[icedtea-web] RFC: Update NEWS file

[Deepak Bhole]

* Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> [2010-12-02 12:17]:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch updates the NEWS file. It reorganizes things into
> major/minor sections, so all important items are visible first.
> 
> Thoughts/comments?
> 

Sorry, I thought I had approved this. Okay for HEAD and 1.0.

Cheers,
Deepak

> Cheers,
> Omair

> diff -r 6c8e9229bded NEWS
> --- a/NEWS	Thu Dec 02 10:22:44 2010 -0500
> +++ b/NEWS	Thu Dec 02 10:34:27 2010 -0500
> @@ -13,18 +13,29 @@
>  * Initial release of IcedTea-Web
>  * Security updates
>    - RH645843, 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
> -  - PR552: Support for FreeBSD's pthread implementation
> -  - 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
> -  - PR593: Increment of invalidated iterator in IcedTeaPluginUtils (patch from barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it)
> -  - 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
> -* Control Panel
> -  - Modifications to deployments.properties file can now be done through a GUI
> +* New Features
> +  - IcedTea-Web now uses a deployment.properties file to specify configuration
> +  - An preview of a Control Panel that allows configuring IcedTea-Web using a GUI
> +  - System-level as well as user-level deployment.properties files with locked configuration are supported
> +  - Static proxies are now supported using the deployment.properties file
> +  - User prompts can now be configured using the deployment.properties
> +  - Applications and applets can now have a Look and Feel different from rest of IcedTea-Web
> +* Minor improvements and fixes
> +  - common: Clean up native directories on exit
> +  - common: Cached files with special characters in filenames are now handled correctly
> +  - common: Interfaces javax.jnlp.IntegrationService and javax.jnlp.DownloadService2 are now available
> +  - javaws: PR592: NetX can create invalid desktop entry files
> +  - javaws: Add a new option -Xclearcache
> +  - javaws: Removed option -umask
> +  - javaws: Applications with non-public main classes are now supported.
> +  - javaws: JNLP files containing <component-desc> as well as <application-desc> will now work
> +  - javaws: The javaws.desktop file now points explicitly to NetX's javaws binary
> +  - plugin: PR542: Plugin fails with NPE on http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/iframe.php?visualID=2615
> +  - plugin: PR552: Support for FreeBSD's pthread implementation
> +  - plugin: PR554: System.err writes content two times
> +  - plugin: PR556: Applet initialization code is prone to race conditions
> +  - plugin: PR557: Applet opens in a separate window if tab is closed when the applet loads
> +  - plugin: PR565: UIDefaults.getUI fails with jgoodies:looks 2.3.1
> +  - plugin: PR593: Increment of invalidated iterator in IcedTeaPluginUtils (patch from barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it)
> +  - plugin: JNLP files referenced in the applet tag are now parsed to detect applet properties
> +  - plugin: Applets are now double-buffered to eliminate flicker in ones that do heavy drawing