RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u5
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Notes generated: Mon Apr 01 02:00:42 CEST 2024

Hint: Prefix bug IDs with https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/ to reach the relevant JIRA entry.

JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P4) JDK-8033673: [TEST_BUG] java/awt/image/JPEGInputStreamTest.java fails

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-6571600: JNI use results in UnsatisfiedLinkError looking for libmawt.so

core-libs/java.time:
  (P4) JDK-8030822: (tz) Support tzdata2013i

core-libs/java.util:collections:
  (P1) JDK-8036568: Serial incompatibility in java.util.TreeMap.NavigableSubMap

deploy:
  (P2) JDK-8033227: The case:api/javax_jnlp/SingleInstanceService/index.html#AddRemove failed automatically

deploy/plugin:
  (P2) JDK-8033705: Array out of bounds exception in PluginMain.performSSVValidation
  (P3) JDK-8031456: DRS: Locale attribute for message element does not work with just language code
  (P3) JDK-8033679: JDK 8u5. When user click "Cancel" in Security warning dialog, wrong message is shown
  (P3) JDK-8032676: RDF (8029649) can cause performance problem when Revocation check times out.

deploy/webstart:
  (P2) JDK-8031579: Spurious Missing Manifest Permissions Attribute Warning When Launching versioned Java Web Start app
  (P2) JDK-8031325: Update javadoc comments in JNLP API

docs:
  (P1) JDK-8032432: Concurrency work, external JSR: jsr166e, Doug Lea, JEP 155 JEP 171
  (P1) JDK-8033462: List URLPermission in JDK 8 Networking Enhancements
  (P1) JDK-8032421: Retire Some Rarely-Used GC Combinations
  (P1) JDK-8033460: Update "Permissions in the Java Development Kit (JDK)" Document
  (P3) JDK-8030334: Update jdeps man page to include a new -jdkinternals option
  (P3) JDK-8033707: Usage  of blank '*" value in Caller-Allowable-Codebase needs to be better documented at the doc

docs/guides:
  (P1) JDK-8030346: JCE reference guide needs to be updated to include CTR mode
  (P1) JDK-8030344: SNI link in JDK 8 Security Enhancements doc is broken
  (P1) JDK-8030345: Update Java Security Overview Page 
  (P2) JDK-8033461: Add information about lambdas and streams to Collections Framework Enhancements in Java SE 8
  (P2) JDK-8030934: Clarify the set of properties that are considered secure
  (P2) JDK-8041571: JDK8 docs for JRE installation are broken
  (P2) JDK-8030935: Multi applets inside html with sandbox-permission in manifest but no permission tag behaves differently
  (P2) JDK-8037961: Oracle Security Providers doc has links to raw files in closedjdk.us.oracle.com
  (P3) JDK-8033325: Documenting JDK 8 deployment requirement for permissions attribute 
  (P3) JDK-8032809: Guides pages needs to be updated to fix API links
  (P3) JDK-8037960: Link to JEP 135 points to internal site
  (P3) JDK-8036829: Missing link to JDK 8 enhancements in concurrency index.htm page of guides
  (P4) JDK-8031665: Add DejaVu fonts files that will be used for JDK API docs
  (P4) JDK-8035110: no jdk enhancement info
  (P4) JDK-8034008: Update fix table script to ignore HTML pages generated by DARB

docs/tools:
  (P3) JDK-8030933: JDK8 docs on -XX:CompileOnly option are incorrect
  (P4) JDK-8030932: Remove the JDK 1.1 compatibility part in jarsigner doc

docs/tutorial:
  (P3) JDK-8036729: Add links to lambda expressions to tutorial learning paths page and Java SE 8 landing page

hotspot/compiler:
  (P3) JDK-8035283: Second phase of branch shortening doesn't account for loop alignment

hotspot/runtime:
  (P1) JDK-8031249: nsk/jvmti/RedefineClasses/StressRedefine failed invalid method ordering length on Solaris

infrastructure:
  (P2) JDK-8029627: Allow duplicate bugid for changeset in jdk8 update forest
  (P2) JDK-8031711: Skip JDK8 TL Nightly build if there is no code change in JDK8 TL repo

infrastructure/build:
  (P4) JDK-8036836: Increment hsx build to b02 for 8u5-b12

javafx/build:
  (P4) JDK-8103670: Upgrade Netbeans projects to Netbeans 7.4