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Trust anchors are used to validate certificate chains used in TLS and signed code.

This page highlights changes impacting end users for each Java release.

More information about changes can be found in the release notes for each release.

For more information, refer to Timezone Data Versions in the JRE Software.

JDK 8u261, in the July 2020 CPU, was built with Visual Studio 2017.

With the release of the October 2020 CPU, JDK 7u281 will move to Visual Studio 2017.

For more details including a list of the features that are supported, refer to the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) Reference Guide documentation and JEP 332.

If a server cannot process the supportedgroups TLS extension or the named groups in the extension, applications can either customize the supported group names with jdk.tls.namedGroups, or turn off the FFDHE mechanisms by setting the System Property jsse.enableFFDHE to false.

In order to determine if a release is the latest, the following Security Baseline page can be used to determine which is the latest version for each release family.

Java Access Bridge Update Scheduled For

It is not recommended that this JDK (version 8u261) be used after the next critical patch update scheduled for October 13, 2020.

This release also 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 8u261 Bug Fixes page.

JavaScript programs that reference java.lang.Class objects are now limited to the following methods: getCanonicalName getEnumConstants getFields getMethods getName getPackageName getSimpleName getSuperclass getTypeName getTypeParameters isAssignableFrom isArray isEnum isInstance isInterface isLocalClass isMemberClass isPrimitive isSynthetic toGenericString toString No methods can be called on the following classes.

This behavioral change was made in the Apache Santuario codebase to comply with RFC 2045.

It is not recommended that this JDK (version 8u251) be used after the next critical patch update scheduled for July 14, 2020.

For a more complete list of the bug fixes included in this release, see the JDK 8u251 Bug Fixes page.

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