RELEASE NOTES FOR: openjdk8u452
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Notes generated: Sat Dec 21 05:08:07 CET 2024

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JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

core-libs/java.util.jar:

    JDK-8335912: Add an operation mode to the jar command when extracting to not overwriting existing files

      The `jar` tool's extract operation has been enhanced to allow the `--keep-old-files` or the
      `-k` options to be used to preventing overwriting existing files.
      
      *Example Usages:*
      
      `jar xkf foo.jar`
      
      or
      
      `jar --extract --keep-old-files --file foo.jar`
      
      Either of these commands will extract the `foo.jar`, and if an entry with the same name
      already exist in the target directory, then the existing file will not be overwritten. 


ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (P4) JDK-8326110: [8u] The Marlin tests should be updated after JDK-8241307

client-libs/java.awt:
  (P4) JDK-8068305: [TEST_BUG] Test java/awt/Mixing/HWDisappear.java fails with GTKL&F

core-libs/java.util.jar:
  (P5) JDK-8335912: Add an operation mode to the jar command when extracting to not overwriting existing files

infrastructure/release_eng:
  (P4) JDK-8345504: Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u452

xml:
  (P4) JDK-8268457: XML Transformer outputs Unicode supplementary character incorrectly to HTML