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| Commons Codec Package |
| Version 1.2 |
| Release Notes |
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| INTRODUCTION: |
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| 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. |
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| NEW FEATURES: |
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| * URLCodec - Implements the 'www-form-urlencoded' encoding scheme |
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| * DigestUtils - Simple utility class that provides static convenience |
| methods for calculating md5 and hex digests. |
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| BUG FIXES: |
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| * 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. |
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| * Fix for Bug 24360: Hex.decode(Object) throws a ClassCastException |
| when a String argument is passed in. |
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| * Fix for Bug 24471: Soundex: The HW rule is not applied; hyphens and |
| apostrophes are not ignored. |
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| * 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. |
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| * Fix in Metaphone relating to the handling of the maximum code length. |
