1.9 Backports

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 08:18:04 PST 2010


I'd like to backport the following to 1.9 for an imminent 1.9.2 update:

changeset:   2308:ef8a301ba119
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 03 10:52:50 2010 +0000
summary:     Bump to latest revision of hs19 (b09).

changeset:   2309:51aa61578bf2
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 03 10:54:08 2010 +0000
summary:     Update md5sum of hs19 tarball.

changeset:   2310:a4bd79afa729
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 03 18:26:48 2010 +0000
summary:     Additional S390 size_t fixes.

changeset:   2311:d7a53bef488a
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Fri Nov 05 18:28:04 2010 +0000
summary:     Switch back to master tree for hs19.

changeset:   2314:92361970fdc1
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Tue Nov 09 14:51:54 2010 +0000
summary:     Switch to the IcedTea server for JAXP, JAF and JAXWS.

changeset:   2318:2fafb0bc27f2
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 10 14:13:42 2010 +0000
summary:     Backport BigDecimal/Integer performance improvements.

changeset:   2319:58e325d961e2
user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 10 16:05:51 2010 +0000
summary:     RH647737: Disable compressed oops in hs19 to avoid Eclipse failures.

changeset:   2320:ede1628338ab
parent:      2318:2fafb0bc27f2
user:        Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com>
date:        Wed Nov 10 16:28:47 2010 +0100
summary:     Updating fontconfig files for Fedoras 9-14

In short,

* HotSpot 19 update
* Disable compressed oops in hs19 to workaround https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647737
* Use the IcedTea mirror of the JAXP/JAXWS/JAF tarballs to avoid current issues.
* Performance improvements in BigDecimal/BigInteger.
* Fontconfig update
* S390 fix.

Does this sound ok? Is there anything else people want to see in this update?
-- 
Andrew :)

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