Upcoming release of 1.4.1

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Mon Sep 16 02:51:05 PDT 2013


On 09/16/2013 11:34 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 09:48 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> As fixes for 1.4 are multiplying, I would like to  propose release of icedtea-web 1.4 at the
>> beginning of next week.
>>
>> Please consider branch frozen in that time, as it will be subject of testing.
>>
>> J.
>
> Hi all!
>
> Please consider http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.4 as frozen. Tarball:
> a03135f895d60837f6bf7784de0c3914 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.4 is under
> testing.

arrgh, wrong url!

http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.4.1.tar.gz

>
>
> Unless some mayor fault will be found, this will become official release.
> As there is nothing crucial, if somebody feels something shoud be added, let me know as soon as
> possible , and I will retag.
>
> Not much had happened:
>
> New in release 1.4.1 (2013-XX-YY):
> * Improved and cleaned Temporary internet files panel
> * NetX
>   - PR1465 - java.io.FileNotFoundException while trying to download a JAR file
>   - PR1473 - javaws should not depend on name of local file
> * Plugin
>   - PR854: Resizing an applet several times causes 100% CPU load
> * Security Updates
>   - CVE-2012-4540, RH869040: Heap-based buffer overflow after triggering event attached to applet
>
> + reproducers tests are enabled in dist-tarball
> + application context support for  OpenJDK build 25 and higher
> + small patches into rhino support and
> + PR1533: Inherit jnlp.packEnabled and jnlp.versionEnabled like other properties
>   - which are backports and are not in news from some reason :)
>
>
> Happy testing
>    J.




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