IcedTea6 1.12 Released!

Tue Jan 29 07:26:44 PST 2013

We are pleased to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.12.0!

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.

This is the first major release in a year (1.11 was released on
2012-01-30).  In accordance with the release policy, 1.10 will
no longer receive security updates [1].

Full details of each release can be found below.

What’s New?
—————–

New in release 1.12.0 (2012-01-29):

* Import of OpenJDK6 b27 (all changes already in security updates)
* Import of OpenJDK6 b26
  - S7071826: Avoid benign race condition in initialization of UUID
  - S7123896: Unexpected behavior due to Solaris using separate IPv4 and IPv6 port spaces
  - S7142509: Cipher.doFinal(ByteBuffer,ByteBuffer) fails to process when in.remaining() == 0
  - S7157903: JSSE client sockets are very slow
  - S7174440: JDK6-open build breakage
  - S7175845: JSSE client sockets are very slow
  - S7176477: TEST: Remove testcase test/java/lang/SecurityManager/CheckPackageDefinition.java from jdk6-open
  - S7184700: Backout changes with wrong id for 7157903
  - S7199153: TEST_BUG: try-with-resources syntax pushed to 6-open repo
* Import of OpenJDK6 b25
  - S6790292: BOOTDIR of jdk6 u12 will not work with jdk7 builds
  - S6967036: Need to fix links with // in Javadoc comments
  - S7007299: FileFontStrike appears not to be threadsafe
  - S7022473: JDK7 still runs /etc/prtconf to find memory size
  - S7058133: Javah should use the freshly built classes instead of those from the BOOTDIR jdk
  - S7107919: Remove hotspot assertion due to Solaris 8 kstat "unimplemented".
  - S7123519: problems with certification path
  - S7126889: Incorrect SSLEngine debug output
  - S7127104: Build issue with prtconf and zones, also using := to avoid extra execs
  - S7128474: Update source copyright years
  - S7128505: Building on em64t system does not work
  - S7149751: another krb5 test in openjdk6 without test infrastructure
* Backports
  - S6706974: Add krb5 test infrastructure
  - S6764553: com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.utils.IdResolver is not thread safe
  - S6761072: new krb5 tests fail on multiple platforms
  - S6883983: JarVerifier dependency on sun.security.pkcs should be removed
  - S4465490: Suspicious about double-check locking idiom being used in the code
  - S6763340: memory leak in com.sun.corba.se.* classes
  - S6873605: Missing finishedDispatch() call in ORBImpl causes test failures after 5u20 b04
  - S6980681: CORBA deadlock in Java SE believed to be related to CR 6238477
  - S7162902: Umbrella port of a number of corba bug fixes from JDK 6 to jdk7u/8
  - S6414899: P11Digest should support cloning
  - S4898461: Support for ECB and CBC/PKCS5Padding
  - S6604496: Support for CKM_AES_CTR (counter mode)
  - S6682411: JCK test failed w/ ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException (-1) when decrypting with no data
  - S6682417: JCK test failed w/ ProviderException when decrypted data is not multiple of blocks
  - S6687725: Internal PKCS5Padding impl should throw IllegalBlockSizeException and not BadPaddingException
  - S6812738: SSL stress test with GF leads to 32 bit max process size in less than 5 minutes with PCKS11 provider
  - S6867345: Turkish regional options cause NPE in sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId.algOID
  - S6924489: sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11Exception: CKR_OPERATION_NOT_INITIALIZED
  - S7088989: Improve the performance for T4 by utilizing the newly provided crypto APIs
* Bug fixes
  - PR902: PulseAudioClip getMicrosecondsLength() returns length in milliseconds, not microseconds
  - PR1050: Stream objects not garbage collected
  - PR1113: Add tapset tests to distribution.
  - PR1117: IcedTea6 prebuilds far too many classes on bootstrap
  - PR1121: Old installs still suffer from GCC PR41686
  - PR1119: Only add classes to rt-source-files.txt if the class (or one or more of its methods/fields)
    are actually missing from the boot JDK
  - PR1114: Provide option to turn off downloading of tarballs (--disable-downloading)
  - PR1176: Synchronise CACAO rules between IcedTea6/7/8 where possible
  - RH513605: Updating/Installing OpenJDK should recreate the shared class-data archive
  - G422525: Apply pax markings before using a freshly built JVM.
  - PR986: IcedTea fails to build with IcedTea6 CACAO due to low max heap size
* CACAO
  - PR1120: Unified version for icedtea6/7
  - CA166, CA167: check-langtools fixes for icedtea6
  - Implemented sun.misc.Perf.highResCounter
  - CACAO now identifies by its own Mercurial revision
  - Some memory barrier maintenance
  - Ability to run when compiled as Thumb on armv5 (no Thumb JIT though) 
  - Stop creating pseudo files for OpenJDK (libjsig.so, Xusage.txt)
  - Clang fix for the i386 backend
  - CONTRIBUTE: Reference code submission process wiki instructions.
  - INSTALL.CACAO: Update, so following the instruction actually works.
  - Make doxygen work
  - CA172, PR1266, G453612: ARM hardfloat support
  - src/scripts/java.in: Look for cacao executable in install path, not in PATH.
  - src/vm/jit/alpha/asmpart.S: Fix copyright header.
  - src/vm/jit/alpha/asmpart.S: Properly set up GP in asm_abstractmethoderror
  - Use @abs_top_builddir@ for support scripts
* JamVM
  - ARMv6 armhf: Changes for Raspbian (Raspberry Pi)
  - PPC: Don't use lwsync if it isn't supported
  - X86: Generate machine-dependent stubs for i386
  - When suspending, ignore detached threads that have died, this prevents
    a user caused deadlock when an external thread has been attached to the VM
    via JNI and it has exited without detaching
  - Add missing REF_TO_OBJs for references passed from JNI, this enable JamVM
    to run Qt-Jambi
  - PR1155: Do not put version number in libjvm.so SONAME
* SystemTap
  - Addition of garbage collection probes

The tarball can be downloaded from:

* http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.12.0.tar.gz

SHA256 checksums:

4f27f3f42b57836cfb11541736282ccfc22de3f4acc0e540560fcf5512d66ced  icedtea6-1.12.0.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 this release:

* Lukas Berk (garbage collection probes)
* Andrew Haley (PR584 & other ARM32 port fixes)
* Andrew John Hughes (all other fixes, OpenJDK updates & release management)
* Robert Lougher (JamVM fixes)
* Omair Majid (PR1050 & other PulseAudio fixes)
* Xerxes Rånby (JamVM updates & ARM32 fixes)
* Stefan Ring (CACAO updates & fixes)
* Ralph Sennhauser (G422525)
* Yasumasa Suenaga (SystemTap fixes)
* Pavel Tisnovsky (S4465490, S6883983, S6761072, S6764553, patch & test fixes)
* Jon VanAlten (tapset test work)
* Mark Wielaard (SystemTap & makefile fixes)

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!

To get started:

$ tar xzf icedtea6-1.12.0.tar.gz

Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:

$ mkdir icedtea6-build
$ cd icedtea6-build
$ ../icedtea6-1.12.0/configure [--enable-zero --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...]
$ make

Happy hacking!

[1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ReleasePolicy
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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