[11u]: JDK-8210739 Calling JSpinner's setFont with null throws NullPointerException not in 11.0.3

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>
> Sent: Freitag, 12. April 2019 19:06
> To: Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>; 'jdk-updates-
> dev at openjdk.java.net' <jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net>; Andrew
> Haley <aph at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [11u]: JDK-8210739 Calling JSpinner's setFont with null throws
> NullPointerException not in 11.0.3
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/04/2019 09:31, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I want to make you aware of the following:
> >
> >
> >
> > As per the diff filter OpenJDK 11.0.3 vs. Oracle 11.0.3 [0], the issue
> > JDK-8210739 “Calling JSpinner's setFont with null throws
> > NullPointerException” [1] is part of Oracle’s update but not in the
> > OpenJDK version. OpenJDK would have it in 11.0.4.
> >
> >
> >
> > Since we have the fix in jdk11u-dev already, we might consider it to be
> > integrated into the CPU. But it might also be fine to have it later in
> > 11.0.4. @andrew(s) please do whatever you think is best ��
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> >
> > [0] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=36366
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210739
> >
> >
> >
> 
> This looks like a similar case to what we've just encountered with 8u
> [0], where it appears in a build after the GA one (or so I assume from
> the b31 numbering).
> 
> This has caused a lot of confusion in the past with our customers, where
> they wonder why it is marked as fixed in a certain release, but not in
> the build they have. I'm not sure if we generally want to try and mirror
> this post-GA addition process in OpenJDK or not.
> 
> [0] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-
> April/009092.html

We can push it to jdk11u after jdk-11.0.3+7=jdk-11.0.3-ga and tag it with jdk-11.0.3+8. Shall we?

/Christoph