[icedtea-web] RFC: News Update

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2010-11-24 14:55]:
> This brings in changes still listed in 1.10's NEWS file (which obviously
> aren't present any more because we removed the plugin and NetX :-)
> It also adds a bit of structure so release notes will look good when
> they appear.
> 
> 2010-11-24  Andrew John Hughes  <ahughes at redhat.com>
> 
> 	* NEWS: Bring in changes from IcedTea6 1.10
> 	NEWS (now redundant there) and apply same structure
> 	as in IcedTea6.
>

Ah, these nice patches :) ... Looks good, okay for head.

Thanks!
Deepak
 
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> diff -r 75832973e0fa NEWS
> --- a/NEWS	Wed Nov 24 14:15:11 2010 -0500
> +++ b/NEWS	Wed Nov 24 19:52:52 2010 +0000
> @@ -11,7 +11,16 @@
>  New in release 1.0 (2010-XX-XX):
>  
>  * Initial release of IcedTea-Web
> -* CVE-2010-3860: IcedTea System property information leak via public static
> -* PR542: Plugin fails with NPE on http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/iframe.php?visualID=2615
> -* Applets are now double-buffered to eliminate flicker in ones that do heavy drawing
> -* Iinterfaces javax.jnlp.IntegrationService and javax.jnlp.DownloadService2 are now available
> +* Security updates
> +  - CVE-2010-3860: IcedTea System property information leak via public static
> +* Plugin
> +  - PR542: Plugin fails with NPE on http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/iframe.php?visualID=2615
> +  - PR554: System.err writes content two times
> +  - PR556: Applet initialization code is prone to race conditions
> +  - PR557: Applet opens in a separate window if tab is closed when the applet loads
> +  - PR565: UIDefaults.getUI fails with jgoodies:looks 2.3.1
> +  - Applets are now double-buffered to eliminate flicker in ones that do heavy drawing
> +* NetX
> +  - Add a new option -Xclearcache
> +  - Interfaces javax.jnlp.IntegrationService and javax.jnlp.DownloadService2 are now available
> +  - PR592: NetX can create invalid desktop entry files