What's New in Kaffe OpenVM 1.0.7 (Release Candidate 1) ------------------------------------------------------ This release is dedicated to the memory of Edouard G. Parmelan, one of the most active Kaffe developers, a member of the core team, and one of the driving forces behind the project. * Port to ia64 GNU/Linux * Port to s390 GNU/Linux * Port to PA-RISC GNU/Linux * Port to Darwin (Mac OS X). * JIT port for Alpha on Compaq Tru64, GNU/Linux. * Support of PowerPC without libffi. * New version of KJC (2.1A with patches from kopi CVS). * New encoding converters based on iconv(). * Lots of bug fixes. What's New in Kaffe OpenVM 1.0.6 -------------------------------- * New cross language debugging support for JIT3 engine. * New cross language profiling support for JIT3 engine. * Support of libffi. * Port to i386 GNU Hurd. * Port i386 hardware profiler from JIT engine to JIT3 engine. * Alpha GCJ Integration. * New version of KJC (1.4F). * Lots of bug fixes. What's New in Kaffe OpenVM 1.0.5 -------------------------------- * JIT port for StrongARM * JIT port for MIPS * New JIT3 - increases performance of JIT code by a factor of 3 over the old JIT system. - Supports: x86, MIPS, StrongARM, M68K - Coming soon: Sparc, Alpha * RMI implementation (released under the Lesser GPL in conjuntion with the Classpath project) - Provide JDK 1.1 and JDK 1.2 compatible RMI - Unimplemented: Distributed GC, Activations. * Now ships with KJC Java compiler, a truly Open Source Java compiler. * SuperFast locking implementation. * Pthreads implementation (currently for GLIBC 2.1.2 LinuxThreads only) * Resurrected M68K JIT. * New JDK 1.2 style class loading. * New JDK 1.2 java.util Collections classes * New JDK 1.2 java.security classes * Improved i18n support. * New utilities: serialver, rmiregistry, rmic, javap * Lots of bug fixes.