IcedTea 1.3 Web Browser Plugin Release

[Lillian Angel]

We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.3.
This release represents the inclusion of a web browser plugin!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) 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:
http://icedtea.classpath.org


What's new?
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* Updated to OpenJDK b18 build.
* Web browser plugin support using gcjwebplugin.
* Now using Fonts included in b18.
* Graphics fixes.
* SSL/Crypto fixes.
* Refactored build process.
* Various bug fixes (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/).

The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/


The following people helped with this release:
Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Tania Bento, Thomas Fitzsimmons,
Andrew Haley, Francis Kung, Joshua Sumali, Mark Wielaard


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

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To get started on a Fedora 7 GNU/Linux system with yum:
$ sudo yum install /usr/bin/ecj mercurial cups-devel lesstif-devel
libXp-devel xalan-j2 xerces-j2 libXt-devel libgcj firefox-devel
glib2-devel gtk2-devel

Then:
$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea
$ cd icedtea

Full build instructions are in INSTALL, but this works:
$ ./configure
$ make

When this completes you'll have a usable IcedTea in
openjdk/control/build/linux-i586 or openjdk/control/build/linux-amd64.