Hello All: This is a VOTE to release Commons Codec 1.7-RC2.
The differences with RC1 are: - Added missing ASF header to Sha2CryptTest.java - Fixed failing tests on IBM JVM and removed related release notes documentation. - Changes in changes.xml. - Added JRE requirement to release notes. Commons Codec 1.7 requires a minimum of Java 1.6 Changes in this version include: New features: o CODEC-157: DigestUtils: Add MD2 APIs. Thanks to ggregory. o CODEC-156: DigestUtils: add APIs named after standard algorithm name SHA-1. Thanks to ggregory. o CODEC-155: DigestUtils.getDigest(String) should throw IllegalArgumentException instead of RuntimeException. Thanks to ggregory. o CODEC-153: Create a class MessageDigestAlgorithms to define standard algorithm names. Thanks to ggregory. o CODEC-152: DigestUtils.getDigest(String) loses the original exception. Thanks to ggregory. o CODEC-151: Remove unnecessary attempt to fill up the salt variable in UnixCrypt. Thanks to lathspell. o CODEC-150: Remove unnecessary call to Math.abs(). Thanks to lathspell. o CODEC-148: More tests and minor things. Thanks to lathspell. o CODEC-146: Added regression tests for PhoneticEngine based on Solr-3.6.0. Thanks to Julius Davies. o CODEC-139: DigestUtils: add updateDigest methods and make methods public. Thanks to dsebastien. o CODEC-133: Add classes for MD5/SHA1/SHA-512-based Unix crypt(3) hash variants. Thanks to lathspell. o CODEC-130: Base64InputStream.skip skips underlying stream, not output. Thanks to tn. o CODEC-63: Implement NYSIIS phonetic encoder. Thanks to bayard. Fixed Bugs: o CODEC-96: Base64 encode() method is no longer thread-safe, breaking clients using it as a shared BinaryEncoder. Note: the fix breaks binary compatibility, however the changes are to a class (BaseNCodec) which is intended for internal use. Thanks to sebb. o CODEC-138: Complete FilterInputStream interface for BaseNCodecInputStream. o CODEC-136: Use Charset objects when possible, create Charsets for required character encodings. o CODEC-132: BeiderMorseEncoder OOM issues. Thanks to rcmuir. o CODEC-131: DoubleMetaphone javadoc contains dead links. Thanks to smolav. Changes: o CODEC-147: BeiderMorseEncoder/PhoneticEngine: make results deterministic by using a LinkedHashSet instead of a HashSet. o CODEC-143: StringBuffer could be replaced by StringBuilder for local variables. This VOTE is open for at least 72 hours until September 14 2012 at 9:30 AM EST. The files: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-051/ The tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/tags/1.7-RC2 The site: https://people.apache.org/builds/commons/commons-codec/1.7/RC2/ Note that the JIRA report is empty and it is a known issue in the Maven JIRA plugin and that requires a new plugin version. Thank you, Gary Gregory -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory <http://twitter.com/GaryGregory>