Notable changes
- build: zlib symbols and additional OpenSSL symbols are now
exposed on Windows platforms.
- child_process, cluster: Forked child processes and cluster
workers now support stdio configuration.
- child_process: argv[0] can now be set to arbitrary values in
spawned processes.
- fs: fs.ReadStream now exposes the number of bytes it has read so
far.
- repl: The REPL now supports editor mode.
- util: inspect() can now be configured globally using
util.inspect.defaultOptions.
The latest Go release, version 1.7, arrives six months after 1.6. Most of its
changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries.
There is one minor change to the language specification. As always, the release
maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs
to continue to compile and run as before.
There is one tiny language change in this release. The section on terminating
statements clarifies that to determine whether a statement list ends in a
terminating statement, the “final non-empty statement” is considered the end,
matching the existing behavior of the gc and gccgo compiler toolchains. In
earlier releases the definition referred only to the “final statement,” leaving
the effect of trailing empty statements at the least unclear. The go/types
package has been updated to match the gc and gccgo compiler toolchains in this
respect. This change has no effect on the correctness of existing programs.
Go 1.7 adds support for macOS 10.12 Sierra. This support was backported to Go
1.6.3. Binaries built with versions of Go before 1.6.3 will not work correctly
on Sierra.
Changelog:
IANA Data 2016d
JDK 8u102 contains IANA time zone data version 2016d. For more
information, refer to Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software.
See JDK-8151876
Enhancements
core-libs/java.lang.invoke
Internal package sun.invoke.anon has been removed
The internal package sun.invoke.anon has been removed. The
functionality it used to provide, namely anonymous class loading
with possible constant pool patches, is available via the
Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass() method.
See JDK-8081512
hotspot/runtime
New property jdk.lang.processReaperUseDefaultStackSize
When a large TLS (Thread local storage) size is set for Threads,
the JVM results in a stack overflow exception. The reason for this
behavior is that the reaper thread was created with a low stack
size of 32768k. When a large TLS size is set, it steals space from
the threads stack, which eventually results in a stack overflow.
This is a known glibc bug. To overcome this issue, we have introduced
a workaround (jdk.lang.processReaperUseDefaultStackSize) in which
the user can set the reaper threads stack size to a default instead
of to 32768. This gives the reaper thread a bigger stack size, so
for a large TLS size, such as 32k, the process will not fail.
Users can set this flag in one of two ways:
1. -Djdk.lang.processReaperUseDefaultStackSize=true
2. System.setProperty("jdk.lang.processReaperUseDefaultStackSize",
"true")
The problem has been observed only when JVM is started from JNI
code in which TLS is declared using "__thread"
See JDK-8130425
hotspot/compiler
Implemented performance improvements for BigInteger.montgomeryMultiply
We have implemented improvements that will improve performance of
several security algorithms, especially when using ciphers with
key lengths of 2048-bit or greater. To turn on these improvements,
use the options -XX:+UseMontgomeryMultiplyIntrinsic and
-XX:+UseMontgomerySquareIntrinsic. This improvement is only for
Linux and Solaris on x86_64 architecture.
See JDK-8130150
Changes
security-libs/javax.crypto
MSCAPI KeyStore can handle same-named certificates
Java SE KeyStore does not allow certificates that have the same
aliases
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/security/KeyStore.html).
However, on Windows, multiple certificates stored in one keystore
are allowed to have non-unique friendly names.The fix for JDK-6483657
makes it possible to operate on such non-uniquely named certificates
through the Java API by artificially making the visible aliases
unique.
Please note, this fix does not enable creating same-named certificates
with the Java API. It only allows you to deal with same-named
certificates that were added to the keystore by 3rd party tools.
It is still recommended that your design not use multiple certificates
with the same name. In particular, the following sentence will not
be removed from the Java documentation: "In order to avoid problems,
it is recommended not to use aliases in a KeyStore that only differ
in case."
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/security/KeyStore.html)
See JDK-6483657
security-libs/javax.net.ssl
Modify requirements on Authority Key Identifier extension field
during X509 certificate chain building
The requirement to have the Authority Key Identifier (AKID) and
Subject Key Identifier (SKID) fields matching when building X509
certificate chains has been modified for some cases.
See JDK-8072463
hotspot/gc
Providing more granular levels for GC verification
This enhancement provides a way to specify more granular levels
for the GC verification enabled using the VerifyBeforeGC, VerifyAfterGC,
and VerifyDuringGC diagnostic options. It introduces a new diagnostic
option VerifySubSet with which one can specify the subset of the
memory system that should be verified.
With this new option, one or more sub-systems can be specified in
a comma separated string. Valid memory sub-systems are: threads,
heap, symbol_table, string_table, codecache, dictionary,
classloader_data_graph, metaspace, jni_handles, c-heap, and
codecache_oops.
During the GC verification, only the sub-systems specified using
VerifySubSet get verified:
D:\\tests>java -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+VerifyBeforeGC
-XX:VerifySubSet="threads,c-heap" -Xlog:gc+verify=debug Test
[0.095s][debug ][gc,verify] Threads
[0.099s][debug ][gc,verify] C-heap
[0.105s][info ][gc,verify] Verifying Before GC (0.095s, 0.105s) 10.751ms
[0.120s][debug ][gc,verify] Threads
[0.124s][debug ][gc,verify] C-heap
[0.130s][info ][gc,verify] Verifying Before GC (0.120s, 0.130s) 9.951ms
[0.148s][debug ][gc,verify] Threads
[0.152s][debug ][gc,verify] C-heap
If any invalid memory sub-systems are specified with VerifySubSet,
the Java process exits with the following error message:
D:\\tests>java -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+VerifyBeforeGC
-XX:VerifySubSet="threads,c-heap,hello" -Xlog:gc+verify=debug oom
Error occurred during initialization of VM VerifySubSet: 'hello'
memory sub-system is unknown, please correct it
See JDK-8072725
hotspot/compiler
Removed PICL warning message
In 8u40 and 7u80, a new feature was introduced to use the PICL
library on Solaris to get some system information. If this library
was not found, we printed an error message:
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM warning: PICL (libpicl.so.1) is missing.
Performance will not be optimal.
This warning was misleading. Not finding the PICL library is a very
minor issue, and the warnings mostly lead to confusion. In this
release, the warning was removed.
See JDK-8144957
core-libs/javax.naming
Improved exception handling for bad LDAP referral replies
The JDK was throwing a NullPointerException when a non-compliant
REFERRAL status result was sent but no referral values were included.
With this change, a NamingException with message value of "Illegal
encoding: referral is empty" will be thrown in such circumstances.
See JDK-8149450 and JDK-8154304
Bug Fixes
The following are some of the notable bug fixes included in this
release:
security-libs/javax.net.ssl
Fix to resolve "Unable to process PreMasterSecret, may be too big"
issue
Recent JDK updates introduced an issue for applications that depend
on having a delayed provider selection mechanism. The issue was
introduced in JDK 8u71, JDK 7u95 and JDK 6u111. The main error seen
corresponded to an exception like the following :
handling exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: Unable to
process PreMasterSecret, may be too big
See JDK-8149017
This release also contains fixes for security vulnerabilities
described in the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory.
For a more complete list of the bug fixes included in this release,
see the JDK 8u102 Bug Fixes page.
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* 0.30: 2015=04-02
Mostly minor build and test fixes. This release was actually forced by the
impending doom of gitorious.org; the project hosting had to change and the
metadata with it.
(pkgsrc changes)
- Set LICENSE as gnu-gpl-v2
- compiler, stdlib:
- New preprocessor macros ?FUNCTION_NAME, ?FUNCTION_ARITY
- New preprocessor directives -error(Term) and -warning(Term) to
cause a compilation error or warning, respectively.
- gen_statem a new state machine behavior
- mnesia_ext: plugin of external storage solutions to mnesia
- crypto: uses EVP interface in OpenSSL resulting in generally
better performance and support for HW acceleration
- ssh: performance improvements, uses the new gen_statem behavior
- ssl: enhanced error log messages
- dialyzer: the support for maps is very much extended both the
type specification syntax and the type analysis.
- erts:
- erlang:open_port(spawn, ...) 3-5 times faster
- tracing, extensive improvements (scalability, speed, match
specifications on send/receive, support for lttng, ...)
- dirty schedulers improved
- per process configurable handling of message_queue
- fast loading of multiple modules
- max_heap_size process flag
- erts/kernel: Experimental support for Unix Domain Sockets
Full changelog:
http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.0.readme
6.3.1.
Notable changes
- buffer:
- Improve performance of Buffer.from(str, 'hex') and
Buffer#write(str, 'hex').
- Fix creating from zero-length ArrayBuffer.
- deps:
- Upgrade to V8 5.0.71.57.
- Backport V8 instanceof bugfix
- repl: Fix issue with function redeclaration.
- util: Fix inspecting of boxed symbols.
6.3.0
Notable changes
- buffer: Added buffer.swap64() to complement swap16() & swap32().
- build: New configure options have been added for building
Node.js as a shared library.
- crypto: Root certificates have been updated.
- debugger: The server address is now configurable via
--debug=<address>:<port>.
- npm: Upgraded npm to v3.10.3
- readline: Added the prompt option to the readline constructor.
- repl / vm: sigint/ctrl+c will now break out of infinite loops
without stopping the Node.js instance.
- src:
- Added a node::FreeEnvironment public C++ API.
- Refactored require('constants'), constants are now available
directly from their respective modules.
- stream: Improved readable.read() performance by up to 70%.
- timers: setImmediate() is now up to 150% faster in some
situations.
- util: Added a breakLength option to util.inspect() to control
how objects are formatted across lines.
- v8-inspector: Experimental support has been added for debugging
Node.js over the inspector protocol.
PHP 7.1.x builds upon 7.0.x, adding new features (so far)
* Iterable type.
* HTTP/2 Server Push Support in ext/curl & other ext/curl improvements
* Fix inconsistent behavior in $this variable
* Square bracket syntax for array destructuring assignment
* Create closure from callable
* More precise float values
* Asynchronous Signal Handling (without ticks) in ext/pcntl.
* Additional Context in pcntl_signal Handler
NOTE: this is BETA, not suitable for production environment
Fix build on systems with disabled X11
Reported by <schmonz>, Andreas Kusalananda Kahari
Tested by Andreas Kusalananda Kahari
Possible direction is to make this switch by default disabled on Darwin.
Byterun is a pure-Python implementation of a Python bytecode execution
virtual machine. It was started to get a better understanding of
bytecodes to fix branch coverage bugs in coverage.py.
