On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:13:55 GMT, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> 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.

And so the time has finally come.

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Marked as reviewed by vklang (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27419#pullrequestreview-3251400317

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