prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

On 3/12/19 4:28 PM, Lars Herschke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> attached a patch that prevents the extra console window on windows.

Also, why it is not visible on linux? What is the scenario behind seeing it?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
> Lars Herschke
> 
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> 
> Jiri Vanek schrieb:
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>


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