RELEASE NOTES: JDK openjdk8u472

Notes generated: Fri Aug 29 05:17:06 CEST 2025

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

None.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8275303 sun/java2d/pipe/InterpolationQualityTest.java fails with D3D basic render driver

client-libs/java.awt

Priority Bug Summary
P1 JDK-8186259 IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest.sh versus IOExceptionIfEncodedURLTest.java
P4 JDK-8160767 [TEST_BUG] java/awt/Frame/MaximizedToIconified/MaximizedToIconified.java

core-libs/java.lang

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8044051 Test jdk/lambda/vm/InterfaceAccessFlagsTest.java gets IOException during compilation

core-libs/java.net

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8339414 Fix JDK-8202369 incorrect backport for 8u
P4 JDK-8312065 Socket.connect does not timeout when profiling
P4 JDK-8365811 test/jdk/java/net/CookieHandler/B6644726.java failure - "Should have 5 cookies. Got only 4, expires probably didn't parse correctly"

core-libs/java.util.concurrent

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8081734 ConcurrentHashMap/ConcurrentAssociateTest.java, times out 90% of time on sparc with 256 cpu.

core-libs/java.util:i18n

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-7102969 currency.properties supercede not working correctly
P4 JDK-8157138 Error while fetching currency instance by Currency.getInstance(currencycode)

hotspot/jvmti

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8185348 Major performance regression in GetMethodDeclaringClass and other JVMTI Method functions

hotspot/runtime

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8340387 Update OS detection code to recognize Windows Server 2025
P4 JDK-8335978 [8u] incorrect include file name in semaphore.inline.hpp
P4 JDK-8365560 [8u] ppc64le MaxRAM default is too low at 4GiB

hotspot/svc

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8228658 test GetTotalSafepointTime.java fails on fast Linux machines with Total safepoint time 0 ms

infrastructure/build

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8366112 [8u] GHA: Fix broken installation of Windows SDK
P4 JDK-8363965 GHA: Switch cross-compiling sysroots to Debian bookworm
P4 JDK-8358538 Update GHA Windows runner to 2025

infrastructure/release_eng

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8358328 Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u472

security-libs/java.security

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8345414 Google CAInterop test failures
P4 JDK-8352302 Test sun/security/tools/jarsigner/TimestampCheck.java is failing

security-libs/javax.net.ssl

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8205653 test/jdk/sun/management/jmxremote/bootstrap/RmiRegistrySslTest.java and RmiSslBootstrapTest.sh fail with handshake_failure

tools/javac

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8056283 @ignore tools/javac/defaultMethods/Assertions.java until JDK-8047675 is fixed

xml

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8351624 [8u] Xerces-J version wrong in THIRD_PARTY_README after JDK-7150324