RELEASE NOTES: JDK openjdk8u482

Notes generated: Fri Dec 12 05:11:51 CET 2025

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

None.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/2d

Priority Bug Summary
P2 JDK-8222362 Upgrade to Freetype 2.10.0
P3 JDK-8193017 Import freetype sources into OpenJDK source tree
P3 JDK-8293672 Update freetype md file
P3 JDK-8285686 Update FreeType to 2.12.0
P3 JDK-8290334 Update FreeType to 2.12.1
P3 JDK-8306881 Update FreeType to 2.13.0
P3 JDK-8316028 Update FreeType to 2.13.2
P3 JDK-8348596 Update FreeType to 2.13.3
P3 JDK-8297088 Update LCMS to 2.14
P3 JDK-8227324 Upgrade to freetype 2.10.1
P3 JDK-8247867 Upgrade to freetype 2.10.2
P3 JDK-8261170 Upgrade to FreeType 2.10.4
P4 JDK-8298974 Add ftcolor.c to imported freetype sources

client-libs/java.awt

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8258805 Japanese characters not entered by mouse click on Windows 10
P3 JDK-8212678 Windows IME related patch

client-libs/javax.swing

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8182577 Exception when Tab key moves focus to a JCheckbox with a custom ButtonModel
P3 JDK-8154043 Fields not reachable anymore by tab-key, because of new tabbing behaviour of radio button groups.
P4 JDK-8305072 Win32ShellFolder2.compareTo is inconsistent

core-libs

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8371352 [8u] Fix VS2010 build issue in check_code.c
P4 JDK-8211804 Constant AO_UNUSED_MBZ uses left shift of negative value

hotspot/compiler

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8354941 Build failure with glibc 2.42 due to uabs() name collision
P4 JDK-8219006 AArch64: Register corruption in slow subtype check

hotspot/gc

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8362208 [8u] Buffer overflow in g1GCPhaseTimes.cpp::LineBuffer::_buffer

hotspot/jvmti

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8212155 Race condition when posting dynamic_code_generated event leads to JVM crash

hotspot/runtime

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8269668 [aarch64] java.library.path not including /usr/lib64

infrastructure/build

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8371334 [8u] GHA: installation of VS2010 hangs
P4 JDK-8371387 [8u] hotspot needs to recognise latest VS2022

infrastructure/release_eng

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8366574 Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u482

other-libs

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8364597 Replace THL A29 Limited with Tencent

security-libs/jdk.security

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8353299 VerifyJarEntryName.java test fails
P4 JDK-8339280 jarsigner -verify performs cross-checking between CEN and LOC
P4 JDK-8345358 Some DLL Files are missing Windows Properties
P4 JDK-8367782 VerifyJarEntryName.java: Fix modifyJarEntryName to operate on bytes and re-introduce verifySignatureEntryName