IcedTea-Web 1.3 released!

[adomurad]

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 18:09 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> IcedTea-Web 1.3 is now released and available for download!
> 
> This release is the first of what we hope will be regular releases based on
> time rather than features. It includes many bug fixes and new features. Some of
> the highlights include:
> 
> New features:
>   - Web Start launch errors are now printed to give proper indication as to the
>     cause
>   - Significant performance improvement when loading applets that refer to
>     missing classes
>   - Support for latest versions of Chromium
>   - Security warning dialog improvements to better clarify security request
>   - Support build with GTK2 and GTK3
>   - Cookie write support (i.e set cookies in browser via Java/Applet)
> 
> Bug fixes:
>   Common:
>     - Applet window icon improved
> 
>   Plug-in:
>     - PR975: Ignore classpaths specified in jar manifests when using jnlp_href
>     - PR1011: Treat folders as such when specified in archive tags
>     - PR855: AppletStub getDocumentBase() now returns full URL
>     - PR722: Unsigned META-INF entries are ignored
>     - PR861: Jars can now load from non codebase hosts
> 
>   Web Start:
>     - PR898: Large signed JNLP files now supported
>     - PR811: URLs with spaces now handled correctly
> 
> Full notes with bug ids are available in the NEWS file:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.3/file/a63733958565/NEWS
> 
> Available for download here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.3.tar.gz
> 
> Build instructions are here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Building_IcedTea-Web
> 
> SHA256 sum:
> d46ec10700732cea103da2aae64ff01e717cb1281b83e1797ce48cc53280b49f icedtea-web-1.3.tar.gz
> 
> Thanks to everyone who helped with this release:
> Danesh Dadachanji
> Adam Domurad
> Peter Hatina
> Lars Herschke
> Andrew Hughes
> Omair Majid
> Thomas Meyer
> Saad Mohammad
> Martin Olsson
> Jiri Vanek

(Adding Danesh to cc.)

Congratulations to everyone involved, this is a major improvement to
icedtea-web! 

- Adam