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GNU Classpath 0.97.2 released

Item posted by Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew> on Fri 06 Jun 2008 02:30:44 AM UTC.

We are proud to announce the release of GNU Classpath 0.97.2, the second bugfix release for GNU Classpath 0.97.

GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools for the java programming language.

The GNU Classpath developer snapshot releases are not directly aimed at the end user but are meant to be integrated into larger development platforms. For example JamVM, CACAO and Kaffe can make use of an installed copy of GNU Classpath 0.97.2, while GCC (gcj) will use the developer snapshots as a base for future versions. For more projects based on GNU Classpath, see http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/stories.html

This is the second of a new series of bugfix releases that follow a major (0.x) release. A 0.x.y release will only contain minor bug fixes. It will not cause major changes in the functionality of GNU Classpath, either for better or for worse.

With this bugfix release, the following issues have been resolved:


From the 0.95 release, we switched fully towards the 1.5 generics work that we previously released separately as classpath-generics. All this work is now fully integrated in the main release and various runtimes (GCJ, CACAO, JamVM, JikesRVM etc) have been extended to take advantage of the new generics, annotations and enumeration support in the core library. As a consequence, only 1.5 capable compilers (currently the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ecj) and Sun's javac) may be used to build Classpath.

The GNU Classpath developers site (http://developer.classpath.org/) provides detailed information on how to start with helping the GNU Classpath project and gives an overview of the core class library packages currently provided.

For each snapshot release generated documentation is provided through the GNU Classpath Tools gjdoc project, which will become part of GNU Classpath itself with the release of 0.98. A documentation generation framework for java source files used by the GNU project. Full documentation on the currently implemented packages and classes can be found at: http://developer.classpath.org/doc/ We are looking into how to extend the documentation experience in the future. Please contact the mailinglist if you would like to help with this effort.

For more information about the project see also:

GNU Classpath home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
Developer information (wiki): http://developer.classpath.org/
Full class documentation: http://developer.classpath.org/doc/
GNU Classpath hackers: http://planet.classpath.org/
Autobuilder, current build status, build snapshots:
http://builder.classpath.org/

Application test pages (wiki):
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/Applets
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeAWTTestApps
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSwingTestApps
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/FreeSWTTestApps
GNU Classpath hacking with Eclipse (wiki):
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse

GNU Classpath promotion banners:
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathBanners

GNU Classpath 0.97.2 is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpath/, one of the ftp.gnu.org mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html) or the Classpath continuous integration system (http://builder.classpath.org/dist)

File: classpath-0.97.2.tar.gz
MD5sum: 6a35347901ace03c31cc49751b338f31
SHA1sum: 627e9781f9bb744b1a70e4aaff88d2d0440cbf1f

The following people helped fix bugs in Classpath 0.97.1:

Andrew John Hughes, Michael Koch, Jim Meyering, Robert Schuster, Mario Torre, Tom Tromey, Ralf Wildenhues

The following people helped with the release of Classpath 0.97 and/or 0.97.1:

Luciano Chavez, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Bernhard Fischer, Jeroen Frijters, Stefan Huehner, Andrew John Hughes, Jakub Jelinek, Ito Kazumitsu, Roman Kennke, Alexandre Oliva, Petteri Raety, Ian Rogers, Robert Schuster, Leen Toelen, Mario Torre, Dalibor Topic, Tom Tromey, David Walluck, Mark Wielaard and Ralf Wildenhues.

We would also like to thank the numerous bug reporters and testers! In addition, we'd like to extend our thanks to all those who've contributed over the years and have helped in building a thriving and friendly community around the GNU Classpath project.

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