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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Developers
August 25, 2010
I recently upgraded my RSS reader from the older version I was still using to the
current version. That turned out to be a mistake. The new version was even more broken
than the old version, so I decided it was time to switch. I remembered...
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August 24, 2010
I apologize for taking so long to reply to any of the comments on my previous blog entry. Here are answers to a few...
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August 23, 2010
Two more bug fixes and this will hopefully be the final release candidate.
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August 20, 2010
JDK 7 build 106 is available. Build 106 updates the HotSpot virtual machine to HotSpot 19 build number 06, adding an LLVM-based JIT known as Shark, software floating point & cross-compilation support, the ability to build just the client JIT com...
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August 20, 2010
Type conversion to and from a String is a very common application problem.
To aid in the process, I've created a small library - Joda-Convert.
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August 20, 2010
As of build 105 of JDK 7, the compiler and libraries have support for Project Coin's try-with-resources statement (ARM blocks).
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August 18, 2010
A couple of days ago, Dawid Weiss filed
a bug related to @ikvm.lang.Internal and while fixing the bug I realized that
the feature has significantly evolved since its introduction, but that was never documented.
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August 16, 2010
A quick call for help on generics.
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August 15, 2010
The last couple of days have been quite an entertaining firestorm of press and blog-o-sphere commentary. Lots of questions were brought up that give me a bottomless supply of blog topics. I hope I have the common sense to not write on most of them...
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August 14, 2010
On Patch Tuesday, one of the patches Microsoft released was MS10-060.
It addresses a Silverlight memory corruption and a CLR delegate issue. I was curious
about the CLR delegate issue and decided to see if I could reverse engineer the patc...
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