IcedTea-Web 1.6.2

[Andrew Azores]

On 19/05/16 04:34 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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):
>

There isn't a whole lot more information here, but it's something:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Release_Plans

-- 
Thanks,

Andrew Azores