changeset 2936:0abd1787899c

Add 2.6.19 release notes. 2019-08-14 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org> * NEWS: Add 2.6.19 release notes.
author Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
date Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:22:13 +0100
parents ffa9363b771d
children 12aae86ff82f
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Fri May 10 18:12:17 2019 +0100
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+2019-08-14  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Add 2.6.19 release notes.
+
 2019-05-10  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
 
 	* NEWS: Add 2.6.18 release notes.
--- a/NEWS	Fri May 10 18:12:17 2019 +0100
+++ b/NEWS	Wed Aug 14 21:22:13 2019 +0100
@@ -25,6 +25,73 @@
   - PR3162: Remove reference to AbstractPlainDatagramSocketImpl.c, removed in 8072466
   - PR3494: Skip AES test on AArch64 due to VM crash
 
+New in release 2.6.19 (2019-07-17):
+
+* Security fixes
+  - S8191073: JpegImageReader throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when trying to read image data from tables-only image
+  - S8208698, CVE-2019-2745: Improved ECC Implementation
+  - S8212328, CVE-2019-2745: Exceptional throw cases
+  - S8213431, CVE-2019-2766: Improve file protocol handling
+  - S8213432, CVE-2019-2769: Better copies of CopiesList
+  - S8216381, CVE-2019-2786: More limited privilege usage
+  - S8217563: Improve realm maintenance
+  - S8218873: Improve JSSE endpoint checking
+  - S8218876, CVE-2019-2745: Improve PNG support options
+  - S8219018: Adjust positions of glyphs
+  - S8219020: Table alternate substitutions
+  - S8219775: Certificate validation improvements
+  - S8220192: Better outlook for SecureRandom
+  - S8220517: Enhanced GIF support
+  - S8221518, CVE-2019-2816: Normalize normalization
+  - S8223511, CVE-2019-2842: Extended AES support
+* New features
+  - PR3746: Support EA builds
+* Import of OpenJDK 7 u231 build 1
+  - S7152169: TEST_BUG: sun/security/tools/jarsigner/ec.sh occasionally fail due to keytool error on sparc
+  - S7194075: Various classes of sunec.jar are duplicated in rt.jar
+  - S7198901: correct the field size check when decoding a point on ECC curve
+  - S8006799: Optimize sun.nio.cs.ISO_8859_1$Encode.encodeArrayLoop() (jdk part of 6896617)
+  - S8031145: Re-examine closed i18n tests to see it they can be moved to the jdk repository.
+  - S8035974: Refactor DigestBase.engineUpdate() method for better code generation by JIT compiler
+  - S8135248: Add utility methods to check indexes and ranges
+  - S8142493: Utility methods to check indexes and ranges doesn't specify behavior when function produces null
+  - S8146458: Improve exception reporting for Objects.checkIndex/checkFromToIndex/checkFromIndexSize
+  - S8155794: Move Objects.checkIndex BiFunction accepting methods to an internal package
+  - S8159035: CTSMode.java test crashed due to unhandled case of cipher length value as 0
+  - S8179098: Crypto AES/ECB encryption/decryption performance regression (introduced in jdk9b73)
+  - S8181594: Efficient and constant-time modular arithmetic
+  - S8182999: SunEC throws ProviderException on invalid curves
+  - S8187946: Support ISO 4217 Amendments 163 and 164
+  - S8193552: ISO 4217 amendment 165
+  - S8195478: sun/text/resources/LocaleDataTest.java fails with java.lang.Exception
+  - S8201317: X25519/X448 code improvements
+  - S8202026: ISO 4217 amendment 166
+  - S8203228: Branch-free output conversion for X25519 and X448
+  - S8204269: ISO 4217 amendment 167
+  - S8208648: ECC Field Arithmetic Enhancements
+  - S8208746: ISO 4217 Amendment #168 update
+  - S8209775: ISO 4217 Amendment #169 update
+  - S8210153: localized currency symbol of VES
+  - S8211435: Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null source
+  - S8215982: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2018i
+  - S8218781: Localized names for Japanese era Reiwa in COMPAT provider
+  - S8224560: (tz) Upgrade time-zone data to tzdata2019a
+  - S8225580: tzdata2018i integration causes test failures on jdk-13
+* Bug fixes
+  - PR3729: CVE-2018-3639 fix revision to prefer PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC to PR_SPEC_DISABLE
+  - PR3744: Latest ISO 4217 amendments make PR64174 workaround redundant
+* AArch64 port
+  - S8149365, PR3741: aarch64: memory copy does not prefetch on backwards copy
+  - S8151340, PR3741: aarch64: prefetch the destination word for write prior to ldxr/stxr loops.
+  - S8153713, PR3741: aarch64: improve short array clearing using store pair
+  - S8153797, PR3741: aarch64: Add Arrays.fill stub code
+  - S8155617, PR3741: aarch64: ClearArray does not use DC ZVA
+  - S8157841, PR3741: aarch64: prefetch ignores cache line size
+  - S8186325, PR3741: AArch64: jtreg test hotspot/test/gc/g1/TestJNIWeakG1/TestJNIWeakG1.java SEGV
+  - S8224671, PR3741: AArch64: mauve System.arraycopy test failure
+  - S8224828, PR3741: aarch64: rflags is not correct after safepoint poll
+  - S8224880, PR3741: AArch64: java/javac error with AllocatePrefetchDistance
+
 New in release 2.6.18 (2019-05-01):
 
 * Security fixes