IcedTea6 1.7.3 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

We are pleased to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.7.3!

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?

New in release 1.7.3 (2010-03-31):

- Fix for plugin buffer overflow:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555342
- Fix issue with ant -diagnostics on ant 1.8.0 due to changed exit code

The tarball can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.7.3.tar.gz

The following people helped with the 1.7 release series:

Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John
Hughes, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Matthias Klose, Martin Matejovic, Edward Nevill,
Xerxes R=C3=A5nby, Robert Schuster, Pavel Tisnovsky, Jon VanAlten, Mark Wie=
laard and Man Lung Wong.

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

To get started:
$ tar xzf icedtea6-1.7.3.tar.gz
$ cd icedtea6-1.7.3

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

-- 
Andrew :-)

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

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