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new a4de9db7a update WHATSNEW to explain the SecurityManager changes
a4de9db7a is described below
commit a4de9db7a01ca44d0b171c972a997bf22545676e
Author: Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Aug 10 22:30:19 2023 +0530
update WHATSNEW to explain the SecurityManager changes
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WHATSNEW | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 426e855f2..61c7fb917 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
later may be costly (for example in the case of a StringResource).
Bugzilla Report 66496
+ * When using Java 18 or higher, Ant will no longer use Java SecurityManager
+ because it has been deprecated for removal and by default is disallowed
+ to be set at runtime https://openjdk.org/jeps/411.
+ This will mean that the "<permissions>" type is no longer functional when
+ using Java 18 or higher.
+ Furthermore, when using Java 18 or higher, if the build executes
+ tasks that call "java.lang.System.exit()" and if those tasks aren't
+ running in a forked VM of their own, then such tasks will now kill
+ the entire Ant build process. It is recommended that such tasks be
+ updated to launch in a forked JVM so that the System.exit() call
+ will not impact the JVM in which Ant process runs.
+
Fixed bugs:
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