IcedTea 2.3.11 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

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

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include support for the
ARM32 JIT port running on HotSpot 23, meaning ARM users can move to the
2.3.x series.

In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow
builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric
architectures. In this release, use of the system version of LCMS is
again enabled by default, but requires version 2.5 or above.

If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug
database (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla) under the appropriate
component. Development discussion takes place on the
distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing list and patches are always
welcome.

Full details of the release can be found below.

What's New?
===========
New in release 2.3.11 (2013-07-24):

* System LCMS 2 support again enabled by default, requiring 2.5 or above.
* ARM Port
  - Add arm_port from IcedTea 6
  - Add patches/arm.patch from IcedTea 6
  - Add patches/arm-debug.patch from IcedTea 6
  - Add patches/arm-hsdis.patch from IcedTea 6
  - Added jvmti event generation for dynamic_generate and compiled_method_load events to ARM JIT compiler
  - Adjust saved SP when safepointing.
  - First cut of invokedynamic
  - Fix trashed thread ptr after recursive re-entry from asm JIT.
  - JIT-compilation of ldc methodHandle
  - Rename a bunch of misleadingly-named functions
  - Changes for HSX22
  - Changes for HSX23
  - Corrected call from fast_method_handle_entry to CppInterpreter::method_handle_entry so that thread is loaded into r2
  - Don't save locals at a return.
  - Fix call to handle_special_method().  Fix compareAndSwapLong.
  - Fix JIT bug that miscompiles org.eclipse.ui.internal.contexts.ContextAuthority.sourceChanged
  - invokedynamic and aldc for JIT
  - Modified safepoint check to rely on memory protect signal instead of polling
  - PR1188: ASM Interpreter and Thumb2 JIT javac miscompile modulo reminder on armel
  - PR1363: Fedora 19 / rawhide FTBFS SIGILL
  - Remove C++ flags from CC_COMPILE and fix usage in zeroshark.make.
  - RTC Thumb2 JIT enhancements.
  - Use ldrexd for atomic reads on ARMv7.
  - Use unified syntax for thumb code.

The tarball can be downloaded from:

    http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-2.3.11.tar.gz

SHA256 checksum:

    0f6ebdb217731fe64a259389c45dafc4759ce565647a6281c0afaccf3bb39f51  icedtea-2.3.11.tar.gz

The tarball is accompanied by a digital signature available at:

    http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-2.3.11.tar.gz.sig

This is produced using my public key. See details below.

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The following people helped with this release:

 * Andrew Dinn (ARM32 port)
 * Andrew Haley (ARM32 port)
 * Andrew Hughes (LCMS changes, release management)
 * Chris Phillips (ARM32 port, including PR1363 and HSX23 work)
 * Xerxes Rånby (PR1188)

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

To get started:

$ tar xzf icedtea-2.3.11.tar.gz
$ mkdir icedtea-build
$ cd icedtea-build
$ ../icedtea-2.3.11/configure
$ make

Full build requirements and instructions are available in the INSTALL file.

Happy hacking!
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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