Author: bayard
Date: Fri Nov 16 11:00:39 2007
New Revision: 595778
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=595778&view=rev
Log:
Current state of release notes
Modified:
commons/proper/lang/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
Modified: commons/proper/lang/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/lang/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt?rev=595778&r1=595777&r2=595778&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/lang/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt (original)
+++ commons/proper/lang/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Fri Nov 16 11:00:39 2007
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
$Id$
Commons Lang Package
- Version 2.3
+ Version 2.4
Release Notes
INTRODUCTION:
-This document contains the release notes for the 2.3 version of
+This document contains the release notes for the 2.4 version of
Apache Commons Lang.
Commons Lang is a set of utility functions and reusable components that
should be of use in any Java environment.
+INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES WITH VERSION 2.3:
+
+
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES WITH VERSION 2.2:
- Calling stop on a suspended StopWatch will no longer change the underlying
time.
@@ -35,6 +38,11 @@
junit.jar to ANT_HOME/lib. You can get JUnit from http://www.junit.org. See
the developer's guide
for more details.
+DEPRECATIONS FROM 2.3 to 2.4:
+
+- ObjectUtils.appendIdentityToString(StringBuffer, Object) - has very odd
semantics, use
+ ObjectUtils.identityToString(StringBuffer, Object) instead.
+
DEPRECATIONS FROM 2.2 to 2.3:
- None
@@ -55,36 +63,37 @@
as int not long. The replacements are MILLIS_PER_*.
-BUG FIXES IN 2.3:
-
- * [LANG-69 ] - ToStringBuilder throws StackOverflowError when an Object
cycle exists
- * [LANG-102] - Refactor Entities methods
- * [LANG-153] - Can't XMLDecode an Enum
- * [LANG-262] - Use of enum prevents a classloader from being garbage
collected resuling in out of memory exceptions.
- * [LANG-279] - HashCodeBuilder throws java.lang.StackOverflowError when an
object contains a cycle.
- * [LANG-281] - DurationFormatUtils returns wrong result
- * [LANG-286] - Serialization - not backwards compatible
- * [LANG-292] - unescapeXml("&12345678;") should be "&12345678;"
- * [LANG-294] - StrBuilder.replaceAll and StrBuilder.deleteAll can throw
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
- * [LANG-295] - StrBuilder contains usages of thisBuf.length when they
should use size
- * [LANG-299] - Bug in method appendFixedWidthPadRight of class StrBuilder
causes an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
- * [LANG-300] - NumberUtils.createNumber throws NumberFormatException for
one digit long
- * [LANG-303] - FastDateFormat.mRules is not transient or serializable
- * [LANG-304] - NullPointerException in isAvailableLocale(Locale)
- * [LANG-313] - Wrong behavior of Entities.unescape
- * [LANG-315] - StopWatch: suspend() acts as split(), if followed by stop()
-
-IMPROVEMENTS IN 2.3:
-
- * [LANG-258] - Enum JavaDoc
- * [LANG-266] - Wish for StringUtils.join(Collection, *)
- * [LANG-268] - StringUtils.join should allow you to pass a range for it
(so it only joins a part of the array)
- * [LANG-275] - StringUtils substringsBetween
- * [LANG-282] - Create more tests to test out the +=31 replacement code in
DurationFormatUtils.
- * [LANG-287] - Optimize StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(String)
- * [LANG-289] - NumberUtils.max(byte[]) and NumberUtils.min(byte[]) are
missing
- * [LANG-291] - Null-safe comparison methods for finding most recent /
least recent dates.
- * [LANG-306] - StrBuilder appendln/appendAll/appendSeparator
- * [LANG-310] - BooleanUtils isNotTrue/isNotFalse
- * [LANG-314] - Tests fail to pass when building with Maven 2
+BUG FIXES IN 2.4:
+ * [LANG-76 ] - [lang] EnumUtils.getEnum() doesn't work well in 1.5
+ * [LANG-328] - LocaleUtils.toLocale() rejects strings with only
language+variant
+ * [LANG-334] - Enum is not thread-safe
+ * [LANG-346] - Dates.round() behaves incorrectly for minutes and seconds
+ * [LANG-349] - Deadlock using ReflectionToStringBuilder
+ * [LANG-353] - Javadoc Example for EqualsBuilder is questionable
+ * [LANG-360] - Why does appendIdentityToString return null?
+ * [LANG-361] - BooleanUtils toBooleanObject javadoc does not match
implementation
+ * [LANG-363] - StringEscapeUtils..escapeJavaScript() method did not escape
'/' into '\/', it will make IE render page uncorrectly
+ * [LANG-364] - Documentation bug for ignoreEmptyTokens accessors in
StrTokenizer
+ * [LANG-365] - BooleanUtils.toBoolean() - invalid drop-thru in case
statement causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
+ * [LANG-367] - FastDateFormat thread safety
+ * [LANG-368] - FastDateFormat getDateInstance() and getDateTimeInstance()
assume Locale.getDefault() won't change
+ * [LANG-369] - ExceptionUtils not thread-safe
+ * [LANG-372] - ToStringBuilder: MULTI_LINE_STYLE does not print anything
from appendToString methods.
+
+IMPROVEMENTS IN 2.4:
+
+ * [LANG-269] - Shouldn't Commons Lang's StringUtils have a "common" string
method?
+ * [LANG-321] - [patch] Add toArray() method to IntRange and LongRange
classes
+ * [LANG-322] - ClassUtils.getShortClassName(String) inefficient
+ * [LANG-326] - StringUtils: startsWith / endsWith / startsWithIgnoreCase /
endsWithIgnoreCase / removeStartIgnoreCase / removeEndIgnoreCase methods
+ * [LANG-329] - Pointless synchronized in ThreadLocal.initialValue should
be removed
+ * [LANG-333] - ArrayUtils.toClass
+ * [LANG-337] - Utility class constructor javadocs should acknowledge that
they may sometimes be used, e.g. with Velocity.
+ * [LANG-338] - truncateNicely method which avoids truncating in the middle
of a word
+ * [LANG-345] - Optimize HashCodeBuilder.append(Object)
+ * [LANG-351] - Extension to ClassUtils: Obtain the primitive class from a
wrapper
+ * [LANG-356] - Add getStartTime to StopWatch
+ * [LANG-362] - Add ExtendedMessageFormat to org.apache.commons.lang.text
+ * [LANG-366] - add MultiFormat
+ * [LANG-371] - ToStringStyle javadoc should show examples of styles
