It took a day for the developers to release a new version of IcedTea, fixing another three CVE’s (critical security bugs) in OpenJDK 7. New on the fix list are these security fixes:
Get my packages (Slackware 13,37 and newer) for OpenJDK 7u7_b30 here:
If you want a Java browset-plugin you should install icedtea-web (OpenJDK itself does not contain such a plugin). You will also need the rhino package which contains the JavaScript engine for OpenJDK.
I will repeat these notes:
- You need to install either the JRE or the JDK package. Not both of them! If you are not a Java developer and never compile Java code, then you do not need the openjdk package and it will be sufficient to install the (much smaller) openjre package instead.
- If you are migrating to OpenJDK after having used Oracle’s Java binaries, make sure that you have removed both “jre” and “jdk” packages. Run a command like “removepkg /var/log/packages/jdk-* ; removepkg /var/log/packages/jre-*” to get rid of both. Then install the openjdk or openjre package. Logout and log back in after this package removal/installation so that you will get the proper Java environment.
- Test your java browser plugin online: http://javatester.org/version.html or http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp .
Good luck! Eric
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