| 1 | This document contains a brief list of the most important OS/2-specific changes
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| 2 | in the OpenJDK product from release to release.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | CHANGES
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| 6 |
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| 7 | 1.6.0 Build 27 GA4 (2012-12-31)
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| 8 |
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| 9 | - Updated OpenJDK sources to b27 (released October 26, 2012). The list of
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| 10 | changes in b26 and b27 is available here:
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| 11 | and a number of other fixes. The full list of changes is located here:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | https://blogs.oracle.com/openjdk6releases/resource/OpenJDK6-B26-Changes.html
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| 14 | https://blogs.oracle.com/openjdk6releases/resource/OpenJDK6-B27-Changes.html
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| 15 |
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| 16 | - Use stdout instead of stderr for printing usage info from java[w] launchers.
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| 20 | 1.6.0 Build 25 GA3 (2012-07-21)
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| 21 |
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| 22 | - Updated OpenJDK sources to b25 (release May, 07, 2012). The main changes in
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| 23 | b25 are the latest round of security updates (in jdk and corba repositories)
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| 24 | and a number of other fixes. The full list of changes is located here:
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| 25 |
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| 26 | https://blogs.oracle.com/openjdk6releases/entry/openjdk_6_b25_available
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| 27 |
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| 28 | - Fix a hang in the TCP/IP Configuration application when saving the changes.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | - Fix warnings about stack guard pages that could eventually lead crash the
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| 31 | Java application.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | - Add related changes to make the IcedTea-Web (Java) browser plugin work.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | - Fix a possible secondary crash when generating the Java crash report.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | - Change the version numbering scheme to 1.6.0_BB-bNN-name where BB is the
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| 38 | upstream Build number, NN is the OS/2 sequential build number and name is
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| 39 | a symbolic name of the release. This release's version is 1.6.0_25-b01-GA3.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | - Make sure the BEGINLIBPATH setting is not necessary for JAVA.EXE and
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| 42 | JAVAW.EXE binaries (and for creating a JVM by loading JVM.DLL directly).
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| 43 | It is only necessary for JAVAC.EXE and other SDK tools.
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| 44 |
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| 47 | 1.6.0 Build 24 GA2 (2012-03-19)
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| 48 |
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| 49 | - Updated OpenJDK sources to b24 (release November 2011). The main changes in
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| 50 | b24 are the latest round of security updates (e.g. the security changes in
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| 51 | jdk repo) and a few other fixes. For more information see the detailed list
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| 52 | of all the changes in OpenJDK 6 B24 here:
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| 53 |
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| 54 | http://blogs.oracle.com/openjdk6releases/resource/OpenJDK6-B24-Changes.html
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| 55 |
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| 56 | - Make the JNI interface calling convention compatible with IBM Java. This
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| 57 | allows old OS/2 JNI DLLs to be loaded by OpenJDK and makes standard
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| 58 | programs like LVMGUI and TCP/IP Configuration work properly under it.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | - Fix hangs at crashes when the Java process is killed by Ctrl-C or by a kill
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| 61 | signal.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | - Fix crashes following the "Attempt to protect stack guard pages failed"
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| 64 | warning message (Odin bug).
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| 65 |
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| 66 | - Fix spontaneous NoClassDefFoundError exceptions thrown by some applicatinos
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| 67 | at startup (Odin/b22 bug).
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| 68 |
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| 70 | 1.6.0 Build 22 GA (2011-06-27)
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| 71 |
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| 72 | - Fixed crashing of Java applications on SMP systems.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | - Don't allow to use two different JVM types at a time (as it is not possible
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| 75 | due to OS/2 LX DLL format limitations) and give an error message instead.
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| 76 |
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| 77 | - A number of minor fixes in JVM and Odin libraries.
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| 78 |
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| 80 | 1.6.0 Build 22 WSE (2011-05-12)
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| 81 |
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| 82 | - Fixed: Opening the print dialog would crash the Java application.
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| 83 |
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| 84 | - Fixed: Printed text was flipped along the base line on output.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | - Fixed: The dtdbuilder tool would write the binary DTD to stdout causing
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| 87 | "\n" to "\r\n" expansion on OS/2 and thus breaking the resulting file which
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| 88 | in turn would completely break support of HTML text in Swing components
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| 89 | [vendor bug, regresion Build 22 (RC2)].
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| 90 |
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| 92 | 1.6.0 Build 22 RC2 (2011-03-28)
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| 93 |
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| 94 | - Updated OpenJDK sources to b22 (release February 2011). The main changes in
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| 95 | b22 are the latest round of security updates; in addition, there are a few
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| 96 | copyright and licensing fixes. A detailed list of all the changes in b22 is
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| 97 | available here:
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| 98 |
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| 99 | http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/resource/OpenJDK_6/openjdk6-b22-changes-summary.html.
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| 100 |
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| 101 | - Fixed and improved system tray support. Requires the Extended system tray
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| 102 | widget for XCenter/eCenter (see README.OS2 for a download link).
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| 103 |
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| 104 | - Fixed: Sound did not work in LIBPATHSTRICT=T mode (Odin bug).
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| 105 |
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| 106 | - Fixed: SIGABRT that would unexcpectedly terminate some Java applications,
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| 107 | e.g. IzPack based installers (GCC compiler bug).
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| 108 |
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| 109 | - Fixed: Crash during Drag'n'Drop operations in some Java applications, e.g.
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| 110 | JAlbum (Odin bug).
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| 111 |
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| 112 | - Fixed DLL loading code in the JVM that would print a useless message when
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| 113 | one of the required DLLs is not found.
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| 114 |
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| 115 | - A bunch of smaller fixes in Odin libraries that should improve OpenJDK
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| 116 | behavior.
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| 119 | 1.6.0 Build 19 RC (2011-02-21)
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| 120 |
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| 121 | - Ported and enabled the JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture) component
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| 122 | which provides a framework for debugging Java applications.
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| 123 |
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| 124 | - Added sound (audio and MIDI) support to Java applications using DART.
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| 125 |
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| 126 | - Added a free implementation of the com.sun.image.codec.jpeg package (taken
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| 127 | from the IcedTea project) used by some old Java applications like Jeti/2.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | - Renamed all Java DLLs by adding a 'j' prefix to the names to avoid possible
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| 130 | conflicts with system DLLs.
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| 131 |
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| 132 | - Fixed: Accessing the network from Java applications would crash on some
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| 133 | machines (Odin bug).
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| 134 |
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| 135 | - Fixed: Spontaneous 100% CPU load in many Java applications (e.g. GenealogyJ
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| 136 | Jeti/2) when throwing NullPointerException as a result of accessing null
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| 137 | objects of some application classes (Odin bug).
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| 138 |
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| 139 | - Fixed: java.util.prefs.Preferences: Use the Open32 registry on OS/2 instead
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| 140 | of throwing an exception.
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| 141 |
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| 142 | - Fixed: JVM used PATH instead of LIBPATH to comprise java.library.path
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| 143 | resulting in inability to find JNI DLLs in some applications.
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| 144 |
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| 145 | - Fixed: Crash in java.io.WinNTFileSystem.getSpace() (Odin bug).
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| 146 |
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| 147 | - Fixed: Exception java.awt.image.ImagingOpException in many applications due
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| 148 | to wrong exports from in jmlibimg.dll.
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| 151 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Beta 2 (2011-01-12)
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| 152 |
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| 153 | - Added a predefined font configuration file to use the Liberation font family
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| 154 | as Java system fonts (see README.OS2 for details).
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| 155 |
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| 156 | - Added the jawt.lib library to the SDK package.
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| 157 |
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| 158 | - Added some missing GUI and audio classes to rt.jar.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | - Fixed: Java could not find a .jar file in the current directory when
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| 161 | starting it with 'java -jar filename.jar'.
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| 162 |
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| 163 | - Fixed: Non-ASCII characters in the title bar of any Java window would be
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| 164 | drawn using wrong glyphs.
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| 165 |
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| 166 | - Fixed: Java could incorrectly detect the default object heap size on some
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| 167 | systems for some specific VIRTUALADDRESS values and abort at startup with a
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| 168 | "Could not reserve enough space for object heap" error message.
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| 169 |
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| 170 | - Fixed: java.io.File.mkdirs() wouild always fail which would in particular
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| 171 | abort the installation process of some applications such as jEdit, iTrain
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| 172 | (this bug was actually fixed in Odin).
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| 173 |
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| 174 | - Fixed: An attempt to use Drag & Drop in any Java application would cause
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| 175 | a Java exception and program termination.
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| 178 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Beta (2010-12-30)
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| 179 |
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| 180 | - Added support for AWT and Swing classes which brings GUI capabilities.
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| 181 |
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| 182 | - Lots of small fixes.
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| 185 | 1.6.0 Build 19 Alpha (2010-10-01)
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| 186 |
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| 187 | - First public release.
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