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1This document contains a brief list of the most important OS/2-specific changes
2in the OpenJDK product from release to release.
3
4
5CHANGES
6
71.6.0 Build 24 GA2 (2012-03-19)
8
9 - Updated OpenJDK sources to b24 (release November 2011). The main changes in
10 b24 are the latest round of security updates (e.g. the security changes in
11 jdk repo) and a few other fixes. For more information see the detailed list
12 of all the changes in OpenJDK 6 B24 here:
13
14 http://blogs.oracle.com/openjdk6releases/resource/OpenJDK6-B24-Changes.html
15
16 - Make the JNI interface calling convention compatible with IBM Java. This
17 allows old OS/2 JNI DLLs to be loaded by OpenJDK and makes standard
18 programs like LVMGUI and TCP/IP Configuration work properly under it.
19
20 - Fix hangs at crashes when the Java process is killed by Ctrl-C or by a kill
21 signal.
22
23 - Fix crashes following the "Attempt to protect stack guard pages failed"
24 warning message (Odin bug).
25
26 - Fix spontaneous NoClassDefFoundError exceptions thrown by some applicatinos
27 at startup (Odin/b22 bug).
28
29
301.6.0 Build 22 GA (2011-06-27)
31
32 - Fixed crashing of Java applications on SMP systems.
33
34 - Don't allow to use two different JVM types at a time (as it is not possible
35 due to OS/2 LX DLL format limitations) and give an error message instead.
36
37 - A number of minor fixes in JVM and Odin libraries.
38
39
401.6.0 Build 22 WSE (2011-05-12)
41
42 - Fixed: Opening the print dialog would crash the Java application.
43
44 - Fixed: Printed text was flipped along the base line on output.
45
46 - Fixed: The dtdbuilder tool would write the binary DTD to stdout causing
47 "\n" to "\r\n" expansion on OS/2 and thus breaking the resulting file which
48 in turn would completely break support of HTML text in Swing components
49 [vendor bug, regresion Build 22 (RC2)].
50
51
521.6.0 Build 22 RC2 (2011-03-28)
53
54 - Updated OpenJDK sources to b22 (release February 2011). The main changes in
55 b22 are the latest round of security updates; in addition, there are a few
56 copyright and licensing fixes. A detailed list of all the changes in b22 is
57 available here:
58
59 http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/resource/OpenJDK_6/openjdk6-b22-changes-summary.html.
60
61 - Fixed and improved system tray support. Requires the Extended system tray
62 widget for XCenter/eCenter (see README.OS2 for a download link).
63
64 - Fixed: Sound did not work in LIBPATHSTRICT=T mode (Odin bug).
65
66 - Fixed: SIGABRT that would unexcpectedly terminate some Java applications,
67 e.g. IzPack based installers (GCC compiler bug).
68
69 - Fixed: Crash during Drag'n'Drop operations in some Java applications, e.g.
70 JAlbum (Odin bug).
71
72 - Fixed DLL loading code in the JVM that would print a useless message when
73 one of the required DLLs is not found.
74
75 - A bunch of smaller fixes in Odin libraries that should improve OpenJDK
76 behavior.
77
78
791.6.0 Build 19 RC (2011-02-21)
80
81 - Ported and enabled the JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture) component
82 which provides a framework for debugging Java applications.
83
84 - Added sound (audio and MIDI) support to Java applications using DART.
85
86 - Added a free implementation of the com.sun.image.codec.jpeg package (taken
87 from the IcedTea project) used by some old Java applications like Jeti/2.
88
89 - Renamed all Java DLLs by adding a 'j' prefix to the names to avoid possible
90 conflicts with system DLLs.
91
92 - Fixed: Accessing the network from Java applications would crash on some
93 machines (Odin bug).
94
95 - Fixed: Spontaneous 100% CPU load in many Java applications (e.g. GenealogyJ
96 Jeti/2) when throwing NullPointerException as a result of accessing null
97 objects of some application classes (Odin bug).
98
99 - Fixed: java.util.prefs.Preferences: Use the Open32 registry on OS/2 instead
100 of throwing an exception.
101
102 - Fixed: JVM used PATH instead of LIBPATH to comprise java.library.path
103 resulting in inability to find JNI DLLs in some applications.
104
105 - Fixed: Crash in java.io.WinNTFileSystem.getSpace() (Odin bug).
106
107 - Fixed: Exception java.awt.image.ImagingOpException in many applications due
108 to wrong exports from in jmlibimg.dll.
109
110
1111.6.0 Build 19 Beta 2 (2011-01-12)
112
113 - Added a predefined font configuration file to use the Liberation font family
114 as Java system fonts (see README.OS2 for details).
115
116 - Added the jawt.lib library to the SDK package.
117
118 - Added some missing GUI and audio classes to rt.jar.
119
120 - Fixed: Java could not find a .jar file in the current directory when
121 starting it with 'java -jar filename.jar'.
122
123 - Fixed: Non-ASCII characters in the title bar of any Java window would be
124 drawn using wrong glyphs.
125
126 - Fixed: Java could incorrectly detect the default object heap size on some
127 systems for some specific VIRTUALADDRESS values and abort at startup with a
128 "Could not reserve enough space for object heap" error message.
129
130 - Fixed: java.io.File.mkdirs() wouild always fail which would in particular
131 abort the installation process of some applications such as jEdit, iTrain
132 (this bug was actually fixed in Odin).
133
134 - Fixed: An attempt to use Drag & Drop in any Java application would cause
135 a Java exception and program termination.
136
137
1381.6.0 Build 19 Beta (2010-12-30)
139
140 - Added support for AWT and Swing classes which brings GUI capabilities.
141
142 - Lots of small fixes.
143
144
1451.6.0 Build 19 Alpha (2010-10-01)
146
147 - First public release.
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