Issued:
2021-05-18
Updated:
2021-05-18

RHBA-2021:1863 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

icedtea-web bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

Updated icedtea-web packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

migrate icedtea-web to use alt-java special binary in our JDK8 packages instead of plain java

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1888633 - migrate icedtea-web to use alt-java special binary in our JDK8 packages instead of plain java [rhel-8]
  • BZ - 1900043 - [rebase] rebase ITW to 1.8

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8

SRPM
icedtea-web-1.8.4-4.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 2ee96865ee9ab7f14019c644debc9ad3a1864e329ef65a60e00999ae39c57fb9
x86_64
icedtea-web-javadoc-1.8.4-4.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f35d34b4c17db9302deb0805a73261c34d11ada49fa04834c6fbc43793387859

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8

SRPM
icedtea-web-1.8.4-4.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 2ee96865ee9ab7f14019c644debc9ad3a1864e329ef65a60e00999ae39c57fb9
s390x
icedtea-web-javadoc-1.8.4-4.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f35d34b4c17db9302deb0805a73261c34d11ada49fa04834c6fbc43793387859

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8

SRPM
icedtea-web-1.8.4-4.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 2ee96865ee9ab7f14019c644debc9ad3a1864e329ef65a60e00999ae39c57fb9
ppc64le
icedtea-web-javadoc-1.8.4-4.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f35d34b4c17db9302deb0805a73261c34d11ada49fa04834c6fbc43793387859

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8

SRPM
icedtea-web-1.8.4-4.el8.src.rpm SHA-256: 2ee96865ee9ab7f14019c644debc9ad3a1864e329ef65a60e00999ae39c57fb9
aarch64
icedtea-web-javadoc-1.8.4-4.el8.noarch.rpm SHA-256: f35d34b4c17db9302deb0805a73261c34d11ada49fa04834c6fbc43793387859

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