On 28 June 2011 23:41, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Java 7 is getting released on July 28th so I thought it would be a good time to let users test it out. I have just pushed jre/jdk 7 build 147 into [community-testing] so that users can have a month in advance to report bugs, and notify upstream projects if they are incompatible with java 7. You should be able to install jre/jdk 7 without the need to enable any of the testing repos.
I have tested it on my computer with a couple of browser games which seem to work fine.
The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the specific problem can be tracked here: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7 Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take notice.
A summary of the changes that come with Java 7: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
Bugs that are not packaging bugs should be submitted to http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
The Java 7 feedback forum is located at http://www.java.net/forums/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback?force=259
Cheers!
It works fine with Intellij IDEA and Free Rapid Downloader. Lukas