Release of Kaffe 1.0 Beta 4

[Tim Wilkinson]

The Kaffe core team is pleased to announce the release of Kaffe OpenVM
1.0 Beta 4.  You can find information about the release at:
	http://www.kaffe.org 
		or
	http://www.transvirtual.com.

The release can be downloaded from either
ftp://ftp.transvirtual.com:/pub/kaffe or an appropriate mirror.

This release fixes a ton of things so we strongly suggest you upgrade. 
Here's a summary of what's new:

* New Java extensions:

        o Personal Java extensions

        o Serial port stuff: javax.comm (untested)

        o Servlets: javax.servlet (untested)

* Revamped class loading, supporting class unloading

* Revamped and much more efficient garbage collection
 
        o More efficient allocator

        o New, cleaner gc interface

* Cleaner threads interface

        o Linux native threads (incomplete)

* Use of libtool and automake for portability

* Fully intern'd strings and UTF8 constants

* Support for BeOS and OSKit

* Swing improvements - now supports Swing 1.1

* Object Serialization overhall - still buggy but mostly working

* Beans and reflection work better now

* StackOverFlowErrors now generated

* New java.lang.Character for real Unicode handling.

* Improved GC handling of strings

* Socket timeouts

* Lots of bug fixes.


Enjoy.
Tim

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  Tim Wilkinson                         Tel:     +1 510 704 1660
  Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.,      Fax:     +1 510 704 1893
  Berkeley, CA, USA.                    Email:   tim@transvirtual.com