What's New in Kaffe OpenVM 1.0.7 (Release Candidate 1)
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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
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* 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
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* 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.