IcedTea6 1.2 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 29/05/2008, Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com> wrote:
> We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.2.
>
>  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?
>  -----------------
>  - Updated to b09.
>  - Added the the lcms library with PYCC and LINEAR_RGB ICC
>   profiles.
>  - Integrated Gervill to provide midi support.
>  - JTreg integrated.
>  - NetX fixes:
>   - Improved security, namely catching Socket permissions during
>   runtime
>   - Implemented the remaining JNLP services api
>   - Applet focusing bug fixed
>  - sparc/sparc64 port
>  - Desktop file integration.
>  - Various zero fixes.
>  - Sound fixes.
>  - Font fixes.
>  - Many bug fixes (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/
> and
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/).
>
>  -----------------
>
>  The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.14.b09.fc9.nosrc.rpm
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz
>
>  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
>
>
>

Congratulations on the release!
-- 
Andrew :-)

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