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Posted to announce@apache.org by Gary Gregory <gg...@apache.org> on 2019/01/29 14:27:04 UTC

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Commons BCEL 6.3 Released

The Apache Commons BCEL team is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Commons BCEL 6.3!

The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) is intended to give users a
convenient
way to analyze, create, and manipulate compiled .class files. Classes are
represented by objects containing all the symbolic information of the given
class: methods, fields and byte code instructions.

NEW FEATURES:
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o           Added
org.apache.bcel.classfile.Visitor.visitConstantDynamic(ConstantDynamic)
Thanks to Mark Thomas.
o           Added org.apache.bcel.classfile.ConstantDynamic Thanks to Mark
Thomas.
o           Added fields in org.apache.bcel.Const for Java 9, 10, and 11.
Thanks to Mark Thomas.
o           Added fields in org.apache.bcel.Const for Java 12 and 13 based
on Java Early Access releases. Thanks to Mark Thomas.

FIXED BUGS:
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o BCEL-304: ClassPath.getClassFile() and friends do not work with JDK 9 and
higher (PR #22.) Thanks to Gary Gregory, Ed Pavlak.
o BCEL-305: ClassPath.getClassFile() and friends do not work with JRE 9 and
higher Thanks to Gary Gregory.

CHANGES:
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o           Initial support for Java 11 Thanks to Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory.
o           Update Java requirement from Java 7 to Java 8. Thanks to Gary
Gregory.

Download it from
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/download_bcel.cgi

Have fun!
Gary Gregory, Apache Commons Chair and the Apache Commons BCEL team