RELEASE NOTES FOR: openjdk8u482
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Notes generated: Mon Dec 08 05:11:45 CET 2025

Hint: Prefix bug IDs with https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/ to reach the relevant JIRA entry.

JAVA ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS (JEP):

  None.

RELEASE NOTES:

  None.

ALL FIXED ISSUES, BY COMPONENT AND PRIORITY:

client-libs/2d:
  (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:
  (P3) JDK-8258805: Japanese characters not entered by mouse click on Windows 10
  (P3) JDK-8212678: Windows IME related patch

client-libs/javax.swing:
  (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:
  (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:
  (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:
  (P4) JDK-8362208: [8u] Buffer overflow in g1GCPhaseTimes.cpp::LineBuffer::_buffer

hotspot/jvmti:
  (P3) JDK-8212155: Race condition when posting dynamic_code_generated event leads to JVM crash

hotspot/runtime:
  (P3) JDK-8269668: [aarch64] java.library.path not including /usr/lib64

infrastructure/build:
  (P4) JDK-8371334: [8u] GHA: installation of VS2010 hangs
  (P4) JDK-8371387: [8u] hotspot needs to recognise latest VS2022

infrastructure/release_eng:
  (P4) JDK-8366574: Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u482

other-libs:
  (P4) JDK-8364597: Replace THL A29 Limited with Tencent

security-libs/jdk.security:
  (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