Sample 0.12 RN
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/creadur/rat/trunk@1706093 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
- Apache Creadur Rat 0.11
+ Apache Creadur Rat 0.12
RELEASE NOTES
-The Apache Creadur Rat team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Creadur Rat 0.11
+The Apache Creadur Rat team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Creadur Rat 0.12
Apache Rat is a release audit tool. It improves accuracy and efficiency when checking
releases. It is heuristic in nature: making guesses about possible problems. It
will produce false positives and cannot find every possible issue with a release.
-It's reports require interpretation.
+Its reports require interpretation.
In response to demands from project quality tool developers, Rat is available as a
library suitable for inclusion in tools. This POM describes that library.
@@ -15,9 +15,49 @@
Apache Rat is developed by the Apache Creadur project, a language and build
agnostic home for software distribution comprehension and audit tools.
-TBA
+We now require Maven 3.0.5+ to build Rat, but as before we only require
+Maven 2.2.1+ if you want to use Rat in your own Maven projects.
+We've integrated Rat into the ASF Jenkins to ensure continuous builds with various JDK versions.
-No changes defined in this version.
+Changes in this version include:
+
+New features:
+o RAT-196: Minor refactoring in pom.xml. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbais.
+o RAT-61: List files with unapproved licenses in Maven output. Thanks to Jukka Zitting.
+o RAT-170: RAT should use itself during build and site generation. Thanks to Philipp Ottlinger.
+o RAT-181: BinaryGuesser should treat *.truststore as binary.
+o RAT-184: Add DEPENDENCIES to the list of ignored files in NoteGuesser. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.
+o RAT-185: .repository folder should be ignored. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.
+o RAT-186: BinaryGuesser should recognize PSD files as images.
+o RAT-187: Add 'SAR', 'HAR', 'WSR' as archives which should be ignored. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.
+o RAT-197: Improve exclusion defaults when working with Maven 3.3.1 (exclude .mvn). Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.
+o RAT-201: BinaryGuesser should treat *.swf as binary.
+ Furthermore BinaryGuesser falls back to UTF-8 encoding in case the encoding given via system property
+ (-Dfile.encoding) was not found.
+o RAT-202: Report layout differs between successful RAT checks and existence of unapproved files.
+o RAT-202: Report layout differs between successful RAT checks and existence of unapproved files.
+o RAT-203: Using 'license' in README, source code, javadoc, comments and site instead of 'licence';
+ improve terminology to not confuse RAT consumers.
+o RAT-204: Unify resource handling in code and tests, make sure the resources are properly closed. Apply minor refactorings.
+
+Fixed Bugs:
+o RAT-163: Removing the Gradle Plugin from the Rat Core project, so that building
+ with Java 5 works again.
+o RAT-158: Fix SAX-Parser warning by explicitly excluding xerces in Doxia 1.2. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy.
+o RAT-173: Allow complete skip of RAT plugin with rat.skip property. Thanks to Chris Burroughs.
+o RAT-174: CDDL1License still very slow, replace Pattern matching with simple String comparison. Thanks to Chris Burroughs.
+o RAT-175: SourceCodeManagementSystems.hasIgnoreFile() should return boolean.
+o RAT-177: Final arrays should be private.
+o RAT-188: Fix problems with AnimalSniffer-plugin when running in GUMP with Java 8.
+ Workaround for https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANIMALSNIFFER-45 Thanks to Mark Thomas.
+o RAT-160: Ignore build.log created by maven-invoker-plugin. Thanks to Christopher Tubbs.
+o RAT-179: Maven plugin and Ant task do not support adding extra approved licenses.
+o RAT-180: Generify and beautify texts in RAT report.
+o RAT-194: Upgrade to Doxia 1.6 if called directly, does not affect problems reported in RAT-158. Minor improvements. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy.
+o RAT-198: Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.20. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise.
+o RAT-172: Exclude technical directories of source code management systems and their ignore files from RAT scans.
+o RAT-200: Upgrade ASF parent POM to 17.
+
Historical list of changes: http://creadur.apache.org/rat/changes-report.html
