Hello All: This is a VOTE to release Commons Codec 1.8-RC1.
Commons Codec 1.8 requires a minimum of Java 1.6 Changes in this version include: New features: o CODEC-168: Add DigestUtils.updateDigest(MessageDigest, InputStream). Thanks to Daniel Cassidy. o CODEC-167: Add JUnit to test our decode with pad character in the middle. o CODEC-161: Add Match Rating Approach (MRA) phonetic algorithm encoder. Thanks to crice. Fixed Bugs: o CODEC-163: ColognePhonetic encoder unnecessarily creates many char arrays on every loop run. Thanks to leo141. o CODEC-160: Base64.encodeBase64URLSafeString doesn't add padding characters at the end. This VOTE is open for at least 72 hours until April 19 2013 at 3:00 PM EST. The files: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-051/ The tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/tags/1.8-RC1 The site: https://people.apache.org/~ggregory/commons-codec/1.8-RC1/site/ Thank you, Gary Gregory
