The following CORBA fixes seem to have been included in the proprietary Oracle JDK 6, then forwardported to OpenJDK 7 & 8 without including OpenJDK 6. Without them, the latest set of security fixes cause TCK regressions.
6763340: memory leak in com.sun.corba.se.* classes 6980681: CORBA deadlock in Java SE believed to be related to CR 6238477 7162902: Umbrella port of a number of corba bug fixes from JDK 6 to jdk7u/8 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/corba_fixes/corba/ These introduce a TCK regression of their own which is fixed by: 6893617: JDK 6 CNCtx always uses the default ORB Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/corba_fixes/jdk/ The patches are included in the current IcedTea 1.12.x and 1.13.x releases, the first three since 1.12.0. patches/openjdk/6763340-corba_memory_leak.patch \ patches/openjdk/6980681-corba_deadlock.patch \ patches/openjdk/7162902-corba_fixes.patch \ patches/openjdk/6893617-cnctx_always_uses_default_orb.patch Ok to push? -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07