IcedTea6 1.7 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

We are pleased to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.7!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK6 using Free Software build tools. It also includes the only
Free Java plugin and Web Start implementation, and support for
additional architectures over and above x86, x86_64 and SPARC via the
Zero assembler port.

What's New?
==========

- 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).  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.  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, 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 building the Zero assembler port on Hitachi SH.

The tarball can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.7.tar.gz

The following people helped with the 1.5 and 1.6 release series:

Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John
Hughes, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Matthias Klose, Martin Matejovic, Edward Nevill,
Xerxes Rånby, Robert Schuster,Jon VanAlten, Mark Wielaard and Man Lung Wong.

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!

To get started:
$ tar xzf icedtea6-1.7.tar.gz
$ cd icedtea6-1.6.2

Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure [--enable-visualvm --with-openjdk --enable-pulse-java
--enable-systemtap ...]
$ make

Blog: http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2010/01/27/icedtea6-17-released/

-- 
Andrew :-)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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