File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.38537
<patchinfo incident="38537">
<packager>fstrba</packager>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<category>recommended</category>
<summary>Recommended update for icedtea-web</summary>
<description>This update for icedtea-web fixes the following issues:
icetea-web was updated from version 1.7.2 to 1.8.8:
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved issues with URI-escaped characters in downloaded JARs
- Fixed a NoClassDefFoundError related to JNLPRuntime
- Improved handling of XML in JNLP files
- Performance Improvements:
- Reduced the number of threads used for resource downloads
- New Features:
- Added support for JavaFX-only applications.
- Enhanced the --nosecurity option to allow skipping invalid signatures.
- Enabled reading resources from j2se/java elements.
- Added support for Windows desktop shortcuts.
- Improved cache management with grouping, listing by IDs, and selective clearing.
A GUI for cache management is now available in itweb-settings.
- Shortened desktop shortcut names to the application title or filename.
- Introduced shared native launchers.
- Reworked scripted launchers, with improvements to Windows .bat files and making Linux shell launchers portable.
- Deployment configuration now supports generic URLs instead of just file paths.
</description>
</patchinfo>