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