OpenJDK 7u311 Released

[Andrew Brygin]

Hello,

 I would like to announce the release of OpenJDK 7u311.

 The release sources are in the mercurial forest:
 https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/

 * Security fixes in this release:
   JDK-8256157: Improve bytecode assembly
   JDK-8256491: Better HTTP transport
   JDK-8258432: Improve file transfers
   JDK-8260453: Improve Font Bounding
   JDK-8260960: Signs of jarsigner signing
   JDK-8260967: Better jar file validation
   JDK-8262380: Enhance XML processing passes
   JDK-8262403: Enhanced data transfer
   JDK-8262477: Enhance String Conclusions
   JDK-8262967: Improve Zip file support
   JDK-8264079: Improve abstractions
   JDK-8264460: Improve NTLM support
   JDK-8267412: Provide better LDAP provider support

 * Other fixes:
   JDK-8151678: com/sun/jndi/ldap/LdapTimeoutTest.java failed due to
                timeout on DeadServerNoTimeoutTest is incorrect
   JDK-8160768: Add capability to custom resolve host/domain names
                within the default JNDI LDAP provider

 * Added tags:
   jdk7u311-b00: the start of the update 311.
   jdk7u311-b01: the proposed set of fixes.
   jdk7u311-ga: the same nodes as jdk7u311-b01.

Thanks,
Andrew