IcedTea7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> ----- 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.
> 

I've branched the IcedTea7 forest (http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest)
locally, including the security updates, and this will be made public when the
security releases occur.  All further pushes to the forest HEAD will now be part of 2.2.

IcedTea7 HEAD (http://icedtea.classapth.org/hg/icedtea7) is still open for build fixes
(e.g. CACAO changes).  I'll branch this at 9am (UTC) tomorrow.

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

-- 
Andrew :)

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

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