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<title>Release notes for v4.3</title>
<author email="dev@commons.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author>
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<section name="Release notes for version 4.3">
<hr />
<p>
Apache Commons Collections is a project to develop and maintain collection
classes based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework.
</p>
<p>
This 4.3 release is a minor and updates the platform requirement from Java 7 to 8.
This release fixes several bugs present in previous releases of the 4.X branch.
</p>
<p>
All users are strongly encouraged to updated to this release.
</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Java 8 or later is now required (version 4.2 required Java 7)</li>
<li>This release is source and binary compatible with the 4.0 release
of Commons Collections with the exception that some classes in the functor
package do not implement the Serializable interface anymore (see COLLECTIONS-580)</li>
</ul>
<center><h3>Major changes since 4.2</h3></center>
<ul>
<li>Updates the platform requirement from Java 7 to 8</li>
<li>Add Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for Java 9 compatibility</li>
<li>Added a few new APIs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security Changes</h3>
<p>
None.
</p>
<p>
For a full list of changes in this release, refer to the <a href="changes-report.html#a4.3">Change report</a>.
</p>
</section>
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