In the demo application for 1.26, all of the WebPopOvers look like the following example image, where the shadow region is not transparent and and is not blended with the underlying components.

Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.7.0_51
System: Mac OS X version 10.9.1 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
As an additional point of reference, the WebPopOver shadows are rendering properly with JRE 1.7.0_25.
In the demo application for 1.26, all of the WebPopOvers look like the following example image, where the shadow region is not transparent and and is not blended with the underlying components.
Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.7.0_51
System: Mac OS X version 10.9.1 running on x86_64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)
As an additional point of reference, the WebPopOver shadows are rendering properly with JRE 1.7.0_25.