diff --git a/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp b/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp
index f45568a7ca7eceaa9d11f8a556b7cc9553bdde83..22716c400c2f94c8538a02ded3b74437e86837e1 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 # include "os_bsd.inline.hpp"
 #endif
 
-static jint CurrentVersion = JNI_VERSION_1_6;
+static jint CurrentVersion = JNI_VERSION_1_8;
 
 
 // The DT_RETURN_MARK macros create a scoped object to fire the dtrace
diff --git a/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h b/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h
index a67c2e540f32bde81124dd5f33d629db05168fcd..582f2c97024202bd58d0e990f1ed815c80e709e1 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h
+++ b/src/share/vm/prims/jni.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ JNI_OnUnload(JavaVM *vm, void *reserved);
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_2 0x00010002
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_4 0x00010004
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_6 0x00010006
+#define JNI_VERSION_1_8 0x00010008
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 } /* extern "C" */
diff --git a/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp b/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
index cb883c5d8215dce3a7ff0f32c7e656bd43746bde..322597fe4cc165a35d43e01bd33354dc2b2e1149 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp
@@ -4061,6 +4061,7 @@ jboolean Threads::is_supported_jni_version(jint version) {
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_2) return JNI_TRUE;
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_4) return JNI_TRUE;
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_6) return JNI_TRUE;
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_8) return JNI_TRUE;
   return JNI_FALSE;
 }