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Date: Sat Nov 14 13:20:42 2015
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+              Apache Commons Collections
+                    Version 3.2.2
+                    RELEASE NOTES
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+Commons collections is a project to develop and maintain collection classes
+based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework.
+This release is JDK1.3 compatible, and does not use JDK1.5 generics.
+
+This v3.2.2 release is a bugfix release, fixing several bugs present in the previous
+releases of the 3.2 branch. Additionally, this release provides a mitigation for a
+known remote code exploitation via the standard java object serialization mechanism.
+By default, serialization support for unsafe classes in the functor package is
+disabled and will result in an exception when either trying to serialize or de-serialize
+an instance of these classes. For more details, please refer to COLLECTIONS-580.
+
+All users are strongly encouraged to updated to this release.
+
+
+Changes in this version include:
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+o COLLECTIONS-580:  Serialization support for unsafe classes in the functor package is
+                    disabled by default as this can be exploited for remote code execution
+                    attacks. To re-enable the feature the system property
+                    "org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization" needs to be
+                    set to "true".
+                    Classes considered to be unsafe are: CloneTransformer, ForClosure,
+                    InstantiateFactory, InstantiateTransformer, InvokerTransformer,
+                    PrototypeCloneFactory, PrototypeSerializationFactory, WhileClosure.
+
+BUGFIXES
+========
+
+o COLLECTIONS-538:  "ExtendedProperties" will now use a privileged action to access the
+                    "file.separator" system property. In case the class does not have
+                    permission to read system properties, the "File#separator" field will
+                    be used instead. Thanks to Trejkaz. 
+o COLLECTIONS-447:  Tree traversal with a TreeListIterator will not be affected anymore by
+                    the removal of an element directly after a call to previous(). Thanks to Jeffrey Barnes. 
+o COLLECTIONS-444:  SetUniqueList.set(int, Object) now works correctly if the object to be inserted
+                    is already placed at the given position. Thanks to Thomas Vahrst, John Vasileff. 
+o COLLECTIONS-350:  Removed debug output in "MapUtils#getNumber(Map)". Thanks to Michael Akerman. 
+o COLLECTIONS-335:  Fixed cache assignment for "TreeBidiMap#entrySet". Thanks to sebb. 
+o COLLECTIONS-334:  Synchronized access to lock in "StaticBucketMap#size()". Thanks to sebb. 
+o COLLECTIONS-307:  "SetUniqueList#subList()#contains(Object)" will now correctly check the subList
+                    rather than the parent list. Thanks to Christian Semrau. 
+o COLLECTIONS-304:  "SetUniqueList#set(int, Object)" will now correctly enforce the uniqueness constraint.
+                    Thanks to Rafa? Figas,Bjorn Townsend. 
+o COLLECTIONS-294:  "CaseInsensitiveMap" will now convert input strings to lower-case in a
+                    locale-independent manner. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann. 
+o COLLECTIONS-266:  "MultiKey" will now be correctly serialized/de-serialized. Thanks to Joerg Schaible. 
+o COLLECTIONS-261:  "Flat3Map#remove(Object)" will now return the correct value mapped to the removed key
+                    if the size of the map is less or equal 3. Thanks to ori. 
+o COLLECTIONS-249:  "SetUniqueList.addAll(int, Collection)" now correctly add the collection at the
+                    provided index. Thanks to Joe Kelly. 
+o COLLECTIONS-228:  "MultiValueMap#put(Object, Object)" and "MultiValueMap#putAll(Object, Collection)"
+                    now correctly return if the map has changed by this operation. 
+o COLLECTIONS-219:  "CollectionUtils#removeAll" wrongly called "ListUtils#retainAll". Thanks to Tom Leccese. 
+o COLLECTIONS-217:  Calling "setValue(Object)" on any Entry returned by a "Flat3Map" will now
+                    correctly set the value for the current entry. Thanks to Matt Bishop. 
+
+ 
+For complete information on Apache Commons Collections, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
+patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons Collections website:
+
+http://commons.apache.org/collections/

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+
               Apache Commons Collections
-                    Version 3.2.2
+                     Version 4.0
                     RELEASE NOTES
 
-
 INTRODUCTION:
 
 Commons collections is a project to develop and maintain collection classes
 based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework.
-This release is JDK1.3 compatible, and does not use JDK1.5 generics.
-
-This v3.2.2 release is a bugfix release, fixing several bugs present in the previous
-releases of the 3.2 branch. Additionally, this release provides a mitigation for a
-known remote code exploitation via the standard java object serialization mechanism.
-By default, serialization support for unsafe classes in the functor package is
-disabled and will result in an exception when either trying to serialize or de-serialize
-an instance of these classes. For more details, please refer to COLLECTIONS-580.
-
-All users are strongly encouraged to updated to this release.
-
-
-Changes in this version include:
-
-CHANGES
-=======
-
-o COLLECTIONS-580:  Serialization support for unsafe classes in the functor package is
-                    disabled by default as this can be exploited for remote code execution
-                    attacks. To re-enable the feature the system property
-                    "org.apache.commons.collections.enableUnsafeSerialization" needs to be
-                    set to "true".
-                    Classes considered to be unsafe are: CloneTransformer, ForClosure,
-                    InstantiateFactory, InstantiateTransformer, InvokerTransformer,
-                    PrototypeCloneFactory, PrototypeSerializationFactory, WhileClosure.
-
-BUGFIXES
-========
-
-o COLLECTIONS-538:  "ExtendedProperties" will now use a privileged action to access the
-                    "file.separator" system property. In case the class does not have
-                    permission to read system properties, the "File#separator" field will
-                    be used instead. Thanks to Trejkaz. 
-o COLLECTIONS-447:  Tree traversal with a TreeListIterator will not be affected anymore by
-                    the removal of an element directly after a call to previous(). Thanks to Jeffrey Barnes. 
-o COLLECTIONS-444:  SetUniqueList.set(int, Object) now works correctly if the object to be inserted
-                    is already placed at the given position. Thanks to Thomas Vahrst, John Vasileff. 
-o COLLECTIONS-350:  Removed debug output in "MapUtils#getNumber(Map)". Thanks to Michael Akerman. 
-o COLLECTIONS-335:  Fixed cache assignment for "TreeBidiMap#entrySet". Thanks to sebb. 
-o COLLECTIONS-334:  Synchronized access to lock in "StaticBucketMap#size()". Thanks to sebb. 
-o COLLECTIONS-307:  "SetUniqueList#subList()#contains(Object)" will now correctly check the subList
-                    rather than the parent list. Thanks to Christian Semrau. 
-o COLLECTIONS-304:  "SetUniqueList#set(int, Object)" will now correctly enforce the uniqueness constraint.
-                    Thanks to Rafa? Figas,Bjorn Townsend. 
-o COLLECTIONS-294:  "CaseInsensitiveMap" will now convert input strings to lower-case in a
-                    locale-independent manner. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann. 
-o COLLECTIONS-266:  "MultiKey" will now be correctly serialized/de-serialized. Thanks to Joerg Schaible. 
-o COLLECTIONS-261:  "Flat3Map#remove(Object)" will now return the correct value mapped to the removed key
-                    if the size of the map is less or equal 3. Thanks to ori. 
-o COLLECTIONS-249:  "SetUniqueList.addAll(int, Collection)" now correctly add the collection at the
-                    provided index. Thanks to Joe Kelly. 
-o COLLECTIONS-228:  "MultiValueMap#put(Object, Object)" and "MultiValueMap#putAll(Object, Collection)"
-                    now correctly return if the map has changed by this operation. 
-o COLLECTIONS-219:  "CollectionUtils#removeAll" wrongly called "ListUtils#retainAll". Thanks to Tom Leccese. 
-o COLLECTIONS-217:  Calling "setValue(Object)" on any Entry returned by a "Flat3Map" will now
-                    correctly set the value for the current entry. Thanks to Matt Bishop. 
+This version uses the generics features of Java 5 and is not compatible with
+earlier JDK versions.
 
+The process of generifying an API is complex.
+For commons-collections, we have chosen to break the API in various ways.
+The aim behind this is to provide an API design that better suits generics.
+We have also removed all deprecated classes and fixed oddities in the previous
+API that we couldn't fix due to backwards compatibility restrictions.
+
+As such, this release can not be considered to be a simple, drop-in, replacement
+for commons-collections. To help with the migration to this new version, the
+package has changed to "org.apache.commons.collections4", thus it is possible
+to have both commons-collections versions in the classpath.
+
+These release notes will try to guide you in the process of upgrading, however you
+should remember that this is a new API based on the original, so some concepts
+have changed.
+
+Compatibility
+-------------
+
+ o Java 5 or later is required.
+ o This release is not source or binary compatible with previous releases of
+   Commons Collections. This includes releases from the 3.x branch as well as
+   preceding alpha releases for 4.0 (see details of changes below).
+ o some unit tests are disabled when executed with an IBM JDK 6 due to a faulty
+   java.util.TreeMap implementation.
+
+
+Major changes since 3.2.1
+-------------------------
+
+ o Use of generics and other language features introduced in Java 5 (varargs, Iterable)
+ o Removed deprecated classes / methods and features which are now supported by the JDK
+ o Replaced Buffer interface with java.util.Queue
+ o Added concept of split maps with respective interfaces Put / Get (see also package splitmap)
+ o Added new Trie interface together with an implementation of a Patricia Trie
+
+
+Changes since 4.0-alpha1
+------------------------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-502] Resolved generic parameter inconsistency for various static fields, e.g. BagUtils.EMPTY_BAG,
+                     TruePredicate.INSTANCE and many others. All accessible static fields use raw types so that
+                     they can be used directly without explicit casting. To avoid compiler warnings about unchecked
+                     conversion and/or rawtypes use the corresponding factory methods, e.g. BagUtils.emptyBag(). 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-501] Renamed methods "V MultiKeyMap#remove(Object, Object, ...)" to
+                     "V MultiKeyMap#removeMultiKey(Object, Object, ...)" to avoid future conflicts
+                     with a default method of the Map interface in Java 8.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-500] Renamed "V MultiMap#remove(K, V)" to "boolean MultiMap#removeMapping(K, V)"
+                     to avoid future conflicts with a default method of the Map interface in Java 8.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-499] Refactored the test framework for Bag implementations to extend from
+                     "AbstractCollectionTest" by decorating the concrete Bag instance with
+                     a CollectionBag or CollectionSortedBag. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-498] "CollectionBag" will now also respect the contract of the decorated bag in case
+                     a null argument is provided to either removeAll or retainAll.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-497] Added bag decorator "CollectionSortedBag" which decorates a SortedBag to make it
+                     comply with the Collection contract.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-496] "UnmodifiableBoundedCollection" does now also implement the marker interface "Unmodifiable"
+                     similar as all other unmodifiable decorators.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-495] "UnmodifiableTrie#unmodifiableTrie(Trie)" will not decorate again an already unmodifiable Trie.
+                     Also the return type has been changed to "Trie" to be consistent with other Unmodifiable decorators.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-494] Moved "Equator" interface to base package for consistency. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-488] Added "CollectionsUtils#matchesAll(Iterable, Predicate)" to test if all elements
+                     of a collection match a given predicate. Thanks to Josh Cain.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-485] Accept wildcard input where possible, e.g. in copy-constructors, Unmodifiable* decorators
+                     and iterators. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-481] No collision detection/resolution was performed when calling "CompositeSet#addComposited(...)"
+                     with more than one Set as argument. Additionally use varargs parameters instead of arrays
+                     in CompositeSet and CompositeCollection constructor and addComposited method. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-480] Narrow return type of "BidiMap#values()" to Set as the values are required to be unique. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-468] Renamed CompliantBag to CollectionBag.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-475] Fixed conversion of timeout parameters in "PassiveExpiringMap".
+
+
+Removed classes
+---------------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-458] Removed unused class "AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator<E, D>"
+ o [COLLECTIONS-432] Removed "Buffer" interface and all its implementations and related classes.
+                     Replaced by "java.util.Queue", see also section [New classes]
+                     
+   - PriorityBuffer: use either java.util.PriorityQueue or java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue
+   - SynchronizedBuffer: use the corresponding *BlockingQueue classes in java.util.concurrent
+   - BoundedBuffer: use either ArrayBlockingBuffer(capacity) or LinkedBlockingBuffer(capacity) in java.util.concurrent
+   - UnboundedFifoBuffer: use either java.util.LinkedList or java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingBuffer
+                     
+ o [COLLECTIONS-351] Removed features now supported by the JDK or other Apache Commons libraries
  
-For complete information on Apache Commons Collections, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
+   - FastArrayList: use java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList
+   - FastHashMap: use java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap, but beware of null keys and values
+   - FastTreeSet: no direct replacement, use ConcurrentHashMap or a synchronized TreeMap
+   - IdentityMap: use java.util.IdentityHashMap
+   - ExtendedProperties: use commons-configuration
+   - Synchronized[List,Set,SortedSet]: use java.util.Collections.synchronized*()
+   - Typed* decorators: use generics for type safety, or java.util.Collections.checked*()
+   - [List,Set,Map]Utils.EMPTY_*: use the corresponding fields in java.util.Collections
+ 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-229] Removed deprecated collection classes and methods
+
+
+New classes
+-----------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-497] CollectionSortedBag - decorates a SortedBag to make it comply with the Collection contract.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-468] CollectionBag - decorates another Bag to make it comply with the Collection contract.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-463] PushbackIterator - supports pushback of elements during iteration. Thanks to Andy Seaborne, Claude Warren.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-462] PeekingIterator - supports one-element lookahead during iteration. Thanks to Andy Seaborne, Claude Warren.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-432] CircularFifoQueue - analogous class to CircularFifoBuffer for the Queue interface
+                     PredicatedQueue - analogous class to PredicatedBuffer
+                     TransformedQueue - analogous class to TransformedBuffer
+                     UnmodifiableQueue - analogous class to UnmodifiableBuffer
+                     QueueUtils - analogous class to BufferUtils
+ o [COLLECTIONS-422] PermutationIterator - generates unordered permutations of a collection. Thanks to Benoit Corne. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-404] SequencesComparator - an implementation of Eugene Myers difference algorithm in package o.a.c.c.sequence. Thanks to Jordane Sarda.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-396] LazyIteratorChain - a variant of IteratorChain which supports lazy initialization. Thanks to Jeff Rodriguez.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-322] NodeListIterator - supports iteration over a org.w3c.dom.NodeList. Thanks to Thomas Vahrst. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-313] CatchAndRethrowClosure - re-throws any checked exception as unchecked "FunctorException". Thanks to David J. M. Karlsen. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-275] IndexedCollection - collection decorator which provides a map-like view on an existing collection. Thanks to Stephen Kestle. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-258] DualLinkedHashBidiMap - bidi map implementation using LinkedHashMap instances. Thanks to Nathan Blomquist. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-242] Equator - interface for testing object equality. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-241] PassiveExpiringMap - map decorator which passively expires entries. Thanks to Elifarley Callado Coelho.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-225] PatriciaTrie - PATRICIA trie implementation for the new Trie interface, together with Unmodifiable and
+                     Synchronized decorators. Thanks to Sam Berlin and Roger Kapsi.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-8  ] ComparatorPredicate - predicate to compare objects against a fixed instance. Thanks to Rune Peter Bjørnstad.
+ o [None           ] Put / Get - interfaces for split maps
+ o [None           ] SplitMapUtils / splitmap.TransformedSplitMap - utilities and implementation for split maps
+
+
+New methods in *Utils
+---------------------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-488] Added "CollectionsUtils#matchesAll(Iterable, Predicate)" to test if all elements
+                     of a collection match a given predicate. Thanks to Josh Cain.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-456] ListUtils#longestCommonSubsequence(...) to get the longest common subsequence of arbitrary lists or CharSequences.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-450] CollectionUtils#forAllButLastDo(Collection, Closure) and forAllButLastDo(Iterator, Closure). Thanks to J. Moldawski.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-446] CollectionUtils#isEqualCollection(Collection, Collection, Equator). Thanks to Matt Lachman.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-436] *Utils#emptyIfNull(*) methods in classes CollectionUtils, ListUtils, SetUtils and MapUtils. Thanks to Arman Sharif.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-429] CollectionUtils#containsAll(Collection, Collection) with guaranteed runtime complexity of O(n + m)
+   +COLLECTIONS-434] and space complexity of O(n). This method may yield much better performance than Collection.containsAll(Collection)
+                     depending on the use-case and type of collection used. Thanks to Adrian Nistor, Mert Guldur.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-422] CollectionUtils#permutations(Collection) to generate all permutations of a collection. Thanks to Benoit Corne. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-405] ListUtils#select() and ListUtils#selectRejected() methods. Thanks to Adam Dyga. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-393] ListUtils#partition() to split a List into consecutive sublists. Thanks to Chris Shayan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-383] CollectionUtils#forAllDo(Iterator, Closure). Thanks to Adrian Cumiskey.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-375] ListUtils#defaultIfNull(List, List). Thanks to Ivan Hristov. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-361] CollectionUtils#filterInverse(Iterable, Predicate). Thanks to Jean-Noel Rouvignac.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-306] CollectionUtils#subtract(Iterable, Iterable, Predicate). Thanks to Chris Shayan.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-296] CollectionUtils#collate(...) to merge two sorted Collections using the standard O(n) merge algorithm. Thanks to Julius Davies.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-286] CollectionUtils#extractSingleton(Collection). Thanks to Geoffrey De Smet.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-263] MapUtils#populateMap(MultiMap, ...) to support also "MultiMap" instances as input. Thanks to John Hunsley.  
+ o [COLLECTIONS-235] ListUtils#indexOf(List, Predicate). Thanks to Nathan Egge. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-194] MapUtils#populateMap(Map, Iterable, Transformer, ...). Thanks to Dave Meikle. 
+
+
+New features
+------------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-399] Added new method "get(int)" to "CircularFifoQueue". Thanks to Sebb.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-327] Added serialVersionUID fields for "CompositeCollection", "CompositeSet", "EmptyMapMutator", "EmptySetMutator". Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-293] Added support for using custom "Equator" objects in "EqualPredicate". Thanks to Stephen Kestle. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-289] Added method "CollatingIterator#getIteratorIndex()". Thanks to Fredrik Kjellberg.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-285] Added serialization support for "TreeBidiMap". Thanks to Christian Gruenberg. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-272] Added serialization support for "FixedOrderComparator" and "TransformingComparator". Thanks to Chaitanya Mutyala. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-260] Added constructor "TransformingComparator(Transformer)". Thanks to Stephen Kestle. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-237] Added method "MultiValueMap#iterator()" to return a flattened version of "entrySet().iterator()".
+                     Clarified javadoc for "entrySet()" that the returned Entry objects are unflattened, i.e. the Entry object
+                     for a given key contains all values mapped to this key. Thanks to Nils Kaiser, Alan Mehlo. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-226] Added method "ListOrderedMap#putAll(int, Map)". Thanks to Vasily Ivanov. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-213] Added support for resettable iterators in "IteratorIterable". Thanks to Dusan Chromy. 
+
+
+Changed classes / methods
+-------------------------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-502] Resolved generic parameter inconsistency for various static fields, e.g. BagUtils.EMPTY_BAG,
+                     TruePredicate.INSTANCE and many others. All accessible static fields use raw types so that
+                     they can be used directly without explicit casting. To avoid compiler warnings about unchecked
+                     conversion and/or rawtypes use the corresponding factory methods, e.g. BagUtils.emptyBag(). 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-501] Renamed methods "V MultiKeyMap#remove(Object, Object, ...)" to
+                     "V MultiKeyMap#removeMultiKey(Object, Object, ...)" to avoid future conflicts
+                     with a default method of the Map interface in Java 8.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-500] Renamed "V MultiMap#remove(K, V)" to "boolean MultiMap#removeMapping(K, V)"
+                     to avoid future conflicts with a default method of the Map interface in Java 8.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-499] Refactored the test framework for Bag implementations to extend from
+                     "AbstractCollectionTest" by decorating the concrete Bag instance with
+                     a CollectionBag or CollectionSortedBag. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-496] "UnmodifiableBoundedCollection" does now also implement the marker interface "Unmodifiable"
+                     similar as all other unmodifiable decorators.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-495] "UnmodifiableTrie#unmodifiableTrie(Trie)" will not decorate again an already unmodifiable Trie.
+                     Also the return type has been changed to "Trie" to be consistent with other Unmodifiable decorators.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-494] Moved "Equator" interface to base package for consistency. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-485] Accept wildcard input where possible, e.g. in copy-constructors, Unmodifiable* decorators
+                     and iterators. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-480] Narrow return type of "BidiMap#values()" to Set as the values are required to be unique. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-473] Made field "collection" in class "AbstractCollectionDecorator" private and added
+                     setter "setCollection(Collection)" with scope protected to set the decorated collection
+                     during de-serialization.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-466] Replaced "Collection" with "Iterable" for method arguments where applicable.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-460] Changed "IteratorChain" to use internally a "Queue" instead of a "List". Iterators are
+                     removed from the queue once used and can be garbage collected after being exhausted.
+                     Additionally removed the methods "setIterator(Iterator)" and "getIterators()".
+ o [COLLECTIONS-459] Removed method "setArray(Object)" in class ArrayIterator and method "setArray(Object[])"
+                     in class ObjectArrayIterator and made fields array, startIndex and endIndex final and package private.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-455] Changed scope of various fields to private / package private where appropriate.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-454] An iterator over a "Flat3Map#entrySet()" will now return independent Map.Entry objects that will
+                     not change anymore when the iterator progresses.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-453] Several closure and transformer implementations in the functor package will now copy
+                     an array as input parameter to their constructor (e.g. ChainedClosure).
+ o [COLLECTIONS-452] Change base package to "org.apache.commons.collections4".
+ o [COLLECTIONS-451] The constructors for all *Utils classes are now private to prevent instantiation. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-424] "CompositeSet" does not inherit from "CompositeCollection" anymore. The inner class "SetMutator"
+                     has been updated accordingly. Thanks to Michael Pradel.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-382] Change maven coordinates to "org.apache.commons.commons-collections4". Thanks to Olivier Lamy. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-381] Move the project structure to a standard maven layout. Thanks to Olivier Lamy. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-372] TransformingComparator now supports different types for its input/output values. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-362] "CollectionUtils#filter(Iterable, Predicate)" will now return whether the collection has been modified.
+                     Thanks to Jean-Noel Rouvignac. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-341] "NOPClosure" is now a final class. Thanks to Goran Hacek. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-324] Fields transformer and decorated in class "TransformingComparator" are now final. Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-307] "SetUniqueList#subList()" will now return an unmodifiable list as changes to it may invalidate the parent list.
+                     Thanks to Christian Semrau, Thomas Vahrst. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-298] Calling "CollectionUtils#sizeIsEmpty(null)" will now return true. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-280] The predicate that rejected an object to be added to a "PredicatedCollection" is now contained in the
+                     respective exception message. Thanks to Chris Lewis. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-265] "TreeBag" will now only accept "Comparable" objects as input when used with natural ordering. Thanks to David Saff. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-251] The static factory methods have been renamed from "getInstance()" to a camel-case version of the class name,
+   +COLLECTIONS-321] e.g. "truePredicate()" for class "TruePredicate". Thanks to Stephen Kestle.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-240] "MultiValueMap" is now serializable. Thanks to Wouter de Vaal. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-231] Return concrete class in static factory methods instead of base class interface
+                     (except for Unmodifiable decorators). Thanks to Torsten Curdt. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-230] "CollectionUtils#size(Collection)" now returns 0 when called with null as input. Thanks to Stepan Koltsov,sebb.
+   +COLLECTIONS-297]
+   +COLLECTIONS-318]
+ o [COLLECTIONS-223] "CollectionUtils#addAll(...)" methods now return if the collection has been changed by this operation.
+                     Thanks to Vasily Ivanov. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-221] "CompositeCollection", "CompositeMap" and "CompositeSet" are now serializable. Thanks to Pal Denes. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-218] The "CollectionUtils#select(Collection, Predicate, Collection)" method will now return the output collection. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-182] "CollectionUtils#forAllDo(Collection, Closure)" now returns the provided closure. Thanks to Jim Cakalic. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-110] Make generic versions of all classes in collections.
+   +COLLECTIONS-243]
+   +COLLECTIONS-245]
+   +COLLECTIONS-247]
+   +COLLECTIONS-253]
+   +COLLECTIONS-273]
+   +COLLECTIONS-282]     
+ o [None           ] Switch Abstract*Decorator classes to expose decorated() protected method instead of the decorated collection directly.
+                     Each class overrides decorated() to add its type covariantly, thus getList()/getSet() etc. methods are removed
+ o [None           ] ArrayStack is now deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. It is replaced by the java.util.Deque
+                     interface available from Java 6.
+
+
+Fixed Bugs
+----------
+
+ o [COLLECTIONS-498] "CollectionBag" will now also respect the contract of the decorated bag in case
+                     a null argument is provided to either removeAll or retainAll.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-481] No collision detection/resolution was performed when calling "CompositeSet#addComposited(...)"
+                     with more than one Set as argument. Additionally use varargs parameters instead of arrays
+                     in CompositeSet and CompositeCollection constructor and addComposited method. Thanks to Hollis Waite.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-475] Fixed conversion of timeout parameters in "PassiveExpiringMap".
+ o [COLLECTIONS-474] ListOrderedMap#putAll(index, Object, Object) does not throw an exception anymore if the
+                     map contains null values. Additionally added javadoc clarification on the supported bounds
+                     for the index parameter. Thanks to Ning Chen.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-472] Improved performance of "AbstractMapBag#containsAll(Collection)" by returning immediately
+                     after a difference has been found. Thanks to Adrian Nistor.
+ o [COLLECTIONS-461] Added additional clarification to javadoc of interface "Put" wrt return type of
+                     "put(Object, Object)" method. Thanks to Matt Benson, sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-447] Tree traversal with a TreeListIterator will not be affected anymore by the removal of an element directly after
+                     a call to previous(). Thanks to Jeffrey Barnes. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-445] Adapt and/or ignore several unit tests when run on a IBM J9 VM (specification version 1.6.0) due to a faulty
+                     "java.util.TreeMap" implementation. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-444] SetUniqueList.set(int, E) now works correctly if the object to be inserted is already placed at the given position.
+                     Thanks to Thomas Vahrst, John Vasileff. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-441] MultiKeyMap.clone() now correctly calls super.clone(). Thanks to Thomas Vahrst. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-433] Improve performance of "TreeList#addAll" and "TreeList(Collection)" by converting the input collection into an
+                     AVL tree and efficiently merge it into the existing tree. Thanks to Jeffrey Barnes. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-427] Fixed performance issue in "SetUniqueList#retainAll" method for large collections. Thanks to Mert Guldur. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-426] Fixed performance issue in "ListOrderedSet#retainAll" method for large collections. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-425] Improved performance of "ListOrderedMap#remove(Object)" method. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-421] Update javadoc for "ListUtils#lazyList()" and "ListUtils#fixedSizeList()". Thanks to Benedikt Ritter. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-419] Added clarifying javadoc wrt runtime complexity of "AbstractDualBidiMap#retainAll". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-417] Added clarifying javadoc wrt runtime complexity of "AbstractLinkedList#retainAll". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-415] Added clarifying javadoc wrt runtime complexity of "AbstractLinkedList#removeAll". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-414] Fixed several compilation issues with older Java 1.6 compilers. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-413] Improved performance of "removeAll()" method for sets returned by "DualHashBidiMap#entrySet()". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-412] Improved performance of "CollectionUtils#subtract" methods. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-411] Fixed possible "IndexOutOfBoundsException" in "ListOrderedMap#putAll". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-410] Improved performance of "SetUniqueList#addAll" method. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-409] Improved performance of "ListOrderedSet#addAll" method. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-408] Improved performance of "SetUniqueList#removeAll". Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-407] Improved performance of "ListOrderedSet#remove(Object)" in case the object is  not contained in the Set. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-406] Improved performance of "ListUtils#subtract" method. Thanks to Adrian Nistor. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-400] Added missing null check in "CollectionUtils#addIgnoreNull(Collection, Object)". Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-391] Fixed javadoc for "MapUtils#toProperties(Map)". Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-389] Clarified javadoc for "TransformerUtils#mapTransformer" for null input. Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-388] Clarified javadoc for "FactoryUtils#prototypeFactory" for null input. Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-384] Fixed inconsistent javadoc for "MapUtils#synchronizedMap(Map)". Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-380] Fixed infinite loop when calling "UnmodifiableBoundedCollection#unmodifiableBoundedCollection()". Thanks to Dave Brosius. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-379] Fixed javadoc for several methods wrt expected NullPointerExceptions. Thanks to Shin Hwei Tan. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-364] "DualTreeBidiMap" now uses the correct comparator for the reverse map during de-serialization. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-363] "TransformedMap" in the package "splitmap" can now be serialized. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-360] "FilterListIterator#hasNext" does not throw a NullPointerException anymore to comply to the Java iterator specification.
+                     Thanks to Sai Zhang. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-359] "ListUtils#intersection(List, List)" will now also work correctly if there are duplicate elements in the provided lists.
+                     Thanks to Mark Shead. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-352] "AbstractCollectionDecorator" will now use internally "decorated()" to access the decorated collection. Thanks to Adam Gent. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-350] Removed debug output in "MapUtils#getNumber(Map)". Thanks to Michael Akerman. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-348] Fixed javadoc for all "transformedXXX(XXX)" methods in the respective Utils classes to clarify that existing objects in the
+                     list are not transformed. Thanks to Paul Benedict. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-343] Singleton classes in package "functors" are now correctly de-serialized. Thanks to Goran Hacek. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-340] Removed broken methods "equals(Object)" and "hashCode()" in class "NOPClosure". Thanks to Goran Hacek. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-336] Simplified exceptions as the cause is available from the parent. Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-335] Fixed cache assignment for "TreeBidiMap#entrySet". Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-334] Synchronized access to lock in "StaticBucketMap#size()". Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-332] Added clarification to javadoc of "ListOrderedMap" that "IdentityMap" and "CaseInsensitiveMap" are not supported.
+                     Thanks to Tom Parker. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-331] Improve javadoc of "CollatingIterator" wrt the used "Comparator" and throw a NullPointerException in "CollatingIterator#least"
+                     if no comparator is set. Thanks to Michael Krkoska. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-330] "LRUMap#keySet()#remove(Object)" will not throw a "ConcurrentModificationException" anymore. Thanks to Joerg Schaible. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-328] Improved performance of "ListUtils#intersection(List, List)". Thanks to Thomas Rogan, Jilles van Gurp. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-323] Changed behavior of "CaseInsensitiveMap" constructor to be compliant with "HashMap" in case the initial capacity is set to zero.
+                     Thanks to Maarten Brak. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-320] Improved performance of "StaticBucketMap#putAll(Map)" by iterating over the entry set. Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-319] Avoid redundant null check in "IteratorUtils#getIterator(Object)". Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-317] Use a private method to populate the object in "AbstractHashedMap(Map)". Thanks to sebb. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-316] Fixed javadoc of "LRUMap" wrt to the maxSize parameter of the constructor. Thanks to ori. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-312] Use of final keyword where applicable, minor performance improvements by properly initializing the capacity of newly created
+                     collections when known in advance. Thanks to Peter Lawrey, Gary Gregory. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-307] "SetUniqueList#subList()#contains(Object)" will now correctly check the subList rather than the parent list.
+                     Thanks to Christian Semrau. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-304] "SetUniqueList#set(int, Object)" will now correctly enforce the uniqueness constraint. Thanks to Rafał Figas,Bjorn Townsend. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-303] Improved javadoc for "Unmodifiable*" classes wrt behavior when the users tries to modify the collection. Thanks to Emmanuel Bourg. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-294] "CaseInsensitiveMap" will now convert input strings to lower-case in a locale-independant manner. Thanks to Benjamin Bentmann. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-256] Fixed javadoc for "ListUtils#transformedList(List)" to clarify that existing objects in the list are not transformed.
+   +COLLECTIONS-288] Thanks to Paul Benedict. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-266] "MultiKey" will now be correctly serialized/de-serialized. Thanks to Joerg Schaible. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-262] Fixed javadoc for methods "firstKey()" and "lastKey()" in class "AbstractLinkedMap". Thanks to Lisen Mu. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-261] "Flat3Map#remove(Object)" will now return the correct value mapped to the removed key if the size of the map is less or equal 3.
+                     Thanks to ori. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-255] Removed unused variables in "TreeBidiMap". Thanks to Henri Yandell. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-249] "SetUniqueList.addAll(int, Collection)" now correctly add the collection at the provided index. Thanks to Joe Kelly. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-232] Fixed several unit tests which were using parameters to "assertEquals(...)" in wrong order. Thanks to Mark Hindess. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-228] "MultiValueMap#put(Object, Object)" and "MultiValueMap#putAll(Object, Collection)" now correctly return if the map
+                     has changed by this operation. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-219] "CollectionUtils#removeAll" wrongly called "ListUtils#retainAll". Thanks to Tom Leccese. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-217] Calling "setValue(Object)" on any Entry returned by a "Flat3Map" will now correctly set the value for the current entry.
+                     Thanks to Matt Bishop. 
+ o [COLLECTIONS-216] "MultiKey#toString()" will now use "Arrays#toString(List)". Thanks to Hendrik Maryns. 
+
+
+For complete information on Commons Collections, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
 patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Commons Collections website:
 
-http://commons.apache.org/collections/
+http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/