Java SE Development Kit 8

Java SE Development Kit 8 (Java Platform, Standard Edition) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today's demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today's applications require.

The Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8) is a major feature release. It contains new features and enhancements in many functional areas. Java SE 8 delivers enhanced developer productivity and significant application performance increases through reduced boilerplate code, improved collections and annotations, simpler parallel programming models and more efficient use of modern, multi-core processors.

New Features and Changes

• Documentation Updates due to Nashorn Enhancements - JDK 8u60 includes new enhancements to Nashorn.
• Changes in Deployment Rule Set v1.2 - JDK 8u60 implements Deployment Rule Set (DRS) 1.2

Bug Fixes

• Area: security-libs/org.ietf.jgss:krb5
  Synopsis: dns_lookup_realm should be false by default
  The dns_lookup_realm setting in Kerberos' krb5.conf file is by default false.
• Area: security-libs/javax.net.ssl
  Synopsis: Disable RC4 cipher suites
  RC4-based TLS ciphersuites (e.g., TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA) are now considered compromised and should no longer be used (see RFC 7465). Accordingly, RC4-based TLS ciphersuites have been deactivated by default in the Oracle JSSE implementation by adding "RC4" to "jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms" security property, and by removing them from the default enabled ciphersuites list. These cipher suites can be reactivated by removing "RC4" form "jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms" security property in the java.security file or by dynamically calling Security.setProperty(), and also readding them to the enabled ciphersuite list using the SSLSocket/SSLEngine.setEnabledCipherSuites() methods. You can also use the -Djava.security.properties command line option to override the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms security property.
• Area: security-libs/java.secuirty
  Synopsis: Support keystore type detection for JKS and PKCS12 keystores
  Keystore Compatibility Mode: - To aid interoperability, the Java keystore type JKS now supports keystore compatibility mode by default. This mode enables JKS keystores to access both JKS and PKCS12 file formats. To disable keystore compatibility mode set the Security property keystore.type.compat to the string value false.
• Area: core-libs/java.lang
  Synopsis: Deprecate Unsafe monitor methods in JDK 8u release
  The methods monitorEnter, monitorExit and tryMonitorEnter on sun.misc.Unsafe are marked as deprecated in JDK 8u60 and will be removed in a future release. These methods are not used within the JDK itself and are very rarely used outside of the JDK.
• Area: hotspot/jfr
  Synopsis: Extract JFR recording from the core file using SA
  DumpJFR is a Serviceability Agent based tool that can be used to extract Java Flight Recorder(JFR) data from the core files and live Hotspot processes.
• Area: tools/javac
  Synopsis: Local variables named 'enum' lead to spurious compiler crashes
  The javac parser is incorrectly parsing local variables with name 'enum'; this results in spurious failures when a program containing such local variables is compiled with a 'source' flag corresponding to a release in which the enum construct is not available (such as '-source 1.4').
• For a full list of bug fixes, please see this page.