IcedTea 1.4 Released!

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Fri Oct 12 09:47:23 PDT 2007



Lillian Angel wrote:
> We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.4.
> 
> 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?
> -----------------
> * Updated to OpenJDK b21 build (README and INSTALL updated accordingly).
> * Now using SSL/Crypto support included in b21, OpenSSL certs
> still read directly.
> * TZdata fix: uses System's timezone data.
> * Memory issue fix: maximum PermGen space set to 128M and MaxHeap
> to 512M.
> * Xinerama fix: uses system installed library instead.
> * DebugInfo fix: generates full debuginfo, regardless of
> optimization.
> * Fixed JConsole crash.
> * Several other 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:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons, Andrew Haley, Matthias Klose, Keith Seitz, Christian
> Thalinger, Mark Wielaard, Lillian Angel.

and Joshua Sumali, of course!


Lillian



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