IcedTea-Web 1.6.2

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Wed Feb 3 16:44:43 UTC 2016


Hello!

There is bug-fixes dedicated release of ITW:

Tarballs are as usually on wildbeast at classpath.org
http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.6.2.tar.gz
ef9b7746dab933afa871428da73169f6  icedtea-web-1.6.2.tar.gz

The docs of 1.6.2 are at http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-docs/1.6.2/html/ (As 
usually ....

After the build, you may find new, not installed metadata directory, where are gnome-software and 
maven artefacts (yes, itw had become someone's dependence :) ) Feel free to use or not use them at all.

Also please, I'm strongly encouraging all packagers, to move theirs distros to 1.6.2. I'm closing 
bugs which are working with 1.6.2 as "works". 1.5 will not get any other update unless some security 
flaw is found.
Also although there were few regressions between 1.5 and 1.6, they all should begone now.

Also - if your distro already dropped or deprecated  NPAPPI try to point users to ITW's javaws -html 
switch. I think the global knowledge of this switch is really small. Its not all mighty, but should 
cover the minority of applets which deserves to survive fail of NPAPI.

My special thanks are going to all who helped to test prerelease:
	Thomas Mayer
	J. Franz
	Neon
and
	Doko (To who I stormed with "Hey can you build me 1.6.2pre  ubuntu packages... and he just did... 
TYVM!)

Best regards from CZ
   J.


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