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authorMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2006-01-13 13:17:12 +0000
committerMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2006-01-13 13:17:12 +0000
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* Update to classpath-0_20-release minus:
- java/beans/EventSetDescriptor.java - java/util/Hashtable.java
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-New in release 0.20
+New in release 0.20 (Jan 13, 2006)
+
+* New StAX pull parser and SAX-over-StAX driver. Lots of DOM, SAX/StAX,
+ XPath and XSLT improvements. Support for XInclude and XML Base added.
+ Conformance is now regularly tested against various test-suites at
+ http://builder.classpath.org/xml/ See also doc/README.jaxp.
+
+* Full beans XMLEncoder implementation.
+
+* javax.sound.sampled implementation.
+
+* javax.print.attribute and javax.print.event implementated.
+
+* Lots of new datatransfer, print swing and swing.text work and optimization.
+
+* Additional 1.5 support. Including new (separate) generic branch release.
+
+* SecurityManager cleanups and start of review of all Permission checks
+ (includes adding lots of new checks to the Mauve test-suite).
+
+* Buildable on cygwin.
+
+* Fully buildable as "in-workspace" library-plus-vm inside (native) Eclipse
+ see http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse
+
+* Full example that shows a real world CORBA and Free Swing implementation.
+ See examples/gnu/classpath/examples/CORBA/swing/README.html
+
+* A list of bug fixes can be found at:
+http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=classpath&target_milestone=0.20
Runtime interface changes:
* New method VMStackWalker.getClassLoader() was added to avoid an infinite
loop between getCallingClassLoader() and Class.getClassLoader().
+* The included fdlibm implementation has seen several cleanups to handle
+ new architectures and namespacing issues (in particular for ppc, darwin
+ and non-C99 compilers). Please double check any arithmetic test against
+ new platforms/runtimes.
+
+* The gnu.java.net.Plain[Datagram]Socket implementations have been
+ turned into VM reference classes with JNI/Posix implementations.
+
New in release 0.19 (Nov 2, 2005)
* The Swing RepaintManager has been reworked for more efficient painting,