RELEASE NOTES FOR: 8u51
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Notes generated: Mon Apr 01 05:32:07 CEST 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P3) JDK-8071668: [macosx] Clipboard does not work with 3rd parties Clipboard Managers

core-libs:
  (P2) JDK-8081775: [TEST_BUG] two lib/testlibrary tests are failing with "Error. failed to clean up files after test" with jtreg 4.1 b12
  (P4) JDK-8075446: jdk/test/Makefile references (to be removed) win32 directory in jtreg

core-libs/java.net:
  (P3) JDK-8133196: HTTPS hostname invalid issue with InetAddress

core-libs/java.util:i18n:
  (P3) JDK-8075667: (tz) Support tzdata2015b
  (P3) JDK-8077685: (tz) Support tzdata2015d

core-svc/javax.management:
  (P3) JDK-8066952: [TEST_BUG] javax/management/monitor/CounterMonitorTest.java hangs

deploy:
  (P2) JDK-8075602: Applet throws java.security AccessControlException in java console when playing it

deploy/plugin:
  (P2) JDK-8134109: Applet2Manager.getMainDeploymentRuleSet ignores jar version.
  (P2) JDK-8076343: JNLP property apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar no longer treated as secure for Mac OS 

deploy/webstart:
  (P2) JDK-8078815: Launching of jnlp app fails with JNLPException

hotspot/compiler:
  (P2) JDK-8080012: JVM times out with vdbench on SPARC M7-16
  (P4) JDK-8062591: SPARC PICL causes significantly longer startup times

hotspot/jvmti:
  (P3) JDK-8035938: Memory leak in JvmtiEnv::GetConstantPool

infrastructure/build:
  (P4) JDK-8068674: Increment minor version of HSx for 8u51 and initialize the build number
  (P4) JDK-8078529: Increment the build value to b02 for hs25.51 in 8u51-b10
  (P4) JDK-8081622: Increment the build value to b03 for hs25.51 in 8u51-b15

javafx/build:
  (P3) JDK-8098134: Add new javafx.runtime.build property to javafx.properties file

security-libs/javax.crypto:
  (P3) JDK-8064546: CipherInputStream throws BadPaddingException if stream is not fully read

security-libs/javax.crypto:pkcs11:
  (P4) JDK-8078348: [TEST_BUG] sun/security/pkcs11/sslecc/ClientJSSEServerJSSE.java fails with BindException

security-libs/org.ietf.jgss:
  (P2) JDK-8078439: SPNEGO auth fails if client proposes MS krb5 OID

xml/jaxb:
  (P3) JDK-8073357: schema1.xsd has wrong content. Sequence of the enum values has been changed

xml/jaxp:
  (P2) JDK-8076290: JCK test api/xsl/conf/string/string17 starts failing after JDK-8074297
  (P3) JDK-8073385: Bad error message on parsing illegal character in XML attribute
  (P3) JDK-8074297: substring in XSLT returns wrong character if string contains supplementary chars