1$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt 801709 2009-08-06 16:31:27Z niallp $ 2 3 Commons Codec Package 4 Version 1.4 5 Release Notes 6 7http://commons.apache.org/codec/ 8 9The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats 10such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and 11decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding 12utilities. 13 14Compatibility 15o Codec 1.4 is binary compatible with Codec 1.3 16o Codec 1.4 has a minimum requirement of JDK 1.4 17 18Changes in this version include: 19 20 New Features: 21 22o [CODEC-60] Implement Caverphone. 23o [CODEC-52] Digest on InputStreams. 24o [CODEC-39] DigestUtils: Add methods for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. 25o [CODEC-69] Streaming Base64 (Base64InputStream and Base64OutputStream added). 26o [CODEC-59] Add methods to Base64 which work with String instead of byte[] 27 28 Fixed bugs: 29 30o [CODEC-77] Base64 bug with empty input (new byte[0]). 31o [CODEC-72] Soundex and RefinedSoundex issues with character arrays. 32o [CODEC-71] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() method is inefficient for large byte arrays. 33o [CODEC-70] Thread safety and malicious code safety improvements. 34o [CODEC-68] isBase64 throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on some non-BASE64 bytes. 35o [CODEC-65] Fix case-insensitive string handling. 36o [CODEC-61] Base64.encodeBase64() throws NegativeArraySizeException on large files. 37o [CODEC-58] Character set used by Base64 not documented. 38o [CODEC-56] RefinedSoundex creates instance before al fields have been initialized. 39o [CODEC-51] Test failures in SoundexTest 40o [CODEC-10] Using US_ENGLISH in Soundex caused an NullPointerException. 41o [CODEC-6] Source tarball spews files all over the place. 42o [CODEC-22] Base64.isArrayByteBase64() throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException for negative octets 43o [CODEC-78] Base64: Improve Code Coverage 44o [CODEC-81] Base64's new constructor parameters ignored 45o [CODEC-83] Improve Double Metaphone test coverage 46o [CODEC-84] Double Metaphone bugs in alternative encoding 47o [CODEC-73] Make string2byte conversions indepedent of platform default encoding 48 49 Changes: 50 51o [CODEC-75] Make Base64 URL-safe 52o [CODEC-74] Allow for uppercase letters output in Hex.encodeHex(). 53o [CODEC-40] Add crypto-compatible BigInteger encoding support to Base64. 54 55Have fun! 56-The commons-codec team 57