IcedTea-Sound 1.0.0 Released!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Is IcedTea-Sound compatible with all versions of OpenJDK, or do you plan
> to maintain several branches for different JDKs?
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
> 
> Le 18/07/2014 23:21, Andrew Hughes a écrit :
> > We are pleased to announce the inaugural release of IcedTea-Sound.  At
> > present, IcedTea-Sound contains the PulseAudio provider which was
> > removed from IcedTea itself from 2.5.0 onwards. More providers may be
> > included in the future.
> > 
> > If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug
> > database (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla) under the
> > IcedTea-Sound product and the appropriate component. Development
> > discussion takes place on the distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing
> > list (as with IcedTea) and patches are always welcome.
> > 
> > Full details of the release can be found below.
> > 
> > What's New?
> > ===========
> > New in release 1.0.0 (2014-07-18):
> > 
> > * PR1741: Break PulseAudio provider out into IcedTea-Sound
> > * PR1840: Replace Makefile.am references to PULSE_JAVA with ICEDTEA_SOUND
> > * PR1842: Linker does not check that symbols can be resolved for
> > libpulse-java.so
> > * PR1876: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME:
> > /usr/lib64/libicedtea-sound.so
> > 
> > The tarballs can be downloaded from:
> > 
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
> > 
> > We provide both gzip and xz tarballs, so that those who are able to
> > make use of the smaller tarball produced by xz may do so.
> > 
> > The tarballs are accompanied by digital signatures available at:
> > 
> > *
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
> > *
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz.sig
> > 
> > These are produced using my public key. See details below.
> > 
> >     PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/)
> >     Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
> > 
> > SHA256 checksums:
> > 
> > 0d09bc9656f9125642f70bb322f8ec92ec0ae28fdd295e83c4ce3c7576e79bd3
> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
> > cb47dec753e4853ba8021a3b532631c2b751450d0d9d580c3ddce99fe8b4c7a9
> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
> > 29511d271cbb5259eac5dd48867e27d61ce4ce15026dc105277dbf1238333dbb
> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
> > c16cb29502d6edb16fb611b3d1ffbda199919f56afc8691a7dceee08b009b528
> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz.sig
> > 
> > The checksums can be downloaded from:
> > 
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.sha256
> > 
> > The following people helped with this release:
> > 
> > * Andrew Hughes (all bug fixes, release management)
> > 
> > We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
> > 
> > To get started:
> > 
> > $ tar xzf icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
> > 
> > or:
> > 
> > $ tar x -I xz -f icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
> > 
> > then:
> > 
> > $ mkdir its-build
> > $ cd its-build
> > $ ../icedtea-sound-1.0.0/configure --prefix=${install_location}
> > $ make
> > $ make install
> > 
> > where ${install_location} should be replaced by the prefix where you
> > wish to install IcedTea-Sound (default is /usr/local). Depending on
> > the prefix selected, the 'make install' step may need root privileges.
> > 
> > Full build requirements and instructions are available in the INSTALL file.
> > 
> > Happy hacking!
> > 
> 
> 

The intention of splitting it out was so that multiple copies weren't being
maintained across every release of IcedTea. It should work with any JDK in theory.
-- 
Andrew :)

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

PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/)
Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F  8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07