What's New Since Kaffe 1.1.9

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* Removed kaffe-specific AWT implementations.

What's New In Kaffe 1.1.9

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* Depend on glib for atomic operations

* Support for JSR 166.

* Depend on zziplib instead of zlib for JAR reading.

* Many build system improvements.

* Simplified threading subsystem interface.

* Removed support for native big math.

* Removed libltdl. Kaffe uses an existing installation

exclusively now.

* Removed gnu-inet, dnsjava, Tritonus and binreloc.

* Removed GNU Classpath tools. Kaffe uses an installed javap

as javap when it's available.

* Removed gjdoc and ANTLR. Kaffe uses an installed gjdoc as

javadoc when it's available.

* Removed GNU Classpath. Kaffe uses an existing GNU Classpath

installation exclusively now. It needs GNU Classpath 0.95 or

later.

What's New In Kaffe 1.1.8

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* Support for using an existing GNU Classpath installation.

* Updated internal Classpath to version 0.93.

* Fixes for gcc 4.1.x.

* Added --disable-zlib-zip option to use GNU Classpath's

java.util.zip implementation.

* Removed comm, servlet, microsoft and pjava extensions.

* Removed fastjar, zlib and boehm gc copies.

* Xynth Windowing System based AWT backend.

* Ported to i386-GNU/kFreeBSD, i386-Interix, x86_64-openbsd.

What's New In Kaffe 1.1.7

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* Many cleanups, warning fixes and bug fixes.

* Removed support for class library profiles, since

--with-glibj-zip offers a more convenient replacement.

* Updated to boehm-gc 6.6

* Updated to gjdoc 0.7.7

* Merged in fastjar.

* Merged in zlib. There is a new configure option,

--with-system-zlib to allow the use of the system zlib,

instead of the merged in one.

* Merged in GNU Classpath completely. Updated to version 0.90,

with additional fixes.

* Merged in port to DROPS.

* Merged in port to Blackfin CPU.

* Support for DragonFly BSD.

* Ported to ia64-freebsd and alpha-freebsd.

* Ported to powerpc-openbsd.

* Improved support for Cygwin and sparc64-openbsd.

* Improved stack handling for pthreads on openbsd.

* Added simple direct threading interpreter implementation.

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.6

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* Many cleanups, warning fixes and bug fixes.

* Moved tools.jar to the location where Maven 1 expects it,

so that Maven 1 builds now work.

* Added an otions to turn off boehm-gc configuration for

operating environments boehm gc has not been ported to.

* Updated to GNU Classpath 0.18

* Fixed native library loading for Cygwin.

Kaffe now builds and runs on Win32 again.

* Merged java.lang.Class from GNU Classpath.

* Kaffe's home-grown system class loader was replaced by

GNU classpath's system class loader. This improves support

for the Java Extension Mechanism and the Java security

model.

* Force double precision on x86 FPU for Linux OS.

* Fixes for regression tests on sparc.

* JIT3/PowerPC operational on Darwin/OSX (real applications

do not work yet though).

* JVMPI cleaned up. Kaffe now works with JMP

(http://www.khelekore.org/jmp/)

* Xlib-AWT fixed on Darwin.

* Runtime/VMProcess merged from GNU Classpath.

* Merged in antlr 2.7.5 for gjdoc.

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.5

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* Resynced with latest GNU Classpath.

* Added GNU EmbbededWindow extension from GNU Classpath.

* gcjwebplugin is known to work with the extension.

* Improved AWT implementations.

* GNU Classpath's implementation of AWT/Swing has

been merged.

* New Nano-X AWT backend.

* Xlib AWT backend supports xi18n wide-character

display.

* Dynamic switch among existing AWT implementations

via command line options.

* Better stack pointer / stack size handling.

* JNI direct invocation fixes.

* Verifier moved to its own directory.

* JNI upgrades to 1.2

* New experimental Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.

* Merged in JIT3 for powerpc from JanosVM.

* Implemented weak references in the VM.

* KJC temporarily replaced by jikes.

* DNSJava, Jessie, JZLib and gjdoc merged in.

* Added some internationalization support to kaffe's

executable (fr, zh_TW).

* Many compiler warning fixes.

* Tested in Ch environment.

* Fixes for NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin.

* New ports to FreeBSD on x86-64, Darwin on x86 and

HP-UX on ia64.

* Some successes: Resin2, JSDL, SwingWT, gcjwebplugin,

ME4SE, MicroEmulator, VNCj, LwVCL, DirectFB kawt,

Eclipse 3.0.1, 3.1M6.

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.3

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* More merges from GNU Classpath:

* java.beans

* java.util.Date

* java.util.jar

* java.net

* java.io

* javax.swing.EventListenerList

* More JVMPI support implemented.

* More NIO support implemented.

* java.security.SecureRandom bugfix (with security

implications)

* JIT fixes for x86, ARM and Sparc.

* Interpreter fixes (underflow problem)

* Fixes for Solaris, Darwin, FreeBSD.

* Build fixes for powerpc64.

* IPv6 fixes.

* KJC fixes:

* inner class access

* switch labels

* constant initializers

* concatenating a null to a string

* Fixes for SHIFT_JIS (Japanese) encoding.

* Fix for Jetty 4.2.14.

* AppletViewer fix for <applet> tag.

* Lots of minor bug fixes.

* Cleaned up GC code.

* Compiler warning fixes.

* Resynced with existing Classpath, GNU JAXP, Jessie.

* Some successes: JBoss, Eclipse 3.0M4, gjdoc/libxmlj.

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.2

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* New packages:

* javax.net

* javax.net.ssl

* Lots of configuration/compile fixes, including: arm-linux,

parisc-hpux, parisc-linux, sparc-solaris.

* Improved RMI, JVMPI, java.text and NIO support.

* Improved garbage collector and jit3 memory consumption.

* Further merge with GNU Classpath: Collections, many networking,

IO and zip classes.

* Fixes for several bugs in kjc.

* Improved support for building without GNU make.

* Lots of bug fixes, compiler warning fixes, and small

improvements.

* Some successes: Tomcat4, eXist, JavaLayer, JOrbis.

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.1

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* Much of the new bytecode verifier has been added (but not all of

it). Soon, we will be able to safely run untrusted code!

* Lots of configuration/compile fixes, including: NetBSD, OpenBSD,

Linux 2.0, Linux/S390, AmigaOS, OpenBSD/Sparc, Cygwin

* Lots of class library fixes

* Added JNI 1.2/1.4 features

* The beginnings of JVMPI support

* Some infrastructure for NIO support

* Some successes: Eclipse (loads, doesn't completely work yet),

Jetty w/JSP, Java-Gnome, Qt AWT under QTopia, Snark, hsqldb

What's New in Kaffe 1.1.0

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* Port to x86-64 GNU/Linux

* Port to RISC OS

* Port to Playstation 2 GNU/Linux

* Port to SuperH GNU/Linux

* Qt based AWT backend

* Support for javax.sound from tritonus.org

* Support for JAXP from GNU JAXP

* Support for java.util.regex from GNU regexp

* New java.lang.reflect.Proxy from GNU Classpath.

* Built-in XML parser (Aelfred2).

* New packages:

* java.awt.color

* java.awt.dnd

* java.awt.font

* java.awt.geom

* java.awt.im

* java.awt.image.renderable

* java.awt.print

* java.beans.beancontext

* java.nio

* java.nio.channels

* java.nio.channels.spi

* java.nio.charset

* java.nio.charset.spi

* java.security.acl

* java.util.logging

* java.util.prefs

* java.util.regex

* javax.accessibility

* javax.naming

* javax.naming.directory

* javax.naming.event

* javax.naming.ldap

* javax.naming.spi

* javax.rmi

* javax.rmi.CORBA

* javax.sound.midi

* javax.sound.midi.spi

* javax.sound.sampled

* javax.sound.sampled.spi

* javax.sql

* javax.swing.text

* javax.transaction

* javax.transaction.xa

* javax.xml.parsers

* javax.xml.transform

* javax.xml.transform.dom

* javax.xml.transform.sax

* javax.xml.transform.stream

* org.w3c.dom

* org.w3c.dom.css

* org.w3c.dom.events

* org.w3c.dom.html

* org.w3c.dom.ranges

* org.w3c.dom.stylesheets

* org.w3c.dom.traversal

* org.w3c.dom.views

* org.xml.sax

* org.xml.sax.ext

* org.xml.sax.helpers

* New build system.

* Support for user defined class library profiles

* New version of KJC (2.1B).

* Many improvements to serialization, localization,

and reflection.

* Implemented native2ascii, javah.

* Lots of bug fixes.

What's New in Kaffe 1.0.7

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This release is dedicated to the memory of Edouard G. Parmelan, one of

the most active Kaffe developers, a member of the core team, and one of

the driving forces behind the project.

* Port to ia64 GNU/Linux

* Port to s390 GNU/Linux

* Port to PA-RISC GNU/Linux

* Port to Darwin (Mac OS X).

* JIT port for Alpha on Compaq Tru64, GNU/Linux.

* Support of PowerPC without libffi.

* New version of KJC (2.1A with patches from kopi CVS).

* New encoding converters based on iconv().

* Lots of bug fixes.

What's New in Kaffe 1.0.6

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* New cross language debugging support for JIT3 engine.

* New cross language profiling support for JIT3 engine.

* Support of libffi.

* Port to i386 GNU Hurd.

* Port i386 hardware profiler from JIT engine to JIT3 engine.

* Alpha GCJ Integration.

* New version of KJC (1.4F).

* Lots of bug fixes.

What's New in Kaffe 1.0.5

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* JIT port for StrongARM

* JIT port for MIPS

* New JIT3 - increases performance of JIT code by a factor of 3 over the

old JIT system.

- Supports: x86, MIPS, StrongARM, M68K

- Coming soon: Sparc, Alpha

* RMI implementation (released under the Lesser GPL in conjuntion with

the Classpath project)

- Provide JDK 1.1 and JDK 1.2 compatible RMI

- Unimplemented: Distributed GC, Activations.

* Now ships with KJC Java compiler, a truly Open Source Java compiler.

* SuperFast locking implementation.

* Pthreads implementation (currently for GLIBC 2.1.2 LinuxThreads only)

* Resurrected M68K JIT.

* New JDK 1.2 style class loading.

* New JDK 1.2 java.util Collections classes

* New JDK 1.2 java.security classes

* Improved i18n support.

* New utilities: serialver, rmiregistry, rmic, javap

* Lots of bug fixes.