Saturday, 5 March 2016

Re: NetSurf 3.5 release

In article <20160304093519.GC30707@kyllikki.org>,
Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> So the 3.4 release was a bit of a lemon and due to lack of testing
> appears to have been non functional on most supported platforms

> Because of this I will be aiming for a 3.5 release on 12th March 2016.

> Please can all front end maintainers ensure they are confident with
> the state of their implementations before this date.

> The toolchains have been updated for this release to include the
> recent openssl critical fixes, however this has resulted in the amiga
> frontendusing a new toolchain for this release

> Can the amiga maintainers please ensure this toolchain change was what
> they wanted and let us know if we need to back it out as soon as
> possible.

> One final plea. Making a release is a lot of work and generally
> devolves to me, there is a wiki page for the release [1] can other
> mainatiners add anything they are aware of and help get it fixed so
> this release is not another complete stuff up and I can actually
> announce this one!

> [1] http://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/NetSurf_3.5

Something to be aware of. With the recent release of RISC OS running on the
RaspBerry Pi 3 anything linked with the Unixlib library crashes on start
up. This is due to the SWP/B instructions no longer existing in ARMv8. They
are used in a few places in Unixlib.
I believe a fix is being worked on but I'm not sure how long it will take.

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Email: chrisg@care4free.net

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