changeset 3194:0a4af164d620

Add 1.13.7 release notes. 2015-04-16 Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com> * NEWS: Add 1.13.7 release notes.
author Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>
date Thu, 16 Apr 2015 03:37:09 +0100
parents 57ba0f159e7e
children 4c54ff50c546 5b460919eeee
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Apr 10 18:24:49 2015 +0100
+++ b/ChangeLog	Thu Apr 16 03:37:09 2015 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-04-16  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Add 1.13.7 release notes.
+
 2015-04-10  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>
 
 	PR2294: Auto-generated jconsole.desktop
--- a/NEWS	Fri Apr 10 18:24:49 2015 +0100
+++ b/NEWS	Thu Apr 16 03:37:09 2015 +0100
@@ -15,19 +15,60 @@
 New in release 1.14.0 (201X-XX-XX):
 
 * Backports
-  - S6584008, PR2195, RH1173326: jvmtiStringPrimitiveCallback should not be invoked when string value is null
   - S6611637: NullPointerException in sun.font.GlyphLayout$EngineRecord.init
   - S6727719: Performance of TextLayout.getBounds()
   - S6745225: Memory leak while drawing Attributed String
   - S6904962: GlyphVector.getVisualBounds should not be affected by leading or trailing white space.
   - S7151089: PS NUMA: NUMA allocator should not attempt to free pages when using SHM large pages
-  - S7199862, PR2198: Make sure that a connection is still alive when retrieved from KeepAliveCache in certain cases
   - S8013057: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory()
   - S8026887: Make issues due to failed large pages allocations easier to debug
-  - S8074312, PR2255: Enable hotspot builds on Linux 4.x
 * Bug fixes
   - PR1886: IcedTea does not checksum supplied tarballs
   - PR2083: Add support for building Zero on AArch64
+
+New in release 1.13.7 (2015-04-14):
+
+* Security fixes
+  - S8059064: Better G1 log caching
+  - S8060461: Fix for JDK-8042609 uncovers additional issue
+  - S8064601, CVE-2015-0480: Improve jar file handling
+  - S8065286: Fewer subtable substitutions
+  - S8065291: Improved font lookups
+  - S8066479: Better certificate chain validation
+  - S8067050: Better font consistency checking
+  - S8067684: Better font substitutions
+  - S8067699, CVE-2015-0469: Better glyph storage
+  - S8068320, CVE-2015-0477: Limit applet requests
+  - S8068720, CVE-2015-0488: Better certificate options checking
+  - S8069198: Upgrade image library
+  - S8071726, CVE-2015-0478: Better RSA optimizations
+  - S8071818: Better vectorization on SPARC
+  - S8071931, CVE-2015-0460: Return of the phantom menace
+* Import of OpenJDK6 b35
+  - OJ55: Synchronise whitespace in TimeZoneNames files with OpenJDK 7 versions.
+  - OJ56: Update 3rd party readme and license for LibPNG v 1.6.16
+  - OJ57: Remove mistakenly added patching fragment
+  - S6672144: HttpURLConnection.getInputStream sends POST request after failed chunked
+  - S6989721: awt native code compiler warnings
+  - S7088287: libpng need to be updated.
+  - S7090424: TestGlyphVectorLayout failed automately with java.lang.StackOverflowError
+  - S7170655: Frame size does not follow font size change with XToolkit
+  - S7176479: G1: JVM crashes on T5-8 system with 1.5 TB heap
+  - S8019623: Lack of synchronization in AppContext.getAppContext()
+  - S8040790: [TEST_BUG] tools/javac/innerClassFile/Driver.sh fails to cleanup files after it
+  - S8043123: Hard crash with access violation exception when blitting to very large image
+  - S8051359: JPopupMenu creation in headless mode with JDK9b23 causes NPE
+  - S8064454: [TEST_BUG] Test tools/javac/innerClassFile/Driver.sh fails for Mac and Linux
+  - S8065072: sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java failed intermittently
+  - S8065709: Deadlock in awt/logging apparently introduced by 8019623
+  - S8072042: (tz) Support tzdata2015a
+  - S8074662: Update 3rd party readme and license for LibPNG v 1.6.16
+  - S8075211: [TEST_BUG] Test sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/StreamingRetry.java fails with compilation error
+* Backports
+  - S6584008, PR2195, RH1173326: jvmtiStringPrimitiveCallback should not be invoked when string value is null
+  - S7199862, PR2198: Make sure that a connection is still alive when retrieved from KeepAliveCache in certain cases
+  - S8074312, PR2255: Enable hotspot builds on Linux 4.x
+* Bug fixes
   - PR2197: jhat man page has broken URL
   - PR2201: Support giflib 5.1.0
   - PR2211: DGifCloseFile call should check the return value, not the error code, for failure