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

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 22:49 Wed 23 Feb     , Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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 :)
> 
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I made progress on the Shark issue via http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/883350003da5
It still fails to link though :-(
-- 
Andrew :)

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