https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52579
Add a note about Sun's Charset.decode() bug to the RELEASE-NOTES file
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc5.5.x/trunk@1392280 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/build/RELEASE-NOTES b/build/RELEASE-NOTES
index 7665ea5..e8bda30 100644
--- a/build/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/build/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -190,6 +190,21 @@
See changelog.html in this directory.
+====================================================
+Multi-byte charset handling bug in Java 1.4 and 1.5:
+====================================================
+Public versions of Sun/Oracle Java 1.4 and 1.5 are known to have a nasty
+bug in implementation of Charset.decode() method for certain character
+sets.
+
+For details, test and a list of affected character sets see:
+
+http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6196991
+https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52579
+
+The UTF-8 charset is not affected by this issue.
+
+
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Cryptographic software notice
=============================
diff --git a/container/webapps/docs/changelog.xml b/container/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
index 9ccb0f3..094d21e 100644
--- a/container/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
+++ b/container/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@
<bug>52640</bug>: Correct set the endorsed directory location when using
the Windows installer. (markt)
</fix>
+ <update>
+ <bug>52579</bug>: Add a note about Sun's Charset.decode() bug to the
+ RELEASE-NOTES file. (kkolinko)
+ </update>
</changelog>
</subsection>
</section>
