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Posted to user@commons.apache.org by Gary Gregory <gg...@apache.org> on 2019/01/28 14:00:49 UTC

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache Commons BCEL 6.3 Released

              Apache Commons BCEL
                  Version 6.3
                RELEASE NOTES


INTRODUCTION:

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.



Have fun!
-Apache Commons BCEL team