As always it is my great pleasure to announce another release of the JDK for FreeBSD. We've re-released JDK1.1.8 after fixing a couple of bugs in the previous release. For all your FreeBSD/JDK needs, see our home page at: http://www.freebsd.org/java Notable changes in this release include: - Printing from the JDK should now work reliably. - Updated to now use the assembly version of the interpreter. Performance should be increased slightly. - Better handling of signals like DIVIDE and SIGFPE which are trapped and handled correctly now. - The ELF version should work better with AWT/Swing applications. The FreeBSD project donated a more modern copy of Motif that should avoid some weird X errors that occurred previously. In particular, the performance improvements from using the assembly version of the interpreter should be motivation enough for everyone to update to this version. The FreeBSD ports collection has been updated to download the new version, so feel free to update the ports collection and get the new port. Thanks again go to Keith White who's amazing debugging skills and knowledge provided all of the above fixes. Thanks also go to the FreeBSD Project who donated a newer copy of Motif in order to make the more recent ELF releases more stable. -------------------------------------------------- In other news, the JDK2 port has been going slowly. Because of summer vacations and the great weather, the developers have spent time enjoying non-computer things. I expect that as the weather starts to cool down we'll be spending more time in front of our computer, and the JDK2 porting effort will ramp back up. We do have a good start on the effort, although it not yet organized enough to provide even an early alpha release. When we have something more solid, we will send out email to the freebsd-java list. Also, there is some work in progress in doing a native threads implementation of the JDK. This work is *very* early, and is mostly related to adding some new functionality to the FreeBSD kernel to support some necessary features needed to port the JDK. This means that a native threaded JDK probably won't be usable on systems prior to FreeBSD 4.0. More information will be posted on the freebsd-java mailing list as it becomes available. Thanks! -- The FreeBSD JDK porting team This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message