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changeset 2871:626e0b48982b
Add 2.6.6 release notes.
2016-04-26 Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org>
* NEWS: Add 2.6.6 release notes.
author | Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org> |
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date | Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:44:35 +0100 |
parents | 208625aa1530 |
children | 112a8531d741 |
files | ChangeLog NEWS |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Fri Apr 22 03:48:04 2016 +0100 +++ b/ChangeLog Wed Apr 27 03:44:35 2016 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2016-04-26 Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org> + + * NEWS: Add 2.6.6 release notes. + 2016-04-21 Andrew John Hughes <gnu.andrew@member.fsf.org> PR2935: Check that freetype defines
--- a/NEWS Fri Apr 22 03:48:04 2016 +0100 +++ b/NEWS Wed Apr 27 03:44:35 2016 +0100 @@ -16,11 +16,58 @@ * Backports - S8076221, PR2809: Disable RC4 cipher suites + +New in release 2.6.6 (2016-04-21): + +* Security fixes + - S8129952, CVE-2016-0686: Ensure thread consistency + - S8132051, CVE-2016-0687: Better byte behavior + - S8138593, CVE-2016-0695: Make DSA more fair + - S8139008: Better state table management + - S8143167, CVE-2016-3425: Better buffering of XML strings + - S8144430, CVE-2016-3427: Improve JMX connections + - S8146494: Better ligature substitution + - S8146498: Better device table adjustments +* Import of OpenJDK 7 u101 build 0 + - S4858370: JDWP: Memory Leak: GlobalRefs never deleted when processing invokeMethod command + - S7127906: (launcher) convert the launcher regression tests to java + - S8002116: This JdbReadTwiceTest.sh gets an exit 1 + - S8004007: test/sun/tools/jinfo/Basic.sh fails on when runSA is set to true + - S8007890: [TESTBUG] JcmdWithNMTDisabled.java fails when invoked with NMT explicitly turned on + - S8027705: com/sun/jdi/JdbMethodExitTest.sh fails when a background thread is generating events. + - S8028537: PPC64: Updated the JDK regression tests to run on AIX + - S8036132: Tab characters in test/com/sun/jdi files + - S8038963: com/sun/jdi tests fail because cygwin's ps sometimes misses processes + - S8044419: TEST_BUG: com/sun/jdi/JdbReadTwiceTest.sh fails when run under root + - S8059661: Test SoftReference and OOM behavior + - S8072753: Nondeterministic wrong answer on arithmetic + - S8073735: [TEST_BUG] compiler/loopopts/CountedLoopProblem.java got OOME + - S8074146: [TEST_BUG] jdb has succeded to read an unreadable file + - S8134297: NPE in GSSNameElement nameType check + - S8134650: Xsl transformation gives different results in 8u66 + - S8141229: [Parfait] Null pointer dereference in cmsstrcasecmp of cmserr.c + - S8143002: [Parfait] JNI exception pending in fontpath.c:1300 + - S8146477: [TEST_BUG] ClientJSSEServerJSSE.java failing again + - S8146967: [TEST_BUG] javax/security/auth/SubjectDomainCombiner/Optimize.java should use 4-args ProtectionDomain constructor + - S8147567: InterpreterRuntime::post_field_access not updated for boolean in JDK-8132051 + - S8148446: (tz) Support tzdata2016a + - S8148475: Missing SA Bytecode updates. + - S8149170: Better byte behavior for native arguments + - S8149367: PolicyQualifierInfo/index_Ctor JCk test fails with IOE: Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo + - S8150012: Better byte behavior for reflection + - S8150790: 8u75 L10n resource file translation update + - S8153673: [BACKOUT] JDWP: Memory Leak: GlobalRefs never deleted when processing invokeMethod command + - S8154210: Zero: Better byte behaviour * Bug fixes - PR2889: OpenJDK should check for system cacerts database (e.g. /etc/pki/java/cacerts) - PR2929: configure: error: "A JDK home directory could not be found." - PR2935: Check that freetype defines FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INFINALITY_PATCHSET if enabling infinality + - PR2938: Fix build of 8148487 backport + - PR2939: Remove rogue ReleaseStringUTFChars line remaining from merge of 7u101 b00 +* PPC & AIX port + - S8148487: PPC64: Better byte behavior * AArch64 port + - S8154413: AArch64: Better byte behaviour - PR2914: byte_map_base is not page aligned on OpenJDK 7 * JamVM - PR2665: icedtea/jamvm 2.6 fails as a build VM for icedtea