JDK 9.0.1 Release Notes

JDK 9 Update Release Notes

Java™ SE Development Kit 9.0.1 (JDK 9.0.1)

October 17, 2017

The full version string for this update release is 9.0.1+11 (where "+" means "build"). The version number is 9.0.1.

IANA Data 2017b

JDK 9.0.1 contains IANA time zone data version 2017b. For more information, refer to Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software.

Security Baselines

The security baselines for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) at the time of the release of JDK 9.0.1 are specified in the following table:

JRE Family Version JRE Security Baseline (Full Version String)
9 9.0.1+11
8 1.8.0_151-b12
7 1.7.0_161-b13
6 1.6.0_171-b13

JRE Expiration Date

The JRE expires whenever a new release with security vulnerability fixes becomes available. Critical patch updates, which contain security vulnerability fixes, are announced one year in advance on Critical Patch Updates, Security Alerts and Third Party Bulletin. This JRE (version 9.0.1) will expire with the release of the next critical patch update scheduled for January 16, 2018.

For systems unable to reach the Oracle Servers, a secondary mechanism expires this JRE (version 9.0.1) on February 16, 2018. After either condition is met (new release becoming available or expiration date reached), the JRE will provide additional warnings and reminders to users to update to the newer version. For more information, see JRE Expiration Date.

Notes

core-libs/java.net
 Default timeouts have changed for FTP URL handler 

Timeouts used by the FTP URL protocol handler have been changed from infinite to 5 minutes. This will result in an IOException from connect and read operations if the FTP server is unresponsive. For example, new URL("ftp://example.com").openStream().read(), will fail with java.net.SocketTimeoutException in case a connection or reading could not be completed within 5 minutes.

To revert this behaviour to that of previous releases, the following system properties may be used, sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=0, sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=0

JDK-8181612 (not public)

Known Issues

security-libs/java.security
 TLS does not work by default on OpenJDK 9 

The OpenJDK 9 binary for Linux x64 contains an empty cacerts keystore. This prevents TLS connections from being established because there are no Trusted Root Certificate Authorities installed. You may see an exception like the following:

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

As a workaround, users can set the javax.net.ssl.trustStore System Property to use a different keystore. For example, the ca-certificates package on Oracle Linux 7 contains the set of Root CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI. This package installs a trust store at /etc/pki/java/cacerts, which can be used by OpenJDK 9.

Only the OpenJDK 64 bit Linux download is impacted. This issue does not apply to any Oracle JRE/JDK download.

Progress on open-sourcing the Oracle JDK Root CAs can be tracked through the issue JDK-8189131.

See JDK-8189131

Certificate Changes

security-libs/java.security
 Remove revoked Swisscom root certificate "swisscomrootevca2" 

One Swisscom root certificate has been revoked by Swisscom and has been removed:



Swisscom Root EV CA 2
alias: "swisscomrootevca2 [jdk]"
DN: CN=Swisscom Root EV CA 2, OU=Digital Certificate Services, O=Swisscom, C=ch 
JDK-8186330 (not public)

Changes

security-libs/java.security
 Refactor existing providers to refer to the same constants for default values for key length 

Two important changes have been made for this issue:

1. A new system property has been introduced that allows users to configure the default key size used by the JDK provider implementations of KeyPairGenerator and AlgorithmParameterGenerator. This property is named "jdk.security.defaultKeySize" and the value of this property is a list of comma-separated entries. Each entry consists of a case-insensitive algorithm name and the corresponding default key size (in decimal) separated by ":". In addition, white space is ignored.

By default, this property will not have a value, and JDK providers will use their own default values. Entries containing an unrecognized algorithm name will be ignored. If the specified default key size is not a parseable decimal integer, that entry will be ignored as well.

2. The DSA KeyPairGenerator implementation of the SUN provider no longer implements java.security.interfaces.DSAKeyPairGenerator. Applications which cast the SUN provider's DSA KeyPairGenerator object to a java.security.interfaces.DSAKeyPairGenerator can set the system property "jdk.security.legacyDSAKeyPairGenerator". If the value of this property is "true", the SUN provider will return a DSA KeyPairGenerator object which implements the java.security.interfaces.DSAKeyPairGenerator interface. This legacy implementation will use the same default value as specified by the javadoc in the interface.

By default, this property will not have a value, and the SUN provider will return a DSA KeyPairGenerator object which does not implement the forementioned interface and thus can determine its own provider-specific default value as stated in the java.security.KeyPairGenerator class or by the "jdk.security.defaultKeySize" system property if set.

JDK-8181048 (not public) 

security-libs/java.security
 Collections use serialization filter to limit array sizes 

Deserialization of certain collection instances will cause arrays to be allocated. The ObjectInputFilter.checkInput() method is now called prior to allocation of these arrays. Deserializing instances of ArrayDeque, ArrayList, IdentityHashMap, PriorityQueue, java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList, and the immutable collections (as returned by List.of, Set.of, and Map.of) will call checkInput() with a FilterInfo instance whose serialClass() method returns Object[].class. Deserializing instances of HashMap, HashSet, Hashtable, and Properties will call checkInput() with a FilterInfo instance whose serialClass() method returns Map.Entry[].class. In both cases, the FilterInfo.arrayLength() method will return the actual length of the array to be allocated. The exact circumstances under which the serialization filter is called, and with what information, is subject to change in future releases.

JDK-8174109 (not public)

security-libs/java.security
 Add warnings to keytool when using JKS and JCEKS 

When keytool is operating on a JKS or JCEKS keystore, a warning may be shown that the keystore uses a proprietary format and migrating to PKCS12 is recommended. The keytool's -importkeystore command is also updated so that it can convert a keystore from one type to another if the source and destination point to the same file.

JDK-8182879 (not public)

New Features

other-libs/corba
 Add Additional IDL Stub Type Checks to org.omg.CORBA.ORB::string_to_object Method

Applications that either explicitly or implicitly call org.omg.CORBA.ORB.string_to_object, and wish to ensure the integrity of the IDL stub type involved in the ORB::string_to_object call flow, should specify additional IDL stub type checking. This is an "opt in" feature and is not enabled by default.

To take advantage of the additional type checking, the list of valid IDL interface class names of IDL stub classes is configured by one of the following:

  • Specifying the security property com.sun.CORBA.ORBIorTypeCheckRegistryFilter located in the file conf/security/java.security in Java SE 9 or in jre/lib/security/java.security in Java SE 8 and earlier.

  • Specifying the system property com.sun.CORBA.ORBIorTypeCheckRegistryFilter with the list of classes. If the system property is set, its value overrides the corresponding property defined in the java.security configuration.

If the com.sun.CORBA.ORBIorTypeCheckRegistryFilter property is not set, the type checking is only performed against a set of class names of the IDL interface types corresponding to the built-in IDL stub classes.

JDK-8160104 (not public)

Bug Fixes

This release contains fixes for security vulnerabilities described in the Oracle Critical Patch Update. For a more complete list of the bug fixes included in this release, see the JDK 9.0.1 Bug Fixes page.