Following on from 8139891 "Prepare Unsafe for true encapsulation” [1], the JDK library code should use the internal Unsafe class, and not sun.misc.Unsafe.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8140606/00/ This will be pushed to jdk9/dev once 8139891 makes its way from hs-rt. -Chris. [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139891