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8.90. icedtea-web
Updated icedtea-web packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations.
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The icedtea-web packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.5.1, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1075790)
Users of icedtea-web are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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