changeset 2860:2c15be9e7a37

Add 2.6.5 release notes. 2016-04-14 Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org> * NEWS: Add 2.6.5 release notes.
author Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
date Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:13:51 +0100
parents 496391ff414d
children 9493715ba21f
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Fri Mar 25 03:18:14 2016 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog	Fri Apr 15 04:13:51 2016 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2016-04-14  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org>
+
+	* NEWS: Add 2.6.5 release notes.
+
 2016-03-18  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org>
 
 	PR2886: Location of 'stap' executable is hard-coded
--- a/NEWS	Fri Mar 25 03:18:14 2016 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Fri Apr 15 04:13:51 2016 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@
 
 New in release 2.7.0 (201X-XX-XX):
 
+New in release 2.6.5 (2016-03-24):
+
+* Security fixes
+  - S8152335, CVE-2016-0636: Improve MethodHandle consistency
+* Import of OpenJDK 7 u99 build 0
+  - S6425769, PR2858: Allow specifying an address to bind JMX remote connector
+  - S6961123: setWMClass fails to null-terminate WM_CLASS string
+  - S8145982, PR2858: JMXInterfaceBindingTest is failing intermittently
+  - S8146015, PR2858: JMXInterfaceBindingTest is failing intermittently for IPv6 addresses
+* Backports
+  - S8028727, PR2814: [parfait] warnings from b116 for jdk.src.share.native.sun.security.ec: JNI pending exceptions
+  - S8048512, PR2814: Uninitialised memory in jdk/src/share/native/sun/security/ec/ECC_JNI.cpp
+  - S8071705, PR2819, RH1182694: Java application menu misbehaves when running multiple screen stacked vertically
+  - S8150954, PR2866, RH1176206: AWT Robot not compatible with GNOME Shell
 * Bug fixes
   - PR2803: Make system CUPS optional
   - PR2886: Location of 'stap' executable is hard-coded
@@ -21,6 +35,30 @@
   - PR2894: Add missing test directory in make check.
 * CACAO
   - PR2781, CA195: typeinfo.cpp: typeinfo_merge_nonarrays: Assertion `dest && result && x.any && y.any' failed
+* AArch64 port
+  - PR2852: Add support for large code cache
+  - PR2852: Apply ReservedCodeCacheSize default limiting to AArch64 only.
+  - S8081289, PR2852: aarch64: add support for RewriteFrequentPairs in interpreter
+  - S8131483, PR2852: aarch64: illegal stlxr instructions
+  - S8133352, PR2852: aarch64: generates constrained unpredictable instructions
+  - S8133842, PR2852: aarch64: C2 generates illegal instructions with int shifts >=32
+  - S8134322, PR2852: AArch64: Fix several errors in C2 biased locking implementation
+  - S8136615, PR2852: aarch64: elide DecodeN when followed by CmpP 0
+  - S8138575, PR2852: Improve generated code for profile counters
+  - S8138641, PR2852: Disable C2 peephole by default for aarch64
+  - S8138966, PR2852: Intermittent SEGV running ParallelGC
+  - S8143067, PR2852: aarch64: guarantee failure in javac
+  - S8143285, PR2852: aarch64: Missing load acquire when checking if ConstantPoolCacheEntry is resolved
+  - S8143584, PR2852: Load constant pool tag and class status with load acquire
+  - S8144201, PR2852: aarch64: jdk/test/com/sun/net/httpserver/Test6a.java fails with --enable-unlimited-crypto
+  - S8144582, PR2852: AArch64 does not generate correct branch profile data
+  - S8146709, PR2852: AArch64: Incorrect use of ADRP for byte_map_base
+  - S8147805, PR2852: aarch64: C1 segmentation fault due to inline Unsafe.getAndSetObject
+  - S8148240, PR2852: aarch64: random infrequent null pointer exceptions in javac
+* PPC & AIX port
+  - S8034797, PR2851: AIX: Fix os::naked_short_sleep() in os_aix.cpp after 8028280
+  - S8139258, PR2851: PPC64LE: argument passing problem when passing 15 floats in native call
+  - S8139421, PR2851: PPC64LE: MacroAssembler::bxx64_patchable kill register R12
 
 New in release 2.6.4 (2016-01-19):