FYI: request backports for 8239091, 8238942, 8224109 and 8214481

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Mario,

I think all of these fixes are good for backporting to JDK11 Updates. So they are approved now.

Best regards
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com>
> Sent: Freitag, 3. April 2020 15:03
> To: jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>; Langer, Christoph
> <christoph.langer at sap.com>
> Subject: FYI: request backports for 8239091, 8238942, 8224109 and 8214481
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I marked the bugs in $subject for backport in 11u-dev, they are kind
> of related so I would like to backport the full batch in one go if
> approved.
> 
> I'm still thinking if it's a good idea to backport them to 8 too, the
> bugs are present though so I may as well do it, but I'll send a
> separate mail for this.
> 
> There is another reason I send this email though, 8214481 and 8224109
> do affect rendering. 8214481 seems mostly harmless but 8224109 does
> change the result of the affine transform. The current transform is
> wrong though, so I would expect that the ones who noticed would be
> happy about getting a fix but if they have workarounds in their code
> it will invalidate those, so I understand if we want to only ship
> those fixes in a major version and not in an update.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 
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