CACAO 0.96 released.

This is a bug-fix and feature enhancement release.  Here is a short
list of the most important changes:

  * New tasuki lock implementation resolves deadlock problems on
    multi-processor machines.
  * Handle Miranda-methods properly.
  * try-catch line number problem with jikes fixed.
  * Added support for libjvm.so (including invocation API).
  * Stripped down object code size of code generators.
  * Increased default maximum heap size to 128MB and decreased default
    stack size to 64kB.
  * Cleaned up internal handling of Unicode strings.
  * Fixed getResources of bootstrap classloader.
  * Correct handling of boot packages (provided glibj.zip contains a
    jar index).
  * Exception handling fixes (don't allocate memory on Java heap).
  * x86_64's code generator generates now RISC-style code.
  * Green threads implementation removed.
  * Semaphore implementation for Darwin (taken from Boehm).
  * sem_wait interrupted by signal fixed.
  * Overflow in Object.wait() (partially) fixed (caused busy waiting
    in JOnAS).
  * Store JNI global refs in native hashtable instead of Java
    hashtable (bootstrap problem).
  * Argument passing fixed for powerpc-linux (asm_vm_call_method).

This release supports GNU Classpath 0.91+ and was tested on some
platforms against GNU Classpath 0.91.

This release fixes the remaining dead-lock bugs seen on SMP machines
when running Eclipse.  Additionally, CACAO is now able to run JOnAS.
It's possible to build JOnAS from CVS with a free Java stack and run
the JOnAS testsuite against it.

CACAO uses GNU Classpath as Java core library and supports upstream
releases or CVS snapshots.  The proper ./configure options for GNU
Classpath are:

  --with-classpath-prefix=<dir>
  --with-classpath-libdir=<dir>
  --with-classpath-includedir=<dir>

Currently supported JIT compiler architectures are:

  * alpha-unknown-freebsd5.4
  * alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
  * arm-unknown-linux-gnu
  * i386-unknown-freebsd5.3
  * i686-pc-linux-gnu
  * mips-sgi-irix6.5
  * mips-unknown-linux-gnu
  * powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
  * powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
  * x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Additionally supported interpreter architectures are:

  * powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu

Information about working applications and some screenshots can be
found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/

The CACAO wiki can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaowiki/

The CACAO mailing list can be found here:
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/cacao/

Daily test runs with CACAO SVN head, GNU Classpath CVS head and Mauve
CVS head can be found on http://www.cacaojvm.org/tgolem/

CACAO 0.96 can be downloaded from
http://www.cacaojvm.org/download/cacao-0.96/

File   : cacao-0.96.tar.gz
md5sum : 5be7716e120e71b9319a390828f62d4b
sha1sum: caa3602bdf39e45743522ead3f86a420cfab504c

Enjoy!

The CACAO Team
cacao@cacaojvm.org