On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:32:33 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Remove javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.finalize() since it is deprecated > for removal. > The impact of this should be minimal. The IIORegistry will now be a singleton > - which it already was > in practice since Applets are no longer supported. Since it is a singleton, > it will persist for the life > of the VM, so will never be garbage collected. > A test that verifies one per-AppContext is now obsolete, and is deleted, and > there's no good reason to make it a negative test, since in due course > AppContext itself will be deleted and is un-used today except in tests. > > Since JDK 9, ServiceRegistry has supported only Image I/O specified > providers, and since the IIORegistry does this, > in practice there is very little reason for an application to create > instances or subclasses of it. > And even if they do, typically like IIORegistry, they be used for the life > time of the application. > And if they are collected, without calling ServiceRegistry.deregisterAll() > there may be no impact, > since only providers that implement RegisterableService will be affected. > > See the JBS issue for all the details. > > The CSR is ready for review https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8365409 This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 040cc7ae Author: Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/040cc7aee03e82e70bcbfcd2dde5cd4b35faeabd Stats: 192 lines in 3 files changed: 8 ins; 180 del; 4 mod 8365292: Remove javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.finalize() 8359391: Remove ThreadGroup sandboxing from javax.imageio Reviewed-by: serb, jdv, azvegint ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26752
