8170326: Inconsistencies between code, compiler.properties and comments
Summary: Converting uses of Log and JCDiagnostic.Factory methods to use CompilerProperties instead of plain Strings, fixing inconsistencies, adding crules analyzer to ensure CompilerProperties are used whenever possible.
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8176714: javac is wrongly assuming that field JCMemberReference.overloadKind has been assigned to
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8176265: Method overload resolution on a covariant base type doesn't work in 9
Summary: Some type mappings should not be recursive
Reviewed-by: vromero, jlahoda

8181370: Convert anonymous inner classes into lambdas/method references
Reviewed-by: jjg, rfield, mchung

8156954: javac incorrectly complains of incompatible types
Summary: Add heuristics to pick best stuck constraint as per JLS 18.5.2
Reviewed-by: vromero

8154180: Regression: stuck expressions do not behave correctly
Summary: ArgumentAttr should not cache stuck trees
Reviewed-by: vromero

8142968: Module System implementation
Summary: Initial integration of JEP 200, JEP 260, JEP 261, and JEP 282
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, vromero, mcimadamore, bpatel, ksrini, darcy, anazarov, dfuchs
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com, vicente.romero@oracle.com, andreas.lundblad@oracle.com, andrey.x.nazarov@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8000316: Huge performance bottleneck in com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Check.localClassName
Summary: Speed up Check.localClassName by avoiding generating names known to be in use already
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jlahoda, sadayapalam
Contributed-by: dmitry.chuyko@oracle.com

8137269: Add better support for local caching in ArgumentAttr
Summary: ArgumentAttr should support local caches when results of speculative attribution might be thrown away
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8078093: Severe compiler performance regression Java 7 to 8 for nested method invocations
Summary: Add infrastructure to avoid combinatorial explosion of method argument attributions
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, vromero, dlsmith

8132215: class InferenceContext should live in a separate file
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jlahoda

8079613: Deeply chained expressions + several overloads + unnecessary inference result in excessive compile times.
Summary: Eliminate compile time performance bottlneck due to mischaracterization of standalone expressions as being poly expressions.
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jlahoda

8031744: Annotations on many Language Model elements are not returned
Reviewed-by: jfranck, mcimadamore, emc, jlahoda, jjg
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com, maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com

8062373: Project Coin: diamond and anonymous classes
Summary: Allow diamond inference in combination with anonymous class instance creation
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, vromero
Contributed-by: srikanth.adayapalam@oracle.com, maurizio.cimadamore@oracle.com

8075184: javac is mistakenly considering an missing enclosing instance error as an overload error
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8074100: Turn Type.Mapping into a true visitor
Summary: replace Type.Mapping with a true visitor in Types
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, vromero

8073842: Invalid method reference when referencing a method on a wildcard type
Summary: Method rteference lookup logic doesn't skip type-variables as required by javac.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8071241: Investigate alternate strategy for type-checking operators
Summary: Separat operator lookup logic from overload resolution.
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, sadayapalam

8069545: javac shouldn't check nested stuck lambdas during overload resolution
Summary: Nested lambdas should not be considered while overload resolution is in progress
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore
Contributed-by: vicente.romero@oracle.com, srikanth.adayapalam@oracle.com

8069164: Fix langtools make build so that diagnostic framework can be used
Summary: Fix race condition between gensrc targets and output location of parseproperties task
Reviewed-by: erikj, jlahoda
Contributed-by: erik.joelsson@oracle.com

8069069: Build failure because of dependency on generated file
Summary: Make build spuriously fails to build property classes
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8068995: Cleanup method reference lookup code
Summary: Simplify method reference code lookup and generate better/more uniform diagnostics
Reviewed-by: vromero

8061472: String.format in DeferredAttr.DeferredTypeMap constructor leads to excessive object creation
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, vromero

8064365: Better support for finder capabilities in target-typing context
Summary: Add new framework to allow for easy creation of finder-like capabilities.
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda

8064464: regression with type inference of conditional expression
Summary: Bad classification of conditional leads to spurious error
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8054457: Refactor Symbol kinds from small ints to an enum
Summary: Replace bitmap logic in symbol.kind and pkind with an enum-based API
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jjg

8048614: Add TypeMetadata to contain type annotations and other type information
Summary: Implement general framework for metadata on types
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

8056021: checkin for JDK-8027262 breaks Checker Framework
Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore

8056984: Exception in compiler: java.lang.AssertionError: isSubClass T
Summary: Must use type variable's captured bound as a method receiver, instead of the type variable itself, while checking if deferred attribution is needed.
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, vromero

8056014: Type inference may be skipped for a complex receiver generic method in a parameter position
Summary: When checking if deferred attribution is needed for a chain of methods, stop on any method that returns any type variable, as the rest of analysis cannot use the correct type.
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, vromero

8056061: Mark implementations of public interfaces with an annotation
Summary: Adding @DefinedBy annotation to mark methods that implement public API methods; annotating the methods; adding a coding rules analyzer to enforce all such methods are annotated.
Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore, jfranck
Contributed-by: jan.lahoda@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com

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