Maven crashes with following assert with JDK8-b115/hs25-b57:

# To suppress the following error report, specify this argument
# after -XX: or in .hotspotrc: SuppressErrorAt=/klassVtable.cpp:634
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (/HUDSON/workspace/8-2-build-linux-amd64/jdk8/685/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/klassVtable.cpp:634), pid=24177, tid=139999236503296
# assert(is_miranda(m, ik()->methods(), ik()->default_methods(), ik()->super())) failed: should be a miranda_method
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0-b115) (build 1.8.0-ea-fastdebug-b115)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.0-b57-fastdebug mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/filipp/Development/hs_err_pid24177.log
Phoning home...
Using server: 10.161.186.18, port 4711
#
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I was able to reproduce issue on my linux-amd64 desktop with maven 3.1.1:
Apache Maven 3.1.1 (0728685237757ffbf44136acec0402957f723d9a; 2013-09-17 19:22:22+0400)
Maven home: /opt/maven
Java version: 1.8.0-ea-fastdebug, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /tmp/jdk1.8.0/fastdebug/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-49-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

To reproduce just run following command:
JAVA_HOME=<path to 8's fastdebug build> mvn