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Fedora 30: 2020-21ca991b3b Critical: OpenJDK 8 Enhancements and Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 30 OpenJDK users can expect important enhancements, including Nashorn JavaScript engine fixes for stability, plus TLS handling improvements for better security and performance
Update to OpenJDK 8u252 (April Critical Patch Update) - JDK-8223898, CVE-2020-2754: Forward references to Nashorn - JDK-8223904, CVE-2020-2755: Improve Nashorn matching - JDK-8224...

Summary

The OpenJDK runtime environment 8.

Update to OpenJDK 8u252 (April Critical Patch Update) - JDK-8223898,

CVE-2020-2754: Forward references to Nashorn - JDK-8223904, CVE-2020-2755:

Improve Nashorn matching - JDK-8224541, CVE-2020-2756: Better mapping of serial

ENUMs - JDK-8224549, CVE-2020-2757: Less Blocking Array Queues - JDK-8225603:

Enhancement for big integers - JDK-8227542: Manifest improved jar headers -JDK-8231415, CVE-2020-2773: Better signatures in XML - JDK-8233250: Better X11

rendering - JDK-8233410: Better Build Scripting - JDK-8234027: Better JCEKS

key support - JDK-8234408, CVE-2020-2781: Improve TLS session handling -JDK-8234825, CVE-2020-2800: Better Headings for HTTP Servers - JDK-8234841,

CVE-2020-2803: Enhance buffering of byte buffers - JDK-8235274, CVE-2020-2805:

Enhance typing of methods - JDK-8236201, CVE-2020-2830: Better Scanner

conversions - JDK-8238960: linux-i586 builds are inconsistent as the newly

build jdk is not able to reserve enough space for object heap Full release

notes: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-April/011566.html

* Sun May 3 2020 Andrew John Hughes - 1:1.8.0.252.b09-0

- Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u242-b09.

- Switch to GA mode for final release.

- Add release notes.

- Adjust PR2974/RH1337583 & PR3083/RH1346460 following context changes in JDK-8230978

* Sun May 3 2020 Andrew Hughes - 1:1.8.0.252.b01-0.1.ea

- Update to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u252-b01.

- Switch to EA mode.

- Adjust JDK-8199936/PR3533 patch following JDK-8227397 configure change

- Make use of --with-extra-asflags introduced in jdk8u252-b01.

- Drop obsolete local patch, JDK-8219772, now that ASFLAGS are properly handled.

* Fri Mar 13 2020 Andrew John Hughes - 1:1.8.0.242.b08-1

- Sync SystemTap & desktop files with upstream IcedTea release 3.15.0, removing previous workarounds

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line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 1.8.0.252.b09
Release: 0.fc30
Summary: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 8

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