IcedTea6 1.3 Released!

[Lillian Angel]

Lillian Angel wrote:
> We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.3.
>
> 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 b12 build.
> - Fixed to use new sound service, Gervill.
> - Many Netx fixes and now built by default.
> - LiveConnect support (--enable-liveconnect).
>  - Implemented JavaScript->Java security.
> - PulseAudio integrated (--enable-pulse-java)
> - VisualVM tool integrated (--enable-visualvm).
> - Added out-of-the-box CACAO support (--with-cacao).
> - Added the experimental Shark JIT for Zero.
> - Cleaned up crypto support, all algorithms and key sizes are fully
>  supported now without any (regional) restrictions. No more need for
>  separate crypto policy jars.
> - Integration of Mozilla Rhino javascript support for javax.script.
>  (See http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179 when
>   you want to enable non-system-installed versions of Rhino).
> - Add support for Zero builds on alpha, arm, mips, mipsel, m68k, s390.
> - Various build fixes.
> - Several bug and security 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-1.6.0.0-0.23.b12.fc10.nosrc.rpm 
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.3.tar.gz
I forgot to mention that java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.23.b12 will be 
available in Fedora rawhide within the next week.


Cheers,
Lillian