IcedTea-Web 1.7.2 released!

[Jiri Vanek]

This release is - on java part - identical with tomorrow's IcedTea-Web 1.8 release. It is considered
as side step for people who are really unable to move to 1.8 to enjoy some good of 1.8 without it
itself.
1.7 is by this considered as decommissioned a all fixes will go to 1.8 and up only.

Multiplatform portable build:
 * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.7.2/icedtea-web-1.7.2.portable.bin.zip

Windows portable build :
 *
http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.7.2/windows/icedtea-web-1.7.2.win.bin.zip
 * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.7.2/windows/itw-installer.msi

Linux portable build:
 * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.7.2/icedtea-web-1.7.2.portable.bin.zip

Sources:
 * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.7.2.tar.gz

Docs:
 * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-docs/1.7.2/

all with signatures verifiable by fingerprint:
    C058 EF1E 7498 12E6 A486  384B 53B5 CFF6 71EE ED59


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New in release 1.7.2 (2019-03-11):
* added support for javafx-desc and so allwong run of pure-javafx only applications
* --nosecurity enhanced for possibility to skip invalid signatures
* enhanced to allow resources to be read also from j2se/java element (OmegaT)
* PR3644 - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
net.sourceforge.jnlp.runtime.JNLPRuntime$DeploymentConfigurationHolder
* deployment.config now support generic url instead just file
* Added support for windows desktop shortcuts via https://github.com/DmitriiShamrikov/mslinks
* cache can now be operated by groups, list by -Xcacheids (details via -verbose, can filter by
regex), Xclearcache now can clear only selected id. There is also gui to operate cache via id in
itweb-settings now.
* desktop shortcut name get shortened to title or file if title is missing.
* scripted launchers rework: Windows bat launchers rewritten to be feature complete, Linux shell
launchers made portable, build enhanced to produce platform independent image

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....

HTH!
  J.

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