IcedTea-Web 1.8 released!

[Jiri Vanek]

Linux link is wrong:
http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/linux/icedtea-web-1.8.linux.bin.zip

On 3/13/19 1:42 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> I'm happy to announce that ITW with native launchers is finally out  -
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.8/
> 
> Multiplatform portable build:
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/icedtea-web-1.8.portable.bin.zip
> 
> Windows portable build :
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/windows/icedtea-web-1.8.win.bin.zip
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/windows/itw-installer.msi
> 
> Linux portable build:
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.8/icedtea-web-1.8.portable.bin.zip
> 
> Sources:
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/source/icedtea-web-1.8.tar.gz
> 
> Docs:
>  * http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-docs/1.8/
> 
> all with signatures verifiable by fingerprint:
>     C058 EF1E 7498 12E6 A486  384B 53B5 CFF6 71EE ED59
> 
> 074955c9ca36b9c02df17a71052584b2da6293808db138baa20a6bee41a2dd38  icedtea-web-1.8.linux.bin.zip
> faf5b9b74707667686a177acd1212a68503ed89d71268df2081b160b8ec280d2  icedtea-web-1.8.portable.bin.zip
> f0ecea7c7edc4906d5dc963df939624b6895da9605f7350057e20b76d30ffd15  icedtea-web-1.8.tar.gz
> 13ce2b10146139a4137d6108066c64e9f75a712ad856dc823e35eabeaf820755  icedtea-web-1.8.win.bin.zip
> f23dc0285f7beb686d29b57c52a45ff70eb710755e9dd85c19cf5fcfba90732b  itw-installer.msi
> 
> New in release 1.8 (2019-03-12):
> * 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.
> * shared native launchers
> * 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
> 3707 ---	Linux build keeps pulling dunce even if it is ifcfged out
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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