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
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--- 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
==============================================================================
