Chapter 3. Red Hat build of OpenJDK features 3.1. New features and enhancements This section describes the new features introduced in this release. It also contains information about changes in the existing features. Note For all the other changes and security fixes, see https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2020-October/004007.html . 3.1.1. Modified the MS950 charset encoder's conversion table Some of the one-way byte-to-char mappings have been aligned with the preferred mappings provided by the Unicode Consortium . For more information, see JDK-8240196 . 3.1.2. Allow SunPKCS11 initialization with NSS when external FIPS modules are present in the Security Modules Database The SunPKCS11 security provider can now be initialized with NSS when FIPS-enabled external modules are configured in the Security Modules Database (NSSDB). Prior to this change, the SunPKCS11 provider would throw a RuntimeException with the message: "FIPS flag set for non-internal module" when such a library was configured for NSS in non-FIPS mode. This change allows the Red Hat build of OpenJDK to work properly with recent NSS releases in GNU/Linux operating systems when the system-wide FIPS policy is turned on. For more information, see JDK-8240191 . 3.1.3. Localized time zone name inconsistency between English and other locales English time zone names provided by the CLDR locale provider are now correctly synthesized following the CLDR spec, rather than substituted from the COMPAT provider. For example, SHORT style names are no longer synthesized abbreviations of LONG style names, but instead produce GMT offset formats. For more information, see JDK-8238914 . 3.1.4. OperatingSystemMXBean methods inside a container return container specific data When executing in a container, or other virtualized operating environment, the following OperatingSystemMXBean methods return container-specific information, if available. Otherwise, it returns the following host-specific data: getFreePhysicalMemorySize() getTotalPhysicalMemorySize() getFreeSwapSpaceSize() getTotalSwapSpaceSize() getSystemCpuLoad() For more information, see JDK-8236876 . 3.1.5. Added entrust root certification authority - G4 certificate The entrust root certificate has been added to the cacerts truststore: Alias Name: entrustrootcag4 Distinguished Name: CN=Entrust Root Certification Authority - G4, OU="(c) 2015 Entrust, Inc. - for authorized use only", OU=See www.entrust.net/legal-terms, O="Entrust, Inc.", C=US For more information, see JDK-8250756 . 3.1.6. Added 3 SSL Corporation root CA certificates The following root certificates have been added to the cacerts truststore for the SSL Corporation: Alias Name: sslrootrsaca Distinguished Name: CN=SSL.com Root Certification Authority RSA, O=SSL Corporation, L=Houston, ST=Texas, C=US Alias Name: sslrootevrsaca Distinguished Name: CN=SSL.com EV Root Certification Authority RSA R2, O=SSL Corporation, L=Houston, ST=Texas, C=US Alias Name: sslrooteccca Distinguished Name: CN=SSL.com Root Certification Authority ECC, O=SSL Corporation, L=Houston, ST=Texas, C=US For more information, see JDK-8250860 . 3.1.7. Tools updated to warn users if weak algorithms are used before restricting them The keytool and jarsigner tools have been updated to warn users about weak cryptographic algorithms being used before they are disabled. The tools will issue warnings for the SHA-1 hash algorithm and 1024-bit RSA/DSA keys. For more information, see JDK-8244286 . 3.1.8. New system properties to configure the TLS signature scheme Two new system properties have been added to customize the TLS signature schemes in Red Hat build of OpenJDK. jdk.tls.client.SignatureSchemes has been added for the TLS client side, and jdk.tls.server.SignatureSchemes has been added for the server side. Each system property contains a comma-separated list of supported signature scheme names specifying the signature schemes that could be used for the TLS connections. The names are described in the "Signature Schemes" section of the Java Security Standard Algorithm Names Specification . For more information, see JDK-8242147 . 3.1.9. Support for canonicalize in krb5.conf The 'canonicalize' flag in the krb5.conf file is now supported by the JDK Kerberos implementation. When set to true , RFC 6806 name canonicalization is requested by clients in TGT requests to KDC services (AS protocol). Otherwise, by default, it is not requested. The new default behavior is different from releases where name canonicalization was always requested by clients in TGT requests to KDC services (provided that support for RFC 6806[1] was not explicitly disabled with the sun.security.krb5.disableReferrals system or security properties). For more information, see JDK-8242059 . 3.2. Deprecated features 3.2.1. Weak named curves in TLS, CertPath, and Signed JAR disabled by default Weak named curves are disabled by default by adding them to the following disabledAlgorithms security properties: jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms Red Hat has always removed many of the curves provided by upstream, so the only curve disabled in this release is: secp256k1 The following curves are still enabled: secp256r1 secp384r1 secp521r1 X25519 X448 When large numbers of weak named curves need to be disabled, adding individual named curves to each disabledAlgorithms property would be overwhelming. To relieve this, a new security property, jdk.disabled.namedCurves , is implemented that can list the named curves common to all of the disabledAlgorithms properties. To use the new property in the disabledAlgorithms properties, precede the full property name with the keyword include . Users can still add individual named curves to disabledAlgorithms properties separate from this new property. No other properties can be included in the disabledAlgorithms properties. To restore the named curves, remove the include jdk.disabled.namedCurves either from specific or from all disabledAlgorithms security properties. To restore one or more curves, remove the specific named curve(s) from the jdk.disabled.namedCurves property. For more information, see JDK-8236730 . 3.2.2. US/Pacific-New zone name removed as part of tzdata2020b The following JDK's update to tzdata2020b, the long-obsolete files pacificnew and systemv have been removed. As a result, the "US/Pacific-New" zone name declared in the pacificnew data file is no longer available for use. Information regarding the update can be viewed at https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2020-October/000059.html For more information, see JDK-8254177 .

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