Upcoming release of IcedTea-Web 1.5.1

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

IcedTea-Web, presumably?

Don't scare me like that... ;)

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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