IcedTea6 1.10 Branch Open for Business! Release: 2nd of March, 2011

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

IcedTea6 has now officially branched for the 1.10 release.
The planned release date is a week from now: *Wednesday, the 2nd of March, 2011*
Please start your test machines!
All commits to the 1.10 branch (as with other release branches) require PRIOR APPROVAL.

Known issues:
  * Shark fails with hs20: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=639
  * JamVM does not yet build (as in ./configure --enable-jamvm).

If these issues are not resolved prior to the release date, the options will be
disabled in configure and fixes welcome (dependent on approval) for later minor
releases.

If b22 is released prior to the release date with the expected minimal changes of
security fix integration, IcedTea6 1.10 will use this release instead of the current
b21.  This avoids us having to carry those security fixes on the release branch
permanently.

For TCK users:

We are aware that builds of IcedTea6 since the integration of b21 have failed the TCK.
If this situation should not change prior to the release of 1.10, you may need to
revert the following patches locally or apply your own fixes if a TCK pass is essential
to your use of IcedTea6 1.10:
  * http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jaxp/rev/e83211607595
  * http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/langtools/rev/5c2858bccb3f
We will not be reverting this in 1.10 itself as we feel this is detrimental to users
who don't use or care about this proprietary test suite.

Onwards to 1.11!
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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