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Revision: 15875
          http://jikesrvm.svn.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/?rev=15875&view=rev
Author:   dgrove-oss
Date:     2010-07-04 18:33:49 +0000 (Sun, 04 Jul 2010)

Log Message:
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release notes for 3.1.1

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    rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt

Modified: rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt
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--- rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt	2010-07-03 05:05:17 UTC (rev 15874)
+++ rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt	2010-07-04 18:33:49 UTC (rev 15875)
@@ -5,12 +5,108 @@
 This file contains the release notes since Jikes RVM 2.0.0, released
 on October 14, 2001,
 
-* Jikes RVM 3.1.1  (Future)
+* Jikes RVM 3.1.2  (Future)
 
 NOTE:  Release notes are generated directly from JIRA.
 If you want something mentioned in the release notes, make sure there is
 a JIRA item for it that when it is closed, you make it as fixed for 3.1.1.
 
+
+* Jikes RVM 3.1.1  (July 4, 2010)
+
+** New Features and Improvements
+    * [RVM-115] - Finish removing all uses of LogicallyUninterruptible
+    * [RVM-116] - Solve/remove comments in ScanThread
+    * [RVM-122] - restructure sys.C into multiple source files.
+    * [RVM-151] - OutOfMemory exceptions should indicate which space was exhausted
+    * [RVM-162] - Remove x87 code generation from opt compiler.
+    * [RVM-268] - Update JikesRVM copies of classes (e.g. Constructor) to match the 1.5/current Classpath API
+    * [RVM-334] - Send SIGQUIT before terminating process in timedrun
+    * [RVM-398] - DaCapo 10 iteration lusearch stack walking is significant proportion of runtime (>13%)
+    * [RVM-413] - Long running tests using development/extreme assertion configurations
+    * [RVM-429] - Improvements to buildit
+    * [RVM-432] - Fix GNU classpath build on x86_64
+    * [RVM-463] - Replace calls to StringBuffer with CPStringBuilder where appropriate
+    * [RVM-481] - We have non-moving code spaces; simplify stack scanning logic & GC map iterators by removing logic to deal with moving code
+    * [RVM-545] - java.lang.instrument support for Harmony
+    * [RVM-561] - Change default thread stack size on command line
+    * [RVM-602] - OSR bytecodes cause the opt compiler bcIndex to be unintelligible
+    * [RVM-622] - Skipping Harmony classlib building, just copy over deploy/
+    * [RVM-653] - Remove nursery lists from LOS code
+    * [RVM-684] - TuningFork instrumentation of Adaptve System
+    * [RVM-713] - Enable x87 exceptions to catch badly behaving code
+    * [RVM-720] - Support for JNI helper methods on PowerPC
+    * [RVM-745] - Use @Intrinsic annotation to drive matching of magic method to magic code generators
+    * [RVM-769] - Clean up situation with pre-copy and @NonMoving
+    * [RVM-773] - Upgrade to Classpath 0.98
+    * [RVM-796] - Generalize objectAsThread, objectAsType, etc. magic wih Magic.eatCast
+    * [RVM-805] - Pretty printing application stacks
+    * [RVM-815] - Cleaner fix to avoid optimizing through final fields that are known to be modified via native code
+    * [RVM-884] - MMTk stats can be hard for humans to read
+    * [RVM-885] - Alternative performance counter implementation
+
+** Tasks and Sub-tasks
+    * [RVM-717] - Support for var arg JNI methods on 64bit platforms
+    * [RVM-728] - Design a mechanism to make it clear which options are internal vs. valid to be set from the command line
+    * [RVM-746] - Rework classloader plumbing for Unboxed types
+    * [RVM-749] - Only allow clean/expected transitions in thread execStatus
+    * [RVM-772] - Decide what 'available' processors means on native threads
+    * [RVM-780] - Figure out why native threads stability is proportional to the number of available processors
+    * [RVM-782] - Figure out if OSR's use of contextRegisters is correct and/or necessary, given their changed meaning in native threads
+    * [RVM-785] - handleHandshakeRequest should be called from enterNativeBlockedImpl
+    * [RVM-793] - Improve tracing support in RVMThread
+    * [RVM-888] - Process MMTk patch subbmitted via SF tracker
+
+** Bugs
+    * [RVM-118] - Javadoc errors not being reported in sanity reports
+    * [RVM-294] - JikesRVM fails to build using a Classpath VM
+    * [RVM-306] - IGNORE_REMSETS is not tested, may not be functional
+    * [RVM-407] - Is VM.disableGC() deprecated?
+    * [RVM-618] - DaCapo chart fails with Apache Harmony class library
+    * [RVM-620] - DaCapo jython fails with Apache Harmony class library
+    * [RVM-626] - Objects in SortTODObjectReferenceStack popped from data structure in wrong order, causing Merlin traces to be incorrect
+    * [RVM-629] - Incorrect usage of @Untraced?
+    * [RVM-642] - Problem with CMID/stackframe mapping in reflection
+    * [RVM-663] - Using object barrier casues sssertion failures in ObjectReferenceDeque.insert & other crashes
+    * [RVM-665] - Investigate sigstack/sigaltstack story
+    * [RVM-670] - Bad reference maps in JBB '05
+    * [RVM-675] - Chunk linked list broken on discontiguous space
+    * [RVM-691] - Assertion failure in org/jikesrvm/osr/ia32/OptExecutionStateExtractor
+    * [RVM-692] - Classpath Thread operations not supported because VMThreadMXBeanImpl is not implemented
+    * [RVM-721] - Improve extreme assertion sanity checking in regressions
+    * [RVM-730] - enabling live_range_splitting causes NullPointerException or NoSuchElementException for various benchmarks
+    * [RVM-731] - Bad reference in baseline IMT.IMTDict.populateIMT
+    * [RVM-734] - Deadlocks when using -X:aos:initial_compiler=opt
+    * [RVM-747] - Crash during GC while attempting to resize thread stack
+    * [RVM-776] - Multi-image build process causes problems with AIX linker (librvm.a not found)
+    * [RVM-781] - GNU Classpath 0.98 causes performance regression in luindex
+    * [RVM-797] - PreciseType is set when creating thread temporary registers in the opt compiler
+    * [RVM-809] - Image bloat
+    * [RVM-812] - Increase in failures in small heap perf runs since switch to GenImmix as production
+    * [RVM-813] - Incomplete dependencies on .dat files when determining whether or not to regenerate sources
+    * [RVM-816] - MMTK: LOG_BYTES_IN_PAGE is a hard coded compile time constant; should make sysCall to determine real value
+    * [RVM-820] - First iteration of lusearch slowed down between r15685 and r15688 (biased locking)
+    * [RVM-823] - Fix heap growth manager's reporting of heap size
+    * [RVM-824] - integer division doesn't follow VM spec
+    * [RVM-830] - Suspect code in ReflectionBase.invoke
+    * [RVM-849] - OOM in opt compiler compiling java.lang.Integer.toString in Harmony M10
+    * [RVM-853] - Protocol handlers do not work with Jikes RVM
+    * [RVM-855] - Error in XMLParser while loading Document Type Definition (.dtd) file
+    * [RVM-857] - Incorrect optimisation after call to native method
+    * [RVM-858] - GCTrace build failure
+    * [RVM-865] - Run svn with LANG=C in extract-svn-version
+    * [RVM-867] - Incomplete comment for alignAllocation in Allocator.java
+    * [RVM-868] - Method resolution code unable to resolve methods in some cases
+    * [RVM-870] - Deadlock in RVMThread code
+    * [RVM-871] - java.lang.reflect.VMMethod.getSignature() cause NullPointerException
+    * [RVM-872] - lusearch hangs with the production build
+    * [RVM-873] - "NullPointerException within uninterruptible region" when executing RVM in x86_64 debian
+    * [RVM-874] - Intermittent Object.notify() failure in Xalan with Base compiler
+    * [RVM-875] - Intermittent ClassFormatError whilst running Xalan
+    * [RVM-876] - Unnecessary CAS with multiple collector threads attempting to forward
+    * [RVM-878] - GNU Classpath does not properly respect headless mode
+    * [RVM-882] - user report of codegen problem with loops
+
 * Jikes RVM 3.1.0  (June 10, 2009)
 
 It's been almost nine months since the release of Jikes RVM 3.0.1, and


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