IcedTea 1.6 Released with Zero-assembler and JNLP support!

We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.6.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. More information on IcedTea can be found here.

What’s New?
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- Zero-assembler implemented.
- JNLP support added with NetX. Still a work-in-progress.

This release of IcedTea also includes new features added to NetX.
– Signed applications display a dialog asking permission to run, with additional signing information and certificate details.
– Implemented JNLP services: File read and write, Clipboard read and write.
– Unsigned applications must now get permission from the user before the above JNLP services function.
Check out the screenshots.

- Updated to build with gcc 4.3.
- Many, many, many other bug fixes: here and here.
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The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here.

The following people helped with this release:
Gary Benson, Lillian Angel, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Andrew Haley, Joshua Sumali, Francis Kung, Matthias Klose, Dalibor Topic.

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!

To get started:
$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea
$ cd icedtea
Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure
$ make