The commons-codec team is pleased to announce the Codec 1.3 release! 

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/

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. 

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o BinaryCodec: Encodes and decodes binary to and from Strings of 0s and 1s. 
  Issue: 27813. Thanks to Alex Karasulu. 
o QuotedPrintableCodec: Codec for RFC 1521 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail 
  Extensions) Part One. Rules #3, #4, and #5 of the quoted-printable spec are 
  not implemented yet. See also issue 27789. Issue: 26617. Thanks to Oleg 
  Kalnichevski. 
o BCodec: Identical to the Base64 encoding defined by RFC 1521 and allows a 
  character set to be specified. Issue: 26617. Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski. 
o QCodec: Similar to the Quoted-Printable content-transfer-encoding defined 
  in RFC 1521 and designed to allow text containing mostly ASCII characters 
  to be decipherable on an ASCII terminal without decoding. Issue: 26617. 
  Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski. 
o Soundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. Issue: 25243. Thanks to 
  Matthew Inger. 
o RefinedSoundex: Implemented the DIFFERENCE algorithm. Issue: 25243. Thanks 
  to Matthew Inger. 

  Fixed bugs:

o The default URL encoding logic was broken. Issue: 25995. Thanks to Oleg 
  Kalnichevski. 
o Base64 chunked encoding not compliant with RFC 2045 section 2.1 CRLF. 
  Issue: 27781. Thanks to Gary D. Gregory. 
o Hex converts illegal characters to 255. Issue: 28455. 
o Metaphone now correctly handles a silent B in a word that ends in MB. 
  "COMB" is encoded as "KM", before this fix "COMB" was encoded as "KMB". 
  Issue: 28457. 
o Added missing tags in Javadoc comments. 
o General Javadoc improvements. 

  Changes:

o This version is relesed under the Apache License 2.0 , please see 
  LICENSE.txt. Previous versions were released under the Apache License 1.1. 
o The Board recommendation to remove Javadoc author tags has been 
  implemented. All author tags are now "Apache Software Foundation".  

Have fun!
-The commons-codec team