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1 | | -$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt,v 1.24 2004/05/17 17:06:10 ggregory Exp $ |
2 | | - |
3 | | - Commons Codec Package |
4 | | - Version 1.3 |
5 | | - Release Notes |
6 | | - |
7 | | - |
8 | | -INTRODUCTION: |
9 | | - |
10 | | -This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons |
11 | | -Codec package, and highlights changes since the previous version. |
12 | | - |
13 | | -This version is relesed under the Apache License 2.0, please see |
14 | | -./LICENSE.txt. Previous versions were released under the Apache |
15 | | -License 1.1. |
16 | | - |
17 | | -NEW FEATURES: |
18 | | - |
19 | | -* BinaryCodec: Encodes and decodes binary to and from Strings of 0s and 1s. |
20 | | - |
21 | | -* QuotedPrintableCodec: Codec for RFC 1521 MIME (Multipurpose Internet |
22 | | - Mail Extensions) Part One. Rules #3, #4, and #5 of the quoted-printable spec |
23 | | - are not implemented yet |
24 | | - |
25 | | -* BCodec: Identical to the Base64 encoding defined by RFC 1521 and allows a |
26 | | - character set to be specified. |
27 | | - |
28 | | -* QCodec: Similar to the Quoted-Printable content-transfer-encoding defined |
29 | | - in RFC 1521 and designed to allow text containing mostly ASCII characters to |
30 | | - be decipherable on an ASCII terminal without decoding. |
31 | | - |
32 | | -* Soundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. |
33 | | - |
34 | | -* RefinedSoundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. |
35 | | - |
36 | | -BUG FIXES: |
37 | | - |
38 | | -* Fixed Bug 25995 |
39 | | - Default URL encoding logic broken. |
40 | | - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25995 |
41 | | - |
42 | | -* Fixed Bug 27781 |
43 | | - Base64 chunked encoding not compliant with RFC 2045 section 2.1 CRLF |
44 | | - http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27781 |
45 | | - |
46 | | -* Fixed Bug 28455 |
47 | | - Hex converts illegal characters to 255. |
48 | | - http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28455 |
49 | | - |
50 | | -* Fixed Bug 28457 |
51 | | - Metaphone now correctly handles a silent B in a word that ends in MB. |
52 | | - (i.e. "COMB" is encoded as "KM", before this fix "COMB" was encoded as |
53 | | - "KMB") |
54 | | - |
55 | | -* Added missing tags in Javadoc comments. |
56 | | - |
57 | | -* General Javadoc improvements. |
58 | | - |
59 | | -* The Board recommendation to remove Javadoc author tags has been |
60 | | -implemented. All author tags are now "Apache Software Foundation". |
61 | | - |
62 | | - |
| 1 | +The commons-codec team is pleased to announce the Codec 1.3 release! |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/ |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats |
| 6 | +such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and |
| 7 | +decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding |
| 8 | +utilities. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Changes in this version include: |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + New Features: |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +o BinaryCodec: Encodes and decodes binary to and from Strings of 0s and 1s. |
| 15 | + Issue: 27813. Thanks to Alex Karasulu. |
| 16 | +o QuotedPrintableCodec: Codec for RFC 1521 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail |
| 17 | + Extensions) Part One. Rules #3, #4, and #5 of the quoted-printable spec are |
| 18 | + not implemented yet. See also issue 27789. Issue: 26617. Thanks to Oleg |
| 19 | + Kalnichevski. |
| 20 | +o BCodec: Identical to the Base64 encoding defined by RFC 1521 and allows a |
| 21 | + character set to be specified. Issue: 26617. Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski. |
| 22 | +o QCodec: Similar to the Quoted-Printable content-transfer-encoding defined |
| 23 | + in RFC 1521 and designed to allow text containing mostly ASCII characters |
| 24 | + to be decipherable on an ASCII terminal without decoding. Issue: 26617. |
| 25 | + Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski. |
| 26 | +o Soundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. Issue: 25243. Thanks to |
| 27 | + Matthew Inger. |
| 28 | +o RefinedSoundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. Issue: 25243. Thanks |
| 29 | + to Matthew Inger. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + Fixed bugs: |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +o The default URL encoding logic was broken. Issue: 25995. Thanks to Oleg |
| 34 | + Kalnichevski. |
| 35 | +o Base64 chunked encoding not compliant with RFC 2045 section 2.1 CRLF. |
| 36 | + Issue: 27781. Thanks to Gary D. Gregory. |
| 37 | +o Hex converts illegal characters to 255. Issue: 28455. |
| 38 | +o Metaphone now correctly handles a silent B in a word that ends in MB. |
| 39 | + "COMB" is encoded as "KM", before this fix "COMB" was encoded as "KMB". |
| 40 | + Issue: 28457. |
| 41 | +o Added missing tags in Javadoc comments. |
| 42 | +o General Javadoc improvements. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + Changes: |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +o This version is relesed under the Apache License 2.0 , please see |
| 47 | + LICENSE.txt. Previous versions were released under the Apache License 1.1. |
| 48 | +o The Board recommendation to remove Javadoc author tags has been |
| 49 | + implemented. All author tags are now "Apache Software Foundation". |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +Have fun! |
| 52 | +-The commons-codec team |
| 53 | + |
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