1*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<?xml version="1.0"?> 2*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<!-- 3*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiLicensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 4*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimicontributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 5*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimithis work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 6*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiThe ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 7*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 8*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimithe License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 10*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 12*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiUnless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimidistributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiWITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiSee the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimilimitations under the License. 17*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi--> 18*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<document> 19*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi <properties> 20*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi <title>Upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4</title> 21*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi <author email="[email protected]">Commons Documentation Team</author> 22*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi </properties> 23*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<body> 24*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 25*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<section name="Upgrade"> 26*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<p> 27*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiThese are the release notes and advice for upgrading Commons-IO from 28*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimiversion 2.3 to version 2.4 29*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi<source> 30*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCommons IO is a package of Java utility classes like java.io. 31*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiClasses in this package are considered to be so standard and of such high 32*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimireuse as to justify existence in java.io. 33*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 34*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiThe Commons IO library contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, 35*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimifile comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more. 36*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 37*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi============================================================================== 38*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiApache Commons IO Version 2.4-SNAPSHOT 39*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi============================================================================== 40*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 41*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiChanges in this version include: 42*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 43*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiNew features: 44*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-269: Tailer locks file from deletion/rename on Windows. Thanks to sebb. 45*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-333: Export OSGi packages at version 1.x in addition to 2.x. Thanks to fmeschbe. 46*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-320: Add XmlStreamReader support for UTF-32. Thanks to ggregory. 47*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-331: BOMInputStream wrongly detects UTF-32LE_BOM files as UTF-16LE_BOM files in method getBOM(). Thanks to ggregory. 48*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-327: Add byteCountToDisplaySize(BigInteger). Thanks to ggregory. 49*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-326: Add new FileUtils.sizeOf[Directory] APIs to return BigInteger. Thanks to ggregory. 50*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-325: Add IOUtils.toByteArray methods to work with URL and URI. Thanks to raviprak. 51*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-324: Add missing Charset sister APIs to method that take a String charset name. Thanks to raviprak. 52*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 53*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiFixed Bugs: 54*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-279: Tailer erroneously considers file as new. Thanks to Sergio Bossa, Chris Baron. 55*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-335: Tailer#readLines - incorrect CR handling. 56*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-334: FileUtils.toURLs throws NPE for null parameter; document the behavior. 57*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-332: Improve tailer's reading performance. Thanks to liangly. 58*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-279: Improve Tailer performance with buffered reads (see IO-332). 59*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-329: FileUtils.writeLines uses unbuffered IO. Thanks to tivv. 60*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimio IO-319: FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory follows symbolic links. Thanks to raviprak. 61*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 62*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCompatibility with 2.3: 63*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiBinary compatible: Yes. 64*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiSource compatible: Yes. 65*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiSemantic compatible: Yes. 66*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 67*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCompatibility with 2.2 and 1.4: 68*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiBinary compatible: Yes. 69*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiSource compatible: No, see the rare case in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318. 70*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiSemantic compatible: No, see the rare case in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-318. 71*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 72*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCommons IO 2.4 requires JDK 1.6 or later. 73*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCommons IO 2.3 requires JDK 1.6 or later. 74*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCommons IO 2.2 requires JDK 1.5 or later. 75*0c4d7b72SSadaf EbrahimiCommons IO 1.4 requires JDK 1.3 or later. 76*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi</source> 77*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi</p> 78*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi</section> 79*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi 80*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi</body> 81*0c4d7b72SSadaf Ebrahimi</document> 82