IcedTea-Web 1.3 released!

Danesh Dadachanji danesh.d90 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 13:03:20 PDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:38 AM, adomurad <adomurad at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.)
>

No need, I'm already on distro. =)

Cheers,
Danesh



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