Proposed IcedTea6-1.5 Release

[Lillian Angel]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> Lillian Angel schrieb:
>   
>> Lillian Angel wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to have a release in the new future, which includes the
>>> new b16 update and several important improvements to the plugin.
>>>
>>> Any objections or suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lillian
>>>       
>> There is still quite a bit of work to be done for the upcoming 1.5
>> release, but I have cloned the main repo:
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/
>>
>> It has not been tagged yet, but continue to commit to the main repo and
>> I will update the 1.5 one when we are ready to go.
>>     
>
> As of today I cannot see any updates which should not be applied to the branch.
> I'd like to have the --with-additional-vms option as part of the release.  The
> one known outstanding issue is the cacao-no-mmap patch, waiting for feedback
> from the cacao maintainers.
>   

I will update the branch when everyone is ready to go ahead.

> I cannot comment on the state of shark, but being able to build shark with
> recent llvm versions would be a plus.
>
> Is the cleanup for the original hotspot planned for inclusion in the release as
> well?
>   

Yes, I hope it wont be too long. That is the only thing we are waiting for.

> The CVE's for the batch of security patches should be mentioned in the NEWS
> file, not sure which ones ...


Thanks, I will be sure to do that.


Thanks,
Lillian