Upcoming IcedTea7 release (1.12/Milestone 5)

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/10/29 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
> According to http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/, we're
> approaching milestone 5.  As usual, we'll have a matching IcedTea7
> release.  This means that, assuming b75 is deemed to be milestone 5,
> we'll have a new release (1.12) next Tuesday or Wednesday.
>
> If there's anything you'd like in the release. speak now.
>
> The latest plugin, netx and Shark updates have been forwardported and
> I'm testing the latter now.
>
> The ARM port is not yet in IcedTea7.  If someone wants to test it on
> IcedTea7, we can look at forward-porting the changesets after the
> release.
>
> Note that there are some build changes in IcedTea7 that may catch you out:
>
> - Makefile reorganisation:
>  * icedtea-ecj is now icedtea-boot and patches/ecj is now
>    patches/boot.
>  * The icedtea-against-icedtea target is now icedtea-stage2.
>    The icedtea-against-ecj target is now icedtea-stage1.
>  * We now build one JAR file (an updated rt.jar) for bootstrapping.
>     This replaces the proliferation of rt.jar, tools.jar and rt-closed.jar and
>     removes the hotspot-tools targets.
>
> All but the latter are also listed in NEWS.  I'll update that further
> once Shark is building.
>
> I'm sure people will be glad to know that Nimbus (and hence IcedTea7)
> no longer requires JIBX in any shape or form :)
> --
> Andrew :-)
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The milestone has been delayed:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7-dev/2009-October/001004.html

so the next release will now be in mid-November.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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