view NEWS @ 122:1cff369667f8 icedtea-web-1.0.3

Prepare for 1.0.3.
author Deepak Bhole <dbhole@redhat.com>
date Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:42:48 -0400
parents 01be65b95967
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Key:

SX  - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=X
PRX - http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=X
RHX - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=X
DX  - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=X
GX  - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=X

CVE-XXXX-YYYY: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=XXXX-YYYY

New in release 1.0.3 (2011-06-13):
* Plugin
  - PR721: IcedTeaPlugin.so cannot run g_main_context_iteration on a different thread unless a different GMainContext *context is used
  - PR735: Firefox 4 sometimes freezes if the applet calls showDocument()
  - RH691259: Midori sends a SIGSEGV with the IcedTea NP Plugin

New in release 1.0.2 (2011-04-04):
* Common Fixes and Improvements
  - PR638: JNLPClassLoader.loadClass(String name) can return null
  - RH677772: NoSuchAlgorithmException using SSL/TLS in javaws
* Plugin
  - PR612: NetDania application ends on java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission browser read)
  - Replace binary PDF documentation with editable HTML version.

New in release 1.0.1 (2011-02-15):

* Security updates
  - S6983554, CVE-2010-4450: Launcher incorrect processing of empty library path entries 
  - RH677332, CVE-2011-0706: IcedTea multiple signers privilege escalation

New in release 1.0 (2011-02-02):

* Initial release of IcedTea-Web
* Security updates
  - RH645843, CVE-2010-3860: IcedTea System property information leak via public static
  - RH663680, CVE-2010-4351: IcedTea JNLP SecurityManager bypass
  - RH672262, CVE-2011-0025: IcedTea jarfile signature verification bypass
* New Features
  - IcedTea-Web now uses a deployment.properties file to specify configuration
  - System-level as well as user-level deployment.properties files with locked configuration are supported
  - Preview of a Control Panel that allows configuring IcedTea-Web using a GUI
  - Static proxies are now supported using the deployment.properties file
  - User prompts can now be configured using the deployment.properties
  - Applications and applets can now have a Look and Feel different from rest of IcedTea-Web
* Common improvements and fixes
  - Clean up native directories on exit
  - Cached files with special characters in filenames are now handled correctly
  - Interfaces javax.jnlp.IntegrationService and javax.jnlp.DownloadService2 are now available
* Javaws improvments and fixes
  - PR592: NetX can create invalid desktop entry files
  - Add a new option -Xclearcache
  - Removed option -umask
  - Applications with non-public main classes are now supported.
  - JNLP files containing <component-desc> as well as <application-desc> will now work
  - The javaws.desktop file now points explicitly to NetX's javaws binary
  - PR625: Regression in NetX when dealing with nested jars
* Plugin improvements and fixes
  - PR542: Plugin fails with NPE on http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/iframe.php?visualID=2615
  - PR552: Support for FreeBSD's pthread implementation
  - PR554: System.err writes content two times
  - PR556: Applet initialization code is prone to race conditions
  - PR557: Applet opens in a separate window if tab is closed when the applet loads
  - PR565: UIDefaults.getUI fails with jgoodies:looks 2.3.1
  - PR593: Increment of invalidated iterator in IcedTeaPluginUtils (patch from barbara.xxx1975@libero.it)
  - PR597: Entities are parsed incorrectly in PARAM tag in applet plugin
  - PR619: Improper finalization by the plugin can crash the browser
  - RH665104: OpenJDK Firefox Java plugin loses a cookie
  - JNLP files referenced in the applet tag are now parsed to detect applet properties
  - Applets are now double-buffered to eliminate flicker in ones that do heavy drawing