prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

As few bugs were found, new prerelase is done:

Linux
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip

Win
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/2/itw-installer.msi


In additon, prerelease of 1.7 is here:

Linux
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/icedtea-web-1.7.2pre.linux.bin.zip
Win
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/icedtea-web-1.7.2pre.win.bin.zip
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.7/itw-installer.msi

Docs and fedora changes can be reused from original build:
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/1/icedtea-web-docs/
 - https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw/1.8/1/fedora

If nothing more is found, I hope to make an release in Monday

Thanx all!

J.
On 2/22/19 12:15 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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.
> 


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