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+			Commons Codec Package
+			    Version 1.2
+			    Release Notes
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons
+Codec package, and highlights changes since the previous version.  Version
+1.2 contains bug fixes for the 1.1 release.
+
+NEW FEATURES:
+
+* URLCodec - Implements the 'www-form-urlencoded' encoding scheme
+
+* DigestUtils - Simple utility class that provides static convenience
+  methods for calculating md5 and hex digests.
+
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* Fix for Bug 19860: Modified Base64 to remedy non-compliance with RFC
+  2045.  Non-Base64 characters were not being discarded during the
+  decode.  RFC 2045 explicitly states that all characters outside of the
+  base64 alphabet are to be ignored.  
+
+* Fix for Bug 24360: Hex.decode(Object) throws a ClassCastException 
+  when a String argument is passed in.
+  
+* Fix for Bug 24471: Soundex: The HW rule is not applied; hyphens and 
+  apostrophes are not ignored.
+  
+* Fix for Bug 24484: Soundex.setMaxLength causes bugs and is not needed.
+  Calling Soundex.setMaxLength() with a value of 2 or less causes the wrong
+  answer to be returned.  Since the encoding returned by Soundex is always
+  of length 4 by definition (we do not use the '-' in as a letter-nnn 
+  separator) the need for a maxLength attribute is not needed.  Deprecate 
+  the field and accessor methods.
+
+* Fix in Metaphone relating to the handling of the maximum code length.