Omair Majid

30 Mar 2017

This post covers the versions and components in .NET Core 1.x. Components .NET Core consists of multiple components that are each versioned …

04 Oct 2016

Looking to try out OpenJDK 9? If you didn’t know, OpenJDK 9 is going to be the reference implemtation for Java 9 (assuming the pattern for …

29 Feb 2016

Inspired by this post by Mark Wielaard I started wondering how OpenJDK 9 would fare in a -Wmisleading-indentation test. So I built OpenJDK 9 …

24 Jan 2014

I posted 3 patches today The first patch is for OpenJDK 9. It creates a hole that allows alternative plugin implementations to plug into …

06 Dec 2013

On December 5, 2013, the OpenJDK6 b29 source bundle was published at https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/ . This is a security …

04 Oct 2013

On October 4, 2013, the OpenJDK6 b28 source bundle was published at https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/ . This includes all the …

13 Sep 2013

Someone asked me earlier today about how to contribute patches to OpenJDK. OpenJDK is probably not the easiest upstream to contribute …

22 Jun 2012

I have always been impressed by the effort OpenJDK folks go to maintain API compatibility. I recently came across a nifty little trick that …

11 Apr 2012

I have been playing around with awesome and ran into some issues with Java programs (apparently others users are running into those problems …

14 Feb 2012

A new release of IcedTea6 1.11 branch is now available: 1.11.1 The update contains the following security fixes: S7082299, CVE-2011-3571: …