IcedTea7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> 
> As some of you may know, there's an OpenJDK valentine's day gift on
> its way; a new batch of
> security updates:
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
> 
> I'd like to also do the IcedTea7 2.1 release, which will get the u2
> changes out to end-users.
> This also has the advantage that this is closer to what Oracle will
> release as u3 than the
> strange hybrid of u1 and the new security patches we'll end up with
> in 2.0.1.
> 
> I haven't seen any issues since we merged u2 into HEAD.  Doesn't
> anyone have any problems with
> releasing 2.1 along with the other security updates?
> --
> Andrew :)
> 
> Free Java Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
> 
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> 

As there's been no response to this, we'll branch for 2.1 on Monday
and the release will happen with the other security releases sometime
on Tuesday/Wednesday.  Please get your patches into IcedTea7 HEAD NOW
if you want them in the next release.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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