This release updates OpenJDK 6 support of icedtea version 1.12.7 with the October 2013 security errata and a number of bug fixes:

Security fixes
S8006900, CVE-2013-3829: Add new date/time capability
S8008589: Better MBean permission validation
S8011071, CVE-2013-5780: Better crypto provider handling
S8011081, CVE-2013-5772: Improve jhat
S8011157, CVE-2013-5814: Improve CORBA portablility
S8012071, CVE-2013-5790: Better Building of Beans
S8012147: Improve tool support
S8012277: CVE-2013-5849: Improve AWT DataFlavor
S8012425, CVE-2013-5802: Transform TransformerFactory
S8013503, CVE-2013-5851: Improve stream factories
S8013506: Better Pack200 data handling
S8013510, CVE-2013-5809: Augment image writing code
S8013514: Improve stability of cmap class
S8013739, CVE-2013-5817: Better LDAP resource management
S8013744, CVE-2013-5783: Better tabling for AWT
S8014085: Better serialization support in JMX classes
S8014093, CVE-2013-5782: Improve parsing of images
S8014102, CVE-2013-5778: Improve image conversion
S8014341, CVE-2013-5803: Better service from Kerberos servers
S8014349, CVE-2013-5840: (cl) Class.getDeclaredClass problematic in some class loader configurations
S8014530, CVE-2013-5825: Better digital signature processing
S8014534: Better profiling support
S8014987, CVE-2013-5842: Augment serialization handling
S8015614: Update build settings
S8015731: Subject java.security.auth.subject to improvements
S8015743, CVE-2013-5774: Address internet addresses
S8016256: Make finalization final
S8016653, CVE-2013-5804: javadoc should ignore ignoreable characters in names
S8016675, CVE-2013-5797: Make Javadoc pages more robust
S8017196, CVE-2013-5850: Ensure Proxies are handled appropriately
S8017287, CVE-2013-5829: Better resource disposal
S8017291, CVE-2013-5830: Cast Proxies Aside
S8017298, CVE-2013-4002: Better XML support
S8017300, CVE-2013-5784: Improve Interface Implementation
S8017505, CVE-2013-5820: Better Client Service
S8019292: Better Attribute Value Exceptions
S8019617: Better view of objects
S8020293: JVM crash
S8021290, CVE-2013-5823: Better signature validation
S8022940: Enhance CORBA translations
S8023683: Enhance class file parsing
Backports
S4075303: Use javap to enquire about a specific inner class
S4111861: static final field contents are not displayed
S4348375: Javap is not internationalized
S4459541: “javap -l” shows line numbers as signed short; they should be unsigned
S4501660: change diagnostic of -help as ‘print this help message and exit’
S4501661: disallow mixing -public, -private, and -protected options at the same time
S4776241: unused source file in javap…
S4870651: javap should recognize generics, varargs, enum
S4876942: javap invoked without args does not print help screen
S4880663: javap could output whitespace between class name and opening brace
S4884240: additional option required for javap
S4893408: JPEGReader throws IllegalArgException when setting the destination to BYTE_GRAY
S4975569: javap doesn’t print new flag bits
S6271787: javap dumps LocalVariableTypeTable attribute in hex, needs to print a table
S6305779: javap: support annotations
S6439940: Clean up javap implementation
S6469569: wrong check of searchpath in JavapEnvironment
S6474890: javap does not open .zip files in -classpath
S6563752: Build and test JDK7 with Sun Studio 12 Express compilers (prep makefiles)
S6587786: Javap throws error : “ERROR:Could not find ” for JRE classes
S6622215: javap ignores certain relevant access flags
S6622216: javap names some attributes incorrectly
S6622232: javap gets whitespace confused
S6622260: javap prints negative bytes incorrectly in hex
S6631559: Registration of ImageIO plugins should not cause loading of jpeg.dlli and cmm.dll
S6636331: ConcurrentModificationException in AppContext code
S6636370: minor corrections and simplification of code in AppContext
S6708729: update jdk Makefiles for new javap
S6715767: javap on java.lang.ClassLoader crashes
S6729772: 64-bit build with SS12 compiler: SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0×0000000000000048, pid=14826, tid=2
S6791502: IIOException “Invalid icc profile” on jpeg after update from JDK5 to JDK6
S6793818: JpegImageReader is too greedy creating color profiles
S6799141: Build with –hash-style=both so that binaries can work on SuSE 10
S6816311: Changes to allow builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
S6819246: improve support for decoding instructions in classfile library
S6824493: experimental support for additional info for instructions
S6840152: JVM crashes when heavyweight monitors are used
S6841419: classfile: add constant pool iterator
S6841420: classfile: add new methods to ConstantClassInfo
S6843013: missing files in fix for 6824493
S6852856: javap changes to facilitate subclassing javap for variants
S6867671: javap whitespace formatting issues
S6868539: javap should use current names for constant pool tags
S6888215: memory leak in jpeg plugin
S6902264: fix indentation of tableswitch and lookupswitch
S6925851: Localize JRE into pt_BR
S6954275: XML signatures with reference data larger 16KB and cacheRef on fails to validate
S6974017: Upgrade required Solaris Studio compilers to 5.10 (12 update 1 + patches)
S6980281: SWAT: SwingSet2 got core dumped in Solaris-AMD64 using b107 swat build
S6989760: cmm native compiler warnings
S6989774: imageio compiler warnings in native code
S7000225: Sanity check on sane-alsa-headers is broken
S7013519: [parfait] Integer overflows in 2D code
S7018912: [parfait] potential buffer overruns in imageio jpeg
S7022999: Can’t build with FORCE_TIERED=0
S7035073: Add missing timezones to TimeZoneNames_pt_BR.java
S7038711: Fix CC_VER checks for compiler options, fix use of -Wno-clobber
S7146431: java.security files out-of-sync
S7196533: TimeZone.getDefault() slow due to synchronization bottleneck
S8000450: Restrict access to com/sun/corba/se/impl package
S8002070: Remove the stack search for a resource bundle for Logger to use
S8003992: File and other classes in java.io do not handle embedded nulls properly
S8004188: Rename src/share/lib/security/java.security to java.security-linux
S8005194: [parfait] #353 sun/awt/image/jpeg/imageioJPEG.c Memory leak of pointer ‘scale’ allocated with calloc()
S8006882: Proxy generated classes in sun.proxy package breaks JMockit
S8010118: Annotate jdk caller sensitive methods with @sun.reflect.CallerSensitive
S8010727: WLS fails to add a logger with “” in its own LogManager subclass instance
S8010939: Deadlock in LogManager
S8011139: (reflect) Revise checking in getEnclosingClass
S8011950: java.io.File.createTempFile enters infinite loop when passed invalid data
S8011990: TEST_BUG: java/util/logging/bundlesearch/ResourceBundleSearchTest.java fails on Windows
S8012243: about 30% regression on specjvm2008.serial on 7u25 comparing 7u21
S8012453: (process) Runtime.exec(String) fails if command contains spaces [win]
S8012617: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with some fonts using LineBreakMeasurer
S8013380: Removal of stack walk to find resource bundle breaks Glassfish startup
S8013827: File.createTempFile hangs with temp file starting with ‘com1.4′
S8014469: (tz) Support tzdata2013c
S8014718: Netbeans IDE begins to throw a lot exceptions since 7u25 b10
S8014745: Provide a switch to allow stack walk search of resource bundle
S8015144: Performance regression in ICU OpenType Layout library
S8015965: (process) Typo in name of property to allow ambiguous commands
S8015978: Incorrect transformation of XPath expression “string(-0)”
S8016357: Update hotspot diagnostic class
S8017566: Backout 8000450 – Cannot access to com.sun.corba.se.impl.orb.ORBImpl
S8019584: javax/management/remote/mandatory/loading/MissingClassTest.java failed in nightly against jdk7u45: java.io.InvalidObjectException: Invalid notification: null
S8019969: nioNetworkChannelInet6/SetOptionGetOptionTestInet6 test case crashes
S8019979: Replace CheckPackageAccess test with better one from closed repo
S8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
S8020983, RH976897: OutOfMemoryError caused by non garbage collected JPEGImageWriter Instances
S8021355: REGRESSION: Five closed/java/awt/SplashScreen tests fail since 7u45 b01 on Linux, Solaris
S8021366: java_util/Properties/PropertiesWithOtherEncodings fails during 7u45 nightly testing
S8021577: JCK test api/javax_management/jmx_serial/modelmbean/ModelMBeanNotificationInfo/serial/index.html#Input has failed since jdk 7u45 b01
S8021933: Add extra check for fix # JDK-8014530
S8021969: The index_AccessAllowed jnlp can not load successfully with exception thrown in the log.
S8022661: InetAddress.writeObject() performs flush() on object output stream
S8022682: Supporting XOM
S8023964: java/io/IOException/LastErrorString.java should be @ignore-d
S8024914: Swapped usage of idx_t and bm_word_t types in bitMap.inline.hpp
S8025128: File.createTempFile fails if prefix is absolute path
S8025255: (tz) Support tzdata2013g
OJ19: Fix test cases from 8010118 to work with OpenJDK 6
OJ20: Resolve merge issues with JAXP security fixes
OJ21: Remove @Override annotation added on interface by 2013/10/15 security fixes
Bug fixes
PR1188: ASM Interpreter and Thumb2 JIT javac miscompile modulo reminder on armel.
RH995488: Java thinks that the default timezone is Busingen instead of Zurich
D729448: 32-bit alignment on mips and mipsel