IcedTea6 1.5.1 Security Release
Lillian Angel
langel at redhat.com
Fri Aug 7 07:18:24 PDT 2009
We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.5.1.
The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK6 (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools.
What's New?
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- Security fixes from Sun.
- Plugin/Netx security fixes
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The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-27.b16.fc11.nosrc.rpm
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.5.1.tar.gz
The following people helped with this release:
Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John Hughes, Omair
Majid, Marc Schoenefeld, Mark Wielaard, Lillian Angel
We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
To get started:
$ hg clone http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5
$ cd icedtea6-1.5
Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure [--enable-visualvm --with-openjdk --enable-pulse-java
--enable-systemtap ...]
$ make
The new package has been built into Fedora 10, Fedora 11 and Fedora 12
(rawhide) and should appear in the yum repositories in a couple of days.
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