Imminent Releases

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.07.2010 18:38, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> New releases from the 1.6 branch (1.6.3), 1.7 branch (1.7.4) and
> IcedTea7 (1.12) will take place this coming Wednesday, the 21st,
> except in the event of a serious issue being discovered.
>
> 1.6 and IcedTea7 especially are in bitter need of an update.

Same for 1.8.  Preliminary testing shows that it builds on all Debian and Ubuntu 
architectures, except for mips [1] where ecj/gcj fails to build with a bus 
error, and an old openjdk-6 build is not good enough to build itself. the mipsel 
build did succeed.

   Matthias

[1] 
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=openjdk-6;ver=6b18-1.8-4;arch=mips;stamp=1279194834