OpenJDK 7u261 Released

[Andrew John Hughes]

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenJDK 7u261.

The source tarball is available from:

* https://openjdk-sources.osci.io/openjdk7/openjdk7u261-ga.tar.xz

The tarball is accompanied by a digital signature available at:

* https://openjdk-sources.osci.io/openjdk7/openjdk7u261-ga.tar.xz.sig

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New in release OpenJDK 7u261 (2020-04-14):
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* Security fixes
  - S8224541, CVE-2020-2756: Better mapping of serial ENUMs
  - S8224549, CVE-2020-2757: Less Blocking Array Queues
  - S8225603: Enhancement for big integers
  - S8227542: Manifest improved jar headers
  - S8231415, CVE-2020-2773: Better signatures in XML
  - S8233250: Better X11 rendering
  - S8233410: Better Build Scripting
  - S8234027: Better JCEKS key support
  - S8234408, CVE-2020-2781: Improve TLS session handling
  - S8234825, CVE-2020-2800: Better Headings for HTTP Servers
  - S8234841, CVE-2020-2803: Enhance buffering of byte buffers
  - S8235274, CVE-2020-2805: Enhance typing of methods
  - S8236201, CVE-2020-2830: Better Scanner conversions
  - S8238960: linux-i586 builds are inconsistent as the newly build jdk
is not able to reserve enough space for object heap
* Other changes
  - S7065233: To interpret case-insensitive string locale independently
  - S8219597: (bf) Heap buffer state changes could provoke unexpected
exceptions
  - S8240621: Build failure on Windows after JDK-8044500

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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