On the blog of IcedTea release manager Andrew Hughes (aka GNU/Andrew) you can find the announcement for IcedTea 2.6.11 which builds OpenJDK 7u151_b01. This release includes the official July 2017 security fixes for Java 7. Note that the security updates for Java 8 were already pushed to my repository some time ago.
Here is where you can download the Slackware packages for openjdk7 and openjre7:
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openjdk7/
- http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/openjdk7/
(rsync also available: rsync://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/)
The “rhino” package (implementation of the JavaScript engine used by OpenJDK) is an external dependency for OpenJDK 7, you can find a package in my repository. If you want to compile OpenJDK7 yourself you will need apache-ant as well.
Note about usage:
My Java 7 and Java 8 packages (e.g. openjdk7 and openjdk… or openjre7 and openjre) can not co-exist on your computer because they use the same installation directory. You must install either Java 7 or Java 8.
Remember that I release packages for the JRE (runtime environment) and the JDK (development kit) simultaneously, but you only need to install one of the two. The JRE is sufficient if you only want to run Java programs (including Java web plugins). Only in case where you’d want to develop Java programs and need a Java compiler, you are in need of the JDK package.
There was a recent security update for the Flash Player plugin as well. The new version is 26.0.0.151 for both the PPAPI (Google Chrome and friends) and the NPAPI (Mozilla Firefox and friends) based plugins.
You can find Slackware packages for the Flash plugins in the following repositories (and probably many more mirrors):
- http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ (master site)
- http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (my own primary mirror, also has rsync access)
- http://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/ (UK, fast!)
Have fun! Eric
Thank you Eric!!