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authorAndrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>2009-02-05 23:26:07 +0000
committerAndrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>2009-02-05 23:26:07 +0000
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Prepare for 0.98 release.classpath-0.98
2009-02-05 Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com> * NEWS: Updated. * configure.ac: Bump to 0.98 proper.
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-New in release 0.98
+New in release 0.98 (Feb 05, 2009)
* Native support for BigInteger is now provided using the GMP
library. A new option, --enable/disable-gmp is provided, and
@@ -11,8 +11,33 @@ always retain their own array, which is only altered during resizing,
CPStringBuilder gives away its array when the result is generated
by toString()/substring() and starts afresh. The default capacity of
CPStringBuilder can also be configured using the
-gnu.classpath.cpstringbuilder.capacity property.
+gnu.classpath.cpstringbuilder.capacity property. (PR21869)
* gjdoc is now built as part of tools.zip.
+* Import of the Java Activation Framework from ClasspathX to provide
+javax.activation (part of 1.6).
+* Preliminary version of java.util.Scanner (PR30436)
+* Reduce cost of ThreadLocal(s) to improve Jython performance (PR33690)
+* Updated to use CLDR 1.5.1 (PR35237)
+* Many bug fixes including:
+ - PR22851: zoneStrings in gnu/java/locale/LocaleInformation*
+ - PR31895: setCurrency(Currency) does not actually change the currency.
+ - PR32028: Make fails at gjdoc
+ - PR34840: Mismatch between Sun and Classpath's java.lang.Appendable
+ - PR35487: gcj causes ConcurrentModificationException during tomcat5
+ - PR35690: javax.tools.FileObject.toUri is in wrong case
+ - PR36085: java.util.regex escape-sequence handling
+ - PR36147: Apache Tomcat fails to read descriptors using GNU XML
+ - PR36219: gnu.xml.transform.SortKey isn't subclass
+ - PR36220: NPEs in gnu.xml.transform.* clone methods
+ - PR36221: DomDOMException running SPEC jvm 2008 xml.transform
+ - PR36477: OOME in CPStringBuilder when running Eclipse
+ - PR36522: Policy file is not read at all
+ - PR36636: gjar -u doesn't work
+ - PR36637: --without-fastjar doesn't wor
+ - PR36677: Omission bug in JDWP VirtualMachineCommandSet
+ - PR38473: Segmentation fault in retrieving font outline decomposition
+ - PR38861: Support XULRunner 1.9.1.
+ - PR38912: XMLParser not interning element names
Bug fixes in release 0.97.2 (Jun 06, 2007)