April, 2006
December, 2005
- December 19, 2005:
Greg Lewis has released the eighth patchset
(patchset 8) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
September, 2005
- September 3, 2005:
Greg Lewis has released the second patchset in
the JDK™ 1.5 series. See the JDK 1.5.x page for
more details.
January, 2005
- January 19, 2005:
Greg Lewis has released the initial patchset
(patchset 1) in the JDK™ 1.5 series. See the JDK 1.5.x
page for more details.
December, 2004
- December 13, 2004:
Greg Lewis has released the seventh patchset
(patchset 7) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
November, 2004
- November 25, 2004:
A security
vulnerability was announced in the Java browser plugin. The jdk14 port was fixed in
1.4.2p6_7. The jdk13 port is still vulnerable. You can check the exact ports and versions
which are vulnerable here.
December, 2003
- December 30, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released the sixth patchset
(patchset 6) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
- December 19, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchset 9) for the JDK™ 1.3.1 software. See the JDK
1.3.x page for more details.
November, 2003
- November 11, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released the fifth patchset
(patchset 5) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
October, 2003
- October 10, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released the fourth patchset
(patchset 4) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
August, 2003
- August 26, 2003:
The FreeBSD Foundation announces native
support for JDK™ 1.3.1 on FreeBSD.
March, 2003
- March 7, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released the third patchset
(patchset 3) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
February, 2003
- February 12, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchlevel 8) for the JDK™ 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
- February 4, 2003:
Greg Lewis has released the second patchset
(patchset 2) in the JDK™ 1.4 series. See the JDK 1.4.x
page for more details.
November, 2002
- November 15, 2002:
Greg Lewis has released a first patchset
(patchlevel 1) for the JDK™ 1.4.0 software. See the JDK 1.4.x page for more details.
September, 2002
- September 18, 2002:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchlevel 11) for the JDK™ 1.2.2 software. See the JDK 1.2.x page for more details.
- September 17, 2002:
Right after Sun released J2SE 1.4.1 FCS, the Linux version was made available in the
FreeBSD Ports system. See J2SE 1.4.1 page
for more details.
July, 2002
- July 26, 2002:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchlevel 7) for the JDK™ 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
February, 2002
- February 13, 2002:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchlevel 6) for the JDK™ 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
December, 2001
- December 22, 2001:
This was posted to announce@FreeBSD.org:
The FreeBSD Foundation has secured a license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a
native FreeBSD version of both the Java Development Kit (JDK™) and the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE). Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java team, these should be
available for inclusion with the upcoming release of FreeBSD 4.5 in January, 2002.
The general availability of a distributable version of Java will benefit end users,
commercial users, and developers who use FreeBSD. Java continues to grow in popularity
and has become heavily used in server side web applications, one of FreeBSD's core areas
of strength. With an officially licensed binary Java distribution, FreeBSD becomes an
ideal platform for execution, development, and deployment of Java based solutions.
This agreement would not have been possible without the efforts of Nate Williams. Nate not only started the FreeBSD Java
porting effort, but also brought Sun Microsystems and the Foundation together to
negotiate a license.
You can find full text of the announcement here.
October, 2001
- October 16, 2001:
Greg Lewis has released an updated patchset
(patchlevel 5) for the JDK™ 1.3.1 software. See the JDK 1.3.x page for more details.
September, 2001
August, 2001
October, 2000
- October 14, 2000:
Maxim Sobolev has produced a port of the
JDK™ 1.2.2 software. It can now be built from the ports directory
ports/java/jdk12-beta. See JDK 1.2.x for more details.
All the issues noted below are still in place, however.
So anyone who has a Java2 port you've been waiting on submitting, now is your
chance.
September, 2000
August, 2000
- August 10, 2000: On August 7th, 2000, the FreeBSD JDK™ team was given
access to Sun's JCK (Java Compatibility Kit), which will allow us to test and
(hopefully!) release a binary version using the current set of patches. Unfortunately, we
are unable (for legal reasons) to distribute a JDK™ that hasn't been run against
the JCK like we were able to with the JDK™ 1.1.* releases.
Unfortunately, as told by Sun (we have no experience *yet*), running the JCK against
the port is a difficult and time-consuming process. Hopefully it won't take us the 3
months that Sun expects it to take. :(
Finally, there are still some issues regarding Motif® that need to be resolved
before a full public release can be made. Sun is working on that front, and we need to
try contacting the OpenGroup to see if we can get a special exception for Motif binary
distributions to use in the JDK™ release.
May, 2000
- May 3, 2000: Native JDK™ 1.2.2 port enters alpha test phase
Greg Lewis has just announced that the native FreeBSD JDK™ 1.2.2 port has
entered alpha test stage.
In its current form, the port will build and run on most FreeBSD releases (3.4, 4.0 and
5.0 on x86) and work is being done on the others (2.2.8 on x86 and 4.0 alpha). Most demo
applets and applications run.
Currently we are looking for enthusiasts who are willing to spend a little time testing
the new port. While this is not a trivial task, there are clear step-by-step instructions
on how to build and use the port.
The patches may be found, as usual on:
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk.html
More information, open issues and step-by-step instructions may be found at:
http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html
- May 1, 2000: Request for Enhancement - Now the number 1 RFE
We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD JDK2 port. We are currently in
1st place in the vote count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's
Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html
March, 2000
- March 22, 2000: Pre-Alpha JDK™ 1.2.2 patches available.
Greg Lewis releases the pre-alpha patches for enterprising Java users to build their own
native FreeBSD JDK™ 1.2.2 from. This process is not for the faint of heart,
and the resulting JDK™ is not for production systems. Having said that, most AWT
and Swing demo's have been found to run. There is plenty of work to do, and we need all
the testers we can find. Patches and build instructions may be downloaded from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsd-jdk122-patches-latest.tar.gz.
Currently open issues and test results may be found at http://www.kjkoster.org/java/index.html.
January, 2000
- January 30, 2000: Blackdown 1.2.2RC4 JDK™
The Linux Blackdown Port Team has released RC4 of JDK™ 1.2. It has been tested
on FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE and later and runs all demo applets and jfc demos. Several people
have mentioned some problems running it with Apache JServ. Until it can be added to the
FreeBSD port tree, it can be found at http://www.jmcm.org/tech/ports/linux_jdk.html.
(Reported by Jose Marques)
November, 1999
- November 28, 1999:Request for Enhancement
We have petitioned Sun to provide an official FreeBSD JDK2 port. We are currently in
2nd place in the vote count. If you are a member of the Java Developer's
Connection (it's free), you can vote for it as well http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4288745.html
- November 9, 1999:Another JDK™ 1.1.8 release to fix a separate class
of multicast bugs.
October, 1999
- October 11, 1999: Work has re-started on the Java2/JDK™ 1.2 port.
Expect an early 'alpha' release in the coming weeks for FreeBSD 3.3-stable/ELF
boxes.
September, 1999
- September 22, 1999: Re-rolled the JDK™ 1.1.8 yet again to fixup
some minor bugs that people have found, as well as to speedup the JDK™. For details
checkout the README.FreeBSD supplied in the releases.
- jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format.
- jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-9-22.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF
binary format.
July, 1999
- July 19, 1999: Re-rolled the JDK™ 1.1.8 release to fix a couple of
minor (but annoying bugs). First, the netpatch (see below) was incorporated into the
build, and second an annoying Floating Point bug was found and fixed. The latter bug
affected multi-threaded code that did floating point calculations and based on the code
could produce completely bogus results.
- jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format.
- jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-7-19.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF
binary format.
- July 2, 1999: Organization of FreeBSD 'CommAPI' porting team which is an
effort to make JAVA's
CommAPI freely available to the FreeBSD community. Project is coordinated by DRICOT Jean-Michel and will
officially be maintained in http://student.ulb.ac.be/~jdricot/commapi/.
Feel free to contact him if you want to join the project.
June, 1999
- June 8, 1999: A small bug was found in the JDK™ 1.1.8 release which
affected people using UDP sockets. If you tried to send a packet to the broadcast
address, the FreeBSD JDK™ refused with a permissions error. This error was fixed,
and rather than re-releasing the entire release a small patchset was re-rolled for those
folks who are experiencing this problem. If you experience this problem, feel free to
download the gzipped tarfile and untar it wherever you installed the jdk. It will install
itself over top of the old version. If you aren't experiencing the bug, there is no need
to apply the patch, although it wouldn't hurt.
- June 3, 1999: JDK™ 1.1.8 for A.OUT and ELF releases. This release
adds support for older 3.*/ELF releases (without requiring any runtime loader changes),
as well as fixes bugs in LOCALE and timezone support for all FreeBSD releases.
- jdk1.1.8_AOUT.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format.
- jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-6-3.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 3.* and 4.* which use the ELF
binary format.
- June 1, 1999: JDK2 status
- Work on JDK™ 1.2/JDK2 has been going very slow as the development team has
been focusing it's effort on solid JDK1 releases. For most JDK2 development issues, you
can use the JDK1 release and the Swing releases
provided by Sun for JDK1, which works very well under FreeBSD.
April, 1999
- Apr. 16, 1999: New JDK™ 1.1.7 A.OUT release. This fixes build
problems in the March release. A new ELF release will be made to support older 3.0
releases as well sometime in the near future.
- jdk1.1.7_AOUT.V99-4-16.tar.gz. For FreeBSD versions 2.2.*, which use the A.OUT binary
format.
March, 1999
- Mar. 26, 1999: ELF support for JDK™ 1.1.7, as well as a new A.OUT
release which includes minor bugfixes.
- Mar. 16, 1999: Updates on current development:
- ELF JDK™ 1.1.7 : An ELF build of JDK™ 1.1.7 (for use on FreeBSD
3.x and later) is currently entering it's initial internal testing phase. A beta release
should be available in a few weeks.
- JDK2 (aka JDK™ 1.2): Several individuals are working on porting JDK2 to
FreeBSD, but the work is progressing slowly. This is primarily due to a lack of developer
time to work on this project. (The release of Blackdown's JDK2 port will assist our
development when they release their source diffs.)
December, 1998
- Dec. 21, 1998: jdk1.1.7.V98-12-21.tar.gz.
- Bugfix version of JDK™ 1.1.7. Thanks go to Keith White who tracked down a
couple annoying (and serious) bugs in the JDK™, notably the modulo bug. This
release also has the 256 file-descriptor limit bumped up to 2048. The JRE should also be
much more usable, again thanks to Keith.
November, 1998
- Nov. 14, 1998: jdk1.1.7.V98-11-5.tar.gz.
- Updated to JDK™ 1.1.7. Thanks go to Patrick Gardella patrick@FreeBSD.org who provided most of the
testing for this release.
September, 1998
- Sept 23, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-9-23.tar.gz.
- The August 14 build had jre incorrectly linked in both the JDK™ and the JRE, so
a new release was rebuilt with the correct linkage. Otherwise, there were no changes from
the older release.
August, 1998
- Aug 22, 1998:
- Updated page to list numerous sites who have agreed to mirror the JDK™ and
provide ftp access. Thanks to all!
- Aug 14, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-8-14.tar.gz.
- The SO_REUSEADDR option is now correctly set on ServerSockets (may affect other
sockets as well.)
July, 1998
- July 21, 1998: jdk1.1.6.V98-7-21.tar.gz.
- Updated port to JDK™ 1.1.6. Thanks go to Keith White kwhite@site.uottawa.ca who did most of the work
to make this release happen!
- More standard 'naming' for java.version and such.
- Fixes for UDP/Multicast sockets.
- The signal abort error may be fixed (knock on wood).
- Add support for the "KOI8-R" and "CP866" encodings.
- Timezone's now work correctly under FreeBSD (this required some native code, but it
is embedded in the JDK™ so shouldn't affect users. However, FreeBSD has one of the
few (only?) VM's that correctly support Timezones now).
- sysRmdir() now correctly removes directories.
- Link in the xpg4 library to support CJK locales.
May, 1998
- May 5, 1998:
- Updated page to include instruction on how to get Sun's JWS (Java Work Shop) working
under FreeBSD.
February, 1998
- February 25, 1998: jdk1.1.5.V98-2-25.tar.gz.
- JDK™'s built on 2.2.2 should now work again.
- The AWT now correctly sets the Window name.
- Fixed obscure bug that could cause a core dump if you hit a button in a dialog box
multiple times.
- Fixed bug where SHMEM wasn't released when using images, causing a leak.
February 12, 1998:
- Johan Larsson graciously provided an ftp mirror site for the JDK™, so if you
have an aversion to using HTTP, then feel free to grab it from his site.
- Replaced the 'Steaming Cup of Java' logo with the 'Jump to Java' logo, which is more
politically (and legally) acceptable to SUN's lawyers.
February 9, 1998: jdk1.1.5.V98-2-8.tar.gz.
- Fixed bugs in Process.waitFor()
- Modified the way the Motif library was linked in. This will allow anyone with a Motif
library (static or dynamic) to build their own JDK™ once the patchkit is released.
If their Motif license allows for it, they can also make binary releases available.
- Non blocking reads on PIPE did not work reliably on all versions of the OS.
- Multicast now works.
January, 1998
- January, 1998:
- Organization of FreeBSD JDK™ porting team, which now jointly creates new
JDK™ releases for FreeBSD.
- New JDK™ 1.1.5 binary, which has Motif statically compiled in.
(Unfortunately, this release was lost in a disk crash on the ftp server.)
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