IcedTea-Web 1.6.2

[Jiri Vanek]

On 05/19/2016 10:56 PM, Andrew Azores wrote:
> 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

Depends on your purpose. You can:

search http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/ for IcedTea-Web
or check http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.X/file/tip/NEWS

Where x is currently umber one of 1,2,3,4,5,6

>> any version after '1.5' and the NEWS file in the repo [0] just has:
Doesnt? AFAIK it have 1.6 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 and 1.5 which is all what is needed now. Isnt it?
>>
>> $ grep '^New in' NEWS

Yes, it is only for major releases branches connection.

>> 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:
>
and of course this link:

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

which is describing main features forgiven release.
>


Thax both!

J.