GNU Classpath

Native-only builds are allowed. Typographical
errors in the documentation were fixed. A memory
leak in native/jni/classpath/jcl.c was fixed. Web
page updates were made. Fixes were made to pass
the JSR166 TCK. awk is used to construct the
classlist on building. A deadlock in Logger was
fixed. A regression in java.lang.String was fixed.
Classpath tools are allowed to handle @file
options. parseInt is allowed to handle a "+"
prefix correctly. The use of 1.5 language
constructs was removed in the VM layer.

A number of minor bugs have been fixed. Javadoc documentation is now produced for the JSR166 classes (java.util.concurrent). An incompatibility in the STaX API implementation has been fixed, and the missing properties files for the tools are included in the released tarball.

The main feature of this release is major changes
to Classpath's build system. Notably, configure
now tries to find ecj, javac, and gcj (in that
order), and the --with-ecj and --with-javac
options were removed. To override this, set JAVAC
when calling configure. Building also now requires
a version of javah so that headers may be
generated. There have also been many bugfixes over
the past four months.

Small compile, configure, and build fixes.

This release includes a new experimental GStreamer javax.sound peer (see README.gstreamer). There are also a few new minor features such as support for JNI 1.6, better support for the OpenJDK javac compiler and emulating the JDK tools, and much improved Escher AWT peers along with many bugfixes, including improvements to AWT and Swing support.