Releases: ikvmnet/ikvm
8.2.0-prerelease.2138
What's Changed
- IkvmReference: Build Reference items directly instead of building ReferencePath. Fixes .NET Core publishing.
- ci: publish github releases by @viceice in #84
- For dynamic assembly loading the static compiler adds an InternalsVis… by @wasabii in #86
New Contributors
Full Changelog: 8.2.0-prerelease.1515...8.2.0-prerelease.2138
Contributors
Assets 9
8.2.0-prerelease.1515
Full Changelog: 8.2.0-prerelease.911...8.2.0-prerelease.1515
8.2.0-prerelease.911
Contributors
Assets 10
8.2.0-prerelease.392
First 8.2 Pre-Release
This is our first pre-release from the new 8.2 series. The first release of any kind in 7 years. We have revamped the build system, and managed to add .NET Core support, down to .NET Core 3.1. Minimum Framework version has been bumped to 4.6.1. We test on .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5.0 and .NET 6.0.
We are seeking feedback on any broken changes. Much has changed.
This release contains various bits of code contributed by the fine folks at Windward Studios over the last 7 years, along with a number of other contributors. The IKVM.OpenJDK.* assemblies are gone, replaced with a single IKVM.Java assembly. The tools are released as GitHub Release Assets, for each of the various supported platforms.
We have pushed a new NuGet package version: https://www.nuget.org/packages/IKVM/8.2.0-prerelease0392
We hope after a period of feedback to build and publish a final 8.2.0 release.
Thanks to the large set of contributors over the last 7 years who have made changes that have not seen the light of day.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/ikvm-revived/ikvm/commits/8.2.0-prerelease.392
8.2.0-prerelease.809
What's Changed
- Fixed Cipher and Algorithm support in Security Manager.
- Corrected bug with VFS not reading Zip files properly.
8.1.5717.0
Original Release Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210512214434/https://weblog.ikvm.net/2015/08/26/IKVMNET81ReleaseCandidate0.aspx. This release originally happened on IKVM.NET Weblog on 2015-08-26.
IKVM.NET 8.1 Release Candidate 0
The first release candidate is finally available. It can be downloaded here or from NuGet.
What's New (relative to IKVM.NET 8.0):
- Integrated OpenJDK 8u45.
- Many fixes to late binding support.
- Added ikvmc support for deterministic output files.
- Various sun.misc.Unsafe improvements.
- Many minor bug fixes and performance tweaks.
Changes since previous development snapshot:
- Assemblies are strong named.
- Fix for bug #303. ikvmc internal compiler error when trying to get interfaces from type from missing assembly reference.
- Implemented NIO atomic file move on Windows.
8.0.5449.1
Original Release Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210508201743/https://weblog.ikvm.net/2015/01/12/IKVMNET80ReleaseCandidate1.aspx. This release originally happened on IKVM.NET Weblog on 2015-01-12.
IKVM.NET 8.0 Release Candidate 1
The second release candidate is available. It can be downloaded here or from NuGet.
What's New (relative to rc 0):
- Fixed build error when using Java 8u25 or newer.
- Bug fix. Unsafe.compareAndSwapObject should resolve field before passing it to MakeTypedReference.
- Implemented OperatingSystemMXBean.getFreePhysicalMemorySize and OperatingSystemMXBean.getTotalPhysicalMemorySize.
8.0.5449.0
Original Release Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210511141237/https://weblog.ikvm.net/2014/12/02/IKVMNET80ReleaseCandidate0.aspx. This release originally happened on IKVM.NET Weblog on 2014-12-02.
IKVM.NET 8.0 Release Candidate 0
The first release candidate is available. It can be downloaded here or from NuGet.
What's New (relative to IKVM.NET 7.4):
- Merged OpenJDK 8 b132.
- Support for Java 8 features.
- Improvements to sun.misc.Unsafe compatibility.
- Various bug fixes.
Changes since previous development snapshot:
- Assemblies are strong named.
7.4.5196.0
Original Release Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210511141237/http://weblog.ikvm.net/2014/03/24/IKVMNET74ReleaseCandidate0.aspx. This release originally happened on IKVM.NET Weblog on 2014-03-24.
IKVM.NET 7.4 Release Candidate 0
The first release candidate is available. It can be downloaded here or from NuGet.
What's New (relative to IKVM.NET 7.3):
- Merged OpenJDK 7u40 b34.
- Many bug fixes.
- Optimizations to reduce metadata size.
- Added support for getting package information from the right jar manifest for ikvmc compiled jars.
- Improved runtime support for running on platforms without Reflection.Emit.
- Removed IKVM.Attributes.HideFromReflectionAttribute.
- IKVM.Reflection: Many improvements and fixes.
- IKVM.Reflection: WinMD projection support.
Changes since previous development snapshot:
- IKVM.Reflection: Fix for Type.GetInterfaceMap() issue.
7.2.4630.5
Original Release Notes: https://web.archive.org/web/20200926140429/http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=926e3554-259e-49a6-82fc-459fbd61ac19. This release originally happened on SourceForge on 2012-12-10.
IKVM.NET 7.2 Released
I've released IKVM.NET 7.2 to SourceForge and NuGet. The binaries are identical to the ones in release candidate 5.
Release Notes
This document lists the improvements, known issues and incompatibilities.
What's New (relative to IKVM.NET 7.1):
- Integrated OpenJDK 7 u6 b24.
- Improved java.util.concurrent performance.
- Removed org.omg.PortableInterceptor.UNKNOWN class, that is not part of [Open]JDK rt.jar.
- Added ZipFile constructor that was added in Java 7.
- Add support for running with headless awt toolkit.
- Changed ikvmc to apply custom attribute annotations on annotation types to the corresponding custom attribute that is generated (and allow AttributeUsageAttribute to override the default AttributeUsageAttribute generated from the @target annotation).
- Added app.config files for executables to allow them to run on .NET 4.5 on Windows 8 without triggering the .NET 3.5 auto download.
- Added (optional) support for building without System.Core.dll dependency.
- Disabled AppDomain.ProcessExit hook to run shutdown hooks when running on Mono to workaround https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5650.
- Several verifier fixes.
- Several metadata reflection fixes.
- Fixed two try/finally block code gen bugs.
- Various other minor fixes.
- IKVM.Reflection: Many minor bug fixes and improvements.
- IKVM.Reflection: Added most new .NET 4.5 APIs.
- IKVM.Reflection: Added experimental support for generating Windows Runtime (.winmd) assemblies.
- IKVM.Reflection: Added missing DefineResource() APIs to ModuleBuilder and AssemblyBuilder.
- IKVM.Reflection: Added co-/contra-variance support to Type.IsAssignableFrom().
- IKVM.Reflection: Added support for using the .NETCore v4.5 aka Metro profile mscorlib.dll.
- IKVM.Reflection: Added UniverseOptions.DisablePseudoCustomAttributeRetrieval to disable returning pseudo custom attributes.
- IKVM.Reflection: Bug fix. Ignore unknown metadata streams.
- IKVM.Reflection: Bug fix. Set AddressOfRawData in IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY.
Runtime
- Code unloading (aka class GC) is not supported.
- In Java static initializers can deadlock, on .NET some threads can see uninitialized state in cases where deadlock would occur on the JVM.
- JNI
- Only supported in the default AppDomain.
- Only the JNICALL calling convention is supported! (On Windows, HotSpot appears to also support the cdecl calling convention).
- Cannot call string contructors on already existing string instances
- A few limitations in Invocation API support
- The Invocation API is only supported when running on .NET.
- JNI_CreateJavaVM: init options "-verbose[:class|:gc|:jni]", "vfprintf", "exit" and "abort" are not implemented. The JDK 1.1 version of JavaVMInitArgs isn't supported.
- JNI_GetDefaultJavaVMInitArgs not implemented
- JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs only returns the JavaVM if the VM was started through JNI or a JNI call that retrieves the JavaVM has already occurred.
- DestroyJVM is only partially implemented (it waits until there are no more non-daemon Java threads and then returns JNI_ERR).
- DetachCurrentThread doesn't release monitors held by the thread.
- Native libraries are never unloaded (because code unloading is not supported).
- The JVM allows any reference type to be passed where an interface reference is expected (and to store any reference type in an interface reference type field), on IKVM this results in an IncompatibleClassChangeError.
- monitorenter / monitorexit cannot be used on unitialized this reference.
- Floating point is not fully spec compliant.
- A method returning a boolean that returns an integer other than 0 or 1 behaves differently (this also applies to byte/char/short and for method parameters).
- Synchronized blocks are not async exception safe.
- Ghost arrays don't throw ArrayStoreException when you store an object that doesn't implement the ghost interface.
- Class loading is more eager than on the reference VM.
- Interface implementation methods are never really final (interface can be reimplemented by .NET subclasses).
- JSR-133 finalization spec change is not fully implemented. The JSR-133 changes dictate that an object should not be finalized unless the Object constructor has run successfully, but this isn't implemented.
- Strict class-file checking is not implemented.
- If a class with a finalizer and static initializer allocates instances of itself in the static initializer and the static initializer subsequently fails, the .NET runtime may abort the application when trying to finalize the objects.
Static Compiler (ikvmc)
