February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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So long James and thanks for all the fish
There were a few ripples around the Java community given that James Gosling the founding father of Java has left Oracle/Sun.
I'm not that surprised, I'm sure many others are not either. Google must have made inquiries on more than one occasion and Sun had a number of painful years even when I was there, plenty of layoffs that made each release more difficult and that was 5 years ago.
What does this mean to the day to day Java platform. Well James was truely the Java figurehead so was rolled out at maybe one too many Java conferences. I hope we still will see James at the conferences he chooses, its more fun when its not your fulltime job. Java will still continue but we now need a leader to invigorate and direct the platforms future. As a first step a plan for Java 7 would be a must, the last unofficial build was in November. Javaone is coming up but there is no need to wait that long before resolving and fixing things until then. Lets hope that this is the next page of Java's future.
Date: April, 12 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/calvinaustin/archive/2010/04/12/so-long-james-and-thanks-all-fish
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