8218754: JDK-8068225 regression in JDIBreakpointTest Reviewed-by: cjplummer, sspitsyn

8145845: [AOT] NullPointerException in compiler/whitebox/GetCodeHeapEntriesTest.java Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

8218738: Remove dead code in Symbol and friends Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, dholmes

8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from xlc16 on AIX Reviewed-by: dholmes, goetz, ihse

8218413: make reconfigure ignores configure-time AUTOCONF environment variable Reviewed-by: erikj, martin

8218675: Reduce verification overhead in ClassFileParser Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel

8216608: Obsolete stale compiler flags Reviewed-by: shade, thartmann

8214236: sun.gc.collector.2.name should be changed Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

8218680: G1 crashes during calculation of old collection set candidates Summary: Parameters were passed in the wrong order to some helper class. Reviewed-by: shade, kbarrett, lkorinth

8217383: Obsolete UseImplicitStableValues Reviewed-by: shade, rkennke, vlivanov

8218562: handle HOTSPOT_BUILD_COMPILER for clang/xlclang and cleanup HOTSPOT_BUILD_COMPILER settings Reviewed-by: dholmes, ihse, mdoerr

8212828: (process) Change the Process launch mechanism default on Linux to be posix_spawn Reviewed-by: rriggs, martin

8201633: Problems with AES-GCM native acceleration Reviewed-by: valeriep

8218554: HttpServer: allow custom handlers to request that the connection be closed after the exchange. Summary: custom handler code can supply `Connection: close` to response headers in order to force connection close after the exchange terminates. Reviewed-by: chegar