OpenJDK 8u212 Released

Andrew John Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Tue Apr 16 21:26:16 UTC 2019 

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenJDK 8u212.

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What's New?
===========
New in OpenJDK 8u212-b03:

* Security fixes
  - S8211936, CVE-2019-2602: Better String parsing
  - S8218453, CVE-2019-2684: More dynamic RMI interactions
  - S8219066, CVE-2019-2698: Fuzzing TrueType fonts: setCurrGlyphID()
* Other changes
  - S7127191: SA JSDB does not display native symbols correctly for
transported Linux cores
  - S8027434: "-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError" uses fork instead of vfork
  - S8028254: gc/arguments/TestMinInitialErgonomics.java failed with
unexpected initial heap size
  - S8029661: Support TLS v1.2 algorithm in SunPKCS11 provider
  - S8042131: DateTimeFormatterBuilder Mapped-values do not work for
JapaneseDate
  - S8043387: java/time/test/java/util/TestFormatter.java failed.
  - S8044047: Missing null pointer checks for streams
  - S8059038: Create new launcher for SA tools
  - S8065749: [TESTBUG]: gc/arguments/TestG1HeapRegionSize.java fails at
nightly
  - S8068269: RTM tests that assert on non-zero lock statistics are too
strict in RTMTotalCountIncrRate > 1 cases
  - S8076164: [JTextField] When input too long Thai character, cursor's
behavior is odd
  - S8076274: [TESTBUG] Remove @ignore from runtime\NMT\JcmdDetailDiff.java
  - S8076458:
java/util/stream/test/org/openjdk/tests/java/util/stream/FlatMapOpTest.java
timeout
  - S8077608: [TESTBUG] Enable Hotspot jtreg tests to run in agentvm mode
  - S8080932: [TEST_BUG] Test java/awt/BasicStroke/DashStrokeTest.java
fails with Bad script error due to improper @run notation
  - S8129822: Define "headful" jtreg keyword
  - S8132136: [PIT] RTL orientation in JEditorPane is broken
  - S8132985: Crash in freetypescaler.c due to double free
  - S8133108: [PIT] Container size is wrong in JEditorPane
  - S8133731: [TEST_BUG] Unmappable in ASCII character such as Thai
should be escaped in the regtests targeted for a regular non-I18n runs
  - S8133802: replace some <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) in
security-libs docs
  - S8133984: print_compressed_class_space() is only defined in 64-bit VM
  - S8139803: Fix for 8132985 breaks OpenJDK build on windows.
  - S8141491: Unaligned memory access in Bits.c
  - S8145096: Undefined behaviour in HotSpot
  - S8148928: java/util/stream/test/**/SequentialOpTest.java timed out
intermittently
  - S8164656: krb5 does not retry if TCP connection timeouts
  - S8170681: Remove fontconfig header files from JDK source tree
  - S8175120: Remove old tests on kdc timeout policy
  - S8180469: Wrong short form text for supplemental Japanese era
  - S8180904: Hotspot tests running with -agentvm failing due to classpath
  - S8184309: Build warnings from GCC 7.1 on Fedora 26
  - S8185975: PPC64: Fix vsldoi interface according to the ISA
  - S8187364: Unable to enter zero width non-joiner (ZWNJ) symbol in
Swing text component
  - S8189761: COMPANY_NAME, IMPLEMENTOR, BUNDLE_VENDOR, VENDOR, but no
configure flag
  - S8193764: Cannot set COMPANY_NAME when configuring a build
  - S8195153: [test] runtime/6981737/Test6981737.java shouldn't check
'java.vendor' and 'java.vm.vendor' properties
  - S8197429: Increased stack guard causes segfaults on x86-32
  - S8200109: NMT: diff_malloc_site assert(early->flags() ==
current->flags(), "Must be the same memory type")
  - S8200115: System property java.vm.vendor value includes quotation marks
  - S8202088: Japanese new era implementation
  - S8204142: AWT hang occurs when sequenced events arrive out of
sequence in multiple AppContexts
  - S8205432: Replace the placeholder Japanese era name
  - S8206075: On x86, assert on unbound assembler Labels used as branch
targets
  - S8206120: Add test cases for lenient Japanese era parsing
  - S8207070: Webstart app popup on wrong screen in a one-screen setup
changing to multi-monitor
  - S8207152: Placeholder for Japanese new era should be two characters
  - S8207258: Distrust TLS server certificates anchored by Symantec Root CAs
  - S8208480: Test failure: assert(is_bound() || is_unused()) after
JDK-8206075 in C1
  - S8208656: Move java/util/Calendar/CalendarTestScripts tests into OpenJDK
  - S8210633: Cannot parse JapaneseDate string with
DateTimeFormatterBuilder Mapped-values
  - S8210647: libsaproc is being compiled without optimization
  - S8211106: [windows] Update OS detection code to recognize Windows
Server 2019
  - S8211231: BarrierSetC1::generate_referent_check() confuses register
allocator
  - S8211382: ISO2022JP and GB18030 NIO converter issues
  - S8211398: Square character support for the Japanese new era
  - S8211435: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1"
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source
  - S8211926: Catastrophic size_t underflow in BitMap::*_large methods
  - S8212110: Build of saproc.dll broken on Windows 32 bit after JDK-8210647
  - S8212178: Soft reference reclamation race in
com.sun.xml.internal.stream.util.ThreadLocalBufferAllocator
  - S8212914: Test javax/imageio/plugins/bmp/BMP8BPPLoadTest.java fails
  - S8212941: Support new Japanese era in java.time.chrono.JapaneseEra
  - S8213151: [AIX] Some class library files are missing the Classpath
exception
  - S8213154: Update copyright headers of files in src tree that are
missing Classpath exception
  - S8213419: C2 may hang in MulLNode::Ideal()/MulINode::Ideal() with
gcc 8.2.1
  - S8213583: Error while opening the JFileChooser when desktop contains
shortcuts pointing to deleted files.
  - S8213952: Relax DNSName restriction as per RFC 1123
  - S8213983: [macosx] Keyboard shortcut “cmd +`” stops working properly
if popup window is displayed
  - S8213992: Rename and make DieOnSafepointTimeout the diagnostic option
  - S8214059: Undefined behaviour in ADLC
  - S8214061: Buffer written into itself
  - S8214189:
test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/intrinsics/mathexact/MulExactLConstantTest.java
fails on Windows x64 when run with -XX:-TieredCompilation
  - S8214206: Fix for JDK-8213419 is broken on 32-bit
  - S8215364: JavaFX crashes on Ubuntu 18.04 with Wayland while using
Swing-FX interop
  - S8215934: G1 Old Gen MemoryPool CollectionUsage.used values don't
reflect mixed GC results
  - S8215976: Fix gmtime_r declaration conflicts in zip.cpp with linux
header files
  - S8216037: Avoid calling vm_update with a NULL name
  - S8216058: [TESTBUG] tools/launcher/VersionCheck.java fails after
JDK-8215992
  - S8216396: Support new Japanese era and new currency code points in
java.lang.Character for Java SE 8
  - S8217305: Missing 0 in java.dll file version cause issues with patch
management software
  - S8217432: MetaspaceGC::_capacity_until_GC exceeds MaxMetaspaceSize
  - S8217520: Remove vm.opt.MaxGCPauseMillis == "null" from
TestOldGenCollectionUsage.java
  - S8217579: TLS_EMPTY_RENEGOTIATION_INFO_SCSV is disabled after 8211883
  - S8217609: New era placeholder not recognized by
java.text.SimpleDateFormat
  - S8217710: Add 5 currency code points to Java SE 8uX
  - S8217753: Enable HotSpot builds on 5.x Linux kernels
  - S8218613: [TESTBUG] runtime/ErrorHandling tests are building
incorrect testlibrary classes
  - S8218915: Change isJavaIdentifierStart and isJavaIdentifierPart to
handle new code points
  - S8219636: Windows build failure after JDK-8207070 8u backport
  - S8219890: Calendar.getDisplayName() returns empty string for new
Japanese Era on some locales
  - S8219961: [ppc64] Increase code size for interpreter generation.
  - S8220397: REGRESSION: JDK-8036003 backport regresses no_strip builds
  - S8220641: [TESTBUG] New test KdcPolicy.java introduced by
JDK-8164656 needs same change as JDK-8190690

-- 
Andrew :)

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

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