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New in release 0.98 (Feb 05, 2009)

* Native support for BigInteger is now provided using the GMP

library.  A new option, --enable/disable-gmp is provided, and

the option is enabled by default if GMP is found.

* Classpath now makes use of a new StringBuilder implementation

internally called CPStringBuilder.  In addition to being

unsynchronised, like StringBuilder, this also avoids copying the

array when toString or substring is called.  While StringBuffer/Builder

always retain their own array, which is only altered during resizing,

CPStringBuilder gives away its array when the result is generated

by toString()/substring() and starts afresh.  The default capacity of

CPStringBuilder can also be configured using the

gnu.classpath.cpstringbuilder.capacity property. (PR21869)

* gjdoc is now built as part of tools.zip.

* Import of the Java Activation Framework from ClasspathX to provide

javax.activation (part of 1.6).

* Preliminary version of java.util.Scanner (PR30436)

* Reduce cost of ThreadLocal(s) to improve Jython performance (PR33690)

* Updated to use CLDR 1.5.1 (PR35237)

* Many bug fixes including:

  - PR22851: zoneStrings in gnu/java/locale/LocaleInformation*

  - PR31895: setCurrency(Currency) does not actually change the currency.

  - PR32028: Make fails at gjdoc

  - PR34840: Mismatch between Sun and Classpath's java.lang.Appendable

  - PR35487: gcj causes ConcurrentModificationException during tomcat5

  - PR35690: javax.tools.FileObject.toUri is in wrong case

  - PR36085: java.util.regex escape-sequence handling

  - PR36147: Apache Tomcat fails to read descriptors using GNU XML

  - PR36219: gnu.xml.transform.SortKey isn't subclass

  - PR36220: NPEs in gnu.xml.transform.* clone methods

  - PR36221: DomDOMException running SPEC jvm 2008 xml.transform

  - PR36477: OOME in CPStringBuilder when running Eclipse

  - PR36522: Policy file is not read at all

  - PR36636: gjar -u doesn't work

  - PR36637: --without-fastjar doesn't wor

  - PR36677: Omission bug in JDWP VirtualMachineCommandSet

  - PR38417: gnu.java.security.util.PRNG produces easily predictable values

  - PR38473: Segmentation fault in retrieving font outline decomposition

  - PR38861: Support XULRunner 1.9.1.

  - PR38912: XMLParser not interning element names

Runtime interface changes:

  * VMSecureRandom has moved to gnu.java.security.jce.prng.VMSecureRandom

  as part of the fix for PR38417.

  * gnu.java.lang.VMCPStringBuilder has been added and should be added to

  avoid the inefficency of reflection when creating non-copied String objects.

Bug fixes in release 0.97.2 (Jun 06, 2007)

* Include headers in the release tarball.

* Allow the building of tools to be optional.

* Only check for a Java compiler when required.

* Allow VMOperatingSystemMXBeanImpl to compile on Solaris.

* Documentation typo fixes

* Fix memory leak in native/jni/classpath/jcl.c

* Web page updates (PR classpath/22883)

* Fixes to pass the JSR166 TCK

* Use awk to construct the classlist on building

* Fix deadlock in Logger (PR classpath/35974)

* Fix regression in java.lang.String (PR classpath/35482)

* Allow Classpath tools to handle @file options.

* Allow parseInt to handle a + prefix correctly.

* Remove use of 1.5 language constructs in the VM layer.

Bug fixes in release 0.97.1 (Mar 11, 2007)

* Include documentation for JSR166 (java.util.concurrent)

* Fix STaX API compatability.

* Include the tools properties file in the release tarball.

New in release 0.97 (Feb 22, 2007)

Build changes:

* A copy of javah (to produce C header files from Java source code)

is now required to generate the files in include.

* The javac check has been changed so that it attempts to find ecj,

javac and gcj (in that order).  You may override this by using

JAVAC=

Runtime interface changes:

* Removed VMFloat.floatToIntBits amd VMDouble.doubleToLongBits.

* Added new getParameterAnnotations() methods in Constructor and Method.

New in release 0.96.1 (Oct 16, 2007)

* Small compile, configure and build fixes.

New in release 0.96 (Oct 15, 2007)

* New experimental GStreamer javax.sound peer (see README.gstreamer)

* The JNI interface has been updated to 1.6

* Better support for the OpenJDK javac compiler

* Support for using javah via tools.zip and com.sun.tools.javah.Main

* Much improved Escher AWT peers

* Many bug fixes including improvements to AWT and Swing support

Runtime interface changes:

* Add VMFloat.toString(float) and VMFloat.parseFloat(String). Default

  implementations are the same as previous behavior.

* Add new default implementations of VMMemoryMXBean.getHeapUsage()

  and VMMemoryMXBean.getNonHeapUsage() via iteration over the memory

  pools of the appropriate type.

New in release 0.95 (Apr 23, 2007)

* Full merge of 1.5 generics work.

* Added 1.6 java.util.ServiceLoader support.

* The ASM library is now included.  A separate copy is no longer

  needed.  gjavah works out of the box now.

* The setReadTimeout and getReadTimeout methods have been added to

  java.net.URLConnection.  They are now fully implemented for http URLs.

* The java.lang.management implementation now includes the new features

  added in 1.6

* java.util.TimeZone now reads time zone information from the system

  zoneinfo files (see also runtime interface changes below).

* The collection classes have been updated to support all the 1.6

  additions.

* java.util.spi 1.6 package has been added and is used in java.text.

* Bootstrappable with OpenJDK javac compiler

  (use configure --with-javac).

* Large speedups (and locking behaviour updated) in Graphics2D cairo

  and freetype support.

* Better detection of browser plugin mechanism for mozilla, iceweasel,

  firefox on various platforms.

* Inclusion of generic javadoc classes in tools.zip to support more

  javadoc processing tools.

* Added documentation for command lines options for the included GNU

  Classpath Tools gjar, gjavah, gnative2ascii, gorbd, grmid,

  grmiregistry, gserialver and gtnameserv.

Runtime interface changes:

* gnu.java.lang.management.VMThreadMXBeanImpl has gained three new

  optional native methods to allow the 1.6 version of the threading

  bean to be supported.  One (getMonitorInfo) fills in information

  about object monitor locks held by a thread and is only required

  if the monitoring of object monitor locks is supported by the VM.

  The other two (findDeadlockedThreads and getLockInfo) are related

  to ownable synchronizers (part of the java.util.concurrent suite)

  and only required if monitoring of locks relating to these is

  supported by the VM.

* java.util.VMTimeZone and java.util.TimeZone have been refactored

  to simplify the reference implementation.  VMTimeZone.readtzFile()

  and VMTimeZone.skipFully() have been removed, and a new method

  VMTimeZone.readSysconfigClockFile() has been introduced.

* VMs need to set the system property "gnu.java.util.zoneinfo.dir"

  to point to the directory where zoneinfo files live.  In libgcj

  this is set to the value of the TZDATA environment variable, or

  "/usr/share/zoneinfo" if this is not set.

* VMFile has been extended to support new 1.6 methods (canExecute,

  setReadable, setWritable, setExecutable).

New in release 0.93 (Dec 8, 2006)

* CORBA objects that exist on the same virtual machine and only are connected

  to another ORB are now accessed directly and no longer via network. It is

  the same feature that RMI implementation provides. These faster calls should

  be completely transparent, as the parameters are cloned, where required.

  Currently the direct calls are only possible for the non-deprecated objects

  that are connected to the ORB via POA.

* The 'javah' tool has been added.  It requires the ASM library

  (see asm.objectweb.org); it can be enabled with the --with-asm

  option to configure

* Added the rmi and corbaname URL context factories for JNDI.

* Fixes in the JNDI InitialContext now allows to plug-in user implementation.

* Removed currentClassLoader method from

  vm/reference/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java.

* Added firstNonNullClassLoader method to

  vm/reference/gnu/classpath/VMStackWalker.java. VMs are encouraged to

  provide a more efficient implementation.

* Added aton method to vm/reference/java/net/VMInetAddress.java.

* NetworkInterface has been implemented for systems that provide the

  `getifaddrs' function.

* java.nio.channels.Selector implementations have been added that use

  the kqueue notification mechanism on Mac OS X and *BSD, and that use

  the epoll notification mechanism on Linux 2.6.

* java.nio has been refactored to support more non-blocking operations

  natively. Blocking IO classes have been refactored to call

  non-blocking classes. Non-blocking accepts, connects, and

  scatter-gather IO should now be better supported.

* HTML support for Swing has been greatly enhanced.

Runtime interface changes:

* java.net.VMNetworkInterface and java.net.NetworkInterface have been

  updated to keep native-modified state in the former, and to simplify

  the native code in our reference implementation.

* gnu.java.nio.VMChannel has been expanded to better support native

  non-blocking IO. Most native state data (such as file descriptor

  integers) has been abstracted away into private state in the runtime

  interface.

* gnu.java.nio.VMPipe has been similarly changed.

* gnu.java.net.VMPlainSocketImpl has been changed to remove some

  functionality now provided by VMChannel; datagram socket-specific

  methods have also been moved here, deprecating VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl.

* gnu.java.net.VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl removed.

New in release 0.92 (Aug 9, 2006)

* GConf is used as a backend for java.util.prefs. GNU Classpath

  thanks to Mario Torre for this contribution!

* libjawtgnu.so has been renamed libjawt.so for binary compatibility.

  libjawt.so should be installed in a VM-specific directory rather

  than directly in /usr/lib.  Proprietary VMs put their libjawt.so

  implementations in VM-specific directories but search /usr/lib first.

  If GNU Classpath's libjawt.so is installed in /usr/lib it will create

  problems for people who use a proprietary VM to run AWT Native

  Interface applications.

* The GdkGraphics2D backend has been made the default.  There is no

  longer an explicit dependency on Cairo, the --enable-gtk-cairo

  configure option is gone, and GTK 2.8 or higher is now required to

  build the GTK peers.

* A Mozilla plugin, 'gcjwebplugin', is now included.  It introduces a

  dependency on the Mozilla plugin support headers and libraries.

* New java implementations of png and gif imageio readers and writers.

* A tools.texinfo document has been created and now includes

  documentation about:

  * appletviewer

  * gcjwebplugin

  * jarsigner

  * keytool

* Several new tools are now included:

  * appletviewer

  * jar

  * native2ascii

  * serialver

  * keytool

  * jarsigner

  A new configure option --enable-tool-wrappers causes wrapper

  binaries to be built for VMs that support the JNI Invocation API.

* We've imported the JSR 166 (concurrency) reference implementation.

* javax.sound.midi providers have been added to read and

  write standard MIDI files.

* A javax.sound.sampled .au and .wav file readers have been added.

* New Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface header, jvmti.h.

* AWT peers for X Windows based on Escher (a pure java X protocol

  implementation) have been added. So far it supports AWT 1.1 style

  Graphics, image loading via ImageIO (PNG, GIF and BMP images in this

  release), top level components as well as mouse and keyboard input.

  It is capable of running many Swing applications. Graphics2D and

  AWT widgets are not yet supported with this peer set.

* GConf based util.peers backend (see the --enable-gconf-peer and

  --enable-default-preferences-peer configure options).

* Support for batch importing trusted certificates for use with ssl

  connections (see script/import-cacerts.sh).

* NIO scatter-gather channel support.

Runtime interface changes:

* A new class, VMURLConnection, is used to implement

  URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream.  The reference

  implementation uses libmagic (and falls back to doing nothing if

  libmagic is not available).

* The method gnu.java.io.PlatformHelper.toCanonicalForm() has been

  replaced with a JNI implementation of VMFile.toCanonicalForm() for

  GNU/Posix systems.

* A new class, VMRuntimeMXBeanImpl, is used to implement

  the low-level support of the runtime management bean.

  VMs should use it to supply the input arguments and start

  time of the VM.  In addition, one of sun.boot.class.path

  or java.boot.class.path should be defined by the VM to

  support the optional boot class path access functionality.

* The Unsafe class was moved back to the place expected by the JSR 166

  reference implementation.  We've also added a couple other new VM

  classes to support the JSR 166 code -- sun.reflect.Reflection and

  sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil.

* Another new class, VMClassLoadingMXBeanImpl, is used to implement

  the low-level support of the class loading management bean.

  VMs need to supply it with information about how many classes

  are currently loaded, how many have been unloaded and whether

  verbose class loading output is on or off.  Provision should also

  be made for the latter to be toggled at runtime.

* VMThreadMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support

  of the thread management bean.  Providing this interface requires

  providing a fair amount of information about threads, including

  optional time and contention monitoring, and instances of the

  new ThreadInfo class in java.lang.management.  getState() has also

  been added to the VMThread interface; this is required by the bean

  as well as java.lang.Thread.

* VMMemoryMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support

  of the memory management bean.  Providing this interface requires

  providing information about the levels of heap and non-heap memory,

  and the number of objects eligible for garbage collection.

* VMCompilationMXBeanImpl is used to allow for optional compilation

  time support for Just-In-Time compilers.

* VMMemoryPoolMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support

  of the memory pool beans.  Providing this interface requires

  providing memory usage statistics for each supported bean.

* VMManagementFactory provides the names of the memory pools,

  memory managers and garbage collectors maintained by the virtual

  machine.  These are used to create the beans by the ManagementFactory.

* VMMemoryManagerMXBeanImpl and VMGarbageCollectorMXBeanImpl provide

  low-level support for memory managers (including the specific subclass

  of garbage collecting memory managers).  The interfaces for these

  require no more than enumerating the number of collections and the

  time spent (for garbage collectors) and a relationship to the memory

  pools (for all), along with a validity check.

New in release 0.91 (May 15, 2006)

* Experimental activation (java.rmi.activation) support, including RMI

  activation daemon and persistent naming service tools.

* Experimental printing support: The API implementation of the javax.print

  packages has been finished and work on the printing provider implementation

  started. Currently supported features from the Java Print Service API are

  print service discovery (CUPS registered printers), single document print

  jobs and support for client-formatted print data. An example application

  (see: examples/gnu/classpath/examples/print/Demo) has been added to show

  the API usage for service discovery and printing of files.

* The GTKToolkit now gives access to the both the system clipboard and

  system selection.

* Custom mouse cursor support has been added to the gtk+ peers. And cursors

  can now also be set on light-weight components.

* Free Swing improvements: Support for OceanTheme has been mostly completed

  and turned on as default Metal theme. X11-style Copy and Paste behavior in

  text components with the middle mouse button. Support cursor changes on

  various components when resizing. Support for Look and Feel window

  decorations has been added.

* Updated locale data information to CLDR 1.3.

* Various bugs in Classpath's SecureRandom implementations have been

  fixed; that class now respects the "securerandom.source" security

  property and the "java.security.egd" system property.

* Support for assistive technologies has been added to AWT and Swing.

Runtime interface changes:

* A new class, VMArray, is now available which separates the native

  array creation method from java.lang.reflect.Array.

* A new class, gnu.classpath.Unsafe, is provided for handling the

  new low-level operations required by java.util.concurrent.

* The reference implementations of Method, Constructor, and Field

  now have a new native getModifiersInternal() method.  The public

  getModifiers() method in each case has been rewritten in terms of

  this method.

* The reference implementation of VMThread has been updated to handle

  the new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler support.

* A new class, java.security.VMSecureRandom, is now available that is

  used to generate random numbers for seeding cryptographically-secure

  pseudo-random number generators.

* VMClass and the reference implementations of Method, Constructor and Field

  now include a number of 1.5 methods imported from the generics branch.

  These are all optional (in the sense that the methods associated with them

  merely fail on use if the VM doesn't provide them, rather than the

  VM failing altogether), but VMs should aim to support them where possible.

* The implementation of java.lang.instrument has been merged to the main

  branch from the generics branch.

* The VM interfaces of the main branch and the generics branch are now

  consistent with one another.  As a result, the main branch includes an

  additional environ() function in VMSystem and an additional argument has

  been added to nativeSpawn() in VMProcess.

* Annotation support is now available in the main branch, if the VM supports

  it. The VM should implement VMClass.getDeclaredAnnotations,

  Constructor.getAnnotation, Constructor.getDeclaredAnnotations,

  Field.getAnnotation, Field.getDeclaredAnnotations, Method.getAnnotation and

  Method.getDeclaredAnnotations.

* java.lang.Package now has a new constructor that takes the defining

  ClassLoader as an extra argument. If you use a custom version of

  VMClassLoader, please switch it to use this constructor.

* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader.getBootPackages() now

  reads the META-INF/INDEX.LIST resource using the java.boot.class.path

  system property.

New in release 0.90 (March 6, 2006)

* Free Swing improvements: JTable columns are rearrangeable and

  resizeable with mouse. Painting and scrolling are now much

  faster. Plain text components now support highlighting and

  copy+paste to the system clipboard. Support for styled text has been

  improved, including some very basic HTML support. JFileChooser is

  now usable. Global event dispatching has been implemented. Memory

  consumption of Swing components has been reduced. Lots of general

  bugfixes. Added new system property to turn off Graphics2D use in

  Swing, even if Graphics2D is available: gnu.javax.swing.noGraphics2D

* AWT. Improved support for mixing "lightweight" and "heavyweight"

  Components in Containers. Better support for dynamically updated

  menus. Better 1.0 event model support for Scrollbars. Better class

  documentation of gtk+ awt peers.

* GNU Crypto and Jessie have been merged into GNU Classpath; this

  provides Classpath with a wide array of cryptographic algorithms

  (ciphers, message digests, etc.) and implementations of SSL version

  3 and TLS version 1. These roughly complement the public

  `java.security.' `javax.crypto,' and `javax.net.ssl' packages, and

  are service providers implementing the underlying algorithms.

* Updated HTTP and FTP URLConnection protocol handlers. HTTPS support

  out of the box.

* Unicode 4.0.0 is supported. Character now includes support for using

  ether a char or an int to identify code points.

* More correct handling of Object methods and serialization support

  for Proxy and abstract classes.

* The new folder tools includes GIOP and RMI stub and tie source code

  generators, IOR parser and both transient and persistent GIOP naming

  services.

* Added experimental support for dynamic creation of the RMI stubs

  using proxy classes. The rmic compiler is no longer required (unless

  for research and specific stubs).

* XML validaton support for RELAX NG and W3C XML schema namespace

  URIs. RELAX NG pluggable XML schema datatype library API and an

  implementation for XML Schema Datatypes

  (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/).

* Updated StAX implementaton to be compatible with final JSWDP 2.0.

* The default back end for java.util.prefs has been changed.  The new

  default is capable of saving and restoring preferences to and from

  the file system.

* javax.imageio.plugins.bmp implementation.

* Added --enable-collections configure option which builds

  "collections.jar", a 1.1 VM compatibility jar.

* gnu.regexp updated from GNU/Posix syntax to support util.regex

  syntax including various Unicode blocks, categories and properties.

Runtime interface changes:

* A new class, VMMath, is now available which separates the native

  mathematical functions from java.lang.Math.  The previous fdlibm

  implementation now forms the reference material for this class.

* Updated VMObjectInputStream class to return Thread context class

  loader if no other class loader is found.

* Updated documentation on InstrumentationImpl in vmintegration guide.

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,

  especially for large GUIs.

* The Swing layout manager OverlayLayout has been implemented, the BoxLayout

  has been rewritten to make use of the SizeRequirements utility class and

  caching for more efficient layout.

* Improved accessibility support for Swing.

* The java.net.HttpURLConnection implementation no longer buffers the

  entire response body in memory.  This means that response bodies

  larger than available memory can now be handled.

* The Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director of the Object

  Management Group, has officially assigned us 20 bit Vendor Minor Code Id:

  0x47430 ("GC") that will mark remote Classpath - specific system exceptions.

  Obtaining the VMCID means that GNU Classpath now is a recogniseable type of

  node in a highly interoperable CORBA world.

* Classpath now includes the first working draft to support the RMI over

  IIOP protocol. The current implementation is capable for remote invocations,

  transferring various Serializables and Externalizables via RMI-IIOP protocol.

  It can flatten graphs and, at least for the simple cases, is interoperable

  with Sun's jdk 1.5.

* Qt4 configury switches for OS-X. Additional to the --enable-qt-peer, OS-X

  users with a Qt4 installation can build the qt-peers with the argument

  --with-qt4dir=.

* Significant progress has been made in the implementation of the

  javax.swing.plaf.metal.* package, with most UI delegates in a working state

  now.  Please test this with your own applications and provide feedback that

  will help us to improve this package.

* The GUI demo (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) has been extended to

  highlight various features in our free-swing implementation. And includes

  a look and feel switcher (Metal default, Ocean or GNU).

Runtime interface changes:

* Changed implementation of VMClassLoader.getPackage(s) : new method

  VMClassLoader.getBootPackages should be implemented by the vm, and sould

  return a string array of boot package names ("java.lang", "java.net", ...).

  Feedback from vm implementors for usability and relevance of the

  getBootPackages method would be greatly appreciated.

New in release 0.18 (Sep 6, 2005)

* GNU JAWT implementation, the AWT Native Interface, which allows direct

  access to native screen resources from within a Canvas's paint method.

  GNU Classpath Examples comes with a Demo, see examples/README.

* awt.datatransfer updated to 1.5 with supports for FlavorEvents.

  The gtk+ awt peers now allow copy/paste of text, images, uris/files

  and serialized objects with other applications and tracking

  clipboard change events with gtk+ 2.6 (for gtk+ 2.4 only text and

  serialized objects are supported). A GNU Classpath Examples

  datatransfer Demo was added to show the new functionality.

* org.omg.PortableInterceptor and related functionality in other packages

  is now implemented:

    - The sever and client interceptors work as required since 1.4.

    - The IOR interceptor works as needed for 1.5.

* The org.omg.DynamicAny package is completed and passes the prepared tests.

* The Portable Object Adapter should now support the output of the

  recent IDL to java compilers. These compilers now generate servants and

  not CORBA objects as before, making the output depended on the existing

  POA implementation. Completing POA means that such code can already be

  tried to run on Classpath. Our POA is tested for the following usager

  scenarios:

    - POA converts servant to the CORBA object.

    - Servant provides to the CORBA object.

    - POA activates new CORBA object with the given Object Id (byte array)

      that is later accessible for the servant.

    - During the first call, the ServantActivator provides servant for this

      and all subsequent calls on the current object.

    - During each call, the ServantLocator provides servant for this call

      only.

    - ServantLocator or ServantActivator forwards call to another server.

    - POA has a single servant, responsible for all objects.

    - POA has a default servant, but some objects are explicitly connected

      to they specific servants.

  The POA is verified using tests from the former cost.omg.org.

* The javax.swing.plaf.multi.* package is now implemented.

* Editing and several key actions for JTree and JTable were implemented.

* Lots of icons and look and feel improvements for Free Swing basic and

  metal themes were added.  Try running the GNU Classpath Swing Demo in

  examples (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) with:

  -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel

  -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

* Start of styled text capabilites for java.swing.text.

* NIO FileChannel.map implementation, fast bulk put implementation for

  DirectByteBuffer (speeds up this method 10x).

* Split gtk+ awt peers event handling in two threads and improve gdk lock

  handling (solves several AWT lock ups).

* Speed up awt Image loading.

* Updated TimeZone data against Olson tzdata2005l.

* Make zip and jar UTF-8 "clean".

* "native" code  builds and compiles (warning free) on Darwin and Solaris.

Runtime interface changes:

* All native resource "pointers" in the VM interface classes are now exposed

  as gnu.classpath.Pointer objects. This might impact runtimes that

  optimize and support java.nio.DirectByteBuffers. Creating these classes

  and accessing the contents as void * pointers for the native reference JNI

  implementation is done through the JCL_NewRawDataObject and JCL_GetRawData

  functions.

* Simplified the Class/VMClass interface.

* Removed loadedClasses map from ClassLoader. It's now the VMs responsibility

  to manage the list of defined and loaded classes for each class loader.

* Moved native methods from java.lang.reflect.Proxy to VMProxy.

* Added hook to VMClassLoader to allow VM to do class caching.

New Untested/Disabled Features:

  The following new features are included, but not ready for production

  yet. They are explicitly disabled and not supported. But if you want

  to help with the development of these new features we are interested

  in feedback. You will have to explicitly enable them to try them out

  (and they will most likely contain bugs). If you are interested in any

  of these then please join the mailing-list and follow development in

  CVS.

* QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer.

* JDWP framework, enable by deleting the jdwp references from

  lib/standard.omit and vm/reference/standard.omit. No default

  implementation is provided. Work is being done on gcj/gij integration.

* StAX java.xml.stream, enable by deleting the gnu.xml.stream and

  java.xml.stream references in lib/standard.omit.

New in release 0.17 (Jul 15, 2005)

* gnu.xml fix for nodes created outside a namespace context.

* Add support for output indenting and cdata-section-elements output

  instruction in xml.transform.

* xml.xpath corrections for cases where elements/attributes might have

  been created in non-namespace-aware mode. Corrections to handling of

  XSL variables and minor conformance updates.

* DefaultMutableTreeNode preorder, postorder, depthFirst and breadthFirst

  traversal enumerations implemented.

* JInternalFrame colors and titlebar draw properly.

* JTree is working up to par (icons, selection and keyboard traversal).

* JMenus were made more compatible in visual and programmatic behavior.

* JTable changeSelection and multiple selections implemented.

* JButton and JToggleButton change states work properly now.

* JFileChooser fixes.

* revalidate and repaint fixes which make Free Swing much more responsive.

* Correctly handle system call interrupts and timeouts in native nio

  and net functions.

* MetalIconFactory implemented.

* Handle image loading errors correctly for gdkpixbuf and MediaTracker.

* Added Tree World to GNU Classpath examples Free Swing demo.

* FileChannel.lock() and FileChannel.force() implemented.

* java.util.logging.FileHandler now rotates files.

* Better handle GDK lock. Properly prefix gtkpeer native functions (cp_gtk).

* Corba bug fixes and documentation updates.

* Updated gcj build infrastructure.

* Documentation fixes all over the place.

  See http://developer.classpath.org/doc/

* VM Integration Guide updates with a full section on VM/Classpath hooks.

New in release 0.16 (Jun 30, 2005)

* Better GTK scrollbar peer implementation when using GTK >= 2.6.

* GdkGraphics2D has been updated to use Cairo 0.5.x APIs.

* BufferedImage and GtkImage rewrites. All image drawing operations

  should now work correctly (flipping requires gtk+ >= 2.6)

* Future Graphics2D, Image and Text work is documented at:

  http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathGraphicsImagesText

* Free Swing Top-Level Compatibility. JFrame, JDialog, JApplet,

  JInternalFrame, and JWindow are now 1.5 compatible in the sense that you

  can call add() and setLayout() directly on them, which will have the same

  effect as calling getContentPane().add() and getContentPane().setLayout().

* The JTree interface has been completed. JTrees now recognizes mouse clicks

  and selections work, but the visual implementation is not yet complete.

  Work on expansion and collapsing of the tree nodes is being implemented.

* BoxLayout works properly now.

* Fixed GrayFilter to actually work.

* Metal SplitPane implemented.

* Lots of free swing text and editor stuff work now.

* When gtk+ 2.6 or higher is installed the default log handler will produce

  stack traces whenever a WARNING, CRITICAL or ERROR message is produced.

* The CORBA implementation is now a working prototype that should support

  features up till 1.3 inclusive.

  We would invite groups writing CORBA dependent applications to

  try Classpath implementation, reporting any possible bugs.

  The CORBA prototype is interoperable with Sun's implementation v 1.4,

  transferring object references, primitive types, narrow and wide

  strings, arrays, structures, trees, abstract interfaces and

  value types (feature of CORBA 2.3) between these two platforms.

  The remote exceptions are transferred and handled correctly.

  The stringified object references (IORs) from various sources are

  parsed as required.

  The transient (for current session) and permanent (till jre restart)

  redirections work.

  Both Little and Big Endian encoded messages are accepted.

  The implementation is verified using tests from the former cost.omg.org.

  The current release includes working examples (see the examples directory),

  demonstrating the client-server communication, using either CORBA Request

  or IDL-based  stub (usually generated by a IDL to java compiler).

  These examples also show how to use the Classpath CORBA naming service.

  The IDL to java compiler is not yet written, but as our library must be

  compatible, it naturally accepts the output of other idlj implementations.

* New --with-vm-classes configure option, and new 'build' setting

  for --with-glibj. (Only for integrators.)

Runtime interface changes:

* Start of a generic JDWP framework in gnu/classpath/jdwp.

  This is unfinished, but feedback (at classpath@gnu.org) from runtime

  hackers is greatly appreciated. Although most of the work is currently

  being done around gcj/gij we want this framework to be as VM neutral as

  possible. Early design is described in:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-05/msg00260.html

* Native method VMClass.getModifiers() now takes an additional

  boolean parameter.

* Deprecated native method VMClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader,

  String, byte[], int, int) has been replaced by

  VMClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader, String, byte[], int, int,

  ProtectionDomain)

* VMClassLoader.loadClass(String name, boolean resolve) is now native,

  replacing the former version which just returned null.

* Deprecated native method VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass(String) has

  been replaced by new native method VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass(char).

* Previously empty implementations of methods VMThread.countStackFrames(),

  VMThrowable.fillInStackTrace(), and VMThrowable.getStackTrace() have

  been removed; these methods are now native methods.

* Fields "exceptionTypes" and "parameterTypes" have been removed from

  Contructor.java and getExceptionTypes() and getParameterTypes() are

  now native methods.

New in release 0.15 (Apr 29, 2005)

* The old character encoding framework (gnu.java.io.EncodingManager)

has been replaced by a system based completely on nio.charset

providers. Many converters have been added, both the io, lang and nio

frameworks now use the same set of converters and the whole character

stream framework (Readers and Writers) have been optimized. For some

workloads this leads to 2x till 20x speedups.

The default charsets supported are:

  Cp424, Cp437, Cp737, Cp775, Cp850, Cp852, Cp855, Cp857, Cp860, Cp861,

  Cp862, Cp863, Cp864, Cp865, Cp866, Cp869, Cp874, ISO_8859_1, ISO_8859_13,

  ISO_8859_15, ISO_8859_2, ISO_8859_3, ISO_8859_4, ISO_8859_5, ISO_8859_6,

  ISO_8859_7, ISO_8859_8, ISO_8859_9, KOI_8, MS874, MacCentralEurope,

  MacCroatian, MacCyrillic, MacDingbat, MacGreek, MacIceland, MacRoman,

  MacRomania, MacSymbol, MacThai, MacTurkish, US_ASCII, UTF_16, UTF_16BE,

  UTF_16Decoder, UTF_16Encoder, UTF_16LE, UTF_8, UnicodeLittle, Windows1250,

  Windows1251, Windows1252, Windows1253, Windows1254, Windows1255,

  Windows1256, Windows1257, Windows1258.

Many more encoding are supported through the new IconvProvider

depending on the platform iconv support. GNU libiconv is recommended.

The IconvProvider is currently not enabled by default. To enable it

define the system property gnu.classpath.nio.charset.provider.iconv=true.

Some runtimes might choose to enable this by default by setting it

through VMSystemProperties. We would like to get feedback on whether

enabling or disabling the IconvProvider by default results in the

highest speedups.

* Free swing metal and pluggable look and feels have been improved.

The GNU Classpath free swing example can now be run with different

"skins" by setting the system property swing.defaultlaf to the GNU,

Basic or Metal look and feel.

* Some of the org.omg.CORBA classes and packages have now been

implemented. The Savannah bug tracker contains additional tasks for

which we are seeking help.

* Fixed compatibility problems in the java.beans which affected

Eclipse's Visual Editor Project.

* New completely lock free (Inheritable)ThreadLocal implementation.

* javax.swing.text.rtf framework added which can handle simple (plain)

text tokens.

* Support for parsing html files into Level 2 Document Object Model

(org.w3c.dom.html2 and javax.swing.text.html.parser). And a start of

javax.swing.text.html framework added.

Runtime interface changes:

* jni.h changed to better support compiling runtimes implementing jni;

  see VM integration guide for details.

* New --enable-default-toolkit option to configure can be used to set

  the fully qualified class name of the default AWT toolkit to use.

  If not given, the old default of gnu.java.awt.peerk.gtk.GtkToolkit

  is used.

* New --disable-core-jni option can be used to disable building the

  "core" JNI libraries.  This is primarily useful if your VM can use the

  Gtk peers but not the core JNI libraries.

* New system property "gnu.classpath.boot.library.path" can be specified

  to define the location of the JNI libraries. It is by all means meant

  ONLY for VM implementors and GNU Classpath hackers. See the hacking

  guide for more information.

* The helper methods currentLoader() and allocateObject() for

  java.io.ObjectInputStream have been moved to a VMObjectInputStream class.

  Reference implementations are provided.

* java.net.InetAddress now uses VMInetAddress for runtime/platform

  specific methods getLocalHostname(), getHostByAddr() and

  getHostByName(). java.net.NetworkInterface now uses VMNetworkInterface

  for runtime/platform specific getInterfaces() support. Default

  (Posix/GNU JNI) implementations are provided.

* VMClass has a new method getModifiers(Class, boolean) which can be

  used to get the real modifiers for an inner class or the ones

  specified by the InnerClasses attribute.

* All (possible) runtime specific methods of Object and Double are now

  in VMObject and VMDouble. Where possible generic reference

  implementations are provided.

* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader now handles zip files

  on the boot loader class path in getResources().

Other changes:

New in release 0.14 (Feb 25, 2005)

* Character encoders and decoders have been added for:

  iso-8859-6 (arabic), iso-8859-7 (greek), iso-8859-8 (hebrew),

  iso-8859-9 (latin-5), iso-8859-13, iso-8859-15 (latin-9), cp1047 (ebcdic),

  ebcdic-xml-us,ascii, windows-1250, windows-1252, UTF-16BE (Big Endian),

  UTF-16LE (Little Endian), UTF-32BE (Big Endian), UTF-32LE (Little Endian).

* Full documentation for all classes can be generated (again) by using

  the --with-gjdoc configure option.

* javax.awt.imageio support through gdkpixbuf.

Runtime interface changes:

* VMSecurityManager has been replaced by gnu.classpath.VMStackWalker.

  currentClassLoader() is no longer needed, and there are also two new

  methods with non-native implementations. VM implementors are encouraged

  to provide more efficient versions.

* VMRuntime.nativeLoad() now takes an additional ClassLoader parameter.

New in release 0.13 (Jan 6, 2005)

* The http url protocol handler has been replaced with a full HTTP/1.1

  version from GNU inetlib.

* A new ftp url protocol handler has been added also from GNU inetlib.

* java.beans has been updated to 1.4 including support for XMLEncoder

  and XMLDecoder.

* The java.util.Locale support is now based on the Common Locale Data

  Repository (CLDR) Project (see http://www.unicode.org/cldr/).

  GNU Classpath provides support for more than 250 locales now.

  This new support is experimental and the GNU Classpath hackers are

  working together with runtime developers and the unicode consortium

  to improve them in the future.

  If your runtime misdetects your locale or if the default locale gives

  problems please try running with -Duser.language=en and -Duser.region=US

  to fall back on a known good locale.

* Added implementations of javax.xml (JAXP 1.3), org.xml.sax (SAX2) and

  org.w3c.dom (DOM Level 3) interfaces. It is possible to switch between

  different implementations AElfred2, GNU DOM, GNU XSL, libxmlj SAX,

  libxmlj DOM and libxmlj XSL by setting different system properties.

  Also provided is a preliminary XPath 1.0 implementation.

  The libxmlj versions are build around libxml2 and libxslt and have to

  be enabled during build time by the --enable-xmlj configure flag.

  The current support is equal to the last released GNU JAXP 1.3 release.

  These packages will be maintained as part of the GNU Classpath core classes

  in the future. For more information, conformance results and documentation

  on selecting different implementations see doc/README.jaxp.

* More AWT accessible support.

* AWT gtk+ peers component layout, dialog placement, keyboard focus

  handling and text positioning have been improved.

* ImageIO interfaces are more complete.

* JList, JTable and JTree have been hugely improved.

* java.awt.Robot support with GdkRobot in the gtk+ awt peers.

  Needs XTest Extension (libXtst) XServer support.

* New --disable-examples configure argument.

Runtime interface changes:

* Added a new method (VMRuntime.enableShutdownHooks) that enables the VM

  to lazily register an exit handler.

* The java.lang.Class constructor now automatically sets the protection

  domain for array classes, based on the protection domain of the component

  type class.

* New gnu.classpath.VMSystemProperties class. This replaces the

  system properties initialization in VMRuntime. Note that it is

  now the VMs responsibility to set one additional property:

  gnu.cpu.endian should be set to "big" or "little".

* VMRuntime.nativeGetLibname() has been renamed to VMRuntime.mapLibraryName()

  and has only one argument, the name of the library.

* String and StringBuffer now call VMSystem.arraycopy() directly and don't

  go through java.lang.System. Be careful to not initialize java.lang.System

  early in the bootstrap sequence in your VM runtime interface classes.

* Some (wrong) documentation about the behavior of VMThread.sleep(0, 0)

  has been updated. Also, VMThread.sleep() now has a default non-native

  implementation, but it is a generic implementation that ignores the

  nano-seconds argument. Runtime hackers are encouraged to provide a more

  efficient version.

* There is prelimenary support for nio direct byte buffers.

  See VMDirectByteBuffer. Please contact the GNU Classpath mailinglist when

  you add support for this to your runtime.

New in release 0.12 (Nov 14, 2004)

* GNU Classpath's JAR implementation now has preliminary support for

  signed entries, for so called "signed JAR" file support. Signed JAR

  files are one of the key security features of managed runtimes, and

  allows code to run privileged given unforgeable proofs of identity.

* A much improved version of X.509 certificates has been added,

  including a robust certificate path checking algorithm. Also

  included is an implementation of the RSA signature scheme.

* Full java.awt.color implementation, with all standard ICC profiles,

  except for PhotoYCC color space.

* java.beans 1.4 updates and bug fixes.

* java.awt.image support updated to 1.4.

* Improved build process. Uses less memory with gcj and C code is

  buildable with -Werror on most platform. Please configure with

  --enable-Werror and report any remaining issues.

* Big-endian (PowerPC) fixes for native awt GTK+ peers.

* Checkstyle support, see scripts/checkstyle-config.xml.

* Better AWT focus management fro GTK+ peers.

* Much faster and better fonts support

  (for both gdk Graphics and cairo Graphics2D)

* AWT Choice fixes for hidden components.

* HTTP Connection Handler fixes for POST support.

* Much fuller collection documentation.

* Lots of Calendar bug fixes.

* More javax.imageio support.

* Better AWT Help MenuBar support.

* Lookahead support for regular expressions.

* Serialization object stream fixes for multiple ClassLoader scenarios.

* Swing TabbedPane, ColorChooser and ComboBox improvements.

* Start of JTree functionality.

* Improved Eclipse 3 support for GNU Classpath based runtimes.

Runtime interface Changes:

* New --enable-java-lang-system-explicit-initialization configuration

  option. (Warning, will be replaced in next release, please consult

  the mailinglist.)

* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader has default

  implementations for getResource(s) and provides support for a new

  default getSystemClassLoader implementation.

New in release 0.11 (Sep 13, 2004)

* javax.swing.Spring and SpringLayout support.

* Added pluggable look and feel support for BasicTextFieldUI and

  BasicToolBarSeparatorUI.

* java.swing.text support for (Default and Layered) Highlighter, FieldView,

  PlainView, TabExpander and TabableView added.

* Start of JTable and JTree implementation.

* Internal Swing frames work.

* JMenu and JPopupMenu work.

* New gtk+ AWT FileDialog peer now based on gtk+2.4 or higher.