IcedTea7 1.11 (OpenJDK7 Milestone 4) released!

[Lillian Angel]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of IcedTea7 1.11.
>
> The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
> OpenJDK7 using Free Software build tools.  It also includes the only
> Free Java plugin and Web Start implementation, and support for
> additional architectures over and above x86, x86_64 and sparc via the
> Zero assembler port and the Shark JIT compiler.
>
> This release provides a version of IcedTea for producing builds of
> OpenJDK7 Milestone 4.  Unlike the binaries mentioned by Mark Reinhold
> (http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7_m4) and Xiomara Jayasena
> (http://blogs.sun.com/xiomara/entry/jdk7_m4u), those produced by
> IcedTea are completely Free Software, and include Free implementations
> of a Java plugin and Web Start support.  You can also build IcedTea on
> architectures not supported by OpenJDK as standard e.g. ppc, ppc64,
> arm via the Zero assembler port (--enable-zero).  There is also
> experimental support for a JIT based on LLVM.
>
> What’s New?
> —————–
> - Updated to OpenJDK7 b66 (Milestone 4), including
>   JSR 308: Annotations on Java types.
> - Updates/bug fixes for netx, Shark and the web plugin.
> - Zero is now provided in the upstream forest rather than in-tree.
> - The options
>   - --with-openjdk
>   - --with-icedtea
>   - --with-openjdk-home
>   - --with-icedtea-home
>   - --with-gcj-jdk
>   have been removed.  The JDK is now specified by --with-jdk-home
>   and whether or not do a full bootstrap or not is now decided
>   by --disable-bootstrap (the default is yes).  This is in preparation
>   for making the two stages independent of the JDK used, but some
>   artefacts still remain in this release; the supported behaviour
>   is still the use of gcj jdk for a full bootstrap and icedtea
>   for a quick build.
> - Added java method tracing using systemtap version 0.9.9+.
> - Added latest security fixes.
> —————–
>
> The tarball can be downloaded here:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-1.11.tar.gz
>
> The following people helped with this release:
> Lillian Angel, Gary Benson, Deepak Bhole, Andrew Haley, Andrew John
> Hughes, Matthias Klose, Omair Majid, Xerxes RÃ¥nby, Mark Wielaard
>
> We would also like to thank all the bug reporters and testers!
>
> To get started:
> $ tar xzf icedtea-1.11.tar.gz
> $ cd icedtea-1.11
>
> Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL:
> $ ./configure [--enable-visualvm --with-jdk-home --disable-bootstrap
> --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...]
> $ make
>   

Fedora 11 i386, srpm and x86_64 rpms here:
http://langel.fedorapeople.org/java-1.7.0-openjdk/


Cheers,
Lillian