IcedTea-Web 1.7.2 released!

[Jiri Vanek]

Linux link is wrong:
http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/download/icedtea-web-binaries/1.7.2/linux/icedtea-web-1.7.2.linux.bin.zip

On 3/11/19 11:10 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 60d90df1ab87b25d429e5b4ad117557a60fbe3296ff972b2fa9776848fe56b70  icedtea-web-1.7.2.linux.bin.zip
> cf3e784b21e4a2a1d04637aa20eddf5719788639e3d9fa9f1ede26de756565cc  icedtea-web-1.7.2.portable.bin.zip
> 824e976dc434610f1a3871a33cb15be2c4e1d4045cff4a9a086f160185634fbf  icedtea-web-1.7.2.tar.gz
> f50d6363efc06c038550b9092b80e466fdb6bc0ea9dd2a8230385a31f7dd277f  icedtea-web-1.7.2.win.bin.zip
> 369d0a6d2ee69c67f39536ff611abdbb87cd62062273618763b63fdce2673515  itw-installer.msi
> 
> 
> 
> 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