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DataBasin 0.6 released!Support "." as Semi-JoinSelect Identify works now with multiple columns (all in AND as condition)Support LIMIT clause in Select IdentifyImproved Exception catching and display for Select IdentifyObject Inspector supports ... [More] selection of itemsLog window with selectable log levelProgress and estimated completion time displayed in LogRemember loginsinternal API improvementvast 64bit and portability improvementsSupport count and aggregate queriesSelect Identify is now vastly improved. Supporting multiple columns and LIMIT, coupled together with the other improvements of this release, makes it an invaluable tool during support and maintenance of a Salesforce org. How else could you check the status of a lot of objects, say Cases or Accounts?The object inspector is always handy too.DataBasin allows you to work with SalesForce.com much easier and also from your favourite free OS  using GNUstep like any BSD or GNU/Linux or at need on Solaris or Macintosh.Many thanks to my colleagues, Claudio and Paolo amongst them, for finding bugs and testing the 9 internal beta releases! [Less]

Battery Monitor 0.7 is now available from GAP.Improved BSD support has been improved, Support for linux on powermac has been added.

Quick update to http-streams, making a requested API change to the signature of the buildRequest function as well as pushing out some bug fixes and performance improvements. You no longer need to pass the Connection object when composing a Request ... [More] , meaning you can prepare it before opening the connection to the target web server. The required HTTP 1.1 Host: header is added when sendRequest is called, when the request is written to the server. If you need to see the value of the Host: field that will be sent (ie when debugging) you can call the getHostname function. I’ve added an “API Change Log” to the README file on GitHub, and the blog post introducing http-streams has been updated reflect the signature change. Thanks to Jeffrey Chu for his contributions and to Gregory Collins for his advice on performance improvement; this second release is about 9% faster than the original. AfC [Less]

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My burst of inspiration ended. So I guess it's time to do a release soon. Changes: Expose Java 8 static interface methods as static methods via nested __Methods type. ... [More] Expose Java 8 default interface methods as static methods via nested __DefaultMethods type. Build fix. When doing a clean build the two generated Java source files don't exist yet, so we process the .in files instead. Added nuget package creation build file. Binaries available here: ikvmbin-7.3.4826.zip [Less]

I meant to blog about this a while back, but the recent deluge of security updates has pushed it to the sidelines. The current HEAD version of IcedTea for building OpenJDK 6 (what will eventually become 1.13) now supports building with HotSpot 23 in ... [More] preference to the version in the OpenJDK 6 tarball, HotSpot 20. Indeed, this is the default, should you not be building the Zero assembler port. As users of 7 will know, Zero doesn’t work with HotSpot 22 & 23, though signs are good for HotSpot 24, which is currently being tested in the 7 updates forest. Building OpenJDK 6 with HotSpot 23 was delightfully uneventful in the end, despite earlier warnings from Oracle that they’ve not tested anything beyond 20. We saw no problems during build and a clear run of HotSpot jtreg tests was also a good sign (bar a few JSR292 patches which we’ve since patched out). With luck, things should be good for the 1.13.0 release (which we hope will not take the year that 1.11->1.12 took) and we may even be able to get it upstream into OpenJDK 6 at some point. Gentoo users can get their hands on this now by using the icedtea-6.9999 ebuild in java-overlay. Other users will need to check out Mercurial repository and build it themselves. $ /usr/lib/jvm/icedtea-6/bin/java -version java version "1.6.0_27" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.0pre+re162a16dad26) (Gentoo build 1.6.0_27-b27) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode) [Less]

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines. A new set of security ... [More] releases are now available for the OpenJDK 7 series: 2.1.7, 2.2.7 & 2.3.8. We recommend that users upgrade to the latest release from the appropriate branch as soon as possible. The releases contain the following security fixes: S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion Full details of each release can be found below. What’s New? New in release 2.3.8 (2013-03-11) Security fixes S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion Backports S8002344: Krb5LoginModule config class does not return proper KDC list from DNS S8004344: Fix a crash in ToolkitErrorHandler() in XlibWrapper.c S8006179: JSR292 MethodHandles lookup with interface using findVirtual() S8006882: Proxy generated classes in sun.proxy package breaks JMockit Bug fixes PR1303: Correct #ifdef to #if PR1340: Simplify the rhino class rewriter to avoid use of concurrency Revert S7017193 and add the missing free call, until a better fix is ready. New in release 2.2.7 (2013-03-11) Security fixes S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion Backports S8002344: Krb5LoginModule config class does not return proper KDC list from DNS S8004344: Fix a crash in ToolkitErrorHandler() in XlibWrapper.c S8006179: JSR292 MethodHandles lookup with interface using findVirtual() S8006882: Proxy generated classes in sun.proxy package breaks JMockit Bug fixes PR1303: Correct #ifdef to #if PR1340: Simplify the rhino class rewriter to avoid use of concurrency Revert S7017193 and add the missing free call, until a better fix is ready. New in release 2.1.7 (2013-03-11) Security fixes S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion Backports S8002344: Krb5LoginModule config class does not return proper KDC list from DNS S8004344: Fix a crash in ToolkitErrorHandler() in XlibWrapper.c S8006179: JSR292 MethodHandles lookup with interface using findVirtual() S8006882: Proxy generated classes in sun.proxy package breaks JMockit Bug fixes PR1303: Correct #ifdef to #if Stop libraries being stripped in the OpenJDK build. PR1340: Simplify the rhino class rewriter to avoid use of concurrency Revert S7017193 and add the missing free call, until a better fix is ready. The tarballs can be downloaded from: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-2.1.7.tar.gz (sig) http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-2.2.7.tar.gz (sig) http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-2.3.8.tar.gz (sig) SHA256 checksums: e23d7715b9b27635f721414614be4bc5e52d32fb9739bc2e5dd1abcd8183dbee icedtea-2.1.7.tar.gz 070a14f450569f98bd7b1ce5c42a9240c81ac5c234e2b39f8897f11d3d625ecc icedtea-2.2.7.tar.gz 750a4c6e3e22369aa7dcfb0751fe85d5ea7a36b32871861c5063dbcadddc7153 icedtea-2.3.8.tar.gz Each tarball is accompanied by a digital signature available at the above ‘sig’ link. This is produced using my public key. See details below. PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07 The following people helped with these releases: Andrew Hughes (applying all security patches & backports, creation & testing of bug fixes, reproducer testing, release management) Matthias Klose (reported & fixed PR1340) Omair Majid (applied security fixes) Bernhard Rosenkränzer (reported issue with PR1303) We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers! To get started: $ tar xzf icedtea-${version}.tar.gz $ cd icedtea-${version} where ${version} is the version you’ve downloaded. Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL: $ mkdir icedtea-build $ cd icedtea-build $ ../icedtea-${version}/configure [--enable-zero --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...] $ make Happy hacking! [Less]

As johnath blogged, we’ve had a bit of a conversation going with the office across from us. I wanted to add a few more photos and a video that I took. mconley arrives with the package I believe at this point they are reading the label Is this what I think it is? It is! Mask modelling (link to the video in case Planet doesn’t like the iframe)

Original announcement courtesy of Omair Majid. The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative ... [More] virtual machines. A new set of security releases are now available for the OpenJDK 6 series: 1.11.9 & 1.12.4. We recommend that users upgrade to the latest release from the appropriate branch as soon as possible. The releases contain the following security fixes: S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion Full details of each release can be found below. What’s New? New in release 1.11.9 (2013-03-04) Security fixes S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion New in release 1.12.4 (2013-03-04) Security fixes S8007014, CVE-2013-0809: Improve image handling S8007675, CVE-2013-1493: Improve color conversion The tarballs can be downloaded from: http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.11.9.tar.gz (sig) http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.12.4.tar.gz (sig) SHA256 checksums: 0c134bea8d48c77ad5d41d4a0f98f471c381faaa0ef0c215d48687e709e93f3f icedtea6-1.11.9.tar.gz eb326c6ae0147ca4abe4bd79e52c1edc2ef08e5e008230e24bee3abb39e14dda icedtea6-1.12.4.tar.gz The tarballs are accompanied by digital signatures available at the above ‘sig’ link. This is produced using Omair’s public key. See details below. PGP Key: 66484681 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = F072 555B 0A17 3957 4E95 0056 F286 F14F 6648 4681 The following people helped with these releases: Severin Gehwolf (creation of fix for S8007675) Omair Majid (applying all security patches, reproducer runs, release management) Mario Torre (creation of fix for S8007675) We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers! To get started: $ tar xzf icedtea-${version}.tar.gz $ cd icedtea-${version} where ${version} is the version you’ve downloaded. Full build requirements and instructions are in INSTALL: $ mkdir icedtea-build $ cd icedtea-build $ ../icedtea-${version}/configure [--enable-zero --enable-pulse-java --enable-systemtap ...] $ make Happy hacking! [Less]

Cynthiune 1.0.0 has been released, the Music Player for GNUstep. This is the first of GAP after Wolfgang handed over the source code.Improved stability, portability, support for big-endian processors. Ported to Windows and Macintosh. Memory leaks and ... [More] bug fixes. This is definitely a recommended upgrade. Thanks to Wolfgang for the code and Sebastian and Philippe for the long hacking sessions! [Less]