Summary: add an explicit check for leading "<", upgrade the unit tests
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Document error conditions that may occur when calling a "spreader" method handle.  Use IAE in all cases.
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: clarification of erroneous reading of spec. that led to 7194534
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Replicate JVM logic for access control that makes Object.clone appear public when applied to an array type.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use a per-MH one element cache for MH.asType to speed up MH.invoke; also cache enough MH constants to cache LMF.metafactory
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: mkos, chegar

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: remove DefaultMethodsTest from jdk/test/problemList.txt
Reviewed-by: mduigou

Summary: Allow resolve method to return more than just ChronoLocalDate
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Summary: Alternative to method is clunky and hard to find
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Summary: javadoc only fix to correct example to use "." and "Z"
Reviewed-by: sherman

Summary: Method until(Temporal,TemporalUnit) now uses from() to convert; Enhance from() methods where necessary
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Summary: Make Period ISO-only, adding a Chronology-specific period concept
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Summary: Rename ChronoDateImpl to ChronoLocalDateImpl
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Summary: Optimise plus/minus for common cases
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: scolebourne@joda.org

Reviewed-by: weijun

Reviewed-by: sla, jbachorik

Summary: Add tests and cleanup existing serialization tests
Reviewed-by: sherman

Summary: Move serialization tests to .serial subpackage
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: paul.rank@oracle.com

Summary: Bridge generation has been removed from the VM. Fix is to remove tests that no longer make sense.
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Restore invokespecial to lambda metafactory
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: There's no guarantee that the java process has executed far enough to be found by jps when we try to obtain it's pid.
Reviewed-by: sla

Reviewed-by: alanb

8025538: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.SpinedBuffer
8025533: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.Streams.RangeIntSpliterator.splitPoint()
8025525: Unsafe typecast in java.util.stream.Node.OfPrimitive.asArray()
Reviewed-by: chegar

Summary: Fix behavior of parameter reflection API for malformed class files.
Reviewed-by: darcy

8014838: getStrongSecureRandom() should require at least one implementation
Reviewed-by: mullan, darcy

Reviewed-by: mchung, jbachorik, sla, sjiang

Reviewed-by: mduigou, chegar

Reviewed-by: peytoia

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: peytoia

Reviewed-by: weijun, xuelei
Contributed-by: NArtem Smotrakov <artem.smotrakov@oracle.com>

Summary: Inserted code to convert specific exceptions, case-by-case, plus a test.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: naoto, mfang

Summary: Fixed issue with type annotation reflection framework that would cause getType of AnnotatedTypes to be null if no annotations were present.
Reviewed-by: darcy, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rbackman
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar

Reviewed-by: henryjen, chegar, psandoz