[gojomo]

I hear you, brother.

I liked how minor-update 6u23 finally 'fixed' a ~10-year old bug in GZIP member handling, in a manner that significantly changed behavior (breaking workarounds for the prior bug), and introduced new bugs in GZIP header handling. (I'd supply the bug number, but their bug database is in another one of its many-minute lulls where login and search are impossible.)

My favorite popular, decade-languishing feature request is this one for verbatim multi-line string literals:

http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4472509

This 'syntactic sugar' casually dismissed by Mr. xxxxx@xxxxx could by now have saved thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of hours of developer time, futzing with concatenation and escaping and related bugs.

[divtxt]

Another 10-year old issue which has probably cost thousands of developer hours:

String.substring() leaks memory

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4513622