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XGC's Gump builds started causing error reports when the build infrastructure was moved from sun to openjdk. This is due to a dependency on com.sun Java classes, especially on the com.sun JPEG codec. Very recently this dependency was removed, so that the project builds are successful again. A vote is ongoing to merge new work on Color from a branch into trunk.
Batik
There have been practically no changes to the codebase in the last three months. User list activity has gone down a bit but questions are mostly getting answers. Gump builds currently fail as well for the same reason as with XGC. Batik still depends on com.sun classes for JPEG encoding. This is expected to be resolved soon by adding XGC as a dependency tor Batik (and thereby reducing code redundancy between the two subprojects).
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