IcedTea-Web 1.6.2 released

[Jiri Vanek]

And the subject is...
IcedTea-Web 1.6.2 released

Sorry!
J.
On 02/03/2016 05:44 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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.