Upcoming releases of IcedTea-Web 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

[Jiri Vanek]

The sin is done, consider  http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.4 as unfrozen.

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>> Hi all!
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>> 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:)
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>> http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.4pre1.tar.gz
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>> I hope that "regressions" or how to call those issues will be fixed asap.
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>> Sorry and thank you
>> J.
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>> New in IcedTea-Web 1.4
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>> * 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
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>> People who helped with this release (If I forgot somebody, please let me know!):
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>> 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>
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>> Special thanks to:
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>> * 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
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