Upcoming release of icedtea 1.5.1

[Jiri Vanek]

Hi all!

Many minor improvements and enhancements of 1.5 now should be stable:

* Massively improved offline abilities.
* Improved to be able to run with any JDK
* JDK 8 support added (URLPermission granted if applicable)
* Added DE and PL localizations
* Added KEY_ENABLE_MANIFEST_ATTRIBUTES_CHECK deployment property to control scan of Manifest file
* Control Panel
   - PR1856: ControlPanel UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
* NetX
   - PR1858: Java Console accepts multi-byte encodings
   - PR1859: Java Console UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
   - RH1091563: [abrt] icedtea-web-1.5-2.fc20: Uncaught exception java.lang.ClassCastException in 
method sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer$8.run()
* Plugin
   - PR1743 - Intermittant deadlock in PluginRequestProcessor
   - RH1121549: coverity defects
* PolicyEditor
   - codebases without permissions assigned save to file anyway (and re-appear on next open)
   - PR1776: NullPointer on save-and-exit
   - Custom permissions are properly formatted


Please consider 1.5 branch as frozen, as it is subject of release maintenance and testing.
If nothing bad happens, I would like to release IcedTea-Web 1.5.1 in middle of next week.


Thank you!
   J.