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-New in release 0.98 (Feb 05, 2009)
-
-* Native support for BigInteger is now provided using the GMP
-library.  A new option, --enable/disable-gmp is provided, and
-the option is enabled by default if GMP is found.
-* Classpath now makes use of a new StringBuilder implementation
-internally called CPStringBuilder.  In addition to being
-unsynchronised, like StringBuilder, this also avoids copying the
-array when toString or substring is called.  While StringBuffer/Builder
-always retain their own array, which is only altered during resizing,
-CPStringBuilder gives away its array when the result is generated
-by toString()/substring() and starts afresh.  The default capacity of
-CPStringBuilder can also be configured using the
-gnu.classpath.cpstringbuilder.capacity property. (PR21869)
-* gjdoc is now built as part of tools.zip.
-* Import of the Java Activation Framework from ClasspathX to provide
-javax.activation (part of 1.6).
-* Preliminary version of java.util.Scanner (PR30436)
-* Reduce cost of ThreadLocal(s) to improve Jython performance (PR33690)
-* Updated to use CLDR 1.5.1 (PR35237)
-* Many bug fixes including:
-  - PR22851: zoneStrings in gnu/java/locale/LocaleInformation*
-  - PR31895: setCurrency(Currency) does not actually change the currency.
-  - PR32028: Make fails at gjdoc
-  - PR34840: Mismatch between Sun and Classpath's java.lang.Appendable
-  - PR35487: gcj causes ConcurrentModificationException during tomcat5
-  - PR35690: javax.tools.FileObject.toUri is in wrong case
-  - PR36085: java.util.regex escape-sequence handling 
-  - PR36147: Apache Tomcat fails to read descriptors using GNU XML
-  - PR36219: gnu.xml.transform.SortKey isn't subclass
-  - PR36220: NPEs in gnu.xml.transform.* clone methods 
-  - PR36221: DomDOMException running SPEC jvm 2008 xml.transform
-  - PR36477: OOME in CPStringBuilder when running Eclipse
-  - PR36522: Policy file is not read at all
-  - PR36636: gjar -u doesn't work
-  - PR36637: --without-fastjar doesn't wor
-  - PR36677: Omission bug in JDWP VirtualMachineCommandSet 
-  - PR38417: gnu.java.security.util.PRNG produces easily predictable values
-  - PR38473: Segmentation fault in retrieving font outline decomposition 
-  - PR38861: Support XULRunner 1.9.1.
-  - PR38912: XMLParser not interning element names 
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-  * VMSecureRandom has moved to gnu.java.security.jce.prng.VMSecureRandom
-  as part of the fix for PR38417.
-  * gnu.java.lang.VMCPStringBuilder has been added and should be added to
-  avoid the inefficency of reflection when creating non-copied String objects.
-
-Bug fixes in release 0.97.2 (Jun 06, 2007)
-
-* Include headers in the release tarball.
-* Allow the building of tools to be optional.
-* Only check for a Java compiler when required.
-* Allow VMOperatingSystemMXBeanImpl to compile on Solaris.
-* Documentation typo fixes
-* Fix memory leak in native/jni/classpath/jcl.c
-* Web page updates (PR classpath/22883)
-* Fixes to pass the JSR166 TCK
-* Use awk to construct the classlist on building
-* Fix deadlock in Logger (PR classpath/35974)
-* Fix regression in java.lang.String (PR classpath/35482)
-* Allow Classpath tools to handle @file options.
-* Allow parseInt to handle a + prefix correctly.
-* Remove use of 1.5 language constructs in the VM layer.
-
-Bug fixes in release 0.97.1 (Mar 11, 2007)
-
-* Include documentation for JSR166 (java.util.concurrent)
-* Fix STaX API compatability.
-* Include the tools properties file in the release tarball.
-
-New in release 0.97 (Feb 22, 2007)
-
-Build changes:
-
-* A copy of javah (to produce C header files from Java source code)
-is now required to generate the files in include.
-* The javac check has been changed so that it attempts to find ecj,
-javac and gcj (in that order).  You may override this by using
-JAVAC=<preferred javac>
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* Removed VMFloat.floatToIntBits amd VMDouble.doubleToLongBits.
-* Added new getParameterAnnotations() methods in Constructor and Method.
-
-New in release 0.96.1 (Oct 16, 2007)
-
-* Small compile, configure and build fixes.
-
-New in release 0.96 (Oct 15, 2007)
-
-* New experimental GStreamer javax.sound peer (see README.gstreamer)
-* The JNI interface has been updated to 1.6
-* Better support for the OpenJDK javac compiler
-* Support for using javah via tools.zip and com.sun.tools.javah.Main
-* Much improved Escher AWT peers
-* Many bug fixes including improvements to AWT and Swing support
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* Add VMFloat.toString(float) and VMFloat.parseFloat(String). Default
-  implementations are the same as previous behavior.
-* Add new default implementations of VMMemoryMXBean.getHeapUsage()
-  and VMMemoryMXBean.getNonHeapUsage() via iteration over the memory
-  pools of the appropriate type.
-
-New in release 0.95 (Apr 23, 2007)
-
-* Full merge of 1.5 generics work.
-* Added 1.6 java.util.ServiceLoader support.
-* The ASM library is now included.  A separate copy is no longer
-  needed.  gjavah works out of the box now.
-* The setReadTimeout and getReadTimeout methods have been added to
-  java.net.URLConnection.  They are now fully implemented for http URLs.
-* The java.lang.management implementation now includes the new features
-  added in 1.6
-* java.util.TimeZone now reads time zone information from the system
-  zoneinfo files (see also runtime interface changes below).
-* The collection classes have been updated to support all the 1.6
-  additions.
-* java.util.spi 1.6 package has been added and is used in java.text.
-* Bootstrappable with OpenJDK javac compiler
-  (use configure --with-javac).
-* Large speedups (and locking behaviour updated) in Graphics2D cairo
-  and freetype support.
-* Better detection of browser plugin mechanism for mozilla, iceweasel,
-  firefox on various platforms.
-* Inclusion of generic javadoc classes in tools.zip to support more
-  javadoc processing tools.
-* Added documentation for command lines options for the included GNU
-  Classpath Tools gjar, gjavah, gnative2ascii, gorbd, grmid,
-  grmiregistry, gserialver and gtnameserv.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* gnu.java.lang.management.VMThreadMXBeanImpl has gained three new
-  optional native methods to allow the 1.6 version of the threading
-  bean to be supported.  One (getMonitorInfo) fills in information
-  about object monitor locks held by a thread and is only required
-  if the monitoring of object monitor locks is supported by the VM.
-  The other two (findDeadlockedThreads and getLockInfo) are related
-  to ownable synchronizers (part of the java.util.concurrent suite)
-  and only required if monitoring of locks relating to these is
-  supported by the VM.
-* java.util.VMTimeZone and java.util.TimeZone have been refactored
-  to simplify the reference implementation.  VMTimeZone.readtzFile()
-  and VMTimeZone.skipFully() have been removed, and a new method
-  VMTimeZone.readSysconfigClockFile() has been introduced.
-* VMs need to set the system property "gnu.java.util.zoneinfo.dir"
-  to point to the directory where zoneinfo files live.  In libgcj
-  this is set to the value of the TZDATA environment variable, or
-  "/usr/share/zoneinfo" if this is not set.
-* VMFile has been extended to support new 1.6 methods (canExecute,
-  setReadable, setWritable, setExecutable).
-
-New in release 0.93 (Dec 8, 2006)
-
-* CORBA objects that exist on the same virtual machine and only are connected
-  to another ORB are now accessed directly and no longer via network. It is
-  the same feature that RMI implementation provides. These faster calls should
-  be completely transparent, as the parameters are cloned, where required. 
-  Currently the direct calls are only possible for the non-deprecated objects
-  that are connected to the ORB via POA.
-* The 'javah' tool has been added.  It requires the ASM library
-  (see asm.objectweb.org); it can be enabled with the --with-asm
-  option to configure
-* Added the rmi and corbaname URL context factories for JNDI.
-* Fixes in the JNDI InitialContext now allows to plug-in user implementation.
-* Removed currentClassLoader method from
-  vm/reference/java/io/ObjectInputStream.java.
-* Added firstNonNullClassLoader method to
-  vm/reference/gnu/classpath/VMStackWalker.java. VMs are encouraged to
-  provide a more efficient implementation.
-* Added aton method to vm/reference/java/net/VMInetAddress.java.
-* NetworkInterface has been implemented for systems that provide the
-  `getifaddrs' function.
-* java.nio.channels.Selector implementations have been added that use
-  the kqueue notification mechanism on Mac OS X and *BSD, and that use
-  the epoll notification mechanism on Linux 2.6.
-* java.nio has been refactored to support more non-blocking operations
-  natively. Blocking IO classes have been refactored to call
-  non-blocking classes. Non-blocking accepts, connects, and
-  scatter-gather IO should now be better supported.
-* HTML support for Swing has been greatly enhanced.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* java.net.VMNetworkInterface and java.net.NetworkInterface have been
-  updated to keep native-modified state in the former, and to simplify
-  the native code in our reference implementation.
-* gnu.java.nio.VMChannel has been expanded to better support native
-  non-blocking IO. Most native state data (such as file descriptor
-  integers) has been abstracted away into private state in the runtime
-  interface.
-* gnu.java.nio.VMPipe has been similarly changed.
-* gnu.java.net.VMPlainSocketImpl has been changed to remove some
-  functionality now provided by VMChannel; datagram socket-specific
-  methods have also been moved here, deprecating VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl.
-* gnu.java.net.VMPlainDatagramSocketImpl removed.
-
-New in release 0.92 (Aug 9, 2006)
-
-* GConf is used as a backend for java.util.prefs. GNU Classpath 
-  thanks to Mario Torre for this contribution!
-* libjawtgnu.so has been renamed libjawt.so for binary compatibility.
-  libjawt.so should be installed in a VM-specific directory rather
-  than directly in /usr/lib.  Proprietary VMs put their libjawt.so
-  implementations in VM-specific directories but search /usr/lib first.
-  If GNU Classpath's libjawt.so is installed in /usr/lib it will create
-  problems for people who use a proprietary VM to run AWT Native
-  Interface applications.
-* The GdkGraphics2D backend has been made the default.  There is no
-  longer an explicit dependency on Cairo, the --enable-gtk-cairo
-  configure option is gone, and GTK 2.8 or higher is now required to
-  build the GTK peers.
-* A Mozilla plugin, 'gcjwebplugin', is now included.  It introduces a
-  dependency on the Mozilla plugin support headers and libraries.
-* New java implementations of png and gif imageio readers and writers.
-* A tools.texinfo document has been created and now includes
-  documentation about:
-  * appletviewer
-  * gcjwebplugin
-  * jarsigner
-  * keytool
-* Several new tools are now included:
-  * appletviewer
-  * jar
-  * native2ascii
-  * serialver
-  * keytool
-  * jarsigner
-  A new configure option --enable-tool-wrappers causes wrapper
-  binaries to be built for VMs that support the JNI Invocation API.
-* We've imported the JSR 166 (concurrency) reference implementation.
-* javax.sound.midi providers have been added to read and
-  write standard MIDI files.
-* A javax.sound.sampled .au and .wav file readers have been added.
-* New Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface header, jvmti.h. 
-* AWT peers for X Windows based on Escher (a pure java X protocol
-  implementation) have been added. So far it supports AWT 1.1 style
-  Graphics, image loading via ImageIO (PNG, GIF and BMP images in this
-  release), top level components as well as mouse and keyboard input.
-  It is capable of running many Swing applications. Graphics2D and
-  AWT widgets are not yet supported with this peer set.
-* GConf based util.peers backend (see the --enable-gconf-peer and
-  --enable-default-preferences-peer configure options).
-* Support for batch importing trusted certificates for use with ssl
-  connections (see script/import-cacerts.sh).
-* NIO scatter-gather channel support.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* A new class, VMURLConnection, is used to implement
-  URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream.  The reference
-  implementation uses libmagic (and falls back to doing nothing if
-  libmagic is not available).
-* The method gnu.java.io.PlatformHelper.toCanonicalForm() has been
-  replaced with a JNI implementation of VMFile.toCanonicalForm() for
-  GNU/Posix systems.
-* A new class, VMRuntimeMXBeanImpl, is used to implement
-  the low-level support of the runtime management bean.
-  VMs should use it to supply the input arguments and start
-  time of the VM.  In addition, one of sun.boot.class.path
-  or java.boot.class.path should be defined by the VM to
-  support the optional boot class path access functionality.
-* The Unsafe class was moved back to the place expected by the JSR 166
-  reference implementation.  We've also added a couple other new VM
-  classes to support the JSR 166 code -- sun.reflect.Reflection and
-  sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil.
-* Another new class, VMClassLoadingMXBeanImpl, is used to implement
-  the low-level support of the class loading management bean.
-  VMs need to supply it with information about how many classes
-  are currently loaded, how many have been unloaded and whether
-  verbose class loading output is on or off.  Provision should also
-  be made for the latter to be toggled at runtime.
-* VMThreadMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support
-  of the thread management bean.  Providing this interface requires
-  providing a fair amount of information about threads, including
-  optional time and contention monitoring, and instances of the
-  new ThreadInfo class in java.lang.management.  getState() has also
-  been added to the VMThread interface; this is required by the bean
-  as well as java.lang.Thread.
-* VMMemoryMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support
-  of the memory management bean.  Providing this interface requires
-  providing information about the levels of heap and non-heap memory,
-  and the number of objects eligible for garbage collection.
-* VMCompilationMXBeanImpl is used to allow for optional compilation
-  time support for Just-In-Time compilers.
-* VMMemoryPoolMXBeanImpl is used to implement the low-level support
-  of the memory pool beans.  Providing this interface requires
-  providing memory usage statistics for each supported bean.
-* VMManagementFactory provides the names of the memory pools,
-  memory managers and garbage collectors maintained by the virtual
-  machine.  These are used to create the beans by the ManagementFactory.
-* VMMemoryManagerMXBeanImpl and VMGarbageCollectorMXBeanImpl provide
-  low-level support for memory managers (including the specific subclass
-  of garbage collecting memory managers).  The interfaces for these
-  require no more than enumerating the number of collections and the
-  time spent (for garbage collectors) and a relationship to the memory
-  pools (for all), along with a validity check.
-
-New in release 0.91 (May 15, 2006)
-
-* Experimental activation (java.rmi.activation) support, including RMI
-  activation daemon and persistent naming service tools.
-* Experimental printing support: The API implementation of the javax.print 
-  packages has been finished and work on the printing provider implementation
-  started. Currently supported features from the Java Print Service API are 
-  print service discovery (CUPS registered printers), single document print 
-  jobs and support for client-formatted print data. An example application
-  (see: examples/gnu/classpath/examples/print/Demo) has been added to show 
-  the API usage for service discovery and printing of files.
-* The GTKToolkit now gives access to the both the system clipboard and
-  system selection.
-* Custom mouse cursor support has been added to the gtk+ peers. And cursors
-  can now also be set on light-weight components.
-* Free Swing improvements: Support for OceanTheme has been mostly completed
-  and turned on as default Metal theme. X11-style Copy and Paste behavior in
-  text components with the middle mouse button. Support cursor changes on
-  various components when resizing. Support for Look and Feel window
-  decorations has been added.
-* Updated locale data information to CLDR 1.3.
-* Various bugs in Classpath's SecureRandom implementations have been
-  fixed; that class now respects the "securerandom.source" security
-  property and the "java.security.egd" system property.
-* Support for assistive technologies has been added to AWT and Swing.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* A new class, VMArray, is now available which separates the native
-  array creation method from java.lang.reflect.Array.  
-* A new class, gnu.classpath.Unsafe, is provided for handling the
-  new low-level operations required by java.util.concurrent.
-* The reference implementations of Method, Constructor, and Field
-  now have a new native getModifiersInternal() method.  The public
-  getModifiers() method in each case has been rewritten in terms of
-  this method.
-* The reference implementation of VMThread has been updated to handle
-  the new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler support.
-* A new class, java.security.VMSecureRandom, is now available that is
-  used to generate random numbers for seeding cryptographically-secure
-  pseudo-random number generators.
-* VMClass and the reference implementations of Method, Constructor and Field
-  now include a number of 1.5 methods imported from the generics branch.
-  These are all optional (in the sense that the methods associated with them
-  merely fail on use if the VM doesn't provide them, rather than the
-  VM failing altogether), but VMs should aim to support them where possible.
-* The implementation of java.lang.instrument has been merged to the main
-  branch from the generics branch.
-* The VM interfaces of the main branch and the generics branch are now
-  consistent with one another.  As a result, the main branch includes an
-  additional environ() function in VMSystem and an additional argument has
-  been added to nativeSpawn() in VMProcess.
-* Annotation support is now available in the main branch, if the VM supports
-  it. The VM should implement VMClass.getDeclaredAnnotations,
-  Constructor.getAnnotation, Constructor.getDeclaredAnnotations,
-  Field.getAnnotation, Field.getDeclaredAnnotations, Method.getAnnotation and
-  Method.getDeclaredAnnotations.
-* java.lang.Package now has a new constructor that takes the defining
-  ClassLoader as an extra argument. If you use a custom version of
-  VMClassLoader, please switch it to use this constructor.
-* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader.getBootPackages() now
-  reads the META-INF/INDEX.LIST resource using the java.boot.class.path
-  system property.
-
-New in release 0.90 (March 6, 2006)
-
-* Free Swing improvements: JTable columns are rearrangeable and
-  resizeable with mouse. Painting and scrolling are now much
-  faster. Plain text components now support highlighting and
-  copy+paste to the system clipboard. Support for styled text has been
-  improved, including some very basic HTML support. JFileChooser is
-  now usable. Global event dispatching has been implemented. Memory
-  consumption of Swing components has been reduced. Lots of general
-  bugfixes. Added new system property to turn off Graphics2D use in
-  Swing, even if Graphics2D is available: gnu.javax.swing.noGraphics2D
-
-* AWT. Improved support for mixing "lightweight" and "heavyweight"
-  Components in Containers. Better support for dynamically updated
-  menus. Better 1.0 event model support for Scrollbars. Better class
-  documentation of gtk+ awt peers.
-
-* GNU Crypto and Jessie have been merged into GNU Classpath; this
-  provides Classpath with a wide array of cryptographic algorithms
-  (ciphers, message digests, etc.) and implementations of SSL version
-  3 and TLS version 1. These roughly complement the public
-  `java.security.' `javax.crypto,' and `javax.net.ssl' packages, and
-  are service providers implementing the underlying algorithms.
- 
-* Updated HTTP and FTP URLConnection protocol handlers. HTTPS support
-  out of the box.
-
-* Unicode 4.0.0 is supported. Character now includes support for using
-  ether a char or an int to identify code points.
-
-* More correct handling of Object methods and serialization support
-  for Proxy and abstract classes.
-
-* The new folder tools includes GIOP and RMI stub and tie source code
-  generators, IOR parser and both transient and persistent GIOP naming
-  services.
-
-* Added experimental support for dynamic creation of the RMI stubs
-  using proxy classes. The rmic compiler is no longer required (unless
-  for research and specific stubs).
-
-* XML validaton support for RELAX NG and W3C XML schema namespace
-  URIs. RELAX NG pluggable XML schema datatype library API and an
-  implementation for XML Schema Datatypes
-  (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/).
-
-* Updated StAX implementaton to be compatible with final JSWDP 2.0.
-
-* The default back end for java.util.prefs has been changed.  The new
-  default is capable of saving and restoring preferences to and from
-  the file system.
-
-* javax.imageio.plugins.bmp implementation.
-
-* Added --enable-collections configure option which builds
-  "collections.jar", a 1.1 VM compatibility jar.
-
-* gnu.regexp updated from GNU/Posix syntax to support util.regex
-  syntax including various Unicode blocks, categories and properties.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* A new class, VMMath, is now available which separates the native
-  mathematical functions from java.lang.Math.  The previous fdlibm
-  implementation now forms the reference material for this class.
-
-* Updated VMObjectInputStream class to return Thread context class
-  loader if no other class loader is found.
-
-* Updated documentation on InstrumentationImpl in vmintegration guide.
-
-New in release 0.20 (Jan 13, 2006)
-
-* New StAX pull parser and SAX-over-StAX driver. Lots of DOM, SAX/StAX,
-  XPath and XSLT improvements.  Support for XInclude and XML Base added.
-  Conformance is now regularly tested against various test-suites at
-  http://builder.classpath.org/xml/ See also doc/README.jaxp.
-
-* Full beans XMLEncoder implementation.
-
-* javax.sound.sampled implementation.
-
-* javax.print.attribute and javax.print.event implementated.
-
-* Lots of new datatransfer, print swing and swing.text work and optimization.
-
-* Additional 1.5 support. Including new (separate) generic branch release.
-
-* SecurityManager cleanups and start of review of all Permission checks
-  (includes adding lots of new checks to the Mauve test-suite).
-
-* Buildable on cygwin.
-
-* Fully buildable as "in-workspace" library-plus-vm inside (native) Eclipse
-  see http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse
-
-* Full example that shows a real world CORBA and Free Swing implementation.
-  See examples/gnu/classpath/examples/CORBA/swing/README.html
-
-* A list of bug fixes can be found at:
-http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=classpath&target_milestone=0.20
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* New method VMStackWalker.getClassLoader() was added to avoid an infinite
-  loop between getCallingClassLoader() and Class.getClassLoader().
-
-* The included fdlibm implementation has seen several cleanups to handle
-  new architectures and namespacing issues (in particular for ppc, darwin
-  and non-C99 compilers). Please double check any arithmetic test against
-  new platforms/runtimes.
-
-* The gnu.java.net.Plain[Datagram]Socket implementations have been
-  turned into VM reference classes with JNI/Posix implementations.
-
-New in release 0.19 (Nov 2, 2005)
-
-* The Swing RepaintManager has been reworked for more efficient painting,
-  especially for large GUIs.
-
-* The Swing layout manager OverlayLayout has been implemented, the BoxLayout
-  has been rewritten to make use of the SizeRequirements utility class and
-  caching for more efficient layout.
-
-* Improved accessibility support for Swing.
-
-* The java.net.HttpURLConnection implementation no longer buffers the
-  entire response body in memory.  This means that response bodies
-  larger than available memory can now be handled.
-
-* The Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director of the Object
-  Management Group, has officially assigned us 20 bit Vendor Minor Code Id: 
-  0x47430 ("GC") that will mark remote Classpath - specific system exceptions.
-  Obtaining the VMCID means that GNU Classpath now is a recogniseable type of
-  node in a highly interoperable CORBA world. 
-
-* Classpath now includes the first working draft to support the RMI over
-  IIOP protocol. The current implementation is capable for remote invocations,
-  transferring various Serializables and Externalizables via RMI-IIOP protocol.
-  It can flatten graphs and, at least for the simple cases, is interoperable
-  with Sun's jdk 1.5.
-
-* Qt4 configury switches for OS-X. Additional to the --enable-qt-peer, OS-X
-  users with a Qt4 installation can build the qt-peers with the argument
-  --with-qt4dir=<Qt4-installation-dir>.
-
-* Significant progress has been made in the implementation of the 
-  javax.swing.plaf.metal.* package, with most UI delegates in a working state
-  now.  Please test this with your own applications and provide feedback that 
-  will help us to improve this package.
-
-* The GUI demo (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) has been extended to 
-  highlight various features in our free-swing implementation. And includes
-  a look and feel switcher (Metal default, Ocean or GNU).
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* Changed implementation of VMClassLoader.getPackage(s) : new method
-  VMClassLoader.getBootPackages should be implemented by the vm, and sould
-  return a string array of boot package names ("java.lang", "java.net", ...).
-  Feedback from vm implementors for usability and relevance of the
-  getBootPackages method would be greatly appreciated.
-  
-New in release 0.18 (Sep 6, 2005)
-
-* GNU JAWT implementation, the AWT Native Interface, which allows direct
-  access to native screen resources from within a Canvas's paint method.
-  GNU Classpath Examples comes with a Demo, see examples/README.
-* awt.datatransfer updated to 1.5 with supports for FlavorEvents.
-  The gtk+ awt peers now allow copy/paste of text, images, uris/files
-  and serialized objects with other applications and tracking
-  clipboard change events with gtk+ 2.6 (for gtk+ 2.4 only text and
-  serialized objects are supported). A GNU Classpath Examples
-  datatransfer Demo was added to show the new functionality.
-* org.omg.PortableInterceptor and related functionality in other packages
-  is now implemented:
-    - The sever and client interceptors work as required since 1.4.
-    - The IOR interceptor works as needed for 1.5. 
-* The org.omg.DynamicAny package is completed and passes the prepared tests.
-* The Portable Object Adapter should now support the output of the
-  recent IDL to java compilers. These compilers now generate servants and 
-  not CORBA objects as before, making the output depended on the existing 
-  POA implementation. Completing POA means that such code can already be 
-  tried to run on Classpath. Our POA is tested for the following usager
-  scenarios:
-    - POA converts servant to the CORBA object.
-    - Servant provides to the CORBA object.
-    - POA activates new CORBA object with the given Object Id (byte array) 
-      that is later accessible for the servant.
-    - During the first call, the ServantActivator provides servant for this 
-      and all subsequent calls on the current object.
-    - During each call, the ServantLocator provides servant for this call
-      only.
-    - ServantLocator or ServantActivator forwards call to another server.
-    - POA has a single servant, responsible for all objects.
-    - POA has a default servant, but some objects are explicitly connected 
-      to they specific servants.
-  The POA is verified using tests from the former cost.omg.org.      
-* The javax.swing.plaf.multi.* package is now implemented.
-* Editing and several key actions for JTree and JTable were implemented.
-* Lots of icons and look and feel improvements for Free Swing basic and
-  metal themes were added.  Try running the GNU Classpath Swing Demo in
-  examples (gnu.classpath.examples.swing.Demo) with:
-  -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel
-  -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
-* Start of styled text capabilites for java.swing.text.
-* NIO FileChannel.map implementation, fast bulk put implementation for
-  DirectByteBuffer (speeds up this method 10x).
-* Split gtk+ awt peers event handling in two threads and improve gdk lock
-  handling (solves several AWT lock ups).
-* Speed up awt Image loading.
-* Updated TimeZone data against Olson tzdata2005l.
-* Make zip and jar UTF-8 "clean".
-* "native" code  builds and compiles (warning free) on Darwin and Solaris.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* All native resource "pointers" in the VM interface classes are now exposed
-  as gnu.classpath.Pointer objects. This might impact runtimes that
-  optimize and support java.nio.DirectByteBuffers. Creating these classes
-  and accessing the contents as void * pointers for the native reference JNI
-  implementation is done through the JCL_NewRawDataObject and JCL_GetRawData
-  functions.
-* Simplified the Class/VMClass interface.
-* Removed loadedClasses map from ClassLoader. It's now the VMs responsibility
-  to manage the list of defined and loaded classes for each class loader.
-* Moved native methods from java.lang.reflect.Proxy to VMProxy.
-* Added hook to VMClassLoader to allow VM to do class caching.
-
-New Untested/Disabled Features:
-
-  The following new features are included, but not ready for production
-  yet. They are explicitly disabled and not supported. But if you want
-  to help with the development of these new features we are interested
-  in feedback. You will have to explicitly enable them to try them out
-  (and they will most likely contain bugs). If you are interested in any
-  of these then please join the mailing-list and follow development in
-  CVS.
-
-* QT4 AWT peers, enable by giving configure --enable-qt-peer.
-* JDWP framework, enable by deleting the jdwp references from
-  lib/standard.omit and vm/reference/standard.omit. No default
-  implementation is provided. Work is being done on gcj/gij integration.
-* StAX java.xml.stream, enable by deleting the gnu.xml.stream and
-  java.xml.stream references in lib/standard.omit.
-
-New in release 0.17 (Jul 15, 2005)
-
-* gnu.xml fix for nodes created outside a namespace context.
-* Add support for output indenting and cdata-section-elements output
-  instruction in xml.transform.
-* xml.xpath corrections for cases where elements/attributes might have
-  been created in non-namespace-aware mode. Corrections to handling of
-  XSL variables and minor conformance updates.
-* DefaultMutableTreeNode preorder, postorder, depthFirst and breadthFirst
-  traversal enumerations implemented.
-* JInternalFrame colors and titlebar draw properly.
-* JTree is working up to par (icons, selection and keyboard traversal).
-* JMenus were made more compatible in visual and programmatic behavior.
-* JTable changeSelection and multiple selections implemented.
-* JButton and JToggleButton change states work properly now.
-* JFileChooser fixes.
-* revalidate and repaint fixes which make Free Swing much more responsive.
-* Correctly handle system call interrupts and timeouts in native nio
-  and net functions.
-* MetalIconFactory implemented.
-* Handle image loading errors correctly for gdkpixbuf and MediaTracker.
-* Added Tree World to GNU Classpath examples Free Swing demo.
-* FileChannel.lock() and FileChannel.force() implemented.
-* java.util.logging.FileHandler now rotates files.
-* Better handle GDK lock. Properly prefix gtkpeer native functions (cp_gtk).
-* Corba bug fixes and documentation updates.
-* Updated gcj build infrastructure.
-* Documentation fixes all over the place.
-  See http://developer.classpath.org/doc/
-* VM Integration Guide updates with a full section on VM/Classpath hooks.
-
-New in release 0.16 (Jun 30, 2005)
-
-* Better GTK scrollbar peer implementation when using GTK >= 2.6.
-* GdkGraphics2D has been updated to use Cairo 0.5.x APIs.
-* BufferedImage and GtkImage rewrites. All image drawing operations
-  should now work correctly (flipping requires gtk+ >= 2.6)
-* Future Graphics2D, Image and Text work is documented at:
-  http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathGraphicsImagesText
-* Free Swing Top-Level Compatibility. JFrame, JDialog, JApplet,
-  JInternalFrame, and JWindow are now 1.5 compatible in the sense that you
-  can call add() and setLayout() directly on them, which will have the same
-  effect as calling getContentPane().add() and getContentPane().setLayout().
-* The JTree interface has been completed. JTrees now recognizes mouse clicks
-  and selections work, but the visual implementation is not yet complete.
-  Work on expansion and collapsing of the tree nodes is being implemented.
-* BoxLayout works properly now.
-* Fixed GrayFilter to actually work.
-* Metal SplitPane implemented.
-* Lots of free swing text and editor stuff work now.
-
-* When gtk+ 2.6 or higher is installed the default log handler will produce
-  stack traces whenever a WARNING, CRITICAL or ERROR message is produced.
-
-* The CORBA implementation is now a working prototype that should support
-  features up till 1.3 inclusive. 
-  We would invite groups writing CORBA dependent applications to
-  try Classpath implementation, reporting any possible bugs.
-
-  The CORBA prototype is interoperable with Sun's implementation v 1.4,
-  transferring object references, primitive types, narrow and wide 
-  strings, arrays, structures, trees, abstract interfaces and 
-  value types (feature of CORBA 2.3) between these two platforms. 
-  The remote exceptions are transferred and handled correctly.
-  The stringified object references (IORs) from various sources are
-  parsed as required. 
-  The transient (for current session) and permanent (till jre restart)
-  redirections work. 
-  Both Little and Big Endian encoded messages are accepted. 
-  The implementation is verified using tests from the former cost.omg.org.
-  The current release includes working examples (see the examples directory),
-  demonstrating the client-server communication, using either CORBA Request
-  or IDL-based  stub (usually generated by a IDL to java compiler).
-  These examples also show how to use the Classpath CORBA naming service.
-  The IDL to java compiler is not yet written, but as our library must be 
-  compatible, it naturally accepts the output of other idlj implementations.
-
-* New --with-vm-classes configure option, and new 'build' setting
-  for --with-glibj. (Only for integrators.)
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* Start of a generic JDWP framework in gnu/classpath/jdwp.
-  This is unfinished, but feedback (at classpath@gnu.org) from runtime
-  hackers is greatly appreciated. Although most of the work is currently
-  being done around gcj/gij we want this framework to be as VM neutral as
-  possible. Early design is described in:
-  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-05/msg00260.html
-* Native method VMClass.getModifiers() now takes an additional
-  boolean parameter.
-* Deprecated native method VMClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader,
-  String, byte[], int, int) has been replaced by
-  VMClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader, String, byte[], int, int,
-  ProtectionDomain)
-* VMClassLoader.loadClass(String name, boolean resolve) is now native,
-  replacing the former version which just returned null.
-* Deprecated native method VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass(String) has
-  been replaced by new native method VMClassLoader.getPrimitiveClass(char).
-* Previously empty implementations of methods VMThread.countStackFrames(),
-  VMThrowable.fillInStackTrace(), and VMThrowable.getStackTrace() have
-  been removed; these methods are now native methods.
-* Fields "exceptionTypes" and "parameterTypes" have been removed from
-  Contructor.java and getExceptionTypes() and getParameterTypes() are
-  now native methods.
-
-New in release 0.15 (Apr 29, 2005)
-
-* The old character encoding framework (gnu.java.io.EncodingManager)
-has been replaced by a system based completely on nio.charset
-providers. Many converters have been added, both the io, lang and nio
-frameworks now use the same set of converters and the whole character
-stream framework (Readers and Writers) have been optimized. For some
-workloads this leads to 2x till 20x speedups.
-
-The default charsets supported are:
-
-  Cp424, Cp437, Cp737, Cp775, Cp850, Cp852, Cp855, Cp857, Cp860, Cp861,
-  Cp862, Cp863, Cp864, Cp865, Cp866, Cp869, Cp874, ISO_8859_1, ISO_8859_13,
-  ISO_8859_15, ISO_8859_2, ISO_8859_3, ISO_8859_4, ISO_8859_5, ISO_8859_6,
-  ISO_8859_7, ISO_8859_8, ISO_8859_9, KOI_8, MS874, MacCentralEurope,
-  MacCroatian, MacCyrillic, MacDingbat, MacGreek, MacIceland, MacRoman,
-  MacRomania, MacSymbol, MacThai, MacTurkish, US_ASCII, UTF_16, UTF_16BE,
-  UTF_16Decoder, UTF_16Encoder, UTF_16LE, UTF_8, UnicodeLittle, Windows1250,
-  Windows1251, Windows1252, Windows1253, Windows1254, Windows1255,
-  Windows1256, Windows1257, Windows1258.
-
-Many more encoding are supported through the new IconvProvider
-depending on the platform iconv support. GNU libiconv is recommended.
-The IconvProvider is currently not enabled by default. To enable it
-define the system property gnu.classpath.nio.charset.provider.iconv=true.
-Some runtimes might choose to enable this by default by setting it
-through VMSystemProperties. We would like to get feedback on whether
-enabling or disabling the IconvProvider by default results in the
-highest speedups.
-
-* Free swing metal and pluggable look and feels have been improved.
-The GNU Classpath free swing example can now be run with different
-"skins" by setting the system property swing.defaultlaf to the GNU,
-Basic or Metal look and feel.
-
-* Some of the org.omg.CORBA classes and packages have now been
-implemented. The Savannah bug tracker contains additional tasks for
-which we are seeking help.
-
-* Fixed compatibility problems in the java.beans which affected
-Eclipse's Visual Editor Project.
-
-* New completely lock free (Inheritable)ThreadLocal implementation.
-
-* javax.swing.text.rtf framework added which can handle simple (plain)
-text tokens.
-
-* Support for parsing html files into Level 2 Document Object Model
-(org.w3c.dom.html2 and javax.swing.text.html.parser). And a start of
-javax.swing.text.html framework added.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* jni.h changed to better support compiling runtimes implementing jni;
-  see VM integration guide for details.
-* New --enable-default-toolkit option to configure can be used to set
-  the fully qualified class name of the default AWT toolkit to use.
-  If not given, the old default of gnu.java.awt.peerk.gtk.GtkToolkit
-  is used.
-* New --disable-core-jni option can be used to disable building the
-  "core" JNI libraries.  This is primarily useful if your VM can use the
-  Gtk peers but not the core JNI libraries.
-* New system property "gnu.classpath.boot.library.path" can be specified
-  to define the location of the JNI libraries. It is by all means meant
-  ONLY for VM implementors and GNU Classpath hackers. See the hacking
-  guide for more information.
-* The helper methods currentLoader() and allocateObject() for
-  java.io.ObjectInputStream have been moved to a VMObjectInputStream class.
-  Reference implementations are provided.
-* java.net.InetAddress now uses VMInetAddress for runtime/platform
-  specific methods getLocalHostname(), getHostByAddr() and
-  getHostByName(). java.net.NetworkInterface now uses VMNetworkInterface
-  for runtime/platform specific getInterfaces() support. Default
-  (Posix/GNU JNI) implementations are provided.
-* VMClass has a new method getModifiers(Class, boolean) which can be
-  used to get the real modifiers for an inner class or the ones
-  specified by the InnerClasses attribute.
-* All (possible) runtime specific methods of Object and Double are now
-  in VMObject and VMDouble. Where possible generic reference
-  implementations are provided.
-* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader now handles zip files
-  on the boot loader class path in getResources().
-
-Other changes:
-
-New in release 0.14 (Feb 25, 2005)
-
-* Character encoders and decoders have been added for:
-  iso-8859-6 (arabic), iso-8859-7 (greek), iso-8859-8 (hebrew),
-  iso-8859-9 (latin-5), iso-8859-13, iso-8859-15 (latin-9), cp1047 (ebcdic),
-  ebcdic-xml-us,ascii, windows-1250, windows-1252, UTF-16BE (Big Endian),
-  UTF-16LE (Little Endian), UTF-32BE (Big Endian), UTF-32LE (Little Endian).
-* Full documentation for all classes can be generated (again) by using
-  the --with-gjdoc configure option.
-* javax.awt.imageio support through gdkpixbuf.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* VMSecurityManager has been replaced by gnu.classpath.VMStackWalker.
-  currentClassLoader() is no longer needed, and there are also two new
-  methods with non-native implementations. VM implementors are encouraged
-  to provide more efficient versions.
-* VMRuntime.nativeLoad() now takes an additional ClassLoader parameter.
-
-New in release 0.13 (Jan 6, 2005)
-
-* The http url protocol handler has been replaced with a full HTTP/1.1
-  version from GNU inetlib.
-* A new ftp url protocol handler has been added also from GNU inetlib.
-* java.beans has been updated to 1.4 including support for XMLEncoder
-  and XMLDecoder.
-* The java.util.Locale support is now based on the Common Locale Data
-  Repository (CLDR) Project (see http://www.unicode.org/cldr/).
-  GNU Classpath provides support for more than 250 locales now.
-  This new support is experimental and the GNU Classpath hackers are
-  working together with runtime developers and the unicode consortium
-  to improve them in the future.
-  If your runtime misdetects your locale or if the default locale gives
-  problems please try running with -Duser.language=en and -Duser.region=US
-  to fall back on a known good locale.
-* Added implementations of javax.xml (JAXP 1.3), org.xml.sax (SAX2) and
-  org.w3c.dom (DOM Level 3) interfaces. It is possible to switch between
-  different implementations AElfred2, GNU DOM, GNU XSL, libxmlj SAX,
-  libxmlj DOM and libxmlj XSL by setting different system properties.
-  Also provided is a preliminary XPath 1.0 implementation.
-  The libxmlj versions are build around libxml2 and libxslt and have to
-  be enabled during build time by the --enable-xmlj configure flag.
-  The current support is equal to the last released GNU JAXP 1.3 release.
-  These packages will be maintained as part of the GNU Classpath core classes
-  in the future. For more information, conformance results and documentation
-  on selecting different implementations see doc/README.jaxp.
-* More AWT accessible support.
-* AWT gtk+ peers component layout, dialog placement, keyboard focus
-  handling and text positioning have been improved.
-* ImageIO interfaces are more complete.
-* JList, JTable and JTree have been hugely improved.
-* java.awt.Robot support with GdkRobot in the gtk+ awt peers.
-  Needs XTest Extension (libXtst) XServer support.
-* New --disable-examples configure argument.
-
-Runtime interface changes:
-
-* Added a new method (VMRuntime.enableShutdownHooks) that enables the VM
-  to lazily register an exit handler.
-* The java.lang.Class constructor now automatically sets the protection
-  domain for array classes, based on the protection domain of the component
-  type class.
-* New gnu.classpath.VMSystemProperties class. This replaces the
-  system properties initialization in VMRuntime. Note that it is
-  now the VMs responsibility to set one additional property:
-  gnu.cpu.endian should be set to "big" or "little".
-* VMRuntime.nativeGetLibname() has been renamed to VMRuntime.mapLibraryName()
-  and has only one argument, the name of the library.
-* String and StringBuffer now call VMSystem.arraycopy() directly and don't
-  go through java.lang.System. Be careful to not initialize java.lang.System
-  early in the bootstrap sequence in your VM runtime interface classes.
-* Some (wrong) documentation about the behavior of VMThread.sleep(0, 0)
-  has been updated. Also, VMThread.sleep() now has a default non-native
-  implementation, but it is a generic implementation that ignores the
-  nano-seconds argument. Runtime hackers are encouraged to provide a more
-  efficient version.
-* There is prelimenary support for nio direct byte buffers.
-  See VMDirectByteBuffer. Please contact the GNU Classpath mailinglist when
-  you add support for this to your runtime.
-
-New in release 0.12 (Nov 14, 2004)
-
-* GNU Classpath's JAR implementation now has preliminary support for
-  signed entries, for so called "signed JAR" file support. Signed JAR
-  files are one of the key security features of managed runtimes, and
-  allows code to run privileged given unforgeable proofs of identity.
-* A much improved version of X.509 certificates has been added,
-  including a robust certificate path checking algorithm. Also
-  included is an implementation of the RSA signature scheme.
-* Full java.awt.color implementation, with all standard ICC profiles,
-  except for PhotoYCC color space.
-* java.beans 1.4 updates and bug fixes.
-* java.awt.image support updated to 1.4.
-* Improved build process. Uses less memory with gcj and C code is
-  buildable with -Werror on most platform. Please configure with
-  --enable-Werror and report any remaining issues.
-* Big-endian (PowerPC) fixes for native awt GTK+ peers.
-* Checkstyle support, see scripts/checkstyle-config.xml.
-* Better AWT focus management fro GTK+ peers.
-* Much faster and better fonts support
-  (for both gdk Graphics and cairo Graphics2D)
-* AWT Choice fixes for hidden components.
-* HTTP Connection Handler fixes for POST support.
-* Much fuller collection documentation.
-* Lots of Calendar bug fixes.
-* More javax.imageio support.
-* Better AWT Help MenuBar support.
-* Lookahead support for regular expressions.
-* Serialization object stream fixes for multiple ClassLoader scenarios.
-* Swing TabbedPane, ColorChooser and ComboBox improvements.
-* Start of JTree functionality.
-* Improved Eclipse 3 support for GNU Classpath based runtimes.
-
-Runtime interface Changes:
-
-* New --enable-java-lang-system-explicit-initialization configuration
-  option. (Warning, will be replaced in next release, please consult
-  the mailinglist.)
-* The reference implementation of VMClassLoader has default
-  implementations for getResource(s) and provides support for a new
-  default getSystemClassLoader implementation.
-
-New in release 0.11 (Sep 13, 2004)
-
-* javax.swing.Spring and SpringLayout support.
-* Added pluggable look and feel support for BasicTextFieldUI and
-  BasicToolBarSeparatorUI.
-* java.swing.text support for (Default and Layered) Highlighter, FieldView,
-  PlainView, TabExpander and TabableView added.
-* Start of JTable and JTree implementation.
-* Internal Swing frames work.
-* JMenu and JPopupMenu work.
-* New gtk+ AWT FileDialog peer now based on gtk+2.4 or higher.
-* java.awt.image LookupTables and kernel support.
-* Improved java.awt.image.BufferedImage support.
-* AWT 1.0 event model support.
-* GNU Classpath now comes with some example programs (see examples/README).
-* New javax.crypto, javax.crypto.interfaces, javax.crypto.spec, javax.net,
-  javax.net.ssl, javax.security.auth, javax.security.auth.callback,
-  javax.security.auth.login, javax.security.auth.x500, javax.security.sasl
-  and org.ietf.jgss packages are now officially part of GNU Classpath.
-  Extra crypto algorithms can be obtained from the GNU Crypto project,
-  a full TLS implementation is provided by the Jessie project.
-  http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/
-  http://www.nongnu.org/jessie/
-* Frame.setIconImage() support.
-* AWT GDKGraphics scaling.
-* New configure flag --enable-gtk-cairo to build Graphics2D implementation
-  build on cairo and pangoft2.  Enabled at runtime by defining the system
-  property gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D.
-* javax.swing.JSpinner implemented.
-* Extensive documentation update for java.util collection classes.
-* java.awt.geom completed. Area, Arc2D, Ellipse2D and Line2D implemented.
-* GNU JAXP is no longer included with GNU Classpath. Runtime, compiler and
-  tool integrators are encouraged to directly integrate GNU JAXP.
-  This release has been tested against GNU JAXP 1.1.
-  http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp/jaxp.html
-* JColorChooser, JComboBox and JTextField implemented, including example
-  uses in GNU Classpath Examples swing Demo.
-
-Runtime interface Changes:
-
-* java.lang.Compiler now uses the new java.lang.VMCompiler; there is
-  a reference implementation that most VMs can use.
-* java.lang.VMSystem has a new getenv(String) method and a reference C/JNI
-  implementation that should work on most Posix like systems.
-* java.util.TimeZone has been split into a platform independent class and
-  a platform dependent class VMTimeZone.  GNU Classpath comes with a generic
-  way to get at the default time zone for Posix/GNU-like platforms.
-* [VM]AccessController improvements.  In particular it handles
-  `doPrivileged' calls better, and allows for recursive `doPrivileged'
-  calls in the same Thread. (see vm/reference/java/security/)
-
-New in release 0.10 (Jul 9, 2004)
-
-* java.net.URL now uses application classloader to load URLStreamHandlers
-  and reuses URLStreamHandlers when URL is reset (but protocol isn't changed).
-* java.io.File.deleteOnExit() implementation.
-* java.text multiple new features and bug fixes
-  (only 2 out of the 1000+ java.text Mauve tests now fail).
-* Better (non-black) default AWT System colors.
-* AWT lists use GTK treeviews.
-* Proper AWT focus management has been implemented.
-* Swing menus and scrollpanes are beginning to work.
-* Swing splitpanes, dialogs and internal frames were added.
-* Swing repainting / double buffering was redone.
-* Font management and Pango DPI conversion fixes.
-* A lot of AWT imaging and event bugs have been picked out.
-* More of javax.swing.text has been implemented.
-* javax.swing.Timer has been reimplemented.
-* java.security.AccessController has been implemented
-  (see runtime section).
-* The default java.lang.SecurityManager now uses AccessController.
-* New java.beans.Statement and Expression implementations.
-* Small FileChannel implementation speed improvement for traditional
-  JNI based systems.
-* Regenerated all included JNI header files with gcjh (3.5 CVS),
-  removes extra extern modifier and allows stricter compiler warning.
-* More C code cleanups (-Wmissing-declarations, -Wmissing-prototypes and
-  -Wstring-prototypes) and jni.h fixes (a few funtion prototype fixes,
-  made it compilable with C++ compilers and jni.h got renamed from jni.h.in).
-* Double.toString() and Float.toString() now work properly on 64-bit 
-  PowerPC systems.
-* PPC Darwin, arm, x86-64 and s/390 JNI C code compilation fixes.
-* Build system refactored and removed old Japhar specific support.
-* The gnu.java.awt.EmbeddedWindow class has been improved, and now
-  supports embedding AWT windows in other top-level X windows.
-  This functionality is required by gcjwebplugin.
-* gcjwebplugin, an applet viewer that can be embedded into several web
-  browsers, has been extensively tested with this release of classpath.
-  (See http://www.nongnu.org/gcjwebplugin/)
-* Runtime environments based on GNU Classpath 0.10 should be able to
-  start up Eclipse 3.0 out of the box now.
-
-Runtime interface Changes:
-
-* VMProcess.destroy() default implementation fixes.
-* Fixed the "portable native sync" code; it had been broken since
-  Classpath release 0.06, when we upgraded to GTK+2.    
-  Classpath's AWT peers use GTK+.  GTK+ uses GLIB.  GLIB by default uses
-  the platform's native threading model -- pthreads in most cases.
-  If the Java runtime doesn't use the native threading model, then you should
-  specify --portable-native-sync when configuring Classpath, so that GLIB will
-  use the Java threading primitives instead.  (For a superior alternative,
-  see below.)
-* The VM can set the system property
-  gnu.classpath.awt.gtk.portable.native.sync instead of using the
-  --portable-native-sync configure-type option.
-  See doc/vmintegration.texinfo for details.
-* We intend that the next release of GNU Classpath will require the VM 
-  to provide JNI 1.2.  Classpath currently uses only JNI 1.1, except for 
-  one JNI 1.2 function: GetEnv(), in the JNI Invocation API. 
-  If this poses problems, please raise them on the classpath mailing list.
-* The reference implementation of VMThread.holdsLock(Object) now has
-  a default implementation written in java. For efficiency and to
-  prevent spurious wakeups a real 'native' runtime version can be supplied.
-* There is a new java.security.VMAccessController class that runtimes need
-  to implement to properly support SecurityManagers. The default
-  implementation that comes with GNU Classpath makes sure that ANY attempt
-  to access a protected resource is denied when a SecurityManager is
-  installed. Which is pretty secure, but also no very useful.
-  Please see the documentation in
-  vm/reference/java/security/VMAccessController.java,
-  and please give feedback on the GNU Classpath mailinglist whether or not
-  the current AccessController framework is flexible enough.
-
-New in release 0.09 (May 2, 2004)
-
-* Includes updated GNU JAXP version from 2004-02-01.
-* Native C code is now -ansi -pedantic (C89) clean and (almost) -Wall clean.
-* java.io is now implemented by delegating most tasks directly to java.nio.
-* Reworked/Optimized implementations of java.nio.Buffer and subclasses.
-* New javax.print, javax.print.attribute[.standard] and javax.print.event
-  packages and classes.
-* java.text attributed iterators support.
-* New javax.imageio, javax.imageio.event and javax.imageio.spi packages and
-  classes.
-* GNU Classpath can now load service providers that are described via
-  META-INF/services/* resources in extension JARs. This is useful for
-  implementing the various APIs that are supposed to be extensible via
-  custom plugins. For details, please see the documentation of
-  gnu.classpath.ServiceFactory.
-  Application developers are strongly discouraged from calling glibj
-  internal packages.  Instead, they might want invoke the newly implemented
-  javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.lookupProviders, which is a standard 
-  method for loading plug-ins.
-* New developers wanting to help the GNU Classpath project might want to
-  review the greatly expanded Hacker Guide included in the doc directory
-  or online at http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/docs/hacking.html
-  Also the FAQ has been expanded. And when working from CVS you can now use
-  a simple autogen.sh script to get all autotools magic done automagically.
-* New configure option --with-glibj which defines how to install the glibj
-  class files as zip, as flat directory files or both (zip|flat|both)
-  [default=zip].  When working with multiple runtimes some of which might
-  not support bootstrap classes in zip files the --with-glibj=both option
-  is recommended (this does take extra disc space).
-* Two big code drops from the libgcj gui branch updating various java.awt
-  and javax.swing classes.
-* Multiple java.net.InetAdress fixes and java.rmi fixes.
-* ServerSocket.accept() now restarts listening when system call interrupted.
-* Much cleanups to make standard API doc valid XHTML (not completed yet).
-* A scan for unused variables and non-static invocation of static methods
-  turned up a couple of subtle bugs which have now all been fixed.
-* The Mauve testsuite has been cleaned up considerable and lots of issues
-  in the GNU Classpath core class implementation have been fixed.
-
-VM Interface changes:
-
-* java.lang.Class/VMClass interface was changed. The interface now no
-  longer requires an instance of VMClass for each Class instance. Instead
-  the field vmdata in Class is now of type Object.
-* GNU Classpath now assumes that JNI calls SetXField can modify final
-  fields. This was previously used silently for System.in/out/err and should
-  be considered as a feature now.
-* A new VMProcess and a sample JNI C implementation are now provided to
-  make Runtime.exec() work out of the box on some systems.  This requires
-  a small change to VMRuntime.exec() when a runtime wants to use it as the
-  default java.lang.Process implementation.
-* The implementation of most of java.io through java.nio moved serveral
-  runtime specific I/O methods. Most methods do have a generic default native
-  C JNI implementation in native/jni/java-nio.
-* Runtime support methods for java.io.File have been moved to VMFile which
-  also comes with a default JNI C implementation.
-* To support the new service provider mechanism runtimes must make sure that
-  extension JARs are made accessible via the default context class loader.
-
-New in release 0.08 (2004/12/03)
-
-* java.util.regexp implementation through gnu.regexp wrappers.
-* java.net.URI implementation.
-* Working implementation of javax.swing.undo.
-* java.awt.geom.CubicCurve2D/QuadCurve2D: Can now solve cubic and quadratic
-  equations; implementation adapted from the GNU Scientific Library.
-* Lots of java.awt and gtk+ peer improvements. Also more Swing work. Start
-  of EmbeddedWindow support.
-* BufferedReader speed improvements.
-* Improved useabilty of java.text implementation for several applications.
-* ObjectInputStream is much faster and more compatible with other
-  implementations.
-* Fix handling of alias methods, where a method has been deprecated in
-  favour of a new one with the same funtion but a different name.
-  (See Deprecated Methods section in the GNU Classpath Hacking Guide.)
-* javax.print.attribute.standard added.
-* Lots of java.nio, java.net, java.io
-* Depend on autoconf 2.59+ and automake 1.7+, GCJ 3.3+, jikes 1.18+.
-
-VM Interface changes:
-* Split native methods in java.lang.Runtime into java.lang.VMRuntime.
-* Resources are now also loaded/needed through the bootstrap classloader
-  (gnu.regexp needs MessageBundle included in glibj.zip
-
-Fixed Classpath bugs:
-  #6095 java.awt.geom.QuadCurve2D.solveQuadratic sometimes gives
-        wrong results
-  #7099 EventListenerList.getListenerCount should accept null argument
-  #7104 EventListenerList.add does not work
-  #7105 EventListenerList.remove does not work
-  #7107 DefaultBoundedRangeModel.setValue and friends should not throw
-  And lots more.
-
-New in release 0.07 (2003/30/11)
-
-* Works with libtool 1.5 (and 1.4.3).
-* java.awt gtk+ peers now depend on gtk+ 2.2.x and uses pango.
-  Lots and lots improvements on the peers.
-* java.awt.geom.CubicCurve2D, java.awt.geom.QuadCurve2D:
-  Subdivision and flatness calculation implemented.
-* java.awt.geom.FlatteningPathIterator: Working implementation.
-* gnu.java.awt.BitwiseXORComposite helper class.
-* New rmic compilers (jikes, kjc) support.
-* java.text bug fixing and 1.4 updates (Currency).
-* Hashtable and HashMap function more similar to other implementations.
-* javax.naming and java.beans classloader fixes.
-* URL parsing, URLConnection, protocol and (needed) permission fixes.
-* More java.nio implementation
-  (API complete, but implementation not finished yet).
-* Lots of java.net code cleanup.
-* Improved documentation.
-* Numerous bug fixes in almost every package, and lots of updates for
-  1.4 functionality.
-* Fixed Classpath bugs:
-  #2944 Incorrect synchronization in java.util.logging.ErrorManager
-  #6075 java.awt.geom.GeneralPath.getCurrentPoint returns wrong results
-  #6076 java.awt.geom.GeneralPath constructor sometimes hangs
-  #6089 java.awt.geom.GeneralPath.getPathIterator does not work
-  [...]
-
-VM Interface changes:
-
-* Thread has been split in a VM-independent Thread class and a VM-dependent
-  VMThread class.
-
-New in release 0.06 (2003/22/08)
-
-* Update java.awt peers to GTK+2.
-* java.awt.GridBagLayout implementation.
-* javax.swing.border implementation.
-* java.security and java.security.cert updated to 1.4 spec.
-* New JNI native target code layer. See native/target/readme.txt.
-* --enable-regen-headers configure flag for automatic jni .h file generation.
-* Removed workaround for gcj 3.2 and lower, gcj 3.3+ or jikes 1.18+ is now
-  needed for compiling.
-* Lots of improvements and/or new classes for java.awt, java.awt.dnd,
-  java.awt.font, java.awt.geom, java.awt.image, java.io, java.math, java.net,
-  java.nio, java.rmi, java.text, java.util, javax.swing, javax.swing.plaf,
-  javax.swing.text.
-
-VM Interface changes:
-
-* VMClassLoader.loadClass(), the bootstrap classloader called by
-  Class.forName() and ClassLoader.loadClass(), may now return null when
-  a class is not found instead of throwing a new ClassNotFoundException.
-  This is a performance optimization in some cases. This also changes
-  the Class.forName() reference code.
-* Native methods in Class have been moved to VMClass.  A few additional
-  methods are also available in VMClass to provide optional performance
-  improvements.
-* A VM can now supply its own String.intern() strategy through the
-  VMString class. The supplied VMString reference class implements the
-  original WeakHashMap strategy.
-* Float and Double to/from bits conversion functions can now be supplied by
-  the VM through VMFloat and VMDouble. Default JNI conversion methods are
-  supplied.
-
-New in release 0.05 (2003/02/15)
-* Supports free Java VMs Jikes RVM and Kissme out of the box, perhaps others.
-* Supports GNU Crypto 1.1 as the official provider of cryptographic primitives
-  and tools for GNU Classpath, available separately from 
-  http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/crypto/crypto.html. 
-* Supports GNU Classpath Tools sub-project of GNU Classpath, official provider
-  of standard tools such as gjdoc, a javadoc replacement, and others.  Future
-  releases of GNU Classpath will begin to include these tools, available
-  separately from http://www.gnu.org/software/cp-tools/.
-* Java primitives can be used to support AWT native threading, see 
-  the --enable-portable-native-sync configure option which may become the
-  default in a future release.
-* Include file jni.h has been updated to the 1.4 specification.
-* VM specific internal types for jobject, jfieldID, and jmethodID are
-  supported in jni.h.  More details can be found by reading the comment
-  in include/jni.h.in.  By default the old definitions are used instead.
-* New VM helper class java.io.VMObjectStreamClass which should provide
-  the hasClassInitializer() method. Previously ObjectStreamClass used
-  Class.getDeclaredMethod("<clinit>") but according to the spec this
-  should always throw NoSuchMethodException for class initialization methods.
-  A JNI reference implementation is provided as
-  vm/reference/java-io/java_io_VMObjectStreamClass.c
-* There have been numerous infrastructure improvements
-  * Configure option --enable-gjdoc to generate javadoc-like output 
-  * Gjdoc output is included with distribution, see doc/api/html/
-  * DESTDIR fully supported for install and uninstall
-* Runtime.execInternal contract changed to allow for null `env'
-  and to accept `dir' argument.
-* VMObject.getClass() removed. It was never used.
-* java.lang.Throwable is now a 'normal' GNU Classpath class that uses the
-  VM specific java.lang.VMThrowable to get at the VM state and (if needed)
-  the StackTraceElements for a particular exception. A default implementation
-  (that does nothing) is provided in vm/reference/java/lang/VMThrowable.java.
-* The vm/reference classes from the gnu.vm.stack and their counterparts
-  ExecutionStack and StackFrame in gnu.java.lang have been removed since they
-  are not actually part of the VM interface anyway.
-* The GPLed com.sun.javadoc classes have been moved to the gjdoc application
-  from the GNU Classpath Tools project. See for more information the homepage
-  at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/cp-tools/>.
-
-New in release 0.04 (2002/05/05)
-* Additional configure options to disable zip creation and installation as
-  well as disable gtk peer native compilation.
-* Addition of java.nio, java.util.logging, and javax.swing.
-* Integration of most or all of the ORP patches to date, the purpose of 
-  which are to make it possible to use JBOSS with ORP and Classpath.  This
-  is still in a testing phase however.
-* Significant changes in the reference VM interface that may require
-  support from the JVMs.
-* Lots of bugfixes.
-
-New in release 0.03 (2002/02/08)
-* More merges with libgcj have been performed including java.math which now
-  provides a pure Java implementation of that package.
-  Current status at <http://gcc.gnu.org/java/libgcj-classpath-compare.html>
-* A pure Java implementation (Jazzlib) of java.util.zip is available.
-* Added the java.rmi implementation that Transvirtual donated to the FSF.
-* Includes jni.h now, eliminating the need to specify a particular VM
-  via configure.
-* No proprietary classes or programs are required to compile.
-  Compiles out of the box with jikes or gcj.
-* Separation of compiling Java source and native libraries through the 
-  configure mechanism.  If given no arguments, configure will setup the
-  subsequent build to only produce Java bytecode (.class files).  More
-  information is available in INSTALLING.
-* Support for compiling in a separate directory, as an example you may
-  cd classpath-0.03; mkdir build; cd build; ../configure; make
-* Works with Orp 1.0.9 out of the box. Build instructions can be found at
-  <http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/doc/orp.html>
-* Lots of bugfixes that were found by using Classpath with the gcj, Orp,
-  SableVM, KissMe and Jaos VMs. Please use our bugdatabase at
-  <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group_id=85>
-* Lots of updates to make Classpath more compliant with the 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4
-  API specification. The current status can be found at
-  <http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/status.html>
-* All files are now distributed under the same terms. Added clarification to
-  GPL exception.
-
-New in release 0.02 (2001/01/06)
-* Support for printing exceptions with Japhar 0.09 + patch included in
-  resource/japhar-0.09.patch.1.
-* Typos, assorted bugfixes.
-
-New in release 0.01 (2000/11/20)
-* More packages are included now, though many remain untested.
-* Support for Japhar 0.09 included.
-
-New in release 0.00 (1999/02/01)
-* First official development release of clean room class library for Java
-* Following packages included:
-	-- java.beans
-	-- java.io
-	-- java.lang
-	-- java.lang.reflect
-	-- java.math
-	-- java.net
-	-- java.security (partial and non-functioning)
-	-- java.security.acl
-	-- java.security.interfaces
-	-- java.util
-* Code is mostly Java 2 (see JDK 1.2) compatible with some functionality
-  missing and/or untested.
-* Support for Japhar (http://www.japhar.org/) virtual machine is included.
-  Requires the current Japhar from CVS.
-* Extensive javadoc comments for public API included
-* Licensed under the GNU Library General Public License (see COPYING.LIB)
-* Does not depend on any non-free code - developed in a "clean room"
-  environment.
-