RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u45
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Notes generated: Mon Apr 01 05:11:42 CEST 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P2) JDK-8065373: [macosx] jdk8, jdk7u60 Regression in Graphics2D drawing of derived Fonts

client-libs/java.awt:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8072676: [macosx] Jtree icon painted over label when scrollbars present in window

core-libs/java.lang:
  (P4) JDK-8063772: Read outside array bounds in jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/java_props_md.c

core-libs/java.net:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8072042: (tz) Support tzdata2015a

core-libs/jdk.nashorn:
  (P3) JDK-8061955: asm.js idioms result in unnecessarily code emission

deploy:
  (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:
  (P1) JDK-8097047: Apple Store submission fails after using 8u31
  (P1) JDK-8096918: Apple Store submission fails after Yosemite Apple Store update

deploy/plugin:
  (P2) JDK-8063186: [nightly] 8u40 - second security warning in html signed sandbox applet

deploy/webstart:
  (P3) JDK-8072999: DRS certificate based rule does not match with Java WS Application compressed by pack200

hotspot/gc:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8063534: VerifyError on backward branch

infrastructure:
  (P1) JDK-8068792: No 8u-* nightly builds

infrastructure/build:
  (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:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8041740: [TEST_BUG] Test sun/security/tools/keytool/ListKeychainStore.sh fails on Mac

security-libs/javax.security:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8055045: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException while reading krb5.conf

tools/javac:
  (P1) JDK-8058708: java.lang.AssertionError compiling source code

xml/jaxb:
  (P2) JDK-8046817: JDK 8 schemagen tool does not generate xsd files for enum types

xml/jaxp:
  (P3) JDK-8062923: XSL: Run-time internal error in 'substring()'
  (P3) JDK-8062924: XSL: wrong answer from substring() function