| 0.1 (09 Nov 2007) |
| - Initial release |
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| 0.1.1 (11 Nov 2007) |
| - Fixed bug decoding version 0 QR Codes |
| - Now default zoom is 2.5x in Java ME client |
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| 0.1.2 (28 Nov 2007) |
| - Issue 11 fixed: Build problems on Windows |
| - Can now build "ZXingReaderBasic" which does not require JSR-234 |
| - Issue 14 fixed: release .zip builds into one directory |
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| 0.1.3 (7 Dec 2007) |
| - Unit test for QR Code decoding |
| - Added EAN-13 support |
| - Now builds with class file format version 1.2 -- may solve some compatibility issues? |
| - Fixed obfuscation step bug causing NoClassDefFoundError |
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| 0.1.4 (13 Dec 2007) |
| - Added Blackberry client build script -- does not yet work |
| - Big change to handling of content of barcodes: |
| - com.google.zxing.client.result moved from core-ext to core |
| - Rewritten for J2ME |
| - core-ext removed |
| - J2ME client now uses this code for better parsing/handling of results |
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| 0.2 (07 Jan 2008) |
| - Few small bug fixes in AlignmentPatternFinder, MultiFormatReader |
| (thank K. Kakima, Andreas) |
| - LCDUIImageMonochromeBitmapSource now public |
| - Notably improved decoding for Basic version -- Regular version still |
| your best bet if you can run it though |
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| 0.2.1 (16 Jan 2008) |
| - Slight tweaks and enhancements to decode and runtime performance of UPCDecoder |
| - Added black-box test suites against a known set of images |
| (Thanks to Enrique G. S. for additional images) |
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| 0.2.2 (22 Jan 2008) |
| - Now includes junit locally to build tests |
| - Fixed "MIDlet" name in MANIFEST.MF, which may solve some problems |
| - Friendlier error message when barcode can't be found |
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| 0.3 (04 Feb 2008) |
| - Major refactoring of 1D barcode decoding |
| - Added support for UPC-E, EAN-8 |
| - Also added Code 39, Code 128 support -- may need refinement |
| - Now any "game" key triggers photo capture |
| - Workaround implemented for Nokias that use "capture://image" in MMAPI |
| - UPC codes now trigger lookup to upcdatabase.com |
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| 0.4 (15 Feb 2008) |
| - First release of Android client -- only guaranteed to work with "M3" |
| builds so far. |
| - Major reorganization of current test cases and data |
| - Worked around ProGuard issue with paths with spaces on Windows |
| - Phones that don't like FocusControl.AUTO_LOCK won't cause an error now |
| - Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in 1D barcode decoders |
| - Worked around "java.lang.Error 136" from Nokia N70 (?) |
| - Fixed bug in Shift_JIS detection and implemented basic UTF-8 detection |
| for nonstandard QR Codes that don't use ISO-8859-1 |
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| 0.4.5 (22 Feb 2008) |
| - Checked in first minimal working Blackberry client. Still quite crude. |
| - Fixed UTF-8 detection again |
| - Refactored Reed-Solomon to allow different GF(256) primitive polynomials, |
| in preparation for Data Matrix |
| - Slight improvement to 1D decoding accuracy, most noticeable in |
| improvements to Code 128 decoding |
| - Bug fix in Code39Reader -- typo in encoding of letter "I" and "0" |
| - Bug fix in 1D readers -- error in counting black/white pixel counts |
| in certain situations |
| - Now supports Extended Code 39 |
| - Tiny bug fix to QRCodeReader for images that extend all the way |
| to top or left |
| - Android client now builds with ProGuard optimization |
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| 0.5 (05 Mar 2008) |
| - Improvement in QR Code decoding accuracy on non-JSR-234 phones |
| - Supports "URLTO" data in barcodes. |
| - Restructured ParsedReaderResult parsing code to not use so many |
| exceptions, for more efficiency. |
| - "TRY_HARDER" decoding hint now supported. Will do more work in some cases |
| to find an image, such as scan for 1D barcodes at a right angle and |
| backwards. Only recommended for non-mobile applications. |
| - Result now indicates the format of the decoded barcode with a |
| BarcodeFormat instance |
| - More intelligent handling of POSSIBLE_FORMATS decoding hint |
| - Fixed sub-optimal handling of EAN-13 barcodes which encode a string |
| starting with "0". These are now returned as a full 13-digit string |
| from EAN13Reader, but will continue to be construed as 12-digit UPC-A |
| codes from the MultiFormatReader. |
| - A host of small bug fixes, including bug in Version 25 QR Code support |
| - A round of code cleanup and refactoring from IntelliJ inspections |
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| 0.5.5 (12 Mar 2008) |
| - Revert change that rejected BufferedImage of type TYPE_CUSTOM in javase |
| - Now supports KDDI/AU / Softbank address book format |
| - Now can read Android "Intent" URIs (Android only) |
| - Modest improvements to efficiency of J2ME client: shorter autofocus, |
| better use of threads |
| - First checkin of Data Matrix decoder code. Not yet enabled in reader |
| applications. |
| - "Result" object now returns raw bytes decoded; maybe useful in some cases |
| - More unit tests for common code, EAN-8, UPC-E |
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| 0.6 (28 Mar 2008) |
| - Updated android client to work on latest M5 SDK; M3-compatiable version |
| preserved in android-m3 |
| - Added tel: URL support to clients |
| - Added geo: URL support; only enabled for Android client so far |
| - Added initial support for short NDEF messages, but not yet enabled |
| - Bug fix to corner-case of perspective transformation code |
| - Now attempts to configure camera's exposure controls if available |
| - Fixed rotation transform used in "try harder" mode; result did not |
| contain the whole image |
| - "Try harder" mode tries 2D formats first to avoid false positives |
| in detailed search for 1D codes, in some cases |
| - More aggressive inlining by ProGuard, notable performance boost |
| - Small Reed-Solomon optimizations for 0- and 1-error case |
| - Refactored GridSampler out into common package for use by Data Matrix |
| - GridSampler now smarter about bounds checking and point nudging; |
| should avoid some ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException issues |
| - More unit tests |
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| 0.7 (5 May 2008) |
| - Added support for MobileTag message formats |
| - Added source to zxing.org |
| - Significant work on Android clients, including UI overhaul and |
| continuous scan mode |
| - Bug fix: ResultPoints from 1D barcodes were wrong |
| - SKIP_N_BARCODES hint now gone, and associated logic has been transferred |
| to individual project users, as it is fairly app-specific at this point |
| and is beginning to complicate the core library. We can help other users |
| who need this functionality on a case-by-case basis. |
| - Bug fix in AddressBookAUParsedResult parsing |
| - Possible workaround for NoSuchMethodError on Nokias |
| - New shell of an iPhone client committed |
| - ... and other assorted small improvements and fixes |
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| 0.8 (16 Jun 2008) |
| - FinderPatternFinder now isn't fooled by false-positive finder patterns |
| in some rare cases |
| - Added SMSTO: support, expanded mailto: support to include subject and body |
| params |
| - Now should properly unescape URLs in appropriate cases; better handling of |
| mailto: and tel: URIs (won't get modified by the library) |
| - Optimized 1D decoding to use integer math |
| - Small bug fix / improvement in BlackPointEstimator's estimates |
| - 1D decoding now applies a light sharpening filter |
| - Refactored and simplified MonochromeBitmapSource implementations |
| - Removed android-m3/ directory, no longer in active development. The current |
| Android client remains in android/ (M5 SDK) |
| - Restored ability to read upside-down 1D codes without try-harder mode |
| - Added a crude GUI-based decoder to javase/, for the interested |
| - core/ is now independent of MIDP; only requires CLDC 1.1 |
| - Added optimized build of core library |
| - Unit tests now use local copies of images |
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| 0.9 (11 July 2008) |
| - First draft of iPhone client committed |
| - core module now built in a way that makes it function as an OSGi bundle, |
| and also supports deployment in BugLabs's BUG platform. |
| - Added client for BUG platform courtesy of buglabs.net |
| - Big refactoring of com.google.zxing.client.result to separate idea of result |
| parser from result value objects |
| - Added basic vCard 2.1 support |
| - Added basic BIZCARD format support |
| - Added basic iCal format support |
| - Added new calendar event parsed result type |
| - Fewer false positives in 1D detectors, notably Code 39 and Code 128; |
| new unit tests for false positives |
| - Now parses and tries to act on ECI designators in QR Codes |
| - Merged "basic" and "regular" J2ME readers into one unified app that should |
| work on platforms with and without JSR-234 support |
| - Removed dependence on Ant 1.7 (1.6 needed now) |
| - Web application at zxing.org now shows raw bytes |
| - Far more black box tests |
| - Assorted small bug fixes |
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| 1.0 (12 September 2008) |
| - All new RIM client from LifeMarks |
| - Initial Data Matrix detector included |
| - New and much improved Android 0.9-SDK compatible Android client |
| - Better 1D detection, especially UPC-E, due to loosened quite zone checks |
| - URIParsedResult now tries to warn about malicious URIs |
| - New parser for ISBNs |
| - New QR code blackbox images |
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| 1.1 (22 October 2008) |
| - First public release of iPhone client called Barcodes |
| - Completely new multi-action Android client UI, released as Barcode Scanner v2.3 |
| - Code 128 parsing fixes |
| - Dozens of new blackbox test images |
| - Many small core library parsing improvements and bug fixes |
| - Improved quiet zone enforcement which reduces false positives significantly |
| - Better calendar event and MECARD support |
| - Compatibility with the Android 1.0 SDK |
| - Added androidtest app for testing intents and capturing blackbox test images |
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| 1.2 (23 December 2008) |
| - New Android benchmark application to time decoding performance |
| - Dramatic performance improvements for worst case images (up to 2x faster) |
| - Expanded blackbox unit tests with many new test images |
| - Many small decoding improvements and bug fixes |
| - New Share functionality in the Android client which encodes contacts, bookmarks, or the |
| clipboard contents as a QR Code for a friend to scan with their phone |
| - Locale-specific Android client which picks the right TLD when connecting to Google |
| - Support for Furigana in the Android client, and better parsing of Kanji in core |
| - Added the ability to import and export multiple phone numbers and emails for a single contact |
| - Native QR Encoding added to the ZXing library - no need to send request to ChartServer |
| - New ITF barcode format support from Kevin O'Sullivan at SITA |
| - New HTML help system for the Android client |
| - New web-based QR Code encoder at zxing.appspot.com based on GWT |
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| 1.3 (11 March 2009) |
| - New C# port from Mohamad Fairol |
| - ITF format scanning now on by default |
| - Many new blackbox test images |
| - Better QR Code detection |
| - Better Android Intent handling |
| - Improved email parsing |
| - New Android Integration module to make life easier for third party ZXing users |
| - More robust URI parsing |
| - Many other small improvements and bug fixes |
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| 1.4 (26 Oct 2009) |
| - Wider viewfinder in Android app to account for better close-range focus |
| - More Android app translations: Spanish, Italian, Russian, French |
| - Support for more devices, Cupcake, Donut |
| - Worked around two important, related callback issues in Donut/Cupcake that stopped scanning |
| - New custom search in Android app |
| - New framework for evaluating the black point of an image |
| - Many many small bug fixes, refactorings, small improvements, new versions of dependencies |
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| 1.5 (5 March 2010) |
| - Android app: |
| - Shopper integration |
| - Tries to activate front light on some devices |
| - Xperia et al. support with new screen sizes |
| - Translations: Dutch, Swedish, Czech, Finnish |
| - "Thinking" visualization |
| - Updated C++ port, including new Data Matrix port |
| - Updated C# port |
| - Preliminary RSS-14 support |
| - Reconceived support for various image sources and thresholding |
| - Other small bug fixes and performance improvements |
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| 1.6 (20 Sept 2010) |
| - Many, many updates to C++, Symbian, iPhone ports |
| - RSS 14, Expanded support |
| - Code 93 support |
| - Codabar support |
| - Data Matrix support reaches release quality |
| - UPC/EAN +5 extension support |
| - Android app: |
| - Share history support |
| - Bulk scan mode |
| - Wi-fi configuration support |
| - Format available in callback for web-based integration |
| - Updated or new translations for: |
| Hungarian, Danish, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Slovenian, Turkish |
| - UI beautification |
| - Added ability to detect multiple barcodes per image |
| - Many small bug fixes and enhancements |
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| 1.7 (8 June 2011) |
| - Initial support for Aztec codes |
| - Added the ability to read rectangular DataMatrix codes |
| - Added new lengths for ITF |
| - Dozens of bug fixes to core decoding routines |
| - New C# port |
| - Android app: |
| - Tablet support |
| - Many translations added and updated |
| - Support for new Intent parameters |
| - Many bug fixes and small features |
| - Mostly rewritten iPhone port |
| - New ZXingWidget library to include scanning in any iOS app |
| - Made CommandLineRunner multithreaded and recursive |
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| 2.0 (3 Feb 2012) |
| |
| - core/ has been rewritten to work with Java 6 |
| - core/ has new functionality: |
| - PDF 417 encoding (from Barcode4J) |
| - Codabar encoding |
| - partial Maxicode decoding support |
| - android/ and androidtest/ have been rewritten to work with Android 2.1+ |
| - Uses new camera APIs |
| - Uses new contact APIs too |
| - (See separate Barcode Scanner release notes for version 4.0) |
| - zxing.appspot.com/ has been rewritten to work with GWT 2.4 |
| - cpp/, objc/ and iphone/ have received many ports of fixes and other functionality from Java, and changes to work with more recent iOS |
| - bug/, rim/, and javame/ have been removed |
| - Many, many small bug fixes and optimizations, mostly to core/ and android/ |
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| 2.1 (22 Oct 2012) |
| |
| - Many small fixes to handling of QR code data formats, like exotic URLs, and contact info |
| - Many small fixes to decoding and detection common barcode formats, like PDF417, Aztec. Small improvements |
| too like partial error correction for PDF417 |
| - Many small updates to the Android app, Barcode Scanner, including rare bug fixes and translation updates. |
| The 2.1 release corresponds substantially to v4.3.1. |
| - Many ports of Java updates to C++ port |
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| 2.2 (14 May 2013) |
| |
| - Retire Symbian port |
| - Retire C# port |
| - Improved PDF417 decoding, including macro PDF417 |
| - Added Aztec and Data Matrix encoders |
| - Added RSS Expanded decoder |
| - Java, C++ and iPhone build system updates, including migration to Maven for most Java modules |
| - Many small fixes and improvements |
| - Many small updates to the Android app, Barcode Scanner, including rare bug fixes and translation updates. |
| The 2.2 release corresponds substantially to v4.3.2. |
| - Update zxing.org web-based decoder for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (and redeployed there) |
| - Many ports of Java updates to C++ and C# ports |
| - Standardize test system image processing and image format for reproducibility |
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| 2.3.0 (1 Dec 2013) |
| |
| - Added clone of Google Chart Server QR code encoder API to zxingorg/, at endpoint /chart |
| - Updated zxing.appspot.com generator to remove deprecated API usage, use latest GWT / App Engine |
| - Added skeleton Google Glass Mirror API app |
| - Improve and standardize Maven build, standardize directories and version naming |
| - Barcode Scanner Android up requires Android 4 and is updated to use Android 4+ APIs |
| - javase/ and zxingorg/ modules now use Java 7 |
| - Many small fixes and improvements |
| - (Last release including cpp/ and iphone/ code) |
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| 3.0.0 (3 March 2014) |
| |
| - iphone/, cpp/, objc/, and glass-mirror/ are retired |
| - Java 7 now used for all Java-based modules |
| - Project moved to github.com/zxing/zxing |
| - Many small bug fixes and improvements |