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@@ -1,48 +1,74 @@ -New in release 0.21 (to be released) - -* Swing improvements: JTable columns are rearrangeable and resizeable with - mouse. Painting and scrolling are now much faster. Plain text components - now support highlighting and copy+paste to the system clipboard. - Support for styled text has been improved, including some very basic HTML - support. JFileChooser is now usable. Global event dispatching has been - implemented. Memory consumption of Swing components has been reduced. - Lots of general bugfixes. - Added new system property to turn of Graphics2D use in Swing, even - if Graphics2D is available: -Dgnu.javax.swing.noGraphics2D . - -* GNU Crypto and Jessie have been merged into Classpath; this will - provide Classpath with a wide array of cryptographic algorithms +New in release 0.90 (March 6, 2006) + +* Free Swing improvements: JTable columns are rearrangeable and + resizeable with mouse. Painting and scrolling are now much + faster. Plain text components now support highlighting and + copy+paste to the system clipboard. Support for styled text has been + improved, including some very basic HTML support. JFileChooser is + now usable. Global event dispatching has been implemented. Memory + consumption of Swing components has been reduced. Lots of general + bugfixes. Added new system property to turn of Graphics2D use in + Swing, even if Graphics2D is available: gnu.javax.swing.noGraphics2D + +* AWT. Improved support for mixing "lightweigth" and "heavyweight" + Components in Containers. Better support for dynamically updated + menus. Better 1.0 event model support for Scrollbars. Better class + documentation of gtk+ awt peers. + +* GNU Crypto and Jessie have been merged into GNU Classpath; this + provides Classpath with a wide array of cryptographic algorithms (ciphers, message digests, etc.) and implementations of SSL version 3 and TLS version 1. These roughly complement the public `java.security.' `javax.crypto,' and `javax.net.ssl' packages, and are service providers implementing the underlying algorithms. -* Unicode 4.0.0 is supported. +* Updated HTTP and FTP URLConnection protocol handlers. HTTPS support + out of the box. + +* Unicode 4.0.0 is supported. Character now includes support for using + ether a char or an int to identify code points. + +* More correct handling of Object methods and serialization support + for Proxy and abstract classes. * The new folder tools includes GIOP and RMI stub and tie source code - generators, IOR parser and both transient and persistent GIOP naming services. + generators, IOR parser and both transient and persistent GIOP naming + services. -* RELAX NG pluggable XML schema datatype library API and an implementation - for XML Schema Datatypes (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/). - -* Added experimental support for dynamic creation of the RMI stubs using proxy - classes. The rmic compiler is no longer required (unless for research - and specific stubs). +* Added experimental support for dynamic creation of the RMI stubs + using proxy classes. The rmic compiler is no longer required (unless + for research and specific stubs). + +* XML validaton support for RELAX NG and W3C XML schema namespace + URIs. RELAX NG pluggable XML schema datatype library API and an + implementation for XML Schema Datatypes + (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/). -* The default back end for java.util.prefs has been changed. The new default - is capable of saving and restoring preferences to and from the file system. +* Updated StAX implementaton to be compatible with final JSWDP 2.0. + +* The default back end for java.util.prefs has been changed. The new + default is capable of saving and restoring preferences to and from + the file system. * javax.imageio.plugins.bmp implementation. * Added --enable-collections configure option which builds "collections.jar", a 1.1 VM compatibility jar. +* gnu.regexp updated from GNU/Posix syntax to support util.regex + syntax including various Unicode blocks, categories and properties. + Runtime interface changes: * A new class, VMMath, is now available which separates the native mathematical functions from java.lang.Math. The previous fdlibm implementation now forms the reference material for this class. +* Updated VMObjectInputStream class to return Thread context class + loader if no other class loader is found. + +* Updated documentation on InstrumentationImpl in vmintegration guide. + New in release 0.20 (Jan 13, 2006) * New StAX pull parser and SAX-over-StAX driver. Lots of DOM, SAX/StAX, |