New 1.6 release imminent: 1.6.3

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 17 March 2010 16:13, Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 17 March 2010 15:56, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 17.03.2010 16:31, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> There are some changesets on the 1.6 branch that have not yet been
>>> released (including aph's debuginfo patch and a backport of the issue
>>> with ReentrantReadWrite locks).  I'm going to do a quick build test,
>>> then tag and release this as 1.6.3.
>>>
>>> Any objections?
>>
>> No, just update the NEWS file; 1.6.2 didn't have any news
>>
>>  Matthias
>>
>
> Ok.  Should be out tomorrow.
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> Andrew :-)
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I'll be backporting the following in addition to what's already in the 1.6 tree:

SystemTap backports mjw	did to 1.5:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/58b7ae54c4de
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/397c2dcd4a51
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/6bb9237570f2
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/292aecacc3f7
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/31398144ad0b
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/ff13d97de406

Rhino fix from 1.7:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/6c9f8be2112d
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/1d8cf45a1b92
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/82a1b4fa752e
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/688aa682ce06
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/240dae063336

PulseAudio fixes:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/f4d6e5d2be10
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/77c3e685bd80

Addition of THANKYOU:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/d6610428db7d

Stack marking fix:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.5/rev/60f5ceb2ad2e

With these and the previously mentioned fixes, it should be a fairly
worthwhile release.
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