IcedTea 1.1

Posted on July 14, 2007, 02:09.

From Lillian on the OpenJDK distro-pkg-dev mailinglist about IcedTea 1.1

We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea 1.1. This release represents the stabilization of Crypto and SSL support.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. More information on IcedTea can be found here: http://icedtea.classpath.org

What’s new?

  • GNU Crypto security providers have been merged from GNU Classpath.
  • SSL support by means of the IcedTls security provider.
  • DebugInfo is always generated.
  • Initial graphics work: Color management and raster fixes for compatibility with LittleCMS, and work to satisfy libt2k requirements with Freetype.
  • Uses OpenJDK build 15.
  • Various bug fixes: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/

The tarball and nosrc RPM can be downloaded here: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/

The following people helped with this release:
Gary Benson, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kyle Galloway, Andrew Haley, Francis Kung, Casey Marshall, Mark Wielaard and Lillian Angel.

We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!

Nice work!

4 Comments

  1. Hervé says:
    July 29, 2007 at 13:14

    There’s also announcements of a version 0.7 b16, what is this 1.1 vs 0.7 b stuff, are they pointing to the same thing ?

    Maybe a stupid question…

    However, thanks for the good work !!!

  2. Mark Wielaard says:
    July 29, 2007 at 22:12

    Hi Hervé,

    I haven’t seen anything like 0.7 so I cannot really answer your question.

    Cheers,

    Mark

  3. Hervé says:
    July 31, 2007 at 02:43

    Hello,

    In fact there is clearly a 1.1 version on the source download directory, but in the fedora directory, there is now a java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.9.b16.nosrc rpm (0.7 b15 on 13th of July). This version seems to be younger than 1.1. Maybe the 0.7-0.9 b16 number are related to the openJDK version, and not the icedtea wrappers ?

    Hervé

  4. Mark Wielaard says:
    August 3, 2007 at 09:07

    See http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2007-July/000168.html where Thomas Fitzsimmons says:

    Yes, the release number field is 0.9.b16. Everything after 0.9 is symbolic, and doesn’t affect RPM upgrading. I’ll encode the IcedTea release in the next RPM, which will likely be 0.10.b16.1.2.

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