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

8178152: Handling of incubating modules, the jdk.unsupported module and --add-exports with --release <current>
Summary: --release 9 should only allow documented modules; --add-exports/--add-reads/--patch-module should not be allowed on system modules when --release 9 is used.
Reviewed-by: jjg, erikj, ihse

8175277: javadoc AssertionError when specified with release 8
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda

8175119: Need to specify module of types created by Filer.createSourceFile/Filer.createClassFile?
Summary: Clarifications and improvements to jx.a.processing.Filer for creating and reading files in and from modules.
Reviewed-by: darcy, jjg

8173777: Merge javac -Xmodule into javac--patch-module
Summary: Merging -Xmodule: functionality into --patch-module.
Reviewed-by: jjg, mchung, rfield

8170692: inconsistent check of module-related options against target version
Reviewed-by: jjg

8172474: javac should enable doclint checking for HTML 5
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8170987: Module system implementation refresh (12/2016)
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore
Contributed-by: jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com, srikanth.adayapalam@oracle.com, alan.bateman@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com

Merge

8169069: Module system implementation refresh (11/2016)
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jjg, mchung, anazarov
Contributed-by: jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, jan.lahoda@oracle.com, alan.bateman@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, bhavesh.x.patel@oracle.com, andrey.x.nazarov@oracle.com

8164590: javac --inherit-runtime-environment fails with "cannot find modules: ALL-DEFAULT"
Reviewed-by: mchung

8163190: Clarify JavaFileManager use of \"module location\"
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8169676: boolean result of Option.process is often ignored
Reviewed-by: ksrini, jlahoda

8167975: align javac --add-* modules options with launcher
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8136930: Simplify use of module-system options by custom launchers
8160489: Multiple -Xpatch lines ignored by javac
8156998: javac should support new option -XinheritRuntimeEnvironment
Reviewed-by: jlahoda, ksrini

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

8145472: replace remaining java.io.File with java.nio.file.Path
Reviewed-by: vromero

8145342: Some copyright notices are inconsistently and ill formatted
Summary: Adjusted formatting of copyright notices.
Reviewed-by: darcy, alundblad

8143268: Langtools tools should create output directories as needed.
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8129962: Investigate performance improvements in langtools combo tests
Summary: New combo API that runs all combo instances in a shared javac context (whenever possible).
Reviewed-by: jjg, jlahoda, vromero

8086737: Add support for -release to Javadoc
Reviewed-by: jjg, ksrini

8072480: javac should support compilation for a specific platform version
Summary: Adding a new javac option for compiling for JDK N: -release N; including history data for previous version of JDK.
Reviewed-by: erikj, ihse, jjg, mcimadamore, mr
Contributed-by: jan.lahoda@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com

8076420: Consolidate javac file handling in javac.file package
Reviewed-by: jlahoda

8071851: Provide filtering of doclint checking based on packages
Summary: Introducing -Xdoclint/package:<packages> doclint option to enable/disable checking of specified packages.
Reviewed-by: jjg, darcy

8044859: javac duplicates option processing when using Compiler API
Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, vromero, jlahoda