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Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 27 (JDK 1.6.0.27)

Oracle has release the Java 6 Update 27 JDk. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed:

Bug Fixes

The following table lists the fixes in Java SE 6u27:

Bug ID Category Sub-Category Synopsis
7047069  hotspot compiler2 Array can dynamically change size when assigned to an object field
7028845  hotspot garbage_collector CMS: 6984287  broke parallel reference processing in CMS
7056092  java classes_awt Native file dialog fails 1.6u26 win7Pro: Breaks SWT apps, perhaps Eclipse too
6724890  java classes_awt Deadlock between AWT-EventQueue-1 and AWT-XAWT threads during IDE start
6890861  java classes_awt Crash in awt.dll after sun.awt.windows.WWindowPeer.modalEnable is called
6788196  java classes_io (porting) Bounds checks in io_util.c rely on undefined behaviour
6672144  java classes_net HttpURLConnection.getInputStream sends POST request after failed chunked send
6946825  java classes_net com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer; Memory Leak on Non HTTP conform open socket
7012768  java classes_net InetAddress lookupTable leaks/deadlocks when using unsupported name service spi
7015981  java classes_net java.net.HttpCookie.domainMatches returns false if domain doesn’t start with a dot
7021939  java classes_net com.oracle.net is not a NON_CORE_PKGS
6935563  java classes_nio (dc) Improve connection reset/port unreachable handling [win]
7034155  java classes_nio (ch) NullPointerException in sun.io.ch.IOUtil when OOM is thrown
7041378  java classes_nio (se) SEGV when running with ulimit -n unlimited (sol)
6963006  java classes_security smartcardio is not mt safe – javax.smartcardio.CardException: wait mismatch
7001094  java classes_security Can’t initialize SunPKCS11 more times than PKCS11 driver maxSessionCount
6968933  java classes_sound Clip loop() deadlock in DirectAudioDevice$DirectClip.run
6438246  java classes_swing File name field is mislabeled when JFileChooser is used in DIRECTORIES_ONLY mode
7012783  java classes_swing JFileChooser fails to resolve DFS links on Windows Vista SP2
6560980  java classes_text [Fmt-Da] DateFormatSymbols.cacheLookup doesn’t update cache correctly
6991380  java classes_util_i18n (cal) Calendar.cachedLocaleData should be transitioned from Hashtable to ConcurrentHashMap
6558476  java compiler com/sun/tools/javac/Main.compile don’t release file handles on return
6718364  java compiler inference fails when a generic method is invoked with raw arguments
6881317  java compiler regression: NPE in CloseableURLClassLoader
6517427  java imageio GIF Reader throws IIOException when reading a Indexed GIF image with an embedded color profile
7053999  java install Upgrading from 6u25 with modified java.security file fails, breaks installation
6986709  java localization Request to localise deployment.security.clientauth.keystore.auto to new value
7021445  java localization Localization needed on resource string for FileChooser Look and Feel code
6989026  java_plugin ocx JRE plugin 1.6.0_21 crashes when loading applets
6991343  java_plugin plugin Vista/IE7 further showDocument focus issue with named targeted windows
6799990  java_plugin plugin2 unrecognized message ID 42 (or 46) with next-generation Java plug-in
7032687  java_plugin plugin2 Dragged-out applet can be closed when close browser
6912166  java_plugin plugin2 SSV dialog problems when there are multiple applets on a page
6943350  java_plugin plugin2 Intermittent "No registered plugin for applet ID x" errors in applet
7036713  javawebstart jnlp_api javax.jnlp.BasicService.showDocument() throws SecurityException for trusted app
6996266  javawebstart jnlp_api Performance issue on BasicService.showDocument
6976938  jaxp stax StackOverflowError by com.sun.xml.stream.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next
6941869  jaxp xslt XSL : Xalan transformer fails to process semicolumn symbol in a count() function correctly
7024697  jce pkcs11_csp SessionRef.dispose() should determine if the token referred to by the token object is still valid pr
6578658  jce sunmscapi Request for raw RSA (NONEwithRSA) Signature support in SunMSCAPI
7046238  jets idl new InitialContext(); hangs
6844193  jgss krb5plugin support max_retries in krb5.conf
6858589  jgss krb5plugin more changes to Config on system properties
6979329  jgss krb5plugin CCacheInputStream fails to read ticket cache files from Kerberos 1.8.1
6750362  jndi ldap Very large LDAP requests throw a OOM on LDAP servers which aren’t aware of Paged Results Controls
6997561  jndi ldap A request for better error handling in JNDI
6932403  jsse runtime SSLSocketImpl state issue
7025227  jsse runtime SSLSocketImpl does not close the TCP layer socket if a close notify cannot be sent to the peer
7044141  xml jaxb Reusing unmarshallers which on previous use threw UnmarshalException always throw ClassCastException
Posted by admin on September 18th, 2011 Posted in Java Tagged as: ,,,

1 Comment

  1. Maurice says:
    October 23, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    I updated Java to 6 Update 27 and all my Java functions failed. Internet pages wouldn’t execute Java bits and my Windows Gadgets all failed.
    Restored to Update 26 and all happy again.

    Reply

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