/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7: Update news for release.

[andrew at icedtea.classpath.org]

changeset 9629be2e762b in /hg/release/icedtea6-1.7
details: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7?cmd=changeset;node=9629be2e762b
author: Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date: Wed Jan 27 17:48:02 2010 +0000

	Update news for release.

	2010-01-27 Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>

	 * NEWS: Updated for 1.7 release.


diffstat:

2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
ChangeLog |    4 ++++
NEWS      |   13 ++++++++-----

diffs (40 lines):

diff -r be3968e8941c -r 9629be2e762b ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 27 17:38:39 2010 +0000
+++ b/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 27 17:48:02 2010 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ 2010-01-27 Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes@
+2010-01-27 Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes at redhat.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Updated for 1.7 release.
+	
 2010-01-27 Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes at redhat.com>
 	
 	* HACKING: Document new patch.
diff -r be3968e8941c -r 9629be2e762b NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Wed Jan 27 17:38:39 2010 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Wed Jan 27 17:48:02 2010 +0000
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@ New in release 1.7 (XXXX-XX-XX):
-New in release 1.7 (XXXX-XX-XX):
+New in release 1.7 (2010-01-27):
 
 - Updated to OpenJDK6 b17.
 - Alpha version of the new IcedTea NPRuntime based plugin with support for 
   Firefox >= 3.5, Chromium, and other browsers that support NPRuntime 
-  (use --enable-npplugin to build it).
+  (use --enable-npplugin to build it).  For xulrunner >= 1.9.2 (used
+  by Firefox >= 3.6), the new plugin is required and the build will
+  automatically enable it if the old plugin is requested.
 - Support added for building with HotSpot 16 using
-  --with-hotspot-build=hs16.
+  --with-hotspot-build=hs16.  This is the same as was released
+  in the proprietary JDK6 update 18.
 - Zero port updated to match the version submitted to OpenJDK
   as closely as possible.
-- libjpeg7 and libXext >= 1.1.0 supported.
+- libjpeg7, libjpeg8, libpng 1.4 and libXext >= 1.1.0 supported.
 - Added JNI call tracing using systemtap version 1.0+ when
   configuring with --enable-systemtap. See tapset/hotspot_jni.stp.
-- Add support for zero build on Hitachi SH.
+- Add support for building the Zero assembler port on Hitachi SH.
 
 New in release 1.6.2 (2009-11-09)
 - Latest security updates: