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                          Commons Digester Package
                                Version 1.7.1-dev
                               Release Notes


*** Release notes current as of 2005-09-10

INTRODUCTION
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This is a minor bugfix and maintenance release. A few small features have been added.
New projects are encouraged to use this release of digester, but there is no urgency
for existing projects to upgrade; Digester 1.7 has proven to be a stable release.

This release is 100% binary and source compatible with the previous release.

IMPORTANT NOTES
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none

Dependencies
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Release 1.7.1 has the same dependencies as release 1.7.

Compatible Dependency Sets:
   Digester 1.7 + Logging 1.0.x + BeanUtils 1.x + Collections 2.x
   Digester 1.7 + Logging 1.0.x + BeanUtils 1.x + Collections 3.x
   Digester 1.7 + Logging 1.0.x + BeanUtils 1.7

NEW FEATURES
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Xmlrules Enhancements
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The xmlrules module has had the following updates to provide access
to functionality that was previously accessable only via the digester
API:
     -- node-create-rule tag added to provide access to NodeCreateRule.
        Patch provided by Kevin Ross; bugzilla 36482

BUGS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE
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Reports Addressed
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Fixes without Bugzilla entries
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* digester-rules.dtd file defined xml attribute "param" for xml element
  object-param-rule. This has been removed as it wasn't being used.

DEPRECATIONS
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None