diff --git a/development/openjdk8/README b/development/openjdk8/README
index b6f0ba7759..98522b4f3d 100644
--- a/development/openjdk8/README
+++ b/development/openjdk8/README
@@ -19,3 +19,11 @@ TMP=/your/temporary/dir ./openjdk8.SlackBuild
 The 'cacerts' binary is a keystore containing CA certificates which
 are used by Java applications. It is taken from the CentOS package
 'ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm'.
+
+If you get an error like
+
+Internal compiler error: java.lang.NullPointerException at
+org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ReadManager.run(ReadManager.java:166)
+
+simply run the build again. This happens early so it shouldn't be that of a
+problem.  At least 1 out of 5 runs so far have always succeded.
diff --git a/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.SlackBuild b/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.SlackBuild
index d5a688452a..378a36b956 100644
--- a/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.SlackBuild
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for OpenJDK
 
-# Copyright 2016 Strahil Yordanov, Sofia, Bulgaria
+# Copyright 2017 Strahil Yordanov, Sofia, Bulgaria
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=openjdk8
-VERSION=${VERSION:-8u101b13}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-8u121b13}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 DVER=1.8.0_$(printf $VERSION | cut -du -f2)
-ICEDTEA=icedtea-3.1.0
+ICEDTEA=icedtea-3.3.0
 
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
@@ -68,11 +68,13 @@ cd icedtea-build
 # Set JAVA_HOME in order to avoid conflictis with other already installed JVMs.
 # cacerts taken from this CentOS package:
 # http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ca-certificates-2015.2.4-65.0.1.el6_6.noarch.rpm
-JAVA_HOME=${BOOT_JAVA} PATH=${BOOT_JAVA}/bin:$PATH \
-  ../$ICEDTEA/configure \
+JAVA_HOME=${BOOT_JAVA} PATH=${BOOT_JAVA}/bin:$PATH ../$ICEDTEA/configure \
   --with-jdk-home=${BOOT_JAVA} \
   --disable-docs \
   --disable-downloading \
+  --disable-system-kerberos \
+  --disable-system-pcsc \
+  --disable-system-sctp \
   --with-cacerts-file="$CWD/cacerts" \
   --with-openjdk-src-zip="$CWD/openjdk.tar.xz" \
   --with-corba-src-zip="$CWD/corba.tar.xz" \
diff --git a/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.info b/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.info
index d806365522..1934f9c576 100644
--- a/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.info
+++ b/development/openjdk8/openjdk8.info
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 PRGNAM="openjdk8"
-VERSION="8u101b13"
+VERSION="8u121b13"
 HOMEPAGE="http://openjdk.java.net"
-DOWNLOAD="http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.1.0.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/openjdk.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/corba.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/jaxp.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/jaxws.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/jdk.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/langtools.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/nashorn.tar.xz \
-  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.1.0/hotspot.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="9507d90a1e4773690a18143eaca13f25 \
- 1b9b9e9102abfc387acb4d244580fb9a \
- d697eb0b8df5ee5242768be1678f1684 \
- a3cbe28e27ebff38c8475ecae56ad446 \
- 92da27a8622b92ee60ca67452f695927 \
- e2143b152be03f3ec66313294606c100 \
- 39c75541d8bbe9be9cfd7f58c0950641 \
- 3c266698f3b192fd5616ce9548d1ead2 \
- d4d70521fee922201c309a64be22b239"
+DOWNLOAD="http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-3.3.0.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/openjdk.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/corba.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/jaxp.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/jaxws.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/jdk.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/langtools.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/nashorn.tar.xz \
+  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/drops/icedtea8/3.3.0/hotspot.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="86d61ef5d3abff3938be8bbb9e03e444 \
+  2d1c5467d3c7818ee7ec81d37c1bbbd4 \
+  1bc8c5b63eca3918f1c4c934bf66b233 \
+  2b3559177fead9ccb56db07191102870 \
+  92612fa7cfecf27357743c932a091b9b \
+  2a732b3f46453fb45b1a37b7c1ab3db8 \
+  b10431e5823ac859de631e183b1d0b67 \
+  9cc3887801b7ad6c290c4adf4a742130 \
+  e600f285d00ee367b4129450c35f113a"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="openjdk"