[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Commons VFS 2.5.0

[Gary Gregory <gg...@apache.org>]

The Apache Commons VFS team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Commons VFS Project 2.5.0.

Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library.

New features and bug fix release.

Changes in this version include:

New features:
o VFS-734:  Add functional interface
org.apache.commons.vfs2.function.VfsConsumer. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-735:  Add org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileSystemManager.close() via
AutoCloseable. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-736:  Add org.apache.commons.vfs2.VFS.reset(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-742:  Add org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileContent.isEmpty(). Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
o VFS-743:  Add
org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.compressed.CompressedFileFileObject.SIZE_UNDEFINED.
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-687:  Add http5 and http5s providers (#74) Thanks to Woonsan Ko, Gary
Gregory.
o VFS-686:  Add webdav4 provider based on the latest Jackrabbit 2.x #52.
Thanks to Woonsan Ko, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-738:  Deprecate org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileChangeEvent.getFile() in
favor of getFileObject(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.

Fixed Bugs:
o VFS-741:  FileObject#getChildren allows listing of files with known
scheme prefix (generalizes VFS-398).
o VFS-726:  getInputStream(int bufferSize) on SftpFileObject effectively
ignores buffer size. Thanks to Cornelius Höfig, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-704:  Some providers wrap their input/output streams twice in a
BufferedInputStream. Thanks to Boris Petrov, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-727:  Prevented creation of singleton file system manager from
providers. Thanks to Michiel Hendriks, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-733:  Parent layer of ZipFileSystem set to null through
OnCallRefreshFileObject and DecoratedFileObject.refresh(). Thanks to Falco,
Gary Gregory, Bruno P. Kinoshita.
o VFS-739:  Changes to parseUri breaks backward compatibility by throwing
NullPointerException in some cases. Thanks to xia0c, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-744:  org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileContent.getByteArray() can throw
NegativeArraySizeException for BZip2 files. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-590:  SFTP moveTo operation might fail on permission checks even if
the operation itself might succeed. #75. Thanks to L, Alex Pearce, Gary
Gregory.
o VFS-617:  SFTP isReadable fails if unable to determine group identity.
#75. Thanks to Tim Nickels, Joshua Woods, David Johansson, Bernd Eckenfels,
Len, Nim Lhûg, Vineet Tyagi, Gopal Warawate, Alex Pearce, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-444:  ResourceFileProvider "res://" failed to obtain FileObject from
resolved FileName. Thanks to Walter Eaves, Xavier Dury, Michiel Hendriks,
Gary Gregory.

Changes:
o VFS-737:  Update Hadoop from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-728:  Update Apache Commons Compress from 1.18 to 1.19. Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
o VFS-729:  Upgrade Hadoop to 2.7.4 or later; will use current 3.2.0.
Thanks to Michiel Hendriks, Gary Gregory.
o VFS-731:  Update org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient from 4.5.9 to
4.5.10. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-732:  Update org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore-nio from 4.4.11 to
4.4.12. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o           Update tests using org.mockito:mockito-core from 3.0.0 to
3.1.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o VFS-749:  Update Apache Commons Parent from 48 to 50. Thanks to Gary
Gregory.

Historical list of changes:
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/changes-report.html

For complete information on Apache Commons VFS Project, including
instructions on how to submit bug reports,
patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons VFS
Project website:

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/

Gary Gregory