OpenJDK 6 B28 Available

Alex Kasko alex.kasko.lists at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 11:29:09 PDT 2013


On 10/04/2013 09:06 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The OpenJDK6 B28 source release is now available for download:
>
> https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/download/openjdk-6-src-b28-04_oct_2013.tar.gz
>
> sha256sum:
> ac4fceed060ad61dab938c41181455fb0910f58f6944f820f0637b0f0c64bf75
>
> A list of all changes is available here:
> https://openjdk6.java.net/OpenJDK6-B28-Changes.html
>
> Please note that builds based on this do not pass the TCK. All the
> failures were caused by limited crypto. Patches are available to address
> this [1]. This is not a regression as far as I know.

Could you give me a piece of advice on this, please, what patch should I 
use for unlimited crypto support?

1) patch from OpenJDK7: maillist thread [1], patch [2]
2) patch from IcedTea6: maillist thread [3], patch [4]

>
> A special thanks to Andrew Hughes for all his contributions (especially
> with the hotspot 23 backport) and to Pavel Tisnovsky for testing.
>
> Onwards to b29!
>
> Cheers,
> Omair
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7188845
>

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-September/006798.html
[2] 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/100062/webrev.01/make/javax/crypto/Makefile.udiff.html
[3] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2008-September/000329.html
[4] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/attachments/20080925/dc0d181c/icedtea-clean-crypto.patch

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Regards,
Alex Kasko


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