IcedTea 3.5.1 for OpenJDK 8 Released!

Andrew Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Mon Jul 31 03:00:05 UTC 2017 

We are pleased to announce the release of IcedTea 3.5.1!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional
features such as the ability to build against system libraries and
support for alternative virtual machines and architectures beyond
those supported by OpenJDK.

This release updates our OpenJDK 8 support with the additional fix
provided in OpenJDK 8 u144. It also brings in the latest Shenandoah
updates.

If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug
database (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla) under the appropriate
component. Development discussion takes place on the
distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing list and patches are
always welcome.

Full details of the release can be found below.

What’s New?
===========
New in release 3.5.1 (2017-07-27):

* Import of OpenJDK 8 u144 build 01
  - S8184993: Jar file verification failing with SecurityException: digest missing xxx
* Shenandoah
  - Amend "ArrayCopy verification code fix" with 8u-specific node hierarchy test
  - Amend "Refactor asm acmp" with a few missing changes
  - [backport] aarch64 store check fix
  - [backport] Account "shared" out-of-LAB allocations separately
  - [backport] Adaptive should not be scared of user-requested System.gc()
  - [backport] Added assertion for page alignment of heap's base address
  - [backport] Add "verify jcstress" acceptance test
  - [backport] "Allocation failure" cause should not be overwritten
  - [backport] ArrayCopy verification code fix
  - [backport] Assorted cleanups
  - [backport] "Before Full GC" verification is too strong for OOME-during-evac
  - [backport] C1 stores constants without read barriers
  - [backport] Cleanup AArch64 code
  - [backport] Cleanup class unloading and string intern code
  - [backport] Cleanup duplicated Shenandoah task queue declarations
  - [backport] Cleanups
  - [backport] Cleanup ShenandoahBarrierSet::write_barrier
  - [backport] Cleanup ShenandoahHeap::do_evacuation
  - [backport] Clean up unused fields and methods
  - [backport] Cleanup: update-refs check in_collection_set twice
  - [backport] Code cache roots styles
  - [backport] Concurrent code cache evacuation + bugfixes
  - [backport] Concurrent preclean + Fix weakref precleaning
  - [backport] Correct prefetch offset for marked object iteration
  - [backport] Deferred region cleanup.
  - [backport] Dense ShenandoahHeapRegion printout
  - [backport] Detailed ParallelCleanupTask statistics + Split out Full GC stats for parallel cleaning
  - [backport] Disable aggressive+verification test configs (jtreg eats up last configuration)
  - [backport] Do not abandon RP discovery on conc GC cancel, do that only before Full GC
  - [backport] Eliminating _num_regions variable in ShenandoahHeap
  - [backport] Ensure collection set and cset map are consistent
  - [backport] Fallback to shared allocation if GCLAB is not available
  - [backport] Fast synchronizer root scanning
  - [backport] "F: Code Cache Roots" is missing from gc+stats
  - [backport] Fix DerivedPointerTable handling when scanning roots twice in init-evac phase
  - [backport] Fixed a few of early returns that calling register_gc_end()
  - [backport] Fix live data accounting for humongous region
  - [backport] Fix memory Phis with only data uses
  - [backport] Fix recycled regions zapping
  - [backport] Fix up pointer volatility
  - [backport] Generic verification should not trust bitmaps
  - [backport] Heap/matrix verification for all reachable objects
  - [backport] Heap memory usage counting not longer needs to be atomic
  - [backport] Heap region recycling should call explicit clear() and request zapping
  - [backport] Heap region verification
  - [backport] Implementation of interpreter matrix barrier on aarch64
  - [backport] Implement early update references phase.
  - [backport] implicit null checks broken on aarch64
  - [backport] Increase timeout for EvilSyncBug test
  - [backport] Lazy parallel code cache iterator
  - [backport] Make statistics gathering span more operations
  - [backport] Make sure atomic operations are done on "volatile" fields
  - [backport] Make sure new_active_workers is used
  - [backport] Make {T,GC}LAB statistics unconditional
  - [backport] Mark-compact and heuristics should consistently process refs and unload classes
  - [backport] minor fix to optimization of java mirror comparison
  - [backport] more barrier on constant oop fixes + couple small unrelated fixes
  - [backport] More collection set and matrix cleanup
  - [backport] Nit: mark-compact phase 3 (Adjust Pointers) should announce itself as "Phase 3"
  - [backport] Optimize heap region size checks
  - [backport] Optimize heap verification
  - [backport] Out-of-TLAB evacuation should overwrite stale copies
  - [backport] Parallel code cache scanning
  - [backport] Parallel verification
  - [backport] Print correct message about gross times in stats
  - [backport] Print heap changes in phases that actually change heap occupancy
  - [backport] Print more detailed final UR stats
  - [backport] Print more details for weak ref and class unloading stats
  - [backport] Properly react on -ClassUnloading
  - [backport] Purge ealier version of redefined classes during class unloading
  - [backport] Purge ratio, global, connections heuristics.
  - [backport] Purge shenandoahHumongous.hpp
  - [backport] Purge ShenandoahVerify(Reads|Writes)ToFromSpace.
  - [backport] Reduce region retirement during tlab allocation
  - [backport] Refactor asm acmp (x86, aarch64, renames)
  - [backport] Refactor BrooksPointer asserts
  - [backport] Refactor heap verification
  - [backport] Reference processing deadlocks with -ParallelRefProcEnabled
  - [backport] Reference processors might use non-forwarded alive checks
  - [backport] Region sampling may not be enabled because last timetick is uninitialized
  - [backport] Rehash ShenandoahHeap section in hs_err
  - [backport] Reinstate "Purge" block in final-mark stats
  - [backport] Relax assert to not fire at safepoint
  - [backport] Remove heap printing routines from ShenandoahHeap
  - [backport] Remove obsolete compile_resolve_oop_runtime() methods
  - [backport] Rename final mark operations
  - [backport] Rename ShenandoahBarriersForConst
  - [backport] Replace ShHeapRegionSet::get with get_fast
  - [backport] Report correct total garbage data. Print out garbage and cset data with -Xlog:gc+ergo
  - [backport] Report oops and fwdptrs verification failures fully
  - [backport] Result of write barrier on constant not used
  - [backport] Separate Full GC root operations in GC stats
  - [backport] ShenandoahCollectionSet refactor
  - [backport] ShenandoahGCSession used wrong timer for full GC
  - [backport] ShenandoahHeap::evacuate_object() with boolean result flag.
  - [backport] Shenandoah options should be uintx
  - [backport] shenandoah_wb should fallback to slow path with -UseTLAB + Fix aarch64 compilation error due to shenandoah_wb change
  - [backport] ShenandoahWriteBarrierNode::memory_dominates_all_paths() assert failure when compiling methods using unsafe
  - [backport] Shortcut reference processing when no work is available
  - [backport] Simplify parallel synchronizer roots iterator
  - [backport] Skip RESOLVE when references update is not needed
  - [backport] Stats should attribute "Resize TLABs" properly, and mention "Pause" for init/final mark
  - [backport] Stats should not record past-shutdown events
  - [backport] "String/Symbol/CodeCache" -> "Str/Sym, Code Cache"
  - [backport] Tests should use all heuristics and pass heap verification + Disable aggressive+verification test configs
  - [backport] Total pauses should include final-mark pauses
  - [backport] Trim down native GC footprint
  - [backport] Update region sampling to include TLAB/GCLAB allocation data
  - [backport] Update roots should always handle derived pointers
  - [backport] Update ShenandoahHeapSampling to avoid double counting.
  - [backport] Update statistics to capture thread data accurately
  - [backport] Use CollectedHeap::base() instead of ShenandoahHeap::first_region_bottom()
  - [backport] Use lock version heap region memory allocator
  - [backport] Use scoped object for gc session/phases recording
  - [backport] Variable steps in adaptive heuristics
  - [backport] Verification error log is truncated
  - [backport] Verification levels
  - [backport] Verification should assert complete bitmaps in most phases + Disable complete bitmap verification in init mark
  - [backport] Verifier performance improvements: scan objects once, avoid double oop checks
  - [backport] Verifier should not assert cset in forwarded test block
  - [backport] Verifier should print extended info on referenced location
  - [backport] Verifier should use non-optimized root scans
  - [backport] Verify marked objects
  - [backport] Verify TAMS and object sizes
  - [backport] write barrier can get stuck below predicates resulting in unschedulable graph
  - S8140584: nmethod::oops_do_marking_epilogue always runs verification code
  - S8180175, S8180599: Cherry-pick/synchronize
  - Cleanup: Removed redundant ClassLoaderData::clear_claimed_marks() calls
  - Cleanup shared code.
  - Fixed memory leak in region garbage cache
  - Fix return type of ShenandoahHeapRegion::region_size_words_jint()
  - Improved comment about AArch64bit addressing in assembler.
  - Leak mutex in ShenandoahTaskTerminator
  - Make sure C2 arguments are not used when C2 is disabled.
  - Refactor parallel ClassLoaderData iterator
  - Revert G1 changes and bring shared BitMap
  - Add missing cmpoops() declaration to AArch64 macro assembler. Back out matrix related code from AArch64 interpreter.
  - Fix build without precompiled headers.
  - Fixed build issues on Windows

The tarballs can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.5.1.tar.gz
* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.5.1.tar.xz

We provide both gzip and xz tarballs, so that those who are able to
make use of the smaller tarball produced by xz may do so.

The tarballs are accompanied by digital signatures available at:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.5.1.tar.gz.sig
* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.5.1.tar.xz.sig

These are produced using my public key. See details below.

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GnuPG >= 2.1 is required to be able to handle this key.

SHA256 checksums:

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The checksums can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.5.1.sha256

The following people helped with these releases:

* Andrew Hughes (all other bug fixes and backports, release management)
* Roman Kennke (Shenandoah backporting)

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!

To get started:

$ tar xzf icedtea-3.5.1.tar.gz

or:

$ tar x -I xz -f icedtea-3.5.1.tar.xz

then:

$ mkdir icedtea-build
$ cd icedtea-build
$ ../icedtea-3.5.1/configure
$ make

Full build requirements and instructions are available in the INSTALL file.

Happy hacking!
-- 
Andrew :)

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