prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Lars Herschke]

Hello,

attached a patch that prevents the extra console window on windows.




Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Lars Herschke

Data-Service GmbH
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                  Dr. Uwe Szyszka, Dr. Hans-Martin Rasch
e-mail: lhersch at dssgmbh.de


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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