IcedTea6 1.10.1 Released!

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

We are pleased to announce a new minor release of IcedTea6, 1.10.1!

The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK6 using Free Software build tools. It also includes support for
using alternate virtual machines such as CACAO and JamVM.

What’s New?
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New in release 1.10.1 (2011-04-04):

* HotSpot 20 updated to b11.
* Backports
  - S7023591, S7027667: Clipped antialiased rectangles are filled, not drawn.
  - Add missing privileged block around access to the sun.awt.nativedebug property.
  - S7032388, PR682: Make HotSpot work on machines without cmov instruction again
  - S7031385, PR680: Incorrect register allocation in orderAccess_linux_x86.inline.hpp
* Fixes
  - G356743: Support libpng 1.5.
* CACAO
  - Ignore all unknown options, but report them.
  - Fixes build for newer gcc (at least 4.4) on PPC64, breaks older gcc.
  - CA123: LD_LIBRARY_PATH and java.library.path.
  - CA143: don't hang with invalid locale.
  - CA144: aligned patchers on x86_64.
  - CA148: support for LCMP bytecode.
  - CA152: Calling Policy.setPolicy with a new Policy object has no effect on the DefaultSecurityManager.
  - CA156: uncaughtExceptionHandler doesn't work with OpenJDK 6 b21.
  - CA157: ARM SMP Assertion thinlock failed.
* JamVM
  - Handle overflow in getPhysicalMemory().
  - Base default min and max heap size on physical memory.
  - Fix reflective array access.
  - Handle O_DELETE in JVM_Open.
  - Minor performance improvement on ARM.
  - First set of changes to support JamVM/OpenJDK on MacOS X.
  - Minor memory leak (missing free).
  - Handle integer overflow on i386/amd64.
  - On ARM, force interpreter to be built in ARM mode.
  - MIPS: 64-bit and interpreter inlining by default.
  - Trivial implementation of stubs for MIPS.

The tarball can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.10.1.tar.gz

SHA256 sums:

0aa25a27fc8d44aa5da65d6852e2ab5baf2e5a31470084b5c0e2dd421567d7eb  icedtea6-1.10.1.tar.gz

The following people helped with this release:

* Deepak Bhole
* Andrew John Hughes
* Matthias Klose
* Denis Lila
* Xerxes Rånby
* Pavel Tisnovsky

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

To get started:
$ tar xzf icedtea6-1.10.1.tar.gz
$ cd icedtea6-1.10.1

Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure [--enable-cacao --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...]
$ make
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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