IBM SDK for Java Version 1.4.2: Current news

The documentation to support IBM SDK for Java Version 1.4.2 is available in an IBM Information Center. Supplementary information is available for the following service refresh levels:

• Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 17
• Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 14
• Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 13
• Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 12
• Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13

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Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 17

This fix pack contains a security fix for the Oracle security vulnerability, CVE-2013-0169, which affects Transport Layer Services (TLS) 1.1 and 1.2.

For further information about security fixes in this release, see Security Alerts.

Time zone update tzdata2013b contains daylight saving time changes for the time zone regions shown in the following table: Olson time zone updates in the IBM SDK for Java.

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Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 14

IBM SDK for Java version 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 14 includes the following update to daylight saving time data:

• tzdata2012f

Time zone update tzdata2012f contains daylight saving time changes for the time zone regions shown in the following table: Olson time zone updates in the IBM SDK for Java.

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Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 13

IBM SDK for Java version 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 13 includes the following update to daylight saving time data:

• tzdata2012d

Time zone update tzdata2012d contains daylight saving time changes for the time zone regions shown in the following table: Olson time zone updates in the IBM SDK for Java.

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Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 12

The following significant change is included with fix pack 12:

KeyboardFocusManager implementation
This change relates to Oracle security vulnerability CVE-2012-0502.
The KeyboardFocusManager specification explicitly allows a single, global KeyboardFocusManager for all applets. Some public methods are unsafe for such implementations.
As a result of the fix, the following methods now throw a java.lang.SecurityException if they are invoked on a java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager that is not the current java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager for the calling thread's context:

• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.setGlobalFocusOwner(Component focusOwner)
• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.clearGlobalFocusOwner()
• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.setGlobalPermanentFocusOwner(Component permanentFocusOwner)
• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.setGlobalFocusedWindow(Window focusedWindow)
• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.setGlobalActiveWindow(Window activeWindow)
• java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.setGlobalCurrentFocusCycleRoot(Container newFocusCycleRoot)

IBM SDK for Java version 1.4.2 service refresh 13 fix pack 12 includes the following update to daylight saving time data:

• tzdata2012b

Time zone update tzdata2012b contains daylight saving time changes for the time zone regions shown in the following table: Olson time zone updates in the IBM SDK for Java.

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IBM SDK for Java 1.4.2 service refresh 13

The following command-line option is available:

JVM command-line option: -Xloaminimum
You can use the following command-line option to manage the size of the large object area:
-Xloaminimum<percentage>

• Specifies the minimum percentage (between 0 and 0.95) of the current tenure space allocated to the large object area (LOA). The LOA does not shrink below this value. The default value is 0, which is 0%.

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