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{Status}

    The 0.4 release brought a number of significant improvements in terms of 
    supported capabilities, flexibility and performance.

    The 0.5 release addressed a number of important issues discovered since
    the 0.4 release. In particular it improved Mime4j ability to deal with
    malformed data streams including those intentionally crafted to cause 
    excessive CPU and memory utilization that can lead to DoS conditions.

    The 0.6 release brought another round of API enhancements and performance 
    optimizations. As of this release Mime4j requires a Java 1.5 compatible 
    runtime.    
    
    The 0.7 release brings another round of API enhancements, bug fixes and performance optimizations. 
	A major effort has been put in code reorganization, separating parsing code from DOM manipulation
	code. Mime4J has been restructured into three separate modules: 'core', 'dom' and 'storage'. 
	The 'core' package provides an event-driven SAX style parser that relies on a callback mechanism 
	to report parsing events such as the start of an entity header the start of a body, etc. 
	The 'dom' package contains base/abstract classes and interfaces for MIME-DOM manipulation aiming 
	to provide the base for a full featured traversable DOM. Per default the Mime4J DOM builder stores 
	content of individual body parts in memory. The 'storage' package provides support for more
	complex storage backends such on-disk storage systems, overflow on max limit, or encrypted storage 
	through JSSE API. 

    The next release will be version 0.8. As of this release Mime4j requires a Java 1.6 compatible 
    runtime.