Key:
SX - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=X
PRX - http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=X
RHX - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=X
DX - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=X
GX - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=X
CVE-XXXX-YYYY: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=XXXX-YYYY
New in release 1.6.1 (2015-09-11):
* Enabled Entry-Point attribute check
* permissions sandbox and signed app and unsigned app with permissions all-permissions now run in sandbox instead of not at all.
* fixed DownloadService
* comments in deployment.properties now should persists load/save
* fixed bug in caching of files with query
* fixed issues with recreating of existing shortcut
* trustAll/trustNone now processed correctly
* headless no longer shows dialogues
* RH1231441 Unable to read the text of the buttons of the security dialogue
* Fixed RH1233697 icedtea-web: applet origin spoofing
* Fixed RH1233667 icedtea-web: unexpected permanent authorization of unsigned applets
* MissingALACAdialog made available also for unsigned applications (but ignoring actual manifest value) and fixed
* NetX
- fixed issues with -html shortcuts
- fixed issue with -html receiving garbage in width and height
* PolicyEditor
- file flag made to work when used standalone
- file flag and main argument cannot be used in combination
New in release 1.6 (2015-04-29):
* Massively improved offline abilities. Added Xoffline switch to force work without inet connection.
* Improved to be able to run with any JDK
* JDK 6 and older no longer supported
* JDK 8 support added (URLPermission granted if applicable)
* JDK 9 supported
* Added support for Entry-Point manifest attribute
* Added KEY_ENABLE_MANIFEST_ATTRIBUTES_CHECK deployment property to control scan of Manifest file
* starting arguments now accept also -- abbreviations
* Added new documentation
* Added support for menu shortcuts - both javaws applications/applets and html applets are supported
* added support for -html switch for javaws. Now you can run most of the applets without browser at all
* Control Panel
- PR1856: ControlPanel UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
* NetX
- PR1858: Java Console accepts multi-byte encodings
- PR1859: Java Console UI improvement for lower resolutions (800*600)
- RH1091563: [abrt] icedtea-web-1.5-2.fc20: Uncaught exception java.lang.ClassCastException in method sun.applet.PluginAppletViewer$8.run()
- Dropped support for long unmaintained -basedir argument
- Returned support for -jnlp argument
- RH1095311, PR574 - References class sun.misc.Ref removed in OpenJDK 9 - fixed, and so buildable on JDK9
* Plugin
- PR1743 - Intermittant deadlock in PluginRequestProcessor
- PR1298 - LiveConnect - problem setting array elements (applet variables) from JS
- RH1121549: coverity defects
- Resolves method overloading correctly with superclass heirarchy distance
* PolicyEditor
- codebases can be renamed in-place, copied, and pasted
- codebase URLs can be copied to system clipboard
- displays a progress dialog while opening or saving files
- codebases without permissions assigned save to file anyway (and re-appear on next open)
- PR1776: NullPointer on save-and-exit
- PR1850: duplicate codebases when launching from security dialogs
- Fixed bug where clicking "Cancel" on the "Save before Exiting" dialog could result in the editor
exiting without saving changes
- Keyboard accelerators and mnemonics greatly improved
- "File - New" allows editing a new policy without first selecting the file to save to
* Common
- PR1769: support signed applets which specify Sandbox permissions in their manifests
* Temporary Permissions in security dialog now multi-selectable and based on PolicyEditor permissions