$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt 926529 2010-03-23 11:44:24Z niallp $ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Commons BeanUtils Package Version 1.8.3 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 1.8.2 ======================== BeanUtils 1.8.3 is binary compatible release with Beanutils 1.8.2, containing only bug fixes. BeanUtils 1.8.3 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 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-373] - MethodUtils is not thread safe because WeakFastHashMap which uses WeakHashMap is not thread-safe * [BEANUTILS-371] - Add constructors which have useColumnLabel parameter to ResultSetDynaClass and RowSetDynaClass