IcedTea6 1.1 Released!

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 07:07:48 PDT 2008


We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.1.

The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK6 (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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- Zero builds on any architecture.
- New features added to NetX:
    - Certificate fingerprints now show as part
      of certificate details.
    - gcjwebplugin can now run applets through NetX,
      taking advantage of NetX's sandboxing and application security.
    - User trusted certificates can be managed by passing the -viewer
      option to NetX.
- Updated to b08.
- Many bug fixes
(http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/ and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/).
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The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.8.b08.fc9.nosrc.rpm
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.1.tar.gz

The following people helped with this release:
Matthias Klose, Christian Thalinger, Mark Wielaard, Joshua Sumali, 
Gary Benson,
Andrew Haley, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Keith Seitz, Lillian Angel


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




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