prerelase of icedtea-web 1.8

[Jiri Vanek]

Wou. Windows line endings.  How come?-)))

I had fixed it on my end.

TYVM!

J.
On 2/28/19 9:24 AM, skolnag at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here is the Czech translation.
> 
> Greetings
> Alexandr
> 
> 
> 
> pá 22. 2. 2019 v 12:15 odesílatel Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com <mailto:jvanek at redhat.com>> napsal:
> 
>     Hello all!
> 
>     Please see the pre-release of icedtea-web 1.8: https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/
>     If you can push it through your cases, it would be  awesome. There are native portable builds for
>     both win and Linuxes. There is also multiplatform portable build based on shell/bat launchers only.
>     I had also updated (not released!) fedora builds to this pre - see "fedora" text file:
>     While this prerelase is in testing, I would like to call alive translators - Russian and Czech - to
>     update theirs translations in
>     http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea-web/file/tip/netx/net/sourceforge/jnlp/resources/. In
>     addition, I will start backporting of non-native patches to 1.7 so 1.7.2 can follow 1.8 very soon.
>     1.8 will be released once translations are in place. Of course anything wrong reported with
>     pre-released tarballs will be fixed.
> 
> 
>     Windows testing:
>      * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>      * icedtea-web-1.8pre.win.bin.zip
>      * itw-installer.msi
>      + icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for custom builds - optional)
>      + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
> 
>     Linux testng:
>      * iccedtea-web-1.8pre.linux.bin.zip
>      * icedtea-web-1.8pre.portable.bin.zip
>      * icedtea-web-1.8pre.tar.gz (sources for distributions and custom builds - mandatory)
>      * fedora
>      + https://jvanek.fedorapeople.org/itw1.8/icedtea-web-docs/
> 
>     Note for JRE search:
>      * windows shell scripts reads java_home or or registry
>      * linux shell scripts reads java_home or defualt system jdk
>      * native launchers reads in addition system paths
>     TBH, I doubt I covered all combinations when I run my suites
> 
> 
>     Cases (if you have lack of them, but many of them may be already dead):
>      * https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#javaws
>      *
>     https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web-Tests#IcedTea-Web_webstart_.28javaws.29_test_applications
> 
>     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....
> 
>     Looking forward for both  positive and negative feedbacks
>       J.
> 


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