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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 12:16:21 -0500
From: Karl Asha <karl@blackdown.com>
To: java-linux@java.blackdown.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE]: JDK-1.1.6v4a


NOTE: The JDK may take a few hours to appear on the mirror sites. Please
      be patient. 


Announcing: Java Development Kit 1.1.6 Version 4a for Linux
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Your Blackdown Linux JDK porting team is pleased to announce
its Version 4a port of Sun's Java Development Kit 1.1.6 for
Linux x86. 

New in this Release
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* This is our v4a port of Sun's JDK 1.1.6 final.
    - fix for removes from choice list (a Sun bug)
    - new fix for set frames non-resizable
    - fix for mwm based window manager frame positioning
    - fix for disappearing frames problem (a Sun bug)
    - fix for open sockets causing poor GUI performance
    - fix for kernel accept() bug, which caused slow Java Web Server
         - turn-off by: export JDK_NO_KERNEL_FIX=true
    - improvements in Russian font properties
    - fix for CET to be Central European Time
    - fix for Button 1 modifier values
and many many more fixes since Version 2

You can find a download site via http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
"Download the JDK for Linux" link.


**Other Notes**

- Most, if not all, troubles with the JDK seg-faulting or
aborting on Linux x86 are really the result of old/incompatible 
sets of shared libraries being used.   If you run into these
troubles, please check out the FAQ available from:
http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

- The libc5 version of jdk116_v4a was built on a Debian 1.3.1 
machine running Motif 2.0.1 with gcc-2.8.1, and the glibc 
version was built on a RedHat 5.0 machine running SWiM 
Motif 2.1 with egcs-2.91.41.

- Some problems with Motif and TextFields can be worked around
by pre-Loading libBrokenlocale.so before invoking java.  See
the Blackdown Java-Linux Mailing list archive for more info

- Please check out the README.linux release notes.  For help, 
see the FAQ and the Java-Linux mailing list:
mailto:java-linux@java.blackdown.org

- Please report all bugs to the Jitterbug Java-Linux Bug 
Database at: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

Thanks especially go to:

     Steve Byrne, Karl Asha, Stephen Wynne, Juergen Kreileder,
     Johan Vos, Michael Sinz, Scott Hutinger, and Kevin Hendricks


Have Fun!
Java-Linux Porting Team