI
  (P3) JDK-8060169: Update the Crash Reporting URL in the Java crash log
  (P3) JDK-8056104: VerifyError on backward branch

infrastructure/build:
  (P3) JDK-8065183: Add --with-copyright-year option to configure
  (P4) JDK-8038027: DTDBuilder should be run in headless mode
  (P4) JDK-8061523: Increment hsx 25.31 build to b02 for 8u31-b05
  (P4) JDK-8062084: Increment hsx 25.31 build to b03 for 8u31-b06
  (P4) JDK-8064303: Increment hsx 25.31 build to b04 for 8u31-b08
  (P4) JDK-8049760: Increment minor version of HSx for 8u31 and initialize the build number
  (P4) JDK-8064494: Increment the build value to b05 for hs25.31 in 8u31-b08
  (P4) JDK-8065786: Increment the build value to b06 for hs25.31 in 8u31-b10
  (P4) JDK-8066452: Increment the build value to b07 for hs25.31 in 8u31-b11

install:
  (P4) JDK-8062502: Make the MacJREInstallerTests scheme shared across project

javafx/build:
  (P3) JDK-8097435: Update copyright header for files modified in 2014

tools/javac:
  (P3) JDK-8050386: javac, follow-up of fix for JDK-8049305

xml/javax.xml.parsers:
  (P3) JDK-8059327: XML parser returns corrupt attribute value

xml/jax-ws:
  (P3) JDK-8038966: JAX-WS handles wrongly xsd:any arguments for Web services

xml/jaxb:
  (P3) JDK-8036981: JAXB not preserving formatting for xsd:any Mixed content