The Apache Commons team announces Apache Commons Configuration Version 2.6. [This message fixes a typo in the download link.]
Release Notes 2019-09-13 INTRODUCTION: ============= This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons Configuration component. It describes the changes since the previous version. The Commons Configuration software library provides a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. Tools to assist in the reading of configuration/preferences files in various formats Minor release with new features and updated dependencies. Changes in this version include: New features: o Document "includeOptional" on the site. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-756: Allow for custom behavior to handle errors loading included properties files. Thanks to Gary Gregory. Fixed Bugs: o CONFIGURATION-750: XMLPropertyListConfiguration cannot set arrays in the correct plist form. Thanks to Jason Pickens, Gary Gregory, Emmanuel Bourg. o Fix Javadoc for org.apache.commons.configuration2.PropertiesConfiguration.getIncludeOptional(). Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-760: Properties file using cyclical includes cause a StackOverflowError instead of detecting the misconfiguration. Thanks to Gary Gregory. Changes: o CONFIGURATION-751: Update Apache Commons Text from 1.6 to 1.7. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-752: Update Apache Commons VFS from 2.3 to 2.4.1. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-754: Update Apache Commons Text from 1.7 to 1.8. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-755: [CVE-2014-0114] Update Apache Commons BeanUtils from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Fix syntax in user guide documentation #33. Thanks to Kevin Wang. o CONFIGURATION-757: Update org.yaml:snakeyaml from 1.24 to 1.25. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from org.apache.commons:commons-dbcp2 2.6.0 to 2.7.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from org.apache.commons:commons-pool2 2.6.2 to 2.7.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-758: Update commons-codec:commons-codec from 1.12 to 1.13. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from org.hsqldb:hsqldb 2.4.1 to 2.5.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from com.sun.mail:mailapi 1.6.3 to 1.6.4. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o CONFIGURATION-759: Update Spring from 4.3.24.RELEASE to 4.3.25.RELEASE. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update maven-checkstyle-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Use current version of Checkstyle: 6.18 to 8.24. Thanks to Gary Gregory. Historical list of changes: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/changes-report.html For complete information on Apache Commons Configuration, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons Configuration website: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/ Download it from https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_configuration.cgi Gary Gregory, On behalf of the Apache Commons Team