Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.13 release notes
These release notes support the Eclipse OpenJ9 0.13 release plan.
Binaries and supported environments
OpenJ9 release 0.13 supports OpenJDK 12. Binaries are available at the AdoptOpenJDK project:
All builds are tested against the OpenJ9 functional verification (FV) test suite, the OpenJDK test suites, and additional tests at AdoptOpenJDK.
📝 On Linux and AIX platforms, the OpenSSL 1.0.2 or 1.1.X library is expected to be found on the system path. If you use a package manager to install OpenSSL, the system path will be updated automatically. On other platforms, the OpenSSL 1.1.X library is currently bundled with the binaries from AdoptOpenJDK.
To learn more about support for OpenJ9 releases, including OpenJDK levels and platform support, see Supported environments.
Notable changes in this release
The following table covers notable changes in v0.13. Further information about these changes can be found in the user documentation.
| Issue number |
Description |
Version / Platform |
Impact |
| #4655 |
Extended platform support for software-based pause-less garbage collection |
OpenJDK8 and later (Linux on POWER LE and AIX platforms) |
Reduced garbage collection pause times when using -Xgc:concurrentScavenge with the gencon GC policy for Linux on POWER LE and
AIX platforms. |
| #227 |
OpenSSL 1.0.2 support |
OpenJDK12 (All platforms) |
Improved cryptographic performance for the Digest, CBC, GCM, and RSA algorithms. |
| #4655 |
New Java process status tool (jps) |
OpenJDK12 (All platforms) |
The tool can be used to query running Java processes. |
| #2837 |
Ability to print a Java dump to STDOUT/STDERR |
OpenJDK8 and later (All platforms) |
Although printing to a file is the best approach for recording a Java dump, the ability to print to STDOUT/STDERR can be useful in some scenarios. |
| #1932 |
Control group (cgroup) information is recorded in a Java dump file |
OpenJDK8 and later (All platforms) |
Improved diagnostic capability where cgroups are used to control resources. For example, the Docker engine uses cgroups for Docker containers. |
Known Issues
The v0.13.0 release contains the following known issues and limitations:
| Issue number |
Description |
Platform |
Impact |
Workaround |
| #3483 |
DDR support |
macOS |
Inability to diagnose problems with the VM, garbage collector, or JIT. |
None |
| #54 |
Signal handling |
All platforms |
Currently, shutdown signals (SIGINT, SIGHUP and SIGTERM) and SIGCONT are fully supported on Unix platforms (pLinux, zLinux, xLinux, AIX, and z/OS). Support for other POSIX signals is pending. See SunMiscSignalTest.java for the list of signals that need to be supported. |
None |
| #2507 |
Restriction analyzing system (core) dumps |
Linux and Windows |
You must use a 32-bit JVM to look at a 32-bit core, and a 64-bit JVM to look at a 64-bit core. This restriction will be fixed in a later version of OpenJ9. |
None |
| #479 |
Non-compressed references VM builds not available |
AIX, Windows, Linux on Z, Linux on Power |
Non-compressed references VM builds, which support heaps larger than 57GB, are built on Linux on x86. |
Manual builds on other platforms are possible by following our detailed build instructions. |
| #897 |
Javadoc not building some OpenJ9 extensions. |
All platforms |
Some API documentation is missing in the build/<platform>/docs directory. |
None |
| #898 |
Javadoc building some unsupported OpenJ9 extensions. |
All platforms |
Some API documentation in build/<platform>/docs is not supported with OpenJ9. |
None |
Other changes
A full commit history for this release is available at Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.13.0.
