IcedTea-Web 1.6.2

[Andrew Hughes]

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

Is there a list of IcedTea-Web releases? I notice that Bugzilla doesn't have
any version after '1.5' and the NEWS file in the repo [0] just has:

$ grep '^New in' NEWS
New in release 1.7 (2015-XX-XX):
New in release 1.6 (2015-XX-XX):
New in release 1.5 (2014-XX-XX):
New in release 1.4 (2013-XX-XX):
New in release 1.3 (2012-XX-XX):
New in release 1.2 (2011-XX-XX):
New in release 1.1 (2011-XX-XX):
New in release 1.0 (2010-XX-XX):
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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