IcedTea6 1.2 Released
We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.2.
The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 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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- Updated to b09.
- Added the the lcms library with PYCC and LINEAR_RGB ICC
profiles.
- Integrated Gervill to provide midi support.
- JTreg integrated.
- javaws/NetX fixes:
— improved security, namely catching Socket permissions during
runtime
— implemented the remaining JNLP services api (PrintService, JNLPRandomAccessFile)
— applet focusing bug fixed
- sparc/sparc64 port
- Desktop file integration.
- Various zero fixes.
- Sound fixes.
- Font fixes.
- Many bug fixes here and here.
Read about the future plans for OpenJDK in Fedora 10 here.
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The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded from here.
The following people helped with this release:
Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Andrew Haley, Andrew John Hughes, Matthias Klose, Dan Munckton, Parag Nemade, Keith Seitz, Joshua Sumali, Christian Thalinger, Mark Wielaard, Yi Zhan
We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
To get started:
$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6
$ cd icedtea6
Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure
$ make
So will we have to wait for Fedora 10 to get all these improvements or are you planning to push the update to Fedora 9 too?
IMHO IcedTea6 would be fairly safe to update within a Fedora release, as this is all Java stuff and (almost) compliant to a fixed spec (so compatibility issues are very unlikely), and the bug fixes alone would warrant pushing the updates.
It will be updated in F-9 and rawhide very soon. A couple of things need to be done first, but it will surely be pushed as an update.