preparing a icedtea-1.3 release?

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 17:48 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> The last icedtea release 1.2 (bases on b09) was four months ago. I would like to
> prepare a 1.3 release based ob b12. are there currently outstanding issues?

Good idea. There have been lots of improvements since the last official
1.2 release. Including various security and crasher issues, that we
really should make sure are picked up by the various distros.

>  - general?

I would like to get the better version reporting in that you and andrew
suggested. Andrew already has something in icedtea[7].

>  - cacao?
>  - icedtea plugin?
>  - zero/shark?

Lets make sure that cacao and zero/shark are synced and the default
configure options set. Deepak, do you feel the liveconnect/icedteaplugin
support is ready for being enabled by default?

> If possible I aim for a release candidate for the next weekend and for a final
> release in about two weeks.

I'll work on some release notes to summarize all the new stuff.

Cheers,

Mark