That was my choice as well, so if no one objects, I'll create a PR
--
Jean-Louis Monteiro
http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro
http://www.tomitribe.com


On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM Christopher Shannon <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The system property seems fine for now as it's just going to be temporary
> until the work is finished for JDK 25 and then the flag can be removed.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 7:15 AM Jean-Louis Monteiro <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We used MRJAR in the Java 25 branch to get rid of the SecurityManager
> usage
> > and use the new API to retrieve the subject mainly for audit logs.
> >
> > But in tests, we also have things like System.setSecurityManager which
> has
> > been marked as deprecated in Java 17.
> >
> > Since Java 24, it permanently throws an exception hence the rework of
> some
> > tests to avoid this in Java 25 ongoing work.
> >
> > For versions 18-23, the flag to disable programmatic SecurityManager
> setup
> > has been set to disallow which means that setSecurityManager() also
> throws
> > an exception unless you explicitly authorize it.
> > In the recent Github Actions work, we added Java 21 and 25 to the night
> > builds in addition to Java 17. I made a PR to remove Java 25 for now,
> > because we are still working on it on a separate branch so it's clear
> that
> > nightly builds on Java 25 will always fail.
> >
> > For Java 21, there is an open question because we have 2 options
> > - remove it from the nightly build and stick with Java 17 until Java 25
> > work is done
> > - add the system property in surefire configuration to allow
> > System.setSecurityManager() in tests
> >
> > We can also rework the tests, but it's partially done already for Java 25
> > and we are not far. I'm tempted to go with option 2 (system property),
> but
> > I'd like to gather some thoughts.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Louis Monteiro
> > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro
> > http://www.tomitribe.com
> >
>

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