G
Grzegorz B. Prokopski
The developers of the SableVM Project are proud to announce the
official release of SableVM 1.1.7. SableVM is a liberally licensed
Free Java Virtual Machine. See the "About SableVM" section below for
more informations about SableVM.
Here is a list of the most important changes and new features. In
this version, we:
- Added a new generational garbage collector (experimental, available
on request, by passing --with-gc=gencopy to configure).
- Imported a new GNU Classpath CVS snapshot as of Sun Oct 10 18:00:00
UTC 2004.
- Added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath.
- Made SableVM provide user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap
problems. This should get rid of the hated "sablevm: cannot create
vm".
- Modified class loader to allow for multiple elements and
prepending/appending to boot class path.
- Added the --with-profiling configure switch to make most internal
functions non-"static".
- Made sablevm-classpath install its files in standard locations.
- Explicitely disallowed compilation of sablevm-classpath with gcj or
kjc (as it has never worked reliably).
- Made jikes and gcc less verbose by default (to reduce user confusion).
- Removed some obsolete code from various places.
- Made several bugfixes of:
- JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12).
- IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63).
- A copy&paste mistake in PopLocalFrame (closes BUG:62).
- Several JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12).
- IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63).
- "New array" memory allocation size overflow (closes BUG:8).
- Out-of-source builds (closes BUG:55).
- Handling of 'double' values on ARM.
- FPU in 64-bit precision mode on Linux / Intel x86 (closes BUG:1).
- F2L, F2I, D2L, D2I not checking for overflows (closes BUG:54).
- SIGPIPE killing the VM (closes BUG:51).
- GNU make detection on non-GNU/Linux platforms.
- Case-insensitive grepping for "Main-Class:" string in MANIFEST.MF.
=== ABOUT SABLEVM ===
SableVM is a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and
specifications-compliant Java Virtual Machine that aims to be easy to
maintain and to extend. It features a state-of-the-art and efficient
interpreter engine. Its source code is very accessible and easy to
understand. It also has many robustness features that have been the
object of careful design.
SableVM is a clean-room implementation of the publicly available
specifications.
SableVM is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL). It also uses a modified version of GNU Classpath
called sablevm-classpath which is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL) with a linking exception.
The license of SableVM (LGPL) was specifically chosen as to maximize
your ability to legally link and run popular applications, such as
Eclipse (http://eclipse.org) and Ant (http://ant.apache.org), which
are licensed in ways which might conflict with the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL). See the the following link for more
information:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ
The SableVM web site is located at:
http://sablevm.org
=== INSTALLATION ===
SableVM is available to download from the following locations:
- http://sablevm.org/download/release/
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523
You must download both:
- sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz
- sablevm-classpath-1.1.7.tar.gz.
See the INSTALL file included in the sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz archive for
build environment requirements and installation procedures.
We make frequent releases, but we also provide daily snapshots of our
"staging" development branch at:
http://sablevm.org/download/snapshot/
Note that the code of the staging branch is more robust than the code
usually found in the CVS trunk of many other free software projects.
The staging branch only contains code that has been first tested by
developers within their own sandbox. A detailed explanation of the
different development branches is available at:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/Development_Branches
It is now also possible to run daily snapshots of SableVM with the
latest CVS snapshots of GNU Classpath. For details please see:
http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-devel/2004-November/000223.html
=== NOTES ===
We appreciate your feedback. Please feel invited to contact us. See:
http://sablevm.org/support.html
You can also join us in real-time on the #sablevm IRC channel on
irc.sablevm.org (alias: irc.freenode.net, irc.debian.org).
=== BINARY PACKAGES ===
Binary packages of new SableVM versions are usually available in the
GNU/Linux Debian "unstable" distribution shortly after the official
release. These packages normally migrate to the "testing"
distribution a few weeks later.
Some other GNU/Linux distributions (Gentoo, etc.) and other operating
systems (*BSD, etc.) also provide binary packages or a convenient
build environment to compile and install sablevm.
=== Additional Information ===
You will find a wealth of additional information in SableVM's wiki
pages at:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/
=== CONCLUSION ===
We wish you great fun using SableVM.
Enjoy!
The SableVM Project developers
official release of SableVM 1.1.7. SableVM is a liberally licensed
Free Java Virtual Machine. See the "About SableVM" section below for
more informations about SableVM.
Here is a list of the most important changes and new features. In
this version, we:
- Added a new generational garbage collector (experimental, available
on request, by passing --with-gc=gencopy to configure).
- Imported a new GNU Classpath CVS snapshot as of Sun Oct 10 18:00:00
UTC 2004.
- Added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath.
- Made SableVM provide user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap
problems. This should get rid of the hated "sablevm: cannot create
vm".
- Modified class loader to allow for multiple elements and
prepending/appending to boot class path.
- Added the --with-profiling configure switch to make most internal
functions non-"static".
- Made sablevm-classpath install its files in standard locations.
- Explicitely disallowed compilation of sablevm-classpath with gcj or
kjc (as it has never worked reliably).
- Made jikes and gcc less verbose by default (to reduce user confusion).
- Removed some obsolete code from various places.
- Made several bugfixes of:
- JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12).
- IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63).
- A copy&paste mistake in PopLocalFrame (closes BUG:62).
- Several JNI methods not returning NULL on errors (closes BUG:12).
- IsInstanceOf always returning JNI_FALSE (closes BUG:63).
- "New array" memory allocation size overflow (closes BUG:8).
- Out-of-source builds (closes BUG:55).
- Handling of 'double' values on ARM.
- FPU in 64-bit precision mode on Linux / Intel x86 (closes BUG:1).
- F2L, F2I, D2L, D2I not checking for overflows (closes BUG:54).
- SIGPIPE killing the VM (closes BUG:51).
- GNU make detection on non-GNU/Linux platforms.
- Case-insensitive grepping for "Main-Class:" string in MANIFEST.MF.
=== ABOUT SABLEVM ===
SableVM is a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and
specifications-compliant Java Virtual Machine that aims to be easy to
maintain and to extend. It features a state-of-the-art and efficient
interpreter engine. Its source code is very accessible and easy to
understand. It also has many robustness features that have been the
object of careful design.
SableVM is a clean-room implementation of the publicly available
specifications.
SableVM is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL). It also uses a modified version of GNU Classpath
called sablevm-classpath which is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL) with a linking exception.
The license of SableVM (LGPL) was specifically chosen as to maximize
your ability to legally link and run popular applications, such as
Eclipse (http://eclipse.org) and Ant (http://ant.apache.org), which
are licensed in ways which might conflict with the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL). See the the following link for more
information:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ
The SableVM web site is located at:
http://sablevm.org
=== INSTALLATION ===
SableVM is available to download from the following locations:
- http://sablevm.org/download/release/
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523
You must download both:
- sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz
- sablevm-classpath-1.1.7.tar.gz.
See the INSTALL file included in the sablevm-1.1.7.tar.gz archive for
build environment requirements and installation procedures.
We make frequent releases, but we also provide daily snapshots of our
"staging" development branch at:
http://sablevm.org/download/snapshot/
Note that the code of the staging branch is more robust than the code
usually found in the CVS trunk of many other free software projects.
The staging branch only contains code that has been first tested by
developers within their own sandbox. A detailed explanation of the
different development branches is available at:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/Development_Branches
It is now also possible to run daily snapshots of SableVM with the
latest CVS snapshots of GNU Classpath. For details please see:
http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-devel/2004-November/000223.html
=== NOTES ===
We appreciate your feedback. Please feel invited to contact us. See:
http://sablevm.org/support.html
You can also join us in real-time on the #sablevm IRC channel on
irc.sablevm.org (alias: irc.freenode.net, irc.debian.org).
=== BINARY PACKAGES ===
Binary packages of new SableVM versions are usually available in the
GNU/Linux Debian "unstable" distribution shortly after the official
release. These packages normally migrate to the "testing"
distribution a few weeks later.
Some other GNU/Linux distributions (Gentoo, etc.) and other operating
systems (*BSD, etc.) also provide binary packages or a convenient
build environment to compile and install sablevm.
=== Additional Information ===
You will find a wealth of additional information in SableVM's wiki
pages at:
http://sablevm.org/wiki/
=== CONCLUSION ===
We wish you great fun using SableVM.
Enjoy!
The SableVM Project developers