prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

TYVM. Pushed.

Prerelase binraries will be updated on demand.

J.

On 2/25/19 10:39 AM, Olesya Gerasimenko wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Please find attached the updated Russian translation.
> 
> 
> 22.02.2019 14:15, Jiri Vanek пишет:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> Please see the pre-release of icedtea-web 1.8: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/
>> If you can push it through your cases, it would be  awesome. There are native portable builds for
>> both win and Linuxes. There is also multiplatform portable build based on shell/bat launchers only.
>> I had also updated (not released!) fedora builds to this pre - see "fedora" text file:
>> While this prerelase is in testing, I would like to call alive translators - Russian and Czech - to
>> update theirs translations in
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/file/tip/netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/resources/. In
>> addition, I will start backporting of non-native patches to 1.7 so 1.7.2 can follow 1.8 very soon.
>> 1.8 will be released once translations are in place. Of course anything wrong reported with
>> pre-released tarballs will be fixed.
>>
>>
>> Windows testing:
>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
>>   * itw-installer.msi
>>   + icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for custom builds - optional)
>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>
>> Linux testng:
>>   * iccedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>>   * icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for distributions and custom builds - mandatory)
>>   * fedora
>>   + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
>>
>> Note for JRE search:
>>   * windows shell scripts reads java_home or or registry
>>   * linux shell scripts reads java_home or defualt system jdk
>>   * native launchers reads in addition system paths
>> TBH, I doubt I covered all combinations when I run my suites
>>
>>
>> Cases (if you have lack of them, but many of them may be already dead):
>>   * https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#javaws
>>   *
>> https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#IcedTea-Web_webstart_.28javaws.29_test_applications
>>
>>
>> Known bugs:
>> 3705 ---     Webstarted application tries to load resources from server incorrectly
>> 3704 ---     IcedTeaWeb doesn't run SAP PI web start interface - LAZY_CLASSLOADING_FAILED
>> 3697 ---     Custom JRE/JDK within UTF-8 folder name ( key deployment.jre.dir in in
>> deployment.properties ) are not properly handled
>> 3689 ---     DownloadService2 not implemented
>> 3672 ---     Classloader doesn't load jar correctly from JNLP extension
>> 3461 ---    (still) Cannot run HP ILO4 remote console application
>> Windows desktop shortcuts are suspected to not work with jdk11 and up
>>
>>
>> On Linux side, except native launchers and few bug fixes, not much changed. But for windows support
>> this is giant leap to be finally proper replacement for oracle javaws.
>>
>> For 1.9 the plan is to remove plugin completely, and to move to github and under the wings of
>> AdoptOpenJDK....
>>
>> Looking forward for both  positive and negative feedbacks
>>    J.
>>
> 


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Jiri Vanek
Senior QE engineer, OpenJDK QE lead, Mgr.
Red Hat Czech
jvanek at redhat.com    M: +420775390109