Installation guidance can be found here.
Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:
- allow to configure max days for unused JVMs before removed from local JVM cache
- add new JVM Manager update strategy "Use local only" (no remote endpoint lookup)
- pass secure properties as VM arguments at launch time (e.g. http-agent)
- extend white list of allowed VM arguments to be compliant with Java 8
- allow to set logging configuration during unattended installation
- add support for multiple proxies returned by PAC
- remove autosave in IcedTea-Web configuration ITW 270
- improve handling of special characters (e.g. Umlaute) in shortcut names for Windows ITW 190
- improve IPv6 support
- fix loading splash images with version of JNLP file
- fix locking of config with default values
- fix hanging of OWS while looking up localhost in certain situations
- fix spelling and improve wording consistency of UI labels (English and German language bundles)
- update splash screen to new design
- update internal JVM to Adopt 8u242