The developers of the SableVM Project are proud to announce the official release of SableVM 1.1.7. SableVM is a liberally licensed Free Java virtual machine. See the "About SableVM" section below for more informations about SableVM.
Here is a list of the most important changes and new features. In this version, we: - Imported new GNU Classpath CVS snapshot as of Sun Oct 10 18:00:00 UTC 2004. - Added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath (closes BUG:2). - Provided user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap problems. This should get rid of the hated "sablevm: cannot create vm". - Allowed for multiple elements and prepending/appending to boot class path. - Added --with-profiling switch to make most functions non-"static". - Made sablevm-classpath install its files in more standard locations. - Explicitely disallowed compilation of classpath with gcj or kjc (it never worked reliably). - Made jikes and gcc be less verbose by default (to avoid confusion). - Removed some obsolete code from various places. - Added new Generational Garbage Collector ("experimental", available on request, by passing --with-gc=gencopy to configure). - Made several bugfixes of: - JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12). - IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63). - A copy&paste mistake in PopLocalFrame (closes BUG:62). - Several JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12). - IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63). - "New array" memory allocation size overflow (closes BUG:8). - Out-of-source builds (closes BUG:55). - Handling of 'double' values on ARM. - FPU in 64-bit precision mode on Linux / Intel x86 (closes BUG:1). - F2L, F2I, D2L, D2I not checking for overflows (closes BUG:54). - SIGPIPE killing the VM (closes BUG:51). - GNU make detection on non-GNU/Linux platforms. - Case-insensitive grepping for "Main-Class:" string in MANIFEST.MF. === ABOUT SABLEVM === SableVM is a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and specifications-compliant Java Virtual Machine that aims to be easy to maintain and to extend. It features a state-of-the-art and efficient interpreter engine. Its source code is very accessible and easy to understand. It also has many robustness features that have been the object of careful design. SableVM is a clean-room implementation of the publicly available specifications. SableVM is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). It also uses a modified version of GNU Classpath called sablevm-classpath which is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) with a linking exception. The license of SableVM (LGPL) was specifically chosen as to maximize your ability to legally link and run popular applications, such as Eclipse (http://eclipse.org) and Ant (http://ant.apache.org), which are licensed in ways which might conflict with the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the the following link for more information: http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ The SableVM web site is located at: http://sablevm.org === INSTALLATION === SableVM is available to download from the following locations: - http://sablevm.org/download/release/ - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523 (Soon!) You must download both: - sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz - sablevm-classpath-1.1.7.tar.gz. See the INSTALL file included in the sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz archive for build environment requirements and installation procedures. We make frequent releases, but we also provide daily snapshots of our "staging" development branch at: http://sablevm.org/download/snapshot/ Note that the code of the staging branch is more robust than the code usually found in the CVS trunk of many other free software projects. The staging branch only contains code that has been first tested by developers within their own sandbox. A detailed explanation of the different development branches is available at: http://sablevm.org/wiki/Development_Branches === NOTES === We appreciate your feedback. Please feel invited to contact us. See: http://sablevm.org/support.html You can also join us in real-time on the #sablevm IRC channel on irc.sablevm.org (alias: irc.freenode.net, irc.debian.org). === BINARY PACKAGES === Binary packages of new SableVM versions are usually available in the GNU/Linux Debian "unstable" distribution shortly after the official release. These packages normally migrate to the "testing" distribution a few weeks later. Some other GNU/Linux distributions (Gentoo, etc.) and other operating systems (*BSD, etc.) also provide binary packages or a convenient build environment to compile and install sablevm. === Additional Information === You will find a wealth of additional information in SableVM's wiki pages at: http://sablevm.org/wiki/ === CONCLUSION === We wish you great fun using SableVM. Enjoy! The SableVM Project developers -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org SableVM - LGPL'ed Java VM http://www.sablevm.org Why SableVM ?!? http://sablevm.org/wiki/Features _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath