Hello,
I would like to announce the release of OpenJDK 7u331.
The release sources are in the mercurial repo:
https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/monojdk7u/
* Security fixes in this release:
JDK-8029955: AIOB in XMLEntityScanner.scanLiteral upon parsing
literals with > 100 LF chars
JDK-8264934: Enhance cross VM serialization
JDK-8268488: More valuable DerValues
JDK-8268494: Better inlining of inlined interfaces
JDK-8268512: More content for ContentInfo
JDK-8268795: Enhance digests of Jar files
JDK-8268801: Improve PKCS attribute handling
JDK-8268813: Better String matching
JDK-8269151: Better construction of EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo
JDK-8269944: Better HTTP transport redux
JDK-8270392: Improve String constructions
JDK-8270416: Enhance construction of Identity maps
JDK-8270492: Better resolution of URIs
JDK-8270498: Improve SAX Parser configuration management
JDK-8270646: Improved scanning of XML entities
JDK-8271962: Better TrueType font loading
JDK-8271968: Better canonical naming
JDK-8272014: Better array indexing
JDK-8272026: Verify Jar Verification
JDK-8272236: Improve serial forms for transport
JDK-8272272: Enhance jcmd communication
JDK-8272462: Enhance image handling
JDK-8273290: Enhance sound handling
JDK-8273308: PatternMatchTest.java fails on CI
JDK-8273748: Improve Solaris font rendering
JDK-8273756: Enhance BMP image support
JDK-8273838: Enhanced BMP processing
JDK-8273968: JCK javax_xml tests fail in CI
* Other fixes:
JDK-8274407: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2021c
JDK-8274467: TestZoneInfo310.java fails with tzdata2021b
JDK-8274468: TimeZoneTest.java fails with tzdata2021b
JDK-8275766: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2021e
JDK-8275849: TestZoneInfo310.java fails with tzdata2021e
JDK-8276536: Update TimeZoneNames files to follow the changes made by
JDK-8275766
* Added tags:
jdk7u331-b00: the start of the update 331.
jdk7u331-b01: the proposed set of fixes.
jdk7u331-ga: the same nodes as jdk7u331-b01.
* Notes on some issues:
core-libs/java.time:
JDK-8274407: (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2021c
IANA Time Zone Database, on which JDK's Date/Time libraries are
based, has made a tweak to some
time zone rules since
[2021c](https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-October/000067.html).
Note that since this update, some of the time zone rules prior to the
year 1970 have been modified
according to the changes which were introduced with 2021b. For more
detail, refer to the announcement
of
[2021b](https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-September/000066.html)
JDK-8275766 (tz) Update Timezone Data to 2021e
IANA Time Zone Database, on which JDK's Date/Time libraries are
based, has been updated to version
[2021e](https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-October/000069.html).
The updates of the
following time zone rules are included in this version. Note that this
update also includes the
changes introduced in the version [2021d]
(https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2021-October/000068.html).
- Fiji suspends DST for the 2021/2022 season.
- Palestine will fall back 10-29 (not 10-30) at 01:00.
Thanks,
Andrew
