IcedTea-Web 1.5.1 released!

[Jiri Vanek]

Hi All!


This update brings many small fixes, see NEWS, among which few great are hidden:


New in release 1.5.1 (2014-08-15):
* 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


So as side effect you can run this reelase on jdk6, jdk7,and jdk8. Also on OpenJDK, OracleJDK and 
partially also Ibm JDK! And as last nit you can run it offline :)

As usually the download  tarball is ready on classapth.org:


http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.5.1.tar.gz

  sha256sum  icedtea-web-1.5.1.tar.gz
  03f16356fa84564f1ae32286e0a090a464c87ec123b40602dcea925757900195  icedtea-web-1.5.1.tar.gz

Special thanx goes to:
Andrew Azores
Lukas Dracz
Jie Kang
and
Omair Majid with Jacob Wisor  for never ending watch

Thank you!

J,