On 09/06/2014 18:05, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 6/9/14, 12:45 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 09/06/2014 13:12, Rory O'Donnell wrote: >>> Hi Mladen, >>> >>> Early Access builds for JDK 9 b16 >>> <https://jdk9.java.net/download/> and JDK 8u20 b17 >>> <https://jdk8.java.net/download.html> are available on >>> java.net. >>> >>> As we enter the later phases of development for JDK 8u20 , >>> please log any show stoppers as soon as possible. >>> >>> Mark - as I mentioned , the backport fix for JDK-8041481 >>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041481> is in JDK >>> 8u20 b17 as JDK-8039751 >>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039751> can you >>> confirm the fix when you get a chance ? >> >> Confirmed. All the UTF-8 bugs I am currently aware of (and are >> tested in the Tomcat unit tests) are fixed with JDK 8u20 b17. > > What would the target be for removing Tomcat's hacks, then? Or > would we leave them all in there and only enable them in a > sufficiently old version of the JRE? It's obviously possible to do > that, but in the interests of removing those hacks, is it > reasonable to force users to use a certain patch-level of the JRE?
My current thinking is that they need to stay for Tomcat 8 (depends on Java 7) and can be removed for Tomcat 9 (depends on Java 8) since by the time 9.0.0 is release 8 will be a long way past the release that fixed the UTF-8 issues. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
