On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:49:20 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The no-arg Thread.stop has been deprecated since JDK 1.2, deprecated for
>> removal since JDK 18, and re-specified to throw UOE unconditionally since
>> JDK 20. It is time to finally remove the method. Its more evil sibling
>> Thread.stop(Throwable) was removed in JDK 11.
>>
>> Code that uses Thread.stop will no longer compile. Code using this method
>> that was compiled to older releases will throw NoSuchMethodError instead of
>> UnsupportedOperationException.
>>
>> Most of the tests using Thread.stop have already been fixed in advance of
>> this PR. However, the tests for Kerberos and DTLS use the KDC server as
>> infrastructure and don't compile because it uses Thread.stop and swallows
>> the UOE. This is tracked by JDK-8360979. It is temporarily changed to use
>> Thread.interrupt to avoid excluding many of tests in these areas. If
>> JDK-8360979 is fixed then no change to KDC is needed.
>
> Alan Bateman has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains five additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Use {@code .. } for stop method
> - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8368226
> - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8368226
> - Update copyright date
> - Initial commit
Thanks for all the reviews, we can finally put a stop to Thread.stop.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27419#issuecomment-3328306639
