JDK 26: Second Release Candidate

[Mikael Vidstedt]

The GCC licenses must be included in builds compiled by GCC, specifically builds which include the GCC runtime libraries (libgcc and libstdc++).

In addressing this for JDK 26 GA, we mistakenly caused the GCC licenses to be included in all builds, even those not compiled by GCC. Sorry about that!

I’m working on a fix that will include the GCC licenses only when necessary. I plan to merge that into the April CPU (26.0.1).

We will take greater care with such late-breaking changes in the future.

Cheers,
Mikael

> On Feb 16, 2026, at 12:05 PM, Sergey Bylokhov <bylokhov at amazon.com> wrote:
> 
> It is unfortunate that the patch was rushed without a clear explanation of why it was needed and without any discussion in the PR:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/29661
> 
> A follow up ticket has now been filed as a regression
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8377905
> Could someone please take a look at this when possible
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards, Sergey.
> 
> 
> On 2/14/26 11:16, Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> We fixed a late-breaking license issue [1] in build 35,
>> so that is our second JDK 26 Release Candidate.
>> Binaries available here, as usual: https://jdk.java.net/26/
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8377509
> 
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