Subject: SableVM 1.1.4 Release

The developers of the SableVM Project are proud to announce the
official release of SableVM 1.1.4.  SableVM is a liberally licensed
Free Java Virtual Machine.  See "About SableVM" section below for
more informations about SableVM.

The most important changes and features of 1.1.4 include:

* sablevm-classpath is based on the very recent GNU Classpath 0.09
  release and later GNU Classpath CVS changes (May 4).

* As with each version - an improving support for AWT and Swing.

* Eliminated the dependency on a working lt_dlopen(NULL) and its
  related lt_dlsym() which seem broken on some platforms, like
  Cygwin and some *BSD.

* Added x86_64 (AMD64) support to 8 architectures already supported
  (alpha, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, s390, sparc); mips and
  mipsel support is implemented though yet unconfirmed.

* Improvements in autodetection of build parameters on non-Linux
  systems.  This includes selection of dynamic libraries,
  availability of m4 preprocessor and auto-disabling "signals
  for exceptions" on platforms that don't seem to support signals.

* The m4 preprocessor is never needed to build from tar archive.

* Manual pages updates and improvements.

* Some other little improvements and few bug fixes.


=== ABOUT SABLEVM ===

SableVM is a portable bytecode interpreter written in C, and
implementing the Java virtual machine specification, second edition.

Its goals are to be complete, reasonably small, fast, and efficient,
as well as providing a well-designed and robust platform for further
development and research. See Documentation and Features section at
http://www.sablevm.org/ for details.

SableVM is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
It also makes use of a modified version of GNU Classpath, copyrighted
by the Free Software Foundation, and licensed under the GNU General
Public License with a linking exception.


=== INSTALLATION ===

SableVM is available to download from:

    http://devel.sablevm.org/download/1.1.4/

You must download both:

    sablevm-1.1.4.tar.gz
and
    sablevm-classpath-1.1.4.tar.gz.


Or if you prefer the Source Forge download facilities (which are
probably faster), you can use the following link:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/sablevm/

See INSTALL-DEVEL file included in sablevm-1.1.4.tar.gz tar archive or
instructions at http://devel.sablevm.org/docs/INSTALL.txt for details
of required build environment and installation procedure.

We plan to make frequent development releases, but please note that we
also have daily snapshots of our "staging" development tree readily
available at:

    http://devel.sablevm.org/shot


Note that the "staging" code is much more robust than the usual CVS
trunk of many other free software projects.  The "staging" tree only
contains code that has been first tested by developers within their
own "sandbox" development tree.  So, in general, the "staging" code is
very robust. See http://devel.sablevm.org/wiki/DevelopmentBranches
for details.

=== NOTES ===

We appreciate your feedback.  Please feel invited to mail us. See:

    http://devel.sablevm.org/wiki/MailingLists

You can also join us in real-time on the #sablevm IRC channel on
irc.sablevm.org (alias: irc.freenode.net).


=== 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 should migrate to the "testing" distribution
in a few weeks.

We are looking for people willing to package SableVM for other
GNU/Linux distributions (and operating systems).  We have a
preliminary sablevm.spec (for the RPM package manager).  We would
really like to get LSB-compatible RPM packages.  Such packages could
be built on a Debian system (with the help of LSB development
packages).  If you are interested to get involved, we will be glad to
help you.


=== CONCLUSION ===

We wish you great fun using SableVM.

Enjoy!


        The SableVM Project developers