Added release notes for 1.1, modified project.xml to reflect promotion to commons

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/codec/trunk@130121 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: Timothy O'Brien

RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-dev.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+$Id: RELEASE-NOTES-1.0-dev.txt,v 1.1 2003/04/25 18:07:16 tobrien Exp $
+
+			Commons Codec Package
+			   Version 1.0-dev
+			    Release Notes
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons
+Codec package, and highlights changes since the previous version.  The
+current release adds new features and bug fixes, and is being done now to
+follow the release early/release often mentality.
+
+
+NEW FEATURES:
+
+* Base64 class from commons-httpclient in org.apache.commons.codec.base64
+* Soundex class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
+* Metaphone class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
+* SoundexComparator class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
+
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+

RELEASE-NOTES.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt,v 1.1 2003/04/25 17:50:55 tobrien Exp $
+$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt,v 1.2 2003/04/25 18:07:16 tobrien Exp $
 
 			Commons Codec Package
-			   Version 1.0-dev
+			     Version 1.1
 			    Release Notes
 
 
@@ -15,12 +15,21 @@ follow the release early/release often mentality.
 
 NEW FEATURES:
 
+* A newer version of the Base64 class reflecting improvements from
+  both the commons-httpclient and xml-rpc versions of code forked
+  from catalina.
 * Base64 class from commons-httpclient in org.apache.commons.codec.base64
+  has been retained for backwards compatibility but has been deprecated
 * Soundex class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
 * Metaphone class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
-* SoundexComparator class from commons-util in org.apache.commons.codec
-
+* RefinedSoundex class in org.apache.commons.codec
+* Encoder/Decoder interfaces in org.apache.commons
+* String and Binary specific Encoder/Decoder interfaces in 
+  org.apache.commons
+* StringEncoderComparator replaces the SoundexComparator from the
+  language package.
 
 BUG FIXES:
 
-
+* Base64 now discards whitespace characters when decoding encoded
+  content.

project.xml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
 <project>
-  <extend>../../jakarta-commons/project.xml</extend>
+  <extend>../project.xml</extend>
   <name>Codec</name>
   <id>commons-codec</id>
   <currentVersion>1.1-rc1</currentVersion>