What's New In Kaffe 1.1.7
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* Many cleanups, warning fixes and bug fixes.
* Removed support for class library profiles, since
--with-glibj-zip offers a more convenient replacement.
* Updated to boehm-gc 6.6
* Updated to gjdoc 0.7.7
* Merged in fastjar.
* Merged in zlib. There is a new configure option,
--with-system-zlib to allow the use of the system zlib,
instead of the merged in one.
* Merged in GNU Classpath completely. Updated to version 0.90,
with additional fixes.
* Merged in port to DROPS.
* Merged in port to Blackfin CPU.
* Support for DragonFly BSD.
* Ported to ia64-freebsd and alpha-freebsd.
* Ported to powerpc-openbsd.
* Improved support for Cygwin and sparc64-openbsd.
* Improved stack handling for pthreads on openbsd.
* Added simple direct threading interpreter implementation.
The patches have been removes, since they were either included upstram or are
no more necessary
This release contains many improvements, including the merge with gnu classpath
0.18
Also, patches from PR 30585 have been integrated upstream.
Thanks joerg for testing it under dragonfly
by M.Negovanovic PRs pkg/24507, pkg/24508, also add a new Makefile.common
which will be used for the upcoming kaffe-nox11 package and finally
bl3ify.
Changes:
* Support for security policy files
* AttachCurrentThread jni function for posix threads
* Bug fixes:
* jar tool and jar file fixes
* URL context handling
* EUC-JP support rewritten to use libiconv
* HTTP fixes
* MulticastSocket
* DNSJava binding
* ARM jit
* ServerSocket.bind
* java.math.BigDecimal - fix rounding operations
* JNI fixes
* FTP handler from GNU Inetlib
* SHA1PRNG randomness fixes (can use /dev/urandom if
available)
* java.security.SecureClassLoader fix
* GNU Classpath merges and updates:
* Object serialization
* almost all of java.io from Classpath
* java.nio, java.net
* java.util, java.util.regex
* java.math, javax.naming
* java.text, java.beans
* java.net.protocol.file.Handler
* java.util.Random
* java.awt.GridBadLayout
* java.awt.geom
* javax.swing.event.EventListenerList
* javax.swing.text.AttributeSet
* Updated sound code from Tritonus.org
* Updated javax.net.ssl/javax.security code
from Jessie
* kjc bug fixes:
* .this expressions
* extra generated <clinit> methods
* static initializers fixed. Circular
definitions of fields are now supported.
* Build fixes:
* m68k atomic compare and exchange
* m68k-netbsd
* ALSA 1.0
* mipsel-linux / jit3
* Cygwin
* FreeBSD networking
* parisc and HP-UX
And more... http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe-announce/2004/000023.html
M.Negovanovic. While this version is actually a ``development'' version,
it has been reported to be much more usable than the stable 1.0.7 version.
Changes to 1.0.7 are far too numerous to list here, see http://www.kaffe.org
and/or the ChangeLog in the tarball.
