Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
please consider to apply the attached patch for Jessie's release
notes. It includes news from the Java Team about updated and new
Java packages in Jessie and the most notable changes.
Thank you
Markus
--- whats-new.dbk 2015-04-23 13:08:36.656085036 +0200
+++ whats-new.dbk.new 2015-04-23 13:43:55.670171020 +0200
@@ -563,5 +563,35 @@
homepage</ulink> for more information.
</para>
</section>
+<section id="debian-java">
+ <title>News from the Debian Java Team</title>
+ <para>Jessie ships with 799 source packages (442 updated, +130 new ones since
+ Wheezy) which will be maintained by the <ulink
+ url="https://qa.debian.org/[email protected]";>
+ Java Team</ulink>. Notable changes:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>OpenJDK 7 is the new supported default Java runtime.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>OpenJDK 8 will be available from jessie-backports.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8 are supported and Tomcat 6 was removed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>New developer tools including VisualVM, the Dynamic Code Evolution VM
+ (openjdk-7-jre-dcevm), Gradle, eclipse-wtp-webtools, closure-compiler and more.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Inclusion of <ulink
+ url="https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/androidsdk-tools";>
+ androidsdk-tools</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+</section>
</section>
</chapter>
