FYI: Add 0.10 announcement

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

This updates the webpages with the announcement of 0.10.

2004-07-12  Mark Wielaard  <address@hidden>

        * doc/www.gnu.org/announce/20040712.wml: New file.
        * doc/www.gnu.org/downloads/downloads.wml: Add 0.10 release.
        * doc/www.gnu.org/newsitems.txt: Add announcement.

Cheers,

Mark

Index: doc/www.gnu.org/newsitems.txt
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+<newsitem date="12 Jul 2004">
+<createlink name="GNU Classpath 0.10" url="announce/20040712.wml">
+</newsitem>
+
 <newsitem date="06 Jul 2004">
 <createlink name="Emacs support for GNU Classpath coding style" 
url="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2004-07/msg00077.html";>
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+#!wml --include=..
+
+#use wml::std::page
+#use wml::std::lang
+#use wml::fmt::isolatin
+#use wml::std::case global=upper
+
+<lang:star:slice:>
+
+<set-var last-modified-author="prr">
+
+#include <include/macros.wml>
+
+<header title="GNU Classpath 0.10 Announcement (2004-07-09)"> 
+<pre>
+We are pleased to announce a new development release of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath, Essential Libraries for Java, is a project to create free
+core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the
+java programming language.
+
+GNU Classpath 0.10 can be downloaded from
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/
+or one of the ftp.gnu.org mirrors
+http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
+
+File: classpath-0.10.tar.gz
+MD5sum: a59a5040f9c1237dbf27bfc668919943
+
+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.
+  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.
+* 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.
+* 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
+  to access a protected resource is denied when a SecurityManager is
+  installed. Which is pretty secure, but also no very useful.
+  Please see the documentation in
+  vm/reference/java/security/VMAccessController.java,
+  and please give feedback on the GNU Classpath mailinglist whether or not
+  the current AccessController framework is flexible enough.
+
+Here are answers to some questions you might have about this project and
+this release.
+
+1). What is required to build/install/run?
+
+GNU Classpath requires a working GNU build environment and a byte code
+compiler such as jikes, gcj or kjc. When creating native code you will
+also need a working C compiler and up to date Gnome development
+libraries (gtk+, libart and gdk-pixbuf). More information on the
+precise version numbers for the tools and libraries can be found in
+the INSTALL file.
+
+You will also need a runtime environment. The following environments
+have been tested to work out of the box with this release:
+
+    * JamVM         (http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/)
+    * Jikes RVM     (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/)
+    * Kissme        (http://kissme.sourceforge.net/)
+
+For other environments that might need modified version of the current
+release see the README file.  A complete list of virtual machines and
+compilers known to be based on GNU Classpath can be found at our
+website: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html
+
+2). What platforms are supported?
+
+GNU/Linux is the only platform that has been tested.
+We plan to eventually support many others.
+
+3). Who should use this software?
+
+Although GNU Classpath is already capable of supporting many
+applications written in the java programming language, this is a
+development release. As such, there are still some unfinished
+components, and some problems are to be expected. You should install it
+if you are interested in GNU Classpath development or reporting bugs.
+We appreciate both.
+
+For end users we recommend to use one of the development environments
+based on GNU Classpath which combine the core libraries with compilers
+and other tools needed for creating applications and libraries.
+
+    * GCC with GCJ  (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/)
+    * Kaffe         (http://www.kaffe.org/)
+
+4). Where do I go for more information?
+
+The project home page with information on our mailing list can be
+found http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/.
+
+A good overview of the current status can be found on the GNU Classpath
+at FOSDEM'04 page which describes the last GNU Classpath hacker meeting.
+It includes reports and presentations on the current status and future
+plans: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/fosdem04.html
+</pre>
+
+<footer>
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1.5
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@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
 <download-block>
 
 <download
-       date="02 May 2004"
-       version="0.09"
-       url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.09.tar.gz";
-       notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20040502.html";
+       date="12 July 2004"
+       version="0.10"
+       url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.10.tar.gz";
+       notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20040712.html";
 >
 
 <!-- download
@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@
 
 <download-block>
 <download
+       date="02 May 2004"
+       version="0.09"
+       url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.09.tar.gz";
+       notes="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20040502.html";
+>
+<download
        date="13 Mar. 2004"
        version="0.08"
        url="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.08.tar.gz";

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