Upcoming releases of IcedTea-Web 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

[Jiri Vanek]

Branch http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.4 is now created. Please consider it as 
frozen.

Also please consider HEAD as free to play.

    J.
>
> Hi all!
>
> Although feature and enhancement list for icedtea-web-1.4 (from users point of view) is compelte,
> release itself can be a bit delayed because of several issues caused by core improvements and by few
> missing tests.
> I'm sorry for troubles but meanwhile I'm offering pre-release tarball for playing and testing:)
>
> http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.4pre1.tar.gz
>
>
> I hope that "regressions" or how to call those issues will be fixed asap.
>
> Sorry and thank you
>    J.
>
> New in IcedTea-Web 1.4
>
> * Numerous improvements and enhancements in core and system of classloaders
> * Added cs_CZ localization
> * Added de localization
> * Splash screen for javaws and plugin
> * Better error reporting for plugin via Error-splash-screen
> * All IcedTea-Web dialogues are centered to middle of active screen
> * Download indicator made compact for more then one jar
> * User can select its own JVM via itw-settings and deploy.properties.
> * Added extended applets security settings and dialogue
> * Security updates
>    - CVE-2013-1926, RH916774: Class-loader incorrectly shared for applets with same relative-path.
>    - CVE-2013-1927, RH884705: fixed gifar vulnerabilit
>    - CVE-2012-3422, RH840592: Potential read from an uninitialized memory location
>    - CVE-2012-3423, RH841345: Incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings
> * NetX
>    - PR1027: DownloadService is not supported by IcedTea-Web
>    - PR725: JNLP applications will prompt for creating desktop shortcuts every time they are run
>    - PR1292: Javaws does not resolve versioned jar names with periods correctly
> * Plugin
>    - PR1106: Buffer overflow in plugin table-
>    - PR1166: Embedded JNLP File is not supported in applet tag
>    - PR1217: Add command line arguments for plugins
>    - PR1189: Icedtea-plugin requires code attribute when using jnlp_href
>    - PR1198: JSObject is not passed to javascript correctly
>    - PR1260: IcedTea-Web should not rely on GTK
>    - PR1157: Applets can hang browser after fatal exception
>    - PR580: http://www.horaoficial.cl/ loads improperly
> * Common
>    - PR1049: Extension jnlp's signed jar with the content of only META-INF/* is considered
>    - PR955: regression: SweetHome3D fails to run
>    - PR1145: IcedTea-Web can cause ClassCircularityError
>    - PR1161: X509VariableTrustManager does not work correctly with OpenJDK7
>    - PR822: Applets fail to load if jars have different signers
>    - PR1186: System.getProperty("deployment.user.security.trusted.cacerts") is null
>    - PR909: The Java applet at http://de.gosupermodel.com/games/wardrobegame.jsp fails
>    - PR1299: WebStart doesn't read socket proxy settings from firefox correctly
>
>
>
> People who helped with this release (If I forgot somebody, please let me know!):
>
>
> Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> Danesh Dadachanji <ddadacha at redhat.com>
> Adam Domurad <adomurad at redhat.com>
> Jana Fabrikova <jfabriko at redhat.co>
> Peter Hatina <phatina at redhat.com>
> Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
> Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>
> Alexandr Kolouch <skolnag at gmail.com>
> Jan Kmetko <jan.kmetko.ml at gmail.com>
> Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com>
> Thomas Meyer <thomas at m3y3r.de>
> Saad Mohammad <smohammad at redhat.com>
> Martin Olsson  <martin at minimum.se>
> Pavel Tisnovsky <ptisnov at redhat.com>
> Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com>
> Jacob Wisor  <gitne at excite.co.jp>
>
>
> Special thanks to:
>
>   * Adam Domurad - for deep investigations and  fixes in core, and in numerous classloaders or
> otherwise complicated bugs
>   * Jan Kmetko - for initial design of splashscreen
>   * Deepak Bhole and Omair Majid - for ever keeping an watchful eye on patches
>   * to community - namely:
>     -  Jacob Wisor and Alexandr Kolouch  - who voluntary offered and delivered Pl and Cz translation
>