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Liberica JDK8u392+9Release Information
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The full version string for this update release is 8u392+9. The version number is 8.

Liberica JDK 8u392+9

Liberica is a certified, Java SE 8-compliant distribution of OpenJDK 8 which works on server (Linux x86_64, Linux ARM64, Windows 64), desktop (Windows 64, Windows 32, Mac, Linux x86_64), and embedded devices (Linux ARM64, Linux ARMv7, including Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 (ARMv6 hardfloat)). It has the following notable additions:

  • Linux x86_64 version contains experimental support for ZGC.

  • Linux x86_64, ARMv8 and ARMv7 distributions include a choice of Client VM, Server VM and Minimal VM.

  • Alpine Linux x86_64 version is build with musl support.

  • Windows x86_64, Windows x86, Windows ARMv8, Mac, Linux x86_64, Linux x86 and Linux ARMv7 distributions contain OpenJFX

  • Linux ARMv7 distribution contains Device IO API compiled for Raspberry Pi.

Please refer to the Oracle JDK 8u392 release notes for further information on JDK 8 features. This document further outlines the peculiarities of Liberica distribution as compared to Oracle JDK 8 distribution.

Supported Server and Desktop configurations

Liberica is supported on the following OSes:

  • Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04 (x86_64, x86, ARMv8*)

  • Debian Linux 8, 9 (x86_64, x86, ARMv8*)

  • Red Hat, Oracle Linux and CentOS 5.5+, 6.x, 7.x (x86_64, x86, ARMv8*)

  • Alpine Linux x86_64 version is build with musl support.

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, 15 and tumbleweed (x86_64, ARMv8*)

  • Apple macOS 10.11+ (64 bit only)

  • Solaris 10.9+ (SPARC and x86_64)*

  • Microsoft Windows 2019, Windows 2016, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)

  • - version doesn’t have Client VM

Note: The minimum supported Linux kernel version is 2.6.18 and GLIBC version 2.5. LibericaFX works on all supported Ubuntu versions, Red Hat Linux family starting from 7.x and SUSE versions with GTK3 backend.

Supported Embedded configurations

Liberica is tested and certified on Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 running the following OSes:

  • Raspbian OS (armhf)

  • OpenSUSE (armv8)

It is also known to work with Debian (armhf) and Ubuntu (armhf).

Liberica JDK 8 distribution

Liberica JDK 8 are distributed as .rpm, .zip, .deb and .tar.gz packages. Please select the one which is most appropriate for your purposes.

Liberica JDK 8 introduced all new features supported by OpenJDK 8.

With the introduction of the Jigsaw feature in JDK 9 and Minimal VM it is now possible to create a Runtime that is sufficient to run your application and trim down the size of the Runtime. To generate a Runtime with just the Minimal VM, add --vm=minimal to jlink options.

Liberica JDK continues to provide support for AOT and Graal JIT. Since in OpenJDK 8 builds these features are deemed experimental and deprecated, it is recommended to compile native executables with Liberica Native Image Kit to avoid errors.

By default, the Liberica uses Server VM. Server VM and Client VM can be enabled with -server and -client command line options, respectively. In case the deployment requires to minimize the footprint, it may be beneficial to use Minimal VM, which emphasises on a minimal footprint. It has C1 JIT compiler only, Serial GC and no serviceability features.

LibericaFX for the Raspberry Pi

Liberica JDK 8 come with a bundled LibericaFX implementation, which is based on OpenJFX. The following tables lists Java FX modules status of Liberica distribution

  • Java FX Graphics - works.

  • Java FX Controls - works.

  • Java FX Media - does not work.

  • Java FX Webkit - does not work.

The following pipelines are known to work: EGL, SW (direct framebuffer) and GTK. By default, Liberica tries to use the accelerated EGL pipeline, which requires the presence of EGL libraries. If they are not found, the implementation falls back to software rendering.

Use the following command line options to specify the rendering pipeline:

  • -Dprism.order=sw forces the use of software rendering pipeline. *

  • -Dprism.order=es2 forces the use of EGL pipeline and hardware acceleration. *

  • -Djavafx.platform=gtk if you would like to launch a LibericaFX application using Liberica from X11.

  • Not supported on Raspberry Pi 4.

Please refer to the following wiki for more information.

Device IO API for the Raspberry Pi

Liberica JDK 8 comes with a bundled OpenJDK Device I/O (DIO) API implementation module. DIO provides a Java API for accessing Raspberry PI GPIO pins and for communicating with peripheral devices:

  • General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO).

  • Inter-Integrated Circuit Bus (I2C), Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI).

  • Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART).

Please refer to the following wiki for more information.

Security Baselines

BellSoft Liberica follows the security baselines for Oracle Java SE. Please refer to the Oracle documentation for a list of issues fixed in a given release.

Known Issues

LibericaFX and EGL on Raspbian

As of 2017, the default location of Broadcom libEGL.so and libGLESv2.so has changed in Raspbian OS. If you’d like to leverage hardware EGL acceleration available from Broadcom video drivers in LibericaFX while running a recent Raspbian OS, run the following command:

cd /opt/vc/lib
sudo ln -s libbrcmEGL.so libEGL.so
sudo ln -s libbrcmGLESv2.so libGLESv2.so

CVEs

This is the list of the security issues fixed in this release. CVSS scores are provided using the CVSS version 3.1 scoring system.

CVE IDCVSS Base ScoreComponent/ModuleAttack VectorComplexityUser InteractionScopeConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability

CVE-2023-22067

5.3

other-libs/corba

Network

Low

None

Unchanged

None

Low

None

CVE-2023-22081

5.3

security-libs/javax.net.ssl

Network

Low

None

Unchanged

None

None

Low

Issues fixed

IssueDescription

JDK-6722928

Provide a default native GSS-API library on Windows

JDK-8040887

[TESTBUG] Remove test/runtime/6925573/SortMethodsTest.java

JDK-8042726

[TESTBUG] TEST.groups file was not updated after runtime/6925573/SortMethodsTest.java removal

JDK-8139348

Deprecate 3DES and RC4 in Kerberos

JDK-8144781

Assertion failure in debug build running any JavaFX program on Mac

JDK-8173072

zipfs fails to handle incorrect info-zip “extended timestamp extra field

JDK-8200468

Port the native GSS-API bridge to Windows

JDK-8202952

C2: Unexpected dead nodes after matching

JDK-8205399

Set node color on pinned HashMap.TreeNode deletion

JDK-8209115

Adjust libsplashscreen linux ppc64le builds for easier libpng update

JDK-8214046

[macosx] Undecorated Frame does not Iconify when set to

JDK-8219804

java/net/MulticastSocket/Promiscuous.java fails intermittently due to NumberFormatException

JDK-8225687

Newly added sspi.cpp in JDK-6722928 still contains some small errors

JDK-8232225

Rework the fix for JDK-8071483

JDK-8242330

Arrays should be cloned in several JAAS Callback classes

JDK-8253269

The CheckCommonColors test should provide more info on failure

JDK-8283441

C2: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks::make_block_at(int)

JDK-8284910

Buffer clean in PasswordCallback

JDK-8286503

Enhance security classes

JDK-8287073

NPE from CgroupV2Subsystem.getInstance()

JDK-8287663

Add a regression test for JDK-8287073

JDK-8295685

Update Libpng to 1.6.38

JDK-8295894

Remove SECOM certificate that is expiring in September 2023

JDK-8297856

Improve handling of Bidi characters

JDK-8301119

Support for GB18030-2022

JDK-8303384

Improved communication in CORBA

JDK-8303748

WebKit build fails with Visual Studio 2022 17.5.0

JDK-8305815

Update Libpng to 1.6.39

JDK-8306328

Update libFFI to 3.4.4

JDK-8306329

Update ICU4C to 73.1

JDK-8308306

Update to Xcode 14.3 on macOS

JDK-8308307

Update to gcc 12.2.0 on Linux

JDK-8308308

Update to Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5.0 on Windows

JDK-8308788

[8u] Remove duplicate HaricaCA.java test

JDK-8309122

Bump update version of OpenJDK: 8u392

JDK-8309143

[8u] fix archiving inconsistencies in GHA

JDK-8309508

Possible memory leak in JPEG image loader

JDK-8309966

Enhanced TLS connections

JDK-8310026

[8u] make java_lang_String::hash_code consistent across platforms

JDK-8310582

Update copyright header for files modified in 2023

JDK-8310947

gb18030-2000 not selectable with LANG=zh_CN.GB18030 after JDK-8301119

JDK-8314960

Add Certigna Root CA - 2

JDK-8315135

Memory leak in the native implementation of Pack200.Unpacker.unpack()

JDK-8317040

Exclude cleaner test failing on older releases

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