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@@ -1,32 +1,66 @@ -New in release 0.10 (in preparation) +New in release 0.10 (Jul 9, 2004) +* java.net.URL now uses application classloader to load URLStreamHandlers + and reuses URLStreamHandlers when URL is reset (but protocol isn't changed). +* java.io.File.deleteOnExit() implementation. +* java.text multiple new features and bug fixes + (only 2 out of the 1000+ java.text Mauve tests now fail). +* Better (non-black) default AWT System colors. +* AWT lists use GTK treeviews. +* Proper AWT focus management has been implemented. +* Swing menus and scrollpanes are beginning to work. +* Swing splitpanes, dialogs and internal frames were added. +* Swing repainting / double buffering was redone. +* Font management and Pango DPI conversion fixes. +* A lot of AWT imaging and event bugs have been picked out. +* More of javax.swing.text has been implemented. +* javax.swing.Timer has been reimplemented. +* java.security.AccessController has been implemented + (see runtime section). +* The default java.lang.SecurityManager now uses AccessController. +* New java.beans.Statement and Expression implementations. +* Small FileChannel implementation speed improvement for traditional + JNI based systems. +* Regenerated all included JNI header files with gcjh (3.5 CVS), + removes extra extern modifier and allows stricter compiler warning. +* More C code cleanups (-Wmissing-declarations, -Wmissing-prototypes and + -Wstring-prototypes) and jni.h fixes (a few funtion prototype fixes, + made it compilable with C++ compilers and jni.h got renamed from jni.h.in). +* Double.toString() and Float.toString() now work properly on 64-bit + PowerPC systems. +* PPC Darwin, arm, x86-64 and s/390 JNI C code compilation fixes. +* Build system refactored and removed old Japhar specific support. +* The gnu.java.awt.EmbeddedWindow class has been improved, and now + supports embedding AWT windows in other top-level X windows. + This functionality is required by gcjwebplugin. +* gcjwebplugin, an applet viewer that can be embedded into several web + browsers, has been extensively tested with this release of classpath. + (See http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/) +* Runtime environments based on GNU Classpath 0.10 should be able to + start up Eclipse 3.0 out of the box now. + +Runtime interface Changes: + +* VMProcess.destroy() default implementation fixes. * Fixed the "portable native sync" code; it had been broken since Classpath release 0.06, when we upgraded to GTK+2. - - Explanation: Classpath's AWT peers use GTK+. GTK+ uses GLIB. GLIB by - default uses the platform's native threading model -- pthreads in most cases. + Classpath's AWT peers use GTK+. GTK+ uses GLIB. GLIB by default uses + the platform's native threading model -- pthreads in most cases. If the Java runtime doesn't use the native threading model, then you should specify --portable-native-sync when configuring Classpath, so that GLIB will use the Java threading primitives instead. (For a superior alternative, see below.) - * The VM can set the system property gnu.classpath.awt.gtk.portable.native.sync instead of using the - --portable-native-sync configure-type option. See - doc/vmintegration.texinfo for details. - + --portable-native-sync configure-type option. + See doc/vmintegration.texinfo for details. * We intend that the next release of GNU Classpath will require the VM to provide JNI 1.2. Classpath currently uses only JNI 1.1, except for one JNI 1.2 function: GetEnv(), in the JNI Invocation API. If this poses problems, please raise them on the classpath mailing list. - -* Double.toString() and Float.toString() now work properly on 64-bit - Linux/PowerPC systems. - * The reference implementation of VMThread.holdsLock(Object) now has a default implementation written in java. For efficiency and to prevent spurious wakeups a real 'native' runtime version can be supplied. - * There is a new java.security.VMAccessController class that runtimes need to implement to properly support SecurityManagers. The default implementation that comes with GNU Classpath makes sure that ANY attempt @@ -37,7 +71,7 @@ New in release 0.10 (in preparation) and please give feedback on the GNU Classpath mailinglist whether or not the current AccessController framework is flexible enough. -New in release 0.09 (2004/02/02) +New in release 0.09 (May 2, 2004) * Includes updated GNU JAXP version from 2004-02-01. * Native C code is now -ansi -pedantic (C89) clean and (almost) -Wall clean. |