From owner-freebsd-announce Fri Jul 24 11:16:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01980 for freebsd-announce-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01921; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA14126; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:39 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA03576; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:38 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:15:38 -0600 Message-Id: <199807241815.MAA03576@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: java-port@FreeBSD.ORG, announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: JDK1.1.6 for FreeBSD 2.2.* Released X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Reply-To: postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is my pleasure to announce that after a long wait, the Java Development Kit version 1.1.6 is released for FreeBSD. Details are available at: http://www.freebsd.org/java Thanks go to Keith White who did most of the work to make this happen. Fixed in this release: - Update to JDK1.1.6 - More standard 'naming' for java.version and such. - Fixes for UDP/Multicast sockets. - The signal abort error may be fixed (knock on wood). - Add support for the "KOI8-R" and "CP866" encodings. - Timezone's now work correctly under FreeBSD (this required some native code, but it is embedded in the JDK so shouldn't affect users. However, FreeBSD has one of the few (only?) VM's that correctly support Timezones now). - sysRmdir() now correctly removes directories. - Link in the xpg4 library to support CJK locales. Known Bugs: ------------------------------------ JDK1.1.6 has a number of 'visual' bugs in it that are reflected in this port as well. Notably, on some window managers all new windows end up in the upper-right corner, windows can sometimes be 'shown' w/out any data in them, windows with small default sizes show are displayed before they are resized, and other similar bugs. Before reporting any bugs of these type please try to verify that they don't exist on the reference unix platform (Solaris) first. Note: A BETA tester noted there are still some bugs in Multicast support, but there are still some issues that need to be resolved in the proposed fix. Rather than wait another period of time before releasing the JDK, we opted to release it first and resolve the issue in a later release. --- The Java Porters This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message