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                          Commons BeanUtils Package
                               Version 1.8.1
                               Release Notes

INTRODUCTION:
============

This document contains the release notes for this version of the Commons
BeanUtils package, and highlights changes since the previous version.

For more information on Commons BeanUtils, see
o http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/

Compatibility with 1.8.0
========================
BeanUtils 1.8.1 is binary compatible release with Beanutils 1.8.0, containing mostly bug fixes.

BeanUtils 1.8.1 requires a minimum of JDK 1.3.

Memory Leak
===========
A memory leak was found in BeanUtils 1.7.0 (see BEANUTILS-291) which was fixed
in BeanUtils 1.8.0 for JDK 1.5+.

Testing of BeanUtils 1.8.1 revealed that the leak still appears to exist
(in both BeanUtils 1.8.0 and 1.8.1 versions) in IBM's JDK 1.6 implementation.


see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-291
    http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-366


BUGS FIXED:
===========

The following is a list of the bugs fixed in this release, with their Jira issue number:

  * [BEANUTILS-300] - NPE in LazyDynaList
  * [BEANUTILS-327] - JDBCDynaClass throws class not found exception under java6
  * [BEANUTILS-336] - MappedPropertyDescriptor#reLoadClass() possible NPE / odd code; also swallows Throwable
  * [BEANUTILS-339] - BeanUtilsBean.setProperty throws IllegalArgumentException if value is null
  * [BEANUTILS-345] - BeanUtilsBean.setProperty does not handle some kind of nested properties
  * [BEANUTILS-347] - MappedPropertyDescriptor throws an exception after method reference has been garbage collected
  * [BEANUTILS-349] - copyProperties throws NullPointerException if an IllegalArgumentException is thrown due to a null value parameter for a primitive
  * [BEANUTILS-351] - FloatLocaleConverter cannot parse 0
  * [BEANUTILS-354] - Type in BooleanConverter: "Cna't convert value"


ENHANCEMENTS:
=============
The following is a list of enhancements in this release, with their Jira issue number:

  * [BEANUTILS-333] - Avoid calling setAccessible() if not needed
  * [BEANUTILS-344] - Method createDynaProperty of JDBCDynaClass should first look for column label instead of column name in ResultSetMetadata object..
  * [BEANUTILS-350] - change visibility of method "evaluateValue" belongs to the class BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate to "protected".