8139507: WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs
Summary: Making Preferences.systemRoot/userRoot lazy on Windows, to avoid warnings for system root when only user root was requested; reducing synchronization while creating the Preferences.
Reviewed-by: alanb

8147545: Remove sun.misc.ManagedLocalsThread from java.prefs
Summary: Replace ManagedLocalsThread with Thread(null,null,threadName,0,false)
Reviewed-by: chegar

8075156: (prefs) get*() and remove() should disallow the use of the null control character '\u0000' as key
Summary: Extend disallowing null control character key to remove()
Reviewed-by: rriggs, alanb

8047149: Enhance thread contexts in core libraries
Reviewed-by: alanb

8068373: (prefs) FileSystemPreferences writes \0 to XML storage, causing loss of all preferences
Summary: Disallow entries whose key or value contains the null control character '\u0000' from being stored in the preferences node.
Reviewed-by: psandoz, rriggs

8067377: My hobby: caning, then then canning, the the can-can
Summary: Fix ALL the stutters!
Reviewed-by: rriggs, mchung, lancea

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com