The keytool command reads passwords from the system console to prevent them from being displayed on the screen. However, the console is usually available only when both the standard input and output streams are not redirected. Previously, if the standard output stream was redirected into a file or another command, the console was unavailable and the input password was echoed on the screen. This enhancement improves password handling to ensure that the password is not displayed on the screen even if the standard output stream is redirected. This enhancement has also been made to the jarsigner command and the JAAS TextCallbackHandler API.

The G1 garbage collector now throws an OutOfMemoryException (OOME) when the garbage collection overhead is more than GCTimeLimit percent (default value 98) and the free Java heap is less than GCHeapFreeLimit percent (default value 2) for five consecutive garbage collections.

This feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled using the -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit option.

The implementation mirrors the functionality already provided by the Parallel garbage collector. However there may be differences in the exact conditions for the OOME triggers as G1 calculates garbage collection overhead and free Java heap slightly differently.

The <java-home>/lib/src.zip file distributed with the Oracle JDK now contains sources for JCE, JGSS, and JSSE. Debugging tools can now examine or display most of the security source files.

A new security property named jdk.crypto.disabledAlgorithms has been introduced to disable algorithms for JCE/JCA cryptographic services. Initially, this property only supports the Cipher, KeyStore, MessageDigest, and Signature services. This property is defined in the java.security file and initially no algorithms are disabled by default. However, this may change in the future. This security property can be overridden by a system property of the same name if applications need to re-enable algorithms.

See Disabled and Restricted Cryptographic Algorithms for more information.

A full SuSE Enterprise Linux Server, SLES for short, version 16 desktop installation does not include a package, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, which is needed for full operation of the JDK desktop applications. This applies to all Oracle JDK versions.

Users should install this package, using standard SLES package repository commands, such as by running:

% sudo zypper install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

% sudo reboot now

The JDK will stop trusting TLS server certificates issued after March 17, 2026 and anchored by Chunghwa root certificates, in line with similar plans announced by Google and Mozilla.

TLS server certificates issued on or before March 17, 2026 will continue to be trusted until they expire. Certificates issued after that date, and anchored by the Certificate Authority listed in the table below, will be rejected.

The restrictions are enforced in the JDK implementation (the SunJSSE Provider) of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) API. A TLS session will not be negotiated if the server's certificate chain is anchored by any of the Certificate Authorities in the table below and the certificate has been issued after March 17, 2026.

An application will receive an exception with a message indicating the trust anchor is not trusted, for example:

"TLS Server certificate issued after 2026-03-17 and anchored by a distrusted legacy Chunghwa root CA: OU=ePKI Root Certification Authority, O="Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd." C=TW"

The JDK can be configured to trust these certificates again by removing "CHUNGHWA_TLS" from the jdk.security.caDistrustPolicies security property in the java.security configuration file.

The restrictions are imposed on the following Chunghwa Root certificates included in the JDK:

You can also use the keytool utility from the JDK to print out details of the certificate chain, as follows:

keytool -v -list -alias <your_server_alias> -keystore <your_keystore_filename>

If any of the certificates in the chain are issued by one of the root CAs in the table above are listed in the output you will need to update the certificate or contact the organization that manages the server.

This release also contains fixes for security vulnerabilities described in the Oracle Critical Patch Update.