RELEASE NOTES: JDK 8u74

Notes generated: Fri Nov 01 17:15:05 CET 2024

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

security-libs/java.security

Issue	Description
JDK-8038837	Support added to jarsigner for specifying timestamp hash algorithm A new -tsadigestalg option is added to jarsigner to specify the message digest algorithm that is used to generate the message imprint to be sent to the TSA server. In older JDK releases, the message digest algorithm used was SHA-1. If this new option is not specified, SHA-256 will be used on JDK 7 Updates and later JDK family versions. On JDK 6 Updates, SHA-1 will remain the default but a warning will be printed to the standard output stream.

Issue

Description

JDK-8038837

Support added to jarsigner for specifying timestamp hash algorithm

A new -tsadigestalg option is added to jarsigner to specify the message digest algorithm that is used to generate the message imprint to be sent to the TSA server. In older JDK releases, the message digest algorithm used was SHA-1. If this new option is not specified, SHA-256 will be used on JDK 7 Updates and later JDK family versions. On JDK 6 Updates, SHA-1 will remain the default but a warning will be printed to the standard output stream.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/javax.swing

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8130735	javax.swing.TimerQueue: timer fires late when another timer starts

deploy

Priority	Bug	Summary
P2	JDK-8148694	putback of JDK-8140400 in 8u76 is missing two files.
P2	JDK-8142982	Race Condition can cause CacheEntry.getJarSigningData() to return null.
P3	JDK-8144963	Javaws checks jar files twice if JVM needs to be restarted

hotspot/compiler

Priority	Bug	Summary
P1	JDK-6675699	need comprehensive fix for unconstrained ConvI2L with narrowed type

security-libs/java.security

Priority	Bug	Summary
P3	JDK-8038837	Add support to jarsigner for specifying timestamp hash algorithm