# Thursday, March 28, 2013
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IKVM.NET 7.3 Release Candidate 0

The first release candidate is available. It can be downloaded here or from NuGet.

What's New (relative to IKVM.NET 7.2):

  • Greatly improved support for dynamically loading classes in statically compiled assembly class loaders.
  • Changed ikvmc to default to using runtime binding when a class is not available at compile time.
  • Fixed ikvmc to use jar class loading that matches the runtime.
  • The runtime now projects stub classes into the (virtual file system) jars they came from.
  • Runtime stub classes are now generated by the same code as ikvmstub uses.
  • Fixed a typo in ikvm.runtime.Startup.addBootClassPathAssembly() method name.
  • Fixed memory model bugs on ARM.
  • Many bug fixes.
  • Improved ikvmc error messages.
  • Deprecated using stub classes with ikvmc.
  • Added IKVM.Attributes.JavaResourceAttribute to allow .NET resource to be exposed to Java.
  • Font API improvements.
  • Graphics API improvements.
  • Support building IKVM.NET on .NET 4.5, but targetting .NET 4.0.

Changes since previous development snapshot:

  • Volatile long/double fields should not use slow reflection.
  • Reduce complexity of annotation custom attributes construction to improve performance and lower risk (for broken apps that should have used ReflectionOnly).
  • Removed accidentally public methods from ikvm.internal.AnnotationAttributeBase.
  • Fixed ikvm.internal.AnnotationAttributeBase to freeze in writeReplace/Equals/GetHashCode/ToString.

Binaries available here: ikvmbin-7.3.4830.0.zip

Sources: ikvmsrc-7.3.4830.0.zip, openjdk-7u6-b24-stripped.zip

Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:27:31 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [8]