Regression in 21.0.8 from 8348989: Better Glyph drawing?

[Mikael Sterner]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026, at 00:47, Mikael Sterner wrote:
> I see a regression between OpenJDK builds of 21.0.7 and 21.0.8 in
> rendering of glyphs on macOS, that I think is due to commit 10a28c0
> for "8348989: Better Glyph drawing". A bisect between tags
> 21.0.7-ga and 21.0.8-ga indicated this commit as the first bad
> commit, and reverting 10a28c0 and the followup 2801e11 in
> jdk21u-dev/master also removed the problem.

Additional information: Cherry-picking jdk25u/52e1e73 for 
"8355884: [macos] java/awt/Frame/I18NTitle.java fails on MacOS" 
onto jdk21u-dev/master fixes the issue. Maybe a solution 
would thus be to backport 8355884 to Java 21?

Yours,
Mikael Sterner