Hi,
This adds the 0.93 release announcements to our webpages. And it cleans
up a few small things in the includes.
2006-12-17 Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/www.gnu.org/include/layout.wml: Remove gif reference.
* doc/www.gnu.org/include/macros.wml: Correct FSF contact info.
* doc/www.gnu.org/newsitems.txt: Add 0.93.
* doc/www.gnu.org/downloads/downloads.wml: Likewise.
* doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20061211.wml: New file.
Committed,
Mark
Index: doc/www.gnu.org/newsitems.txt
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+<newsitem date="11 Dec 2006">
+<createlink name="GNU Classpath 0.93"
+ url="announce/20061211.html">
+</newsitem>
+
<newsitem date="15 Nov 2006">
<createlink name="FSF welcomes Sun's GPL release of Java"
url="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html";><br>
Index: doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20061211.wml
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+#!wml --include=..
+
+#include "include/layout.wml"
+
+<subject "GNU Classpath 0.93 Announcement (2006-12-11)">
+
+<box>
+<boxtitle>GNU Classpath 0.93 "Dreamland"</boxtitle>
+<boxitem>
+We are proud to announce the release of GNU Classpath 0.93 "Dreamland"
+<p>
+Read on for highlights of new features in this release, pointers to
+supported applications and screenshots, the status and future of the
+1.4 and 1.5 generics branches. An update on the Summer of Code
+student work. Plus some prelimenary ideas on cooperating with the Sun
+GPL OpenJDK Java project. And the GNU Classpath commitments to the
+Free Software community for the future of various projects around GNU
+Classpath, the users and GNU/Linux distros relying on our work.
+<p>
+Highlights of new features in this release (more extensive list below):
+<blockquote>
+ NIO Selector epoll (linux 2.6 kernel) and kio (BSD and Darwin)
+ notification mechanisms added. Fast, direct call, support for in
+ runtime CORBA objects. Support for user JNDI context factories (plus
+ corbaname: and rmi: jndi urls). New javah tool included. JSSE
+ SSLEngine support including TLSv1.1 and pre-shared key ciphersuites.
+ Full lang.management MX Beans ManagementFactory implementation.
+ 99.95% api coverage for 1.4, 95.5% api coverage for 1.5. Much
+ better swing HTML support (aka JGecko). Graphics2D on cairo speedups
+ and make it respects interpolation hints, better gradient
+ support and custom Composites and Paints.
+</blockquote>
+Screenshots of applications (eclipse, jedit, jfreechart, "jgecko",
+statcvs.png) working out of the box with GNU Classpath 0.93 can be
+found at <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/screenshots/";>
+<p>
+With this release our 1.4 library work is 99.95 API complete.
+Although this doesn't mean GNU Classpath is fully compatible and a
+perfect drop in replacement for proprietary 1.4 JDKs yet, it is pretty
+close and any divergence should be considered a bug. Our 1.5 library
+work is now 95.5% API complete.
+<p>
+This is the last release that will have two separate library releases
+for 1.4 and 1.5. The next release will be based on our 1.5 generics
+branch work. We are willing to maintain a 1.4 branch based the
+non-generic 0.93 release if people are interested in support for
+this. Please contact the mailinglist [email protected] if you are.
+<p>
+This release contains two large contributions sponsored by the Google
+Summer of Code project. Casey Marshall rewrote the SSL library to use
+the NIO model of JSSE (implementing SSLEngine) and added support for
+TLSv1.1 and pre-shared key ciphersuites. Originally developed on the
+ssl-nio-branch this work is now available in the generics release.
+Andrew John Hughes wrote a lang.management MX Beans ManagementFactory
+implementation, which allows a runtime based on GNU Classpath to
+provide various MX Beans through javax.management services that a user
+can use to query the status and usage of various low level vm
+resources. The the original implementation was written for GCJ, but
+for this release other runtimes (e.g. jamvm and cacao) have added
+support based on the generic vm-interface designed by Andrew.
+<p>
+GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create
+free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools
+for the java programming language.
+<p>
+The GNU Classpath developer snapshot releases are not directly aimed
+at the end user but are meant to be integrated into larger development
+platforms. For example the GCC (gcj) and Kaffe projects will use the
+developer snapshots as a base for future versions. More projects based
+on GNU Classpath: <createlink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html";>
+<p>
+On November 13 (now known as Java Liberation Day) Sun decided to start
+releasing all its Java ME, SE and EE implementations under the GPL.
+<createlink url="http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/";> For the last decade the
+GNU Classpath community has worked together with various other free
+software projects to help people avoid the so called "Java Trap"
+<createlink url="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html";>
+As the FSF press release welcoming the Sun announcement said: 'Now,
+Sun has begun disarming the "Java Trap", turning it from a pitfall
+into a valuable foundation for future free software development.'
+<createlink url="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html";>
+<p>
+The new project 'OpenJDK' started by Sun will provide a full SE Java
+environment. Only parts have been released now. And the GNU Classpath
+community already started adopting independent parts to make them work
+on a full free stack. With the 0.93 generics release you should be
+able to compile and run the GPl javac compiler with some tricks.
+<createlink url="http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php?p=172";>
+We hope to cooperate more substantially with the OpenJDK community in
+the future.
+<p>
+Not all code has been released by Sun, in particular the core class
+libraries will not be release till somewhere next year. And some parts
+might be encumbered preventing Sun from releasing those parts. We will
+try and help plugg any holes left. It is too early to claim we already
+know how our communities will interact and work together. But the
+general feeling is positive. Sun has been very open, clear and
+cooperative about OpenJDK and letting the GNU Classpath community know
+about their plans and willingness to work with the existing free
+software communities.
+<p>
+The GNU Classpath community is happy with this development and
+although it is too early to see what the future might bring we know we
+have the following commitments to our developers, users, projects and
+GNU/Linux distros depending on our work:
+<p>
+<ul>
+<li> We will not regress on freedom. For anything Sun cannot release
+ (now) under the GPL we will provide free replacements.
+
+<li> We will not regress on coverage. The platforms, architectures,
+ projects and programs that run now with GNU Classpath should run in
+ the future.
+
+<li> We will not regress on having fun, innovating and hacking together!
+</ul>
+We want to make it easy to adopt and collaborate. We want to make it
+easy for people to improve together with GNU Classpath and OpenJDK by
+helping also the smaller projects and platforms with less resources to
+adopt the new innovation (coordinating new VM and Platform interfaces)
+<p>
+Various individual GNU Classpath hackers have made personal statements
+about all this (from Planet Classpath - http://planet.classpath.org/):
+<ul>
+<li>Mario Torre <createlink url="http://jroller.com/page/neugens?entry=watch_out_we_have_changed"; name="Watch out, we have changed history...">
+
+<li>Roman Kennke <createlink url="http://kennke.org/blog/?p=25"; name="First Rays of a New Rising Sun">
+
+<li>Brian Jones <createlink url="http://cbj.livejournal.com/234857.html"; name="Nov. 13 2006, is a notable bookmark in the history of free software">
+
+<li>David Gilbert <createlink url="http://jroller.com/page/dgilbert?entry=on_walled_gardens"; name="On Walled Gardens">
+
+<li>Anthony Green <createlink url="http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/43-Now-thats-what-I-call-harmony....html"; name="Now that's what I call harmony...">
+
+<li>Casey Marshall <createlink url="http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2006/11/13/107/"; name="Free Java!">
+
+<li>Andrew Hughes <createlink url="http://blog.fuseyism.com/?p=18"; name="Victory! Pigs Fly as Java is GPLed and javac compiles Freely">
+
+<li>Dalibor Topic <createlink url="http://robilad.livejournal.com/2056.html"; name="San i java">
+
+<li>Jeroen Frijters <createlink url="http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=3620697a-52f4-4067-9afa-863b3066317b"; name="Sun Open Sourcing Java">
+
+<li>Andrew Overholt <createlink url="http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=74"; name="Sun commits to 'GPL + Exception'ing Their Java Implementation">
+
+<li>Thomas Fitzsimmons <createlink url="http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=13"; name="The New Free Java Project">
+
+<li>Mark Wielaard <createlink url="http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php?p=171"; name="Collaborate"> and
+ <createlink url="http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php?p=175"; name="GNU Classpath, Sun, Java, GPL, Reflections & The Future">
+
+<li>Tom Tromey <createlink url="http://tromey.com/blog/?p=293"; name="Sun Frees Java">
+</ul>
+The GNU Classpath developers site http://developer.classpath.org/
+provides detailed information on how to start with helping the GNU
+Classpath project and gives an overview of the core class library
+packages currently provided. For each snapshot release generated
+documentation is provided through the GNU Classpath Tools gjdoc
+project. A documentation generation framework for java source
+files used by the GNU project. Full documentation on the currently
+implementated packages and classes can be found at:
+http://developer.classpath.org/doc/
+<p>
+For more information about the project see also:
+<ul>
+<li>GNU Classpath home page: <createlink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>
+
+<li>Developer information (wiki): <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/";>
+
+<li>Full class documentation: <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/doc/";>
+
+<li>GNU Classpath hackers: <createlink url="http://planet.classpath.org/";>
+
+<li>Autobuilder, current build status, build snapshots: <createlink url="http://builder.classpath.org/";>
+
+<li>Application test pages (wiki)
+ <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Applets";>
+ <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeAWTTestApps";>
+ <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSwingTestApps";>
+ <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSWTTestApps";>
+
+<li>GNU Classpath hacking with Eclipse (wiki)
+ <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse";>
+
+<li>GNU Classpath promotion banners: <createlink url="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathBanners";>
+</ul>
+GNU Classpath 0.93 can be downloaded from <createlink url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/";> or one of the ftp.gnu.org mirrors <createlink url="http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html";>
+<p>
+<pre>
+File: classpath-0.93.tar.gz
+MD5sum: ffa9e9cac31c5acbf0ea9eff9efa923d
+SHA1sum: 336cae589ec91a4fe212c2149c57b51dab2ca002
+
+File: classpath-0.93-generics.tar.gz
+MD5sum: 9d3f5941b9fc0d8bc056344cb07a5c86
+SHA1sum: 4362433a4bd985baf00a00586c355939905861ff
+
+New in release 0.93 (Dec 8, 2006)
+(See the ChangeLog file for a full list of changes.)
+
+* CORBA objects that exist on the same virtual machine and only are
+ connected to another ORB are now accessed directly and no longer via
+ network. It is the same feature that RMI implementation
+ provides. These faster calls should be completely transparent, as the
+ parameters are cloned, where required. Currently the direct calls are
+ only possible for the non-deprecated objects that are connected to the
+ ORB via POA.
+* The 'javah' tool has been added. It requires the ASM library
+ (see asm.objectweb.org); it can be enabled with the --with-asm
+ option to configure
+* Added the rmi and corbaname URL context factories for JNDI.
+* Fixes in the JNDI InitialContext now allows to plug-in user
+ implementations.
+* Removed currentClassLoader method from
+ vm/reference/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java.
+* Added firstNonNullClassLoader method to
+ vm/reference/gnu/classpath/VMStackWalker.java. VMs are encouraged to
+ provide a more efficient implementation.
+* Added aton method to vm/reference/java/net/VMInetAddress.java.
+* NetworkInterface has been implemented for systems that provide the
+ `getifaddrs' function.
+* java.nio.channels.Selector implementations have been added that use
+ the kqueue notification mechanism on Mac OS X and *BSD, and that use
+ the epoll notification mechanism on Linux 2.6.
+* java.nio has been refactored to support more non-blocking operations
+ natively. Blocking IO classes have been refactored to call
+ non-blocking classes. Non-blocking accepts, connects, and
+ scatter-gather IO should now be better supported.
+* HTML support for Swing has been greatly enhanced.
+
+Runtime interface changes:
+
+* java.net.VMNetworkInterface and java.net.NetworkInterface have been
+ updated to keep native-modified state in the former, and to simplify
+ the native code in our reference implementation.
+* gnu.java.nio.VMChannel has been expanded to better support native
+ non-blocking IO. Most native state data (such as file descriptor
+ integers) has been abstracted away into private state in the runtime
+ interface.
+* gnu.java.nio.VMPipe has been similarly changed.
+* gnu.java.net.VMPlainSocketImpl has been changed to remove some
+ functionality now provided by VMChannel; datagram socket-specific
+ methods have also been moved here, deprecating VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl.
+* gnu.java.net.VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl removed.
+
+The following people helped with this release:
+
+Aaron M. Ucko, Andreas Tobler, Andrew John Hughes, Audrius Meskauskas,
+Ben Konrath, Cameron McCormack, Casey Marshall, Chris Burdess,
+Christian Elias Naur, Christian Thalinger, Dalibor Topic, David Daney,
+David Fu, David Gilbert, David Pirkle, Edwin Steiner, Francis Kung,
+Friedjof Siebert, Gary Benson, Guilhem Lavaux, Helmer Kraemer,
+Ian Rogers, Ingo Proetel, Ito Kazumitsu, Jeroen Frijters,
+Keith Seitz, Lillian Angel, Marco Trudel, Mario Torre, Mark Wielaard,
+Martin Platter, Matthew Burgess, Michael Franz, Michael Koch,
+Paul Jenner, Raif S. Naffah, Riccardo Mottola, Robert Lougher,
+Robert Schuster, Roger Sayle, Roman Kennke, Sven de Marothy,
+Tania Bento, Thomas Fitzsimmons and Tom Tromey
+
+We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers!
+
+</pre>
+</boxitem>
+</box>
Index: doc/www.gnu.org/downloads/downloads.wml
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@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
<download-block>
<download
- date="09 Aug 2006"
- version="0.92"
- url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.92.tar.gz";
- notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060809.html";
+ date="11 Dec 2006"
+ version="0.93"
+ url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.93.tar.gz";
+ notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20061211.html";
>
<!-- download
@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@
<download-block>
<download
+ date="09 Aug 2006"
+ version="0.92"
+ url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.92.tar.gz";
+ notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060809.html";
+>
+<download
date="15 May 2006"
version="0.91"
url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.91.tar.gz";
Index: doc/www.gnu.org/include/layout.wml
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@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
<img src="http://www.gnu.org/graphics/drop-1.jpg"; alt=" [image of the evil water droplet] "
width="130" height="86" border="0"> (jpeg 3k)
</a>
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html";>no gifs due to patent problems</a>
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--- doc/www.gnu.org/include/macros.wml 10 Dec 2006 20:25:40 -0000 1.11
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@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to
<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><EM>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EM></A>.
-There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to
+There are also <A HREF="http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html";>other ways to
contact</A> the FSF.
<P>
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
send other questions to
<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"><EM>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</EM></A>.
<P>
-Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright © 1999-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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