Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Friday November 07, 2008

OpenJDK 6: Sources for b13 published

On November 7, the OpenJDK 6 b13 source bundle was published. Changes of note in this build:

• In the langtools area, besides a few miscellaneous bug fixes (6760834, 6725036, 6657499), all the langtools regression tests now pass out of the box (6728697, 6707027) and if using the most recent version of jtreg, the langtools regression tests can be run in the much faster "same vm" mode of jtreg, enabled with the -s option (6749967, 6748541, 6748546, 6748601, 6759775, 6759795, 6759796, 6759996, 6760805, 6760930).

• Gervill update, including applying a patch from IcedTea (6758986, 6748247, 6748251).

• Publishing a few dozen additional existing regression tests as open source (6601457, 6759433, 6740185).

• JMX and monitoring fixes (6651382, 6616825, 6756202, 6754672).

• Man page updates (6757036, 6392810, 6504867, 6326773).

• Assorted other fixes (6746055, 6621697, 6756569, 6356642, 6761678).

Kelly has made good progress on the Mercurial repository, but some more work remain to be done. I'd expect to have trial repositories available within a week or two.