RELEASE NOTES: JDK 8u45

Notes generated: Fri Nov 01 14:20:35 CET 2024

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

None.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8065373	[macosx] jdk8, jdk7u60 Regression in Graphics2D drawing of derived Fonts

client-libs/java.awt

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8065709	Deadlock in awt/logging apparently introduced by 8019623
P3	JDK-8073008	press-and-hold input method for accented characters works incorrectly on OS X
P3	JDK-8058120	Rendering / caret errors with HTMLDocument

client-libs/javax.swing

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8072676	[macosx] Jtree icon painted over label when scrollbars present in window

core-libs/java.lang

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8063772	Read outside array bounds in jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/java_props_md.c

core-libs/java.net

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8077155	LoginContext Subject ignored by jdk8 sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection
P4	JDK-7178362	Socket impls should ignore unsupported proxy types rather than throwing

core-libs/java.util:i18n

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8072042	(tz) Support tzdata2015a

core-libs/jdk.nashorn

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8061955	asm.js idioms result in unnecessarily code emission

deploy

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8067034	Client certificate authentication issues with TLS 1.2 and browser keystore
P2	JDK-8079223	unnecessary performance degradation caused by fix to JDK-8052111
P3	JDK-8068313	Parsing JNLP file should not cause download of extensions.

deploy/packager

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8097047	Apple Store submission fails after using 8u31
P1	JDK-8096918	Apple Store submission fails after Yosemite Apple Store update

deploy/plugin

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8063186	[nightly] 8u40 - second security warning in html signed sandbox applet

deploy/webstart

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8072999	DRS certificate based rule does not match with Java WS Application compressed by pack200

hotspot/gc

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8085965	VM hangs in C2Compiler
P4	JDK-8067655	Clean up G1 remembered set oop iteration
P4	JDK-8061630	G1 iterates over JNIHandles two times
P4	JDK-8075210	Refactor strong root processing in order to allow G1 to evolve separately from GenCollectedHeap
P4	JDK-8074037	Refactor the G1GCPhaseTime logging to make it easier to add new phases
P4	JDK-8029524	Remove unsused method CollectedHeap::unsafe_max_alloc()
P5	JDK-8051837	Remove temporary G1UseParallelRSetUpdating and G1UseParallelRSetScanning flags

hotspot/runtime

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8063534	VerifyError on backward branch

infrastructure

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8068792	No 8u-* nightly builds

infrastructure/build

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8060073	Increment minor version of HSx for 8u45 and initialize the build number
P4	JDK-8073223	Increment the build value to b02 for hs25.45 in 8u45-b08

install/install

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8063684	too much delay between welcome and progress dialog
P3	JDK-8061590	Typo in Installer Removal Tool UE, "hightly"

security-libs/java.security

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8041740	[TEST_BUG] Test sun/security/tools/keytool/ListKeychainStore.sh fails on Mac

security-libs/javax.security

Priority	Bug	Summary
P4	JDK-8063909	[parfait] warnings from b116 for jdk.src.share.native.sun.security.ec: JNI pending exceptions
P4	JDK-8063910	Uninitialised memory in jdk/src/share/native/sun/security/ec/ECC_JNI.cpp

security-libs/org.ietf.jgss:krb5

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8055045	StringIndexOutOfBoundsException while reading krb5.conf

tools/javac

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-8058708	java.lang.AssertionError compiling source code

xml/jaxb

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8046817	JDK 8 schemagen tool does not generate xsd files for enum types

xml/jaxp

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8062923	XSL: Run-time internal error in 'substring()'
P3	JDK-8062924	XSL: wrong answer from substring() function