
So what does this mean for business consumers of Oracle JDK/JavaFX 8? Two things: You like stability because if you don't, your business software might fail, costing you money or worse - putting you out of business and/or in debt. However, your business' JavaFX application(s) (and their dependencies) run on Oracle JDK 8. Oracle shook up the world and changed the support roadmap, release cycle, and other things for Java and related technologies. Microsoft Windows uses the latest available CA certificate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.So you've heard the news. Microsoft Windows includes the latest available timezone data from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses system-wide CA certificates. Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses system-wide timezone data files as a source for timezone information. The src.zip file includes the source for all of the JAR libraries shipped with OpenJDK. RHEL also dynamically links against Harfzbuzz and Freetype for font rendering and management. Red Hat Enterprise Linux dynamically links against native libraries such as zlib for archive format support and libjpeg-turbo, libpng, and giflib for image support.

This change does not apply to OpenJDK builds for Microsoft Windows.


You can set different security profiles to balance safety and compatibility. Red Hat OpenJDK 8 obtains the list of enabled cryptographic algorithms and key size constraints, which are used by for the TLS, a certificate path validation, and signed JARs, from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system configuration. This change does not apply to OpenJDK builds for Microsoft Windows.Ĭryptographic policy support. Red Hat OpenJDK 8 automatically detects whether the RHEL system is in FIPS mode and automatically configures OpenJDK 8 to operate in that mode.
