$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt 801709 2009-08-06 16:31:27Z niallp $ | |
Commons Codec Package | |
Version 1.4 | |
Release Notes | |
http://commons.apache.org/codec/ | |
The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats | |
such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and | |
decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding | |
utilities. | |
Compatibility | |
o Codec 1.4 is binary compatible with Codec 1.3 | |
o Codec 1.4 has a minimum requirement of JDK 1.4 | |
Changes in this version include: | |
New Features: | |
o [CODEC-60] Implement Caverphone. | |
o [CODEC-52] Digest on InputStreams. | |
o [CODEC-39] DigestUtils: Add methods for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. | |
o [CODEC-69] Streaming Base64 (Base64InputStream and Base64OutputStream added). | |
o [CODEC-59] Add methods to Base64 which work with String instead of byte[] | |
Fixed bugs: | |
o [CODEC-77] Base64 bug with empty input (new byte[0]). | |
o [CODEC-72] Soundex and RefinedSoundex issues with character arrays. | |
o [CODEC-71] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() method is inefficient for large byte arrays. | |
o [CODEC-70] Thread safety and malicious code safety improvements. | |
o [CODEC-68] isBase64 throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on some non-BASE64 bytes. | |
o [CODEC-65] Fix case-insensitive string handling. | |
o [CODEC-61] Base64.encodeBase64() throws NegativeArraySizeException on large files. | |
o [CODEC-58] Character set used by Base64 not documented. | |
o [CODEC-56] RefinedSoundex creates instance before al fields have been initialized. | |
o [CODEC-51] Test failures in SoundexTest | |
o [CODEC-10] Using US_ENGLISH in Soundex caused an NullPointerException. | |
o [CODEC-6] Source tarball spews files all over the place. | |
o [CODEC-22] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for negative octets | |
o [CODEC-78] Base64: Improve Code Coverage | |
o [CODEC-81] Base64's new constructor parameters ignored | |
o [CODEC-83] Improve Double Metaphone test coverage | |
o [CODEC-84] Double Metaphone bugs in alternative encoding | |
o [CODEC-73] Make string2byte conversions indepedent of platform default encoding | |
Changes: | |
o [CODEC-75] Make Base64 URL-safe | |
o [CODEC-74] Allow for uppercase letters output in Hex.encodeHex(). | |
o [CODEC-40] Add crypto-compatible BigInteger encoding support to Base64. | |
Have fun! | |
-The commons-codec team | |