Author: ggregory Date: Tue Jun 12 15:37:26 2012 New Revision: 1349399 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1349399&view=rev Log: Preparing release 2.4.
Modified: commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Modified: commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt?rev=1349399&r1=1349398&r2=1349399&view=diff ============================================================================== --- commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original) +++ commons/proper/io/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Tue Jun 12 15:37:26 2012 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Apache Commons IO -Version 2.3-SNAPSHOT +Version 2.4 Release Notes INTRODUCTION: @@ -13,6 +13,48 @@ The Commons IO library contains utility file comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more. ============================================================================== +Apache Commons IO Version 2.4 +============================================================================== +New features and bug fixes. + +Changes in this version include: + +New features: +o IO-269: Tailer locks file from deletion/rename on Windows. Thanks to sebb. +o IO-333: Export OSGi packages at version 1.x in addition to 2.x. Thanks to fmeschbe. +o IO-320: Add XmlStreamReader support for UTF-32. Thanks to ggregory. +o IO-331: BOMInputStream wrongly detects UTF-32LE_BOM files as UTF-16LE_BOM files in method getBOM(). Thanks to ggregory. +o IO-327: Add byteCountToDisplaySize(BigInteger). Thanks to ggregory. +o IO-326: Add new FileUtils.sizeOf[Directory] APIs to return BigInteger. Thanks to ggregory. +o IO-325: Add IOUtils.toByteArray methods to work with URL and URI. Thanks to raviprak. +o IO-324: Add missing Charset sister APIs to method that take a String charset name. Thanks to raviprak. + +Fixed Bugs: +o IO-279: Tailer erroneously considers file as new. Thanks to Sergio Bossa, Chris Baron. +o IO-335: Tailer#readLines - incorrect CR handling. +o IO-334: FileUtils.toURLs throws NPE for null parameter; document the behavior. +o IO-332: Improve tailer's reading performance. Thanks to liangly. +o IO-279: Improve Tailer performance with buffered reads (see IO-332). +o IO-329: FileUtils.writeLines uses unbuffered IO. Thanks to tivv. +o IO-319: FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory follows symbolic links. Thanks to raviprak. + + +Compatibility with 2.3: +Binary compatible: Yes. +Source compatible: Yes. +Semantic compatible: Yes. + +Compatibility with 2.2 and 1.4: +Binary compatible: Yes. +Source compatible: No, see the rare case in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318. +Semantic compatible: No, see the rare case in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318. + +Commons IO 2.4 requires JDK 1.6 or later. +Commons IO 2.3 requires JDK 1.6 or later. +Commons IO 2.2 requires JDK 1.5 or later. +Commons IO 1.4 requires JDK 1.3 or later. + +============================================================================== Apache Commons IO Version 2.3 ==============================================================================