| $Id$ |
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| Commons Codec Package |
| Version 1.4 |
| Release Notes |
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| http://commons.apache.org/codec/ |
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| The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats |
| such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and |
| decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding |
| utilities. |
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| Compatibility |
| o Codec 1.4 is binary compatible with Codec 1.3 |
| o Codec 1.4 has a minimum requirement of JDK 1.4 |
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| Changes in this version include: |
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| New Features: |
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| o [CODEC-60] Implement Caverphone. |
| o [CODEC-52] Digest on InputStreams. |
| o [CODEC-39] DigestUtils: Add methods for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. |
| o [CODEC-69] Streaming Base64 (Base64InputStream and Base64OutputStream added). |
| o [CODEC-59] Add methods to Base64 which work with String instead of byte[] |
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| Fixed bugs: |
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| o [CODEC-77] Base64 bug with empty input (new byte[0]). |
| o [CODEC-72] Soundex and RefinedSoundex issues with character arrays. |
| o [CODEC-71] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() method is inefficient for large byte arrays. |
| o [CODEC-70] Thread safety and malicious code safety improvements. |
| o [CODEC-68] isBase64 throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on some non-BASE64 bytes. |
| o [CODEC-65] Fix case-insensitive string handling. |
| o [CODEC-61] Base64.encodeBase64() throws NegativeArraySizeException on large files. |
| o [CODEC-58] Character set used by Base64 not documented. |
| o [CODEC-56] RefinedSoundex creates instance before al fields have been initialized. |
| o [CODEC-51] Test failures in SoundexTest |
| o [CODEC-10] Using US_ENGLISH in Soundex caused an NullPointerException. |
| o [CODEC-6] Source tarball spews files all over the place. |
| o [CODEC-22] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for negative octets |
| o [CODEC-78] Base64: Improve Code Coverage |
| o [CODEC-81] Base64's new constructor parameters ignored |
| o [CODEC-83] Improve Double Metaphone test coverage |
| o [CODEC-84] Double Metaphone bugs in alternative encoding |
| o [CODEC-73] Make string2byte conversions indepedent of platform default encoding |
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| Changes: |
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| o [CODEC-75] Make Base64 URL-safe |
| o [CODEC-74] Allow for uppercase letters output in Hex.encodeHex(). |
| o [CODEC-40] Add crypto-compatible BigInteger encoding support to Base64. |
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| Have fun! |
| -The commons-codec team |
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