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<!DOCTYPE news PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for News//EN"
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/xml/news.dtd">
<!-- Simple schema for FreeBSD Java Project news.
Divide time in to <year>, <month>, and <day> elements, each of which
has a <name>.
Each <day> element contains one or more <event> elements.
Each <event> contains an optional <title>, and then a <p>. <p> elements
can contain <a> anchors.
Use the <title> element if the <p> content is lengthy. When generating
synopses of this information (e.g., for syndication using RDF files),
the contents of <title> will be preferred over <p>.
-->
<news>
<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">
$FreeBSD$
</cvs:keyword>
<year>
<name>2012</name>
<month>
<name>May</name>
<day>
<name>09</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 25.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a>
updates the <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 port to
Build 25. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x
page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2011</name>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>30</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 24.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:jkim@FreeBSD.org">Jung-uk Kim</a> updates
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
port to Build 24. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK
1.6.x page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 23.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:jkim@FreeBSD.org">Jung-uk Kim</a> updates
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
port to Build 23. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK
1.6.x page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>March</name>
<day>
<name>1</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 22.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:jkim@FreeBSD.org">Jung-uk Kim</a> updates
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
port to Build 22.
See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a>
for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 21.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:jkim@FreeBSD.org">Jung-uk Kim</a> updates
the <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
port to Build 21. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK
1.6.x page</a>
for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2010</name>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 20.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a>'
update of the <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 port to
Build 20 has been committed. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>May</name>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 19.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org">Lev A. Serebryakov</a>'s
update of the <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 port to
Build 19 has been committed. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>January</name>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 17.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:openjdk@getsnappy.com">Brian Gardner</a>
has released an update of the <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 port to
Build 17. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x
page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2009</name>
<month>
<name>May</name>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<title><a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
updated to Build 16.</title>
<p><a href="mailto:openjdk@getsnappy.com">Brian Gardner</a>
has released an update of the <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 port to
Build 16. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x
page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>March</name>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 9 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the ninth patchset (patchset 9) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>23</name>
<event>
<title>Port of <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
committed</title>
<p><a href="mailto:openjdk@getsnappy.com">Brian
Gardner</a>'s port of <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6 is
committed to the Ports Collection as java/openjdk6. See
the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>6</name>
<event>
<title>Port of <a href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a> 6
announced</title>
<p><a href="mailto:openjdk@getsnappy.com">Brian Gardner</a>
has announced a port of <a
href="http://openjdk.java.net/">&openjdk;</a>
6 to FreeBSD 7.x. See the <a href="dists/16.html">JDK
1.6.x page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2008</name>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>18</name>
<event>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation has announced binary releases
of the JDK 1.6 and JRE 1.6</title>
<p><a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">The FreeBSD
Foundation</a> has announced binary releases of the JDK
1.6 and JRE 1.6. For more details, see the <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2008Jul-newsletter.shtml">
Foundation newsletter</a> and the <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/java">download
page</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>24</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 8 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the eighth patchset (patchset 8) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
<event>
<title>Patchset 4 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.6 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the fourth patchset (patchset 4) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.6 series. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2007</name>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>15</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 3 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.6 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the third patchset (patchset 3) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.6 series. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 2 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.6 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the second patchset (patchset 2) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.6 series. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>23</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 7 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the seventh patchset (patchset 7) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>2</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 1 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.6 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the first patchset (patchset 1) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.6 series. See the <a
href="dists/16.html">JDK 1.6.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 6 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the sixth patchset (patchset 6) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>June</name>
<day>
<name>8</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 5 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the fifth patchset (patchset 5) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>January</name>
<day>
<name>24</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 4 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the fourth patchset (patchset 4) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2006</name>
<month>
<name>April</name>
<day>
<name>7</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 3 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the third patchset (patchset 3) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation has announced binary releases
of the JDK 1.5 and JRE 1.5</title>
<p><a href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">The FreeBSD
Foundation</a> has announced binary releases of the JDK
1.5 and JRE 1.5. For more details, see the <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20060405-PRrelease.shtml">press
release</a> and <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/java">download
page</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2005</name>
<month>
<name>December</name>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 8 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the eighth patchset (patchset 8) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 2 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the second patchset in the &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series.
See the <a href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for
more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>January</name>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 1 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.5 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the initial patchset (patchset 1) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.5 series. See the <a
href="dists/15.html">JDK 1.5.x page</a> for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2004</name>
<month>
<name>December</name>
<day>
<name>13</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 7 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the seventh patchset (patchset 7) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<title>Security vulnerability in Java browser
plugin.</title>
<p>A <a
href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1029">
security vulnerability</a> was announced in the Java
browser plugin. The jdk14 port was fixed in 1.4.2p6_7.
The jdk13 port is still vulnerable. You can check the
exact ports and versions which are vulnerable <a
href="http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/ac619d06-3ef8-11d9-8741-c942c075aa41.html">here</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2003</name>
<month>
<name>December</name>
<day>
<name>30</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 6 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the sixth patchset (patchset 6) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 9 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchset 9) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>11</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 5 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the fifth patchset (patchset 5) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 4 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the fourth patchset (patchset 4) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Foundation announces native support for
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1</title>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation <a
href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20030825-java131.shtml">
announces</a> native support for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 on
FreeBSD.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>March</name>
<day>
<name>7</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 3 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the third patchset (patchset 3) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 8 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 8) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>4</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 2 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released the second patchset (patchset 2) in the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4 series. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2002</name>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>15</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 1 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.4 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released a first patchset (patchlevel 1) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.4.0 software. See the
JDK 1.4.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>18</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 11 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 11) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 software. See the
JDK 1.2.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>17</name>
<event>
<title>Linux Version of J2SE 1.4.1 FCS available in
ports</title>
<p>Right after Sun released J2SE 1.4.1 FCS, the Linux
version was made available in the FreeBSD Ports
system. See <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/">J2SE
1.4.1 page</a> for more details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 7 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 7) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>13</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 6 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 6) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2001</name>
<month>
<name>December</name>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>FreeBSD Foundation announces license agreement with
Sun Microsystems</title>
<p>This was posted to announce@FreeBSD.org:</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation has secured a license from Sun
Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version of
both the Java Development Kit (&jdk;) and the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE). Thanks to the great efforts of the
FreeBSD Java team, these should be available for inclusion
with the upcoming release of FreeBSD 4.5 in January,
2002.</p>
<p>The general availability of a distributable version of
Java will benefit end users, commercial users, and
developers who use FreeBSD. Java continues to grow in
popularity and has become heavily used in server side web
applications, one of FreeBSD's core areas of strength.
With an officially licensed binary Java distribution,
FreeBSD becomes an ideal platform for execution,
development, and deployment of Java based solutions.</p>
<p>This agreement would not have been possible without the
efforts of <a href="mailto:nate@FreeBSD.org">Nate
Williams</a>. Nate not only started the FreeBSD Java
porting effort, but also brought Sun Microsystems and the
Foundation together to negotiate a license.</p>
<p>You can find full text of the announcement <a
href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=2602">here</a>.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 5 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 5) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>Patchset 4 for &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 released</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released an updated patchset (patchlevel 4) for the
&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 software. See the
JDK 1.3.x page for more
details.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>6</name>
<event>
<title>Sun's Forte for Java 3.0 Community Edition
ported</title>
<p><a href="mailto:sobomax@FreeBSD.org">Maxim Sobolev</a>
has created a port of the Sun's <a
href="http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/index.html">Forte[tm]
for Java[tm]</a>, release 3.0 Community Edition integrated
development environment (IDE). It can now be built from
the ports directory ports/java/forte.</p>
<p>The port can be used either with native &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1,
or with Linux &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>27</name>
<event>
<title>&jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1 ported</title>
<p><a href="mailto:glewis@FreeBSD.org">Greg Lewis</a> has
released a long-awaited port of the &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.1
software. It can now be built from the ports directory
ports/java/jdk13. See JDK
1.3.x for more details.</p>
<p>It should be noted that this is very much a
developer-only release and it is not recommended for use
in production environment.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>2000</name>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>&jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 ported</title>
<p><a href="mailto:sobomax@FreeBSD.org">Maxim Sobolev</a>
has produced a port of the &jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 software. It
can now be built from the ports directory
ports/java/jdk12-beta. See JDK
1.2.x for more details.</p>
<p>All the issues noted below are still in place,
however.</p>
<p>So anyone who has a Java2 port you've been waiting on
submitting, now is your chance.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>15</name>
<event>
<title>New Java patches</title>
<p><a href="mailto:sean@stat.duke.edu">Sean O'Connell</a>
and <a href="mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu">Andrew
Gallatin</a> have created patches to enable FreeBSD to run
IBM's &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:ernst@jollem.com">Ernst de Haan</a> has
been able to get Sun's Linux &jdk;&nbsp;1.3.0b9 running on
4.0-STABLE. Full details on both can be found
here.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>Sun Java Compatibility Kit Testing</title>
<p>On August 7th, 2000, the FreeBSD &jdk; team was given
access to Sun's JCK (Java Compatibility Kit), which will
allow us to test and (hopefully!) release a binary
version using the current set of patches. Unfortunately,
we are unable (for legal reasons) to distribute a &jdk;
that hasn't been run against the JCK like we were able to
with the &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.* releases.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as told by Sun (we have no experience
*yet*), running the JCK against the port is a difficult and
time-consuming process. Hopefully it won't take us the 3
months that Sun expects it to take. :(</p>
<p>Finally, there are still some issues regarding Motif&reg;
that need to be resolved before a full public release can
be made. Sun is working on that front, and we need to try
contacting the OpenGroup to see if we can get a special
exception for Motif binary distributions to use in the
&jdk; release.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>May</name>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<title>Native &jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 port enters alpha test
phase</title>
<p>Greg Lewis has just announced that the native FreeBSD
&jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 port has entered alpha test stage.</p>
<p>In its current form, the port will build and run on most
FreeBSD releases (3.4, 4.0 and 5.0 on x86) and work is
being done on the others (2.2.8 on x86 and 4.0 alpha).
Most demo applets and applications run.</p>
<p>Currently we are looking for enthusiasts who are willing
to spend a little time testing the new port. While this
is not a trivial task, there are clear step-by-step
instructions on how to build and use the port.</p>
<p>The patches may be found, as usual on:</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html">http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html</a></p>
<p>More information, open issues and step-by-step
instructions may be found at: <a
href="http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html">http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html</a></p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>1</name>
<event>
<title>Request for Enhancement - Now the number 1 RFE</title>
<p>We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD
JDK2 port. We are currently in 1st place in the vote
count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's
Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well <a
href="http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html">http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html</a></p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>March</name>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>Pre-Alpha &jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 patches available.</title>
<p>Greg Lewis releases the pre-alpha patches for
enterprising Java users to build their own native FreeBSD
&jdk;&nbsp;1.2.2 from. This process is not for the faint
of heart, and the resulting &jdk; is not for production
systems. Having said that, most AWT and Swing demo's have
been found to run. There is plenty of work to do, and we
need all the testers we can find. Patches and build
instructions may be downloaded from <a
href="http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-latest.tar.gz">
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-latest.tar.gz</a>. Currently
open issues and test results may be found at <a
href="http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html">
http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html.</a></p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>January</name>
<day>
<name>30</name>
<event>
<title>Blackdown 1.2.2RC4 &jdk;</title>
<p>The Linux Blackdown Port Team has released RC4 of
&jdk;&nbsp;1.2. It has been tested on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE
and later and runs all demo applets and jfc demos.
Several people have mentioned some problems running it
with Apache JServ. Until it can be added to the FreeBSD
port tree, it can be found at <a
href="http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux_jdk.html">
http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux_jdk.html</a>.
(Reported by Jose Marques)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>1999</name>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>28</name>
<event>
<title>Request for Enhancement</title>
<p>We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD
JDK2 port. We are currently in <b>2nd</b> place in the
vote count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's
Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well <a
href="http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html">http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html</a></p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title>Another &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 release to fix a separate
class of multicast bugs.</title>
<p><a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/nate/JDK1.1/jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-11-9.tar.gz">jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-11-9.tar.gz</a>.
For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format. <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/nate/JDK1.1/jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-11-9.tar.gz">jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-11-9.tar.gz</a>.
For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF binary
format. Note, due to a number of changes in -CURRENT, the
&jdk; may not work properly.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>October</name>
<day>
<name>11</name>
<event>
<title>Work has re-started on the Java2/&jdk;&nbsp;1.2
port.</title>
<p>Expect an early 'alpha' release of Java2/&jdk;&nbsp;1.2
in the coming weeks for FreeBSD 3.3-stable/ELF boxes.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>New &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8</title>
<p>Re-rolled the &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 yet again to fixup some
minor bugs that people have found, as well as to speedup
the &jdk;. For details checkout the README.FreeBSD
supplied in the releases.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions
2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.*
and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>19</name>
<event>
<title>New &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8</title>
<p>Re-rolled the &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 release to fix a couple of
minor (but annoying bugs). First, the netpatch (see
below) was incorporated into the build, and second an
annoying Floating Point bug was found and fixed. The
latter bug affected multi-threaded code that did floating
point calculations and based on the code could produce
completely bogus results.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions
2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.*
and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>2</name>
<event>
<title>New 'CommAPI' porting team announced.</title>
<p>Organization of FreeBSD 'CommAPI' porting team which is
an effort to make <a
href="http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/index.html">JAVA's
CommAPI</a> freely available to the FreeBSD community.
Project is coordinated by <a
href="mailto:jdricot@ulb.ac.be?subject=JAVA CommAPI: ">
DRICOT Jean-Michel</a> and will officially be maintained
in <a
href="http://student.ulb.ac.be/~jdricot/commapi/">http://student.ulb.ac.be/~jdricot/commapi/</a>.
Feel free to contact him if you want to join the
project.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>June</name>
<day>
<name>8</name>
<event>
<title>Patch for UDP sockets</title>
<p>A small bug was found in the &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 release
which affected people using UDP sockets. If you tried to
send a packet to the broadcast address, the FreeBSD &jdk;
refused with a permissions error. This error was fixed,
and rather than re-releasing the entire release a small
patchset was re-rolled for those folks who are
experiencing this problem. If you experience this
problem, feel free to download the gzipped tarfile and
untar it wherever you installed the jdk. It will install
itself over top of the old version. If you aren't
experiencing the bug, there is no need to apply the patch,
although it wouldn't hurt.</p>
<p><a href="AOUT.netpatch.tar.gz">AOUT.netpatch.tar.gz</a>.
For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format.</p>
<p><a href="ELF.netpatch.tar.gz">ELF.netpatch.tar.gz</a>.
For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF binary
format.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>3</name>
<event>
<title>New &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 release</title>
<p>&jdk;&nbsp;1.1.8 for A.OUT and ELF releases. This
release adds support for older 3.*/ELF releases (without
requiring any runtime loader changes), as well as fixes
bugs in LOCALE and timezone support for all FreeBSD
releases.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions
2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.*
and 4.* which use the ELF binary format.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>1</name>
<event>
<title>JDK2 status</title>
<p>Work on &jdk;&nbsp;1.2/JDK2 has been going very slow as
the development team has been focusing it's effort on
solid JDK1 releases. For most JDK2 development issues,
you can use the JDK1 release and the <a
href="http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/index.html#download-swing">Swing</a>
releases provided by Sun for JDK1, which works very well
under FreeBSD.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>April</name>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<title>New &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7 A.OUT release</title>
<p>This fixes build problems in the March release. A new
ELF release will be made to support older 3.0 releases as
well sometime in the near future.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.7_AOUT.V99-4-16.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions
2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>March</name>
<day>
<name>26</name>
<event>
<title>ELF support for &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7, as well as a new
A.OUT release which includes minor bugfixes.</title>
<p>jdk1.1.7_AOUT.V99-3-24.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions
2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary format.</p>
<p>jdk1.1.7_ELF.V99-3-25.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.x
and 4 which use the ELF binary format. <b>Note</b>: This
requires changes made to the runtime loader to support
dladdr() functionality made on 1999/3/24. You will need
to be running 3.1-stable or 4.0-current dated later than
1999/3/24. If you don't have the new loader binary or are
not tracking -stable or -current, you can download it from
<a href="ld-elf.so.1">here</a> and install it as
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 (you need to be root to do
this):</p>
<p><pre># install -c -s -o bin -g bin -m 555 -C -fschg
<b>ld-elf.so.1</b> /usr/libexec</pre></p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>16</name>
<event>
<title>Updates on current development</title>
<p>ELF &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7 : An ELF build of &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7
(for use on FreeBSD 3.x and later) is currently entering
it's initial internal testing phase. A beta release
should be available in a few weeks.</p>
<p>JDK2 (aka &jdk;&nbsp;1.2): Several individuals are
working on porting JDK2 to FreeBSD, but the work is
progressing slowly. This is primarily due to a lack of
developer time to work on this project. (The release of
Blackdown's JDK2 port will assist our development when
they release their source diffs.)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
<year>
<name>1998</name>
<month>
<name>December</name>
<day>
<name>21</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.7.V98-12-21.tar.gz</title>
<p>Bugfix version of &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7. Thanks go to Keith
White who tracked down a couple annoying (and serious)
bugs in the &jdk;, notably the modulo bug. This release
also has the 256 file-descriptor limit bumped up to 2048.
The JRE should also be much more usable, again thanks to
Keith.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>November</name>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.7.V98-11-5.tar.gz</title>
<p>Updated to &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.7. Thanks go to Patrick
Gardella <a
href="mailto:patrick@FreeBSD.org">patrick@FreeBSD.org</a>
who provided most of the testing for this release.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>September</name>
<day>
<name>23</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.6.V98-9-23.tar.gz</title>
<p>The August 14 build had jre incorrectly linked in both
the &jdk; and the JRE, so a new release was rebuilt with
the correct linkage. Otherwise, there were no changes
from the older release.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>August</name>
<day>
<name>22</name>
<event>
<title>Web updates</title>
<p>Updated page to list numerous sites who have agreed to
mirror the &jdk; and provide ftp access. Thanks to
all!</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>14</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.6.V98-8-14.tar.gz</title>
<p>The SO_REUSEADDR option is now correctly set on
ServerSockets (may affect other sockets as well.)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>July</name>
<day>
<name>21</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.6.V98-7-21.tar.gz</title>
<p>Updated port to &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.6. Thanks go to Keith
White <a
href="mailto:kwhite@site.uottawa.ca">kwhite@site.uottawa.ca</a>
who did most of the work to make this release happen!</p>
<p>More standard 'naming' for java.version and such.</p>
<p>Fixes for UDP/Multicast sockets.</p>
<p>The signal abort error may be fixed (knock on wood).</p>
<p>Add support for the "KOI8-R" and "CP866" encodings.</p>
<p>Timezones now work correctly under FreeBSD (this required
some native code, but it is embedded in the &jdk; so
shouldn't affect users. However, FreeBSD has one of the
few (only?) VM's that correctly support Timezones
now).</p>
<p>sysRmdir() now correctly removes directories.</p>
<p>Link in the xpg4 library to support CJK locales.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>May</name>
<day>
<name>5</name>
<event>
<title>Web updates</title>
<p>Updated page to include instruction on how to get Sun's
JWS (Java Work Shop) working under FreeBSD.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>February</name>
<day>
<name>25</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.5.V98-2-25.tar.gz</title>
<p>&jdk;'s built on 2.2.2 should now work again.</p>
<p>The AWT now correctly sets the Window name.</p>
<p>Fixed obscure bug that could cause a core dump if you hit
a button in a dialog box multiple times.</p>
<p>Fixed bug where SHMEM wasn't released when using images,
causing a leak.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>12</name>
<event>
<title>New FTP Mirror and Web Updates</title>
<p>Johan Larsson graciously provided an ftp mirror site for
the &jdk;, so if you have an aversion to using HTTP, then
feel free to grab it from his site.</p>
<p>Replaced the 'Steaming Cup of Java' logo with the 'Jump
to Java' logo, which is more politically (and legally)
acceptable to SUN's lawyers.</p>
</event>
</day>
<day>
<name>9</name>
<event>
<title>jdk1.1.5.V98-2-8.tar.gz</title>
<p>Fixed bugs in Process.waitFor()</p>
<p>Modified the way the Motif library was linked in. This
will allow anyone with a Motif library (static or dynamic)
to build their own &jdk; once the patchkit is released. If
their Motif license allows for it, they can also make
binary releases available.</p>
<p>Non blocking reads on PIPE did not work reliably on all
versions of the OS.</p>
<p>Multicast now works.</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
<month>
<name>January</name>
<day>
<name>10</name>
<event>
<title>New &jdk; porting team announced</title>
<p>Organization of FreeBSD &jdk; porting team, which now
jointly creates new &jdk; releases for FreeBSD.</p>
<p>New &jdk;&nbsp;1.1.5 binary, which has Motif statically
compiled in. (Unfortunately, this release was lost in a
disk crash on the ftp server.)</p>
</event>
</day>
</month>
</year>
</news>