IcedTea6 1.10.7 & 1.11.2 Released!

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK6 using Free Software build tools, along with additional
features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative
virtual machines.

A new set of releases is now available for IcedTea6, which
uses OpenJDK6 as its base:

* IcedTea6 1.10.7 (based on OpenJDK6 b22)
* IcedTea6 1.11.2 (based on OpenJDK6 b24)

Full details of each release can be found below.

*PLEASE NOTE*: With this release, the 1.9 series is now NO LONGER SUPPORTED,
in a general push to reduce the release support burden to two releases per
JDK release (6, 7, 8).  We strongly recommend that you upgrade to a new release
series; either of the two above for OpenJDK6.  Alternatively, make the jump to
OpenJDK7 with 2.0.1, 2.1.0 or 2.2.0 (to be released shortly).

What’s New?
—————–

New in release 1.10.7 (2012-05-11):

* Fixed build with GCC 4.7
* Bug fixes
  - PR732: Use xsltproc for bootstrap xslt in place of Xerces/Xalan
  - PR881: Sign tests (wsse.policy.basic) failures with OpenJDK6
  - Specify both source and target in IT_GET_DTDTYPE_CHECK.
  - PR758: [regression] javah from 6hg/b23 generates `jlong' from `private int'
  - Install nss.cfg into j2re-image too.
* Backports
  - S6792400: Avoid loading of Normalizer resources for simple uses
  - S7103224: collision between __LEAF define in interfaceSupport.hpp and /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h with gcc
  - S7140882: Don't return booleans from methods returning pointers

New in release 1.11.2 (2012-05-11):

* Bug fixes
  - RH789154: javac error messages no longer contain the full path to the offending file:
  - PR797: Compiler error message does not display entire file name and path
  - PR881: Sign tests (wsse.policy.basic) failures with OpenJDK6
  - PR886: 6-1.11.1 fails to build CACAO on ppc
  - Specify both source and target in IT_GET_DTDTYPE_CHECK.
  - Install nss.cfg into j2re-image too.
  - PR584: Don't use shared Eden in incremental mode.
* Backports
  - S6792400: Avoid loading of Normalizer resources for simple uses

The tarballs can be downloaded from:
 
* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.10.7.tar.gz
* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.11.2.tar.gz

SHA256 checksums:

aefa76073ee5c44b9173554d8c50610a394f3123df40b0060ad796fb6d36788e  icedtea6-1.10.7.tar.gz
078637dc8323951b18cbb2aac56fd2f24baaa81f0757391aaa17e1b7577e9ce5  icedtea6-1.11.2.tar.gz

Each tarball is accompanied by a digital signature (available at the
above URL + '.sig').  This is produced using my public key.  See
details below.

The following people helped with these releases:

* Deepak Bhole (GCC 4.7 fixes)
* Danesh Dadachanji (backport of PR732)
* Andrew Haley (fix for PR584)
* Andrew John Hughes (all other fixes and release management)
* Denis Lila (fix for PR758)
* Omair Majid (backport of S7103224, patch reviews)
* Xerxes Ranby (review of CACAO/JamVM arch fix)
* Pavel Tisnovsky (backport of S6792400, fix for PR881 & RH789154).

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
 
To get started:
$ tar xzf <tarball name>
$ cd <tarball name minus .tar.gz suffix>
 
Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
$ ./configure [--with-parallel-jobs[=x] --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...]
$ make
-- 
Andrew :)

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

PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/)
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