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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push: new 77ec43a Add workaround for Apache NetBeans failing to run on macOS Big Sur. new 94ace13 Merge pull request #497 from oyarzun/big-sur 77ec43a is described below commit 77ec43a96d88694cae50636f4dff75c0d9bda51c Author: Christian Oyarzun <oyar...@apache.org> AuthorDate: Tue Nov 17 14:15:12 2020 -0500 Add workaround for Apache NetBeans failing to run on macOS Big Sur. --- .../src/content/download/nb121/nb121.asciidoc | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/download/nb121/nb121.asciidoc b/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/download/nb121/nb121.asciidoc index cadf970..15dcaa9 100644 --- a/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/download/nb121/nb121.asciidoc +++ b/netbeans.apache.org/src/content/download/nb121/nb121.asciidoc @@ -75,6 +75,25 @@ The PGP keys used to sign this release are available link:https://archive.apache Apache NetBeans can also be installed as a self-contained link:https://snapcraft.io/netbeans[snap package] on Linux. + +== Known issue on macOS Big Sur + +Apache NetBeans 12.1 fails to run on Big Sur. + +Workaround: edit `netbeans.conf` and uncomment and set the JDK home path in the `netbeans_jdkhome` variable. + +---- +% ls /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines +adoptopenjdk-11.jdk adoptopenjdk-8.jdk + +% sudo vi /Applications/NetBeans/Apache\ NetBeans\ 12.1.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/netbeans/etc/netbeans.conf +---- + + +---- +netbeans_jdkhome="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home" +---- + == Deployment platforms Apache NetBeans 12.1 runs on JDK LTS releases 8 and 11, as well as on JDK 14, i.e., the current JDK release at the time of this NetBeans release. @@ -108,4 +127,3 @@ through the following voting processes in our link:/community/mailing-lists.html Please visit the link:/download/index.html[Apache NetBeans Download page] for further details. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists