8010464: Evolve java networking same origin policy Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, dsamersoff, weijun

8013395: StringBuffer.toString performance regression impacting embedded benchmarks Summary: cache a copy of the char[] to use with toString() and clear it when ever the sb content is modified Reviewed-by: alanb, plevart, mduigou, forax

8014217: Base64.getXDecoder().wrap(...).read() doesn't throw exception for an incorrect number of padding chars in the final unit Summary: to throw IOE for malformed final unit in base64 stream Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb

8012326: Deadlock occurs when Charset.availableCharsets() is called by several threads at the same time Summary: removed the race condition risk from ExtendedCahrset access code Reviewed-by: mchung, alanb

6328537: Improve javadocs for Socket class by adding references to SocketOptions Summary: Insert references to SocketOptions.java where applicable Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

8014519: scriptpad sample does not work with nashorn Reviewed-by: attila, jlaskey Contributed-by: rieberandreas@gmail.com

8012453: (process) Runtime.exec(String) fails if command contains spaces [win] Reviewed-by: alanb

8014500: bootcycle-images fails after upgrade to JAXP 1.5 Reviewed-by: lancea

8014365: Restore Objects.requireNonNull(T, Supplier<String>) Reviewed-by: mduigou

8013386: (tz) Support tzdata2013c Summary: updated tz data to version 2013c Reviewed-by: peytoia, okutsu

8014254: Selector in HttpServer introduces a 1000 ms delay when using KeepAlive Summary: Rearrange event-handling code to remove bottle-neck. Also reviewed by mhall@mhcomputing.net. Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb

Merge

8008687: MethodHandle code: allow static and invokespecial calls to interface methods Summary: Changes to support invocation of lambda methods compiled either as static interface methods and or private instance methods. Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8012975: Remove rhino from jdk8 Reviewed-by: alanb, tbell

8005598: (reopened) Need to clone array of input/output parameters Reviewed-by: weijun

8005535: SSLSessionImpl should have protected finalize() Reviewed-by: weijun, wetmore