PLNews: Programming Language News

Duby 0.0.1 has been released. It is a programming language with a Ruby-inspired syntax, with an implementation generating JVM bytecode or Java source files.

This is the initial release.

IKVM 0.40 Release Candidate 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes bug fixes.

OCaml-Java 1.2 has been released. It allows for integration of Objective CAML and Java.

This release includes: an upgrade to OCaml 3.11.0, support for plugins, improved backtrace support, improved camlp4 support, experimental ocamlbuild support, and other changes.

JamVM 1.5.3 has been released. JamVM is a small, multi-platform Java Virtual Machine implementation.

This release includes: improved zip/jar loading, JNI invocation updates, fixed annotation handling, a simple implementation of java.lang.management.VMManagementFactory, an increase of the default Java stack size to 256 KB, bug fixes, and other changes.

IKVM 0.40 Release Candidate 0 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: adding back in RMI stubs that were left out during the module split, regression fixes, and other changes.

Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 5 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: faster JIT compilation, improved Eclipse RCP support, improved application performance, Excelsior Installer improvements, and other changes.

Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 4 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This beta release includes improved support for Eclipse RCP.

IKVM 0.38 Update 1 RC 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes a PassiveWeakDictionary bug fix.

IKVM 0.38 Update 1 RC 0 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: improved stack traces and error messages, improved name mangling, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that Excelsior JET 4.8 has entered product end-of-life status. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

IKVM 0.38 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

Excelsior JET 6.4 Maintenance Pack 1 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This maintenance pack includes a number of bug fixes.

Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: support for the OSGi runtime core at the JVM level, improved support for natively compiling RCP applications, improved scalability, and other changes.

IKVM 0.38 Release Candidate 2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release candidate includes fixes.

IKVM 0.36 Update 2 Release Candidate 2 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: more efficient type conversion, the making of the finalize() and clone() methods of cli.System.Object and cli.System.Exception final, bug fixes, and other changes.

IKVM 0.38 Release Candidate 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: the hiding of nested types generated by callerID support, the making of the finalize() and clone() methods of cli.System.Object and cli.System.Exception final, reflection that works on .NET 2.0 RTM, and other changes.

It has been announced that Excelsior JET 3.6 has reached End-of-Life status. Users are recommended to upgrade to a more recent version.

Excelsior JET 6.4 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: support for scrambling program data and resources, optimization improvements, faster ahead-of-time and just-in-time compilation, and other changes.

CACAO 0.99.1 has been released. CACAO is a portable, open source Java virtual machine.

This release includes bug fixes.

CACAO 0.99 has been released. CACAO is a portable, open source Java virtual machine.

This release includes: initial support for using OpenJDK as the Java runtime library, renamed configuration options, the use of 8-byte stack-slots on all architectures, faster C-to-Java calls, annotation and assertion support, and other changes.

Excelsior JET 6.4 Beta 3 has been released. Excelsior JET is a Java implementation including support for ahead-of-time compilation.

This release includes: support for Java SE 6 Update 7 and J2SE 1.5 Update 15, support for the encryption of program data and resource files, a startup optimizer, performance improvements, and other changes.

IKVM 0.36 Update 2 Release Candidate 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release candidate includes bug fixes.

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 has been released. It is a Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 implementation for Mac OS X.

IKVM 0.36 Update 1 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: improved error handling for the ikvmc -reference option; optimized code generation for the lcmp, fcmp, dcmp and shift opcodes; field/method/parameter annotation support for .NET types; the implementation of SocketOptions.IP_MULTICAST_IF and SocketOptions.IP_MULTICAST_IF2; bug fixes; and other changes.

abc 1.3.0 has been released. abc is an AspectJ implementation that "aims to make it easy to implement both extensions and optimisations of the core language."

This release includes: a new frontend, the porting of the EAJ and tracematches extensions to make use of the new frontend, performance improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.