Hi, The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.14.
Animal Sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes compiled with a newer JDK/API are compatible with an older JDK/API. The following tools are provided by animal sniffer: * A command line tool to dump the class file version number (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html). This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see UnsupportedClassVersionError. * A set of ANT tasks (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-ant-tasks/index.html ) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as tasks for creating API signatures from a JDK, or a collection or jar and class files, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements. * A rule for use in the maven-enforcer-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-enforcer-rule/index.html ) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature . * A maven plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as for creating API signatures from a JDK, or the current module's classes, or the current module's dependencies, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements. The artifacts have are available from the Maven Central repository. Release Notes - Mojo's Animal Sniffer - Version 1.14 ** Bug * [MANIMALSNIFFER-49] - Support covariant return types * [MANIMALSNIFFER-53] - Documentation error : checking dependency classes ** Improvement * [MANIMALSNIFFER-50] - Apply plugin Annotations (instead of current doclet tags) ** Task * [MANIMALSNIFFER-51] - Upgrade ASM to 5.0.3 The Mojo Team.
