RELEASE NOTES: JDK openjdk8u492

Notes generated: Wed Jan 21 05:17:45 CET 2026

JEPs

None.

RELEASE NOTES

None.

FIXED ISSUES

client-libs/java.awt

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8312518 [macos13] setFullScreenWindow() shows black screen on macOS 13 & above

core-libs/java.net

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8223145 Replace wildcard address with loopback or local host in tests - part 1
P3 JDK-8285836 sun/net/www/http/KeepAliveCache/KeepAliveProperty.java failed with "RuntimeException: Failed in server"

core-libs/java.nio

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8277159 Fix java/nio/file/FileStore/Basic.java test by ignoring /run/user/* mount points

hotspot/gc

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8186149 quarantine gc/survivorAlignment/TestPromotionFromSurvivorToTenuredAfterMinorGC.java

hotspot/runtime

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8313770 jdk/internal/platform/docker/TestSystemMetrics.java fails on Ubuntu
P3 JDK-8174734 Safepoint sync time did not increase
P4 JDK-8284758 [linux] improve print_container_info
P4 JDK-8364660 ClassVerifier::ends_in_athrow() should be removed
P4 JDK-8056039 Hotspot does not compile with clang 3.4 on Linux
P4 JDK-8287011 Improve container information
P4 JDK-8220658 Improve the readability of container information in the error log

infrastructure/build

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8157758 JDK9 does not compile on Linux with GCC 6.1 because left-shifting a negative number has undefined behavior
P4 JDK-8374917 [8u] C++ flags get passed to C compiles in the HotSpot build

infrastructure/release_eng

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8373250 Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u492

security-libs/java.security

Priority Bug Summary
P4 JDK-8132786 java/security/cert/CertPathValidator/OCSP/AIACheck.java fails intermittently

tools/launcher

Priority Bug Summary
P3 JDK-8074840 Resolve disabled warnings for libjli and libjli_static