OpenJDK 6 build 16 source bundle posted

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 08:42:59 PDT 2009


Hi,


Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Without further adieu, the source bundle for OpenJDK 6 b16 is 
> available from
>
>    http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/
>
> and the OpenJDK 6 Mercurial repositories 
> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6) will be tagged with the build 
> information accordingly.
>
> The previous source bundle was for b14.  There was no distinct b15 per 
> se; b15 was used to mark the transition from teamware to Mercurial.  
> The b16 build is the first to be done purely in Mercurial.
>
> There were 45 bug fixes in this build ranging from security fixes to 
> sound updates; OpenJDK 6 b16 has all relevant security fixes from the 
> recent JDK synchronized security release.  A few fixes of note, during 
> a build importing binary plugs now defaults to false (6781572 "Default 
> to IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS=false for OpenJDK 6 builds") and several fixes 
> were applied that should render a few IcedTea patches unnecessary:
>
>   6736248 EnumEditor bug. Class check incorrect
>   6733718 test 
> /java/awt/FullScreen/UninitializedDisplayModeChangeTest/ fails
>   6593946 (bf) X-Buffer.compact() does not discard mark as specified
>   6778493 Fix (langtools) ant build to honor fcs MILESTONE setting
>
> The other non security bugs fixed in this build are:
>
> 6761791: Crash in the FontManager code due to use of JNIEnv saved by 
> another thread
> 6512707: "incompatible types" after (unrelated) annotation processing
> 6632696: Writing to closed output files (writeBytes) leaks native 
> memory (unix)
> 6788196: (porting) Bounds checks in io_util.c rely on undefined behaviour
> 6791458: FileInputStream/RandomAccessFile.read leaks memory if invoked 
> on closed stream with len > 8k
> 6792066: src/share/native/java/io/io_util.c clean-ups
> 6819886: System.getProperty("os.name") reports Vista on Windows 7
> 6821031: Upgrade OpenJDK's LittleCMS version to 1.18

Actually, the 1.18 version was not included in this release. b16 still 
includes 1.16. Any thoughts?


Cheers,
Lillian

> 6800572: Removing elements from views of NavigableMap implementations 
> does not always work correctly.
> 6801020: Concurrent Semaphore release may cause some require thread 
> not signaled
> 6806019: 38 JCK api/javax_sound/midi/ tests fails starting from jdk7 b46
> 6803402: Race condition in AbstractQueuedSynchronizer
> 6793757: Fix formatting of copyright notices in Gervill
> 6794201: remove unused sources
> 6808724: UninitializedDisplayModeChangeTest/DisplayModeChanger.java 
> has wrong legal notice
> 6821030: Merge OpenJDK Gervill with upstream sources, Q1CY2009
> 6823445: Gervill SoftChannel/ResetAllControllers jtreg test fails 
> after portamento fix from last merge
> 6823446: Gervill SoftLowFrequencyOscillator fails when freq is set to 
> 0 cent or 8.1758 Hz.
> 6824976: Fix NAWK assignment in shell script 
> jdk/make/java/java/genlocales.gmk
> 6828183: testcase from SSR09_01 into jdk6-open hangs
>
> -Joe
>




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