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@@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ New in release 0.91 (UNRELEASED) * Free Swing improvements: Support for OceanTheme has been mostly completed and turned on as default Metal theme. X11-style Copy and Paste behavior in text components with the middle mouse button. Support cursor changes on - various components when resizing. + various components when resizing. Support for Look and Feel window + decorations has been added. * Updated locale data information to CLDR 1.3. +* Various bugs in Classpath's SecureRandom implementations have been + fixed; that class now respects the "securerandom.source" security + property and the "java.security.egd" system property. +* Support for assistive technologies has been added to AWT and Swing. Runtime interface changes: @@ -31,6 +36,28 @@ Runtime interface changes: this method. * The reference implementation of VMThread has been updated to handle the new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler support. +* A new class, java.security.VMSecureRandom, is now available that is + used to generate random numbers for seeding cryptographically-secure + pseudo-random number generators. +* VMClass and the reference implementations of Method, Constructor and Field + now include a number of 1.5 methods imported from the generics branch. + These are all optional (in the sense that the methods associated with them + merely fail on use if the VM doesn't provide them, rather than the + VM failing altogether), but VMs should aim to support them where possible. +* The implementation of java.lang.instrument has been merged to the main + branch from the generics branch. +* The VM interfaces of the main branch and the generics branch are now + consistent with one another. As a result, the main branch includes an + additional environ() function in VMSystem and an additional argument has + been added to nativeSpawn() in VMProcess. +* Annotation support is now available in the main branch, if the VM supports + it. The VM should implement VMClass.getDeclaredAnnotations, + Constructor.getAnnotation, Constructor.getDeclaredAnnotations, + Field.getAnnotation, Field.getDeclaredAnnotations, Method.getAnnotation and + Method.getDeclaredAnnotations. +* java.lang.Package now has a new constructor that takes the defining + ClassLoader as an extra argument. If you use a custom version of + VMClassLoader, please switch it to use this constructor. New in release 0.90 (March 6, 2006) |