Better wording (especially for release note generation)

garydgregory · garydgregory · commit 25d9e7f54efa · 2023-09-30T10:32:48.000-04:00
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
   </properties>
 
   <body>
-    <release version="2.14.1" date="202Y-MM-DD" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.14.1" date="202Y-MM-DD" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" issue="IO-810" due-to="Gregor Dschung, Gary Gregory">
         Javadoc in FileUtils does not reflect code for thrown exceptions.
       </action>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
         In tests, Files.walk() direct and indirect callers fail to close the returned Stream&lt;Path&gt;.
       </action>
     </release>
-    <release version="2.14.0" date="2023-09-24" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.14.0" date="2023-09-24" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" issue="IO-799" due-to="Jeroen van der Vegt, Gary Gregory">
         ReaderInputStream.read() throws an exception instead of returning -1 when called again after returning -1.
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
         Bump commons-lang3 from 3.12 to 3.13.0.
       </action>
     </release>
-    <release version="2.13.0" date="2023-06-03" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.13.0" date="2023-06-03" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IO-791" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Chad Wilson, Gary Gregory">
         Regression in FileUtils.touch() - no longer creates parent directories.
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
         Bump commons-parent from 57 to 58.
       </action>
     </release>
-    <release version="2.12.0" date="2023-05-13" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.12.0" date="2023-05-13" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IO-697" dev="kinow" type="fix" due-to="otter606">
         IOUtils.toByteArray size validation does not match documentation.
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
         Bump default buffer size for WriterOutputStream to IOUtils#DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE.
       </action>
     </release>
-    <release version="2.11.0" date="2021-07-09" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.11.0" date="2021-07-09" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IO-741" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Zach Sherman">
         FileUtils.listFiles does not list matching files if File parameter is a symbolic link.
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       </action>
     </release>
     <!-- The release date is the date RC is cut -->
-    <release version="2.10.0" date="2021-06-10" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.10.0" date="2021-06-10" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IO-733" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Jim Sellers, Gary Gregory">
         RegexFileFilter uses the path and file name instead of just the file name.
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
         Bump mockito-inline from 3.10.0 to 3.11.0 #242.
       </action>
     </release>
-    <release version="2.9.0" date="2021-05-22" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.9.0" date="2021-05-22" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IO-686" dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Alan Moffat, Gary Gregory">
         IOUtils.toByteArray(InputStream) Javadoc does not match code.
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       </action>
     </release>
     <!-- The release date is the date RC is cut -->
-    <release version="2.8.0" date="2020-09-05" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.8.0" date="2020-09-05" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <action dev="ggregory" type="add" due-to="Gary Gregory">
         Add org.apache.commons.io.input.CircularInputStream.
       </action>
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       </action>
     </release>
     <!-- The release date is the date RC is cut -->
-    <release version="2.7" date="2020-05-24" description="Java 8 required.">
+    <release version="2.7" date="2020-05-24" description="Java 8 is required.">
       <action issue="IO-589" dev="sebb" type="fix">
         Some tests fail if the base path contains a space.
       </action>
