IcedTea 1.2 Fonts and Graphics Release

[Lillian Angel]

We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.2.
This release represents the inclusion of Fonts and Graphics!

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 b16 build.
* Freetype font support fully replacing the encumbered libt2k.
* Path widening imported from GNU Classpath.
* Window decorations on x86_64 fixed.
* Anti-aliasing support explicitly disabled (instead of crashing).
* OpenSSL certs read directly.
* Various graphics and crypto 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:
Gary Benson, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kyle Galloway, Andrew Haley, Francis
Kung, Casey Marshall, Raif Naffah, and Lillian Angel.

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


Lillian.


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

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

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

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