IcedTea 1.5.2 Released!

Lillian Angel langel at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 08:55:33 PDT 2009


We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.5.2.

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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- Timezone fix: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=377
- Stackoverflow error fix: 
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=381
- Backport regression (NPE) fix for AccessControlContext fix
- Bump to hs14b16
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The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-28.b16.fc11.nosrc.rpm 

http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.5.2.tar.gz

The following people helped with this release:
Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John Hughes, 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



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