[ANN] Apache Commons-FileUpload 1.3 released

[Simone Tripodi <si...@apache.org>]

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the Apache
Commons-FileUpload 1.3 release!

The FileUpload component provides a simple yet flexible means of
adding support for multipart file upload functionality to servlets and
web applications.

Changes in this version include (you can download the release notes
from <http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/fileupload/RELEASE-NOTES.txt>):

IMPORTANT NOTES
================

 * SECURITY - CVE-2013-0248, see http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Mar/76

DEPENDENCIES
=============

FileUpload 1.3 users should upgrade to the recommended dependency set below
where possible.

The Recommended Dependency Set for FileUpload 1.3 is:
   Apache Commons-IO 2.2

Bug
=============

 * [FILEUPLOAD-143] - "Stream ended unexpectedly" when posting from a
Flash client
 * [FILEUPLOAD-173] - Manifest for OSGi has invalid syntax
 * [FILEUPLOAD-183] - commons-io dependency does not get loaded by
maven if only dependency to commons-fileupload is specified
 * [FILEUPLOAD-185] - http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/index.html
is out of date
 * [FILEUPLOAD-186] - http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/index.html
should not mention nightly builds
 * [FILEUPLOAD-189] - DiskFileItemFactory use of FileCleaningTracker
is documented or coded wrong
 * [FILEUPLOAD-195] - Error reading the file size larger than 2 gb
 * [FILEUPLOAD-197] - ServletFileUpload isMultipartContent method does
not support HTTP PUT
 * [FILEUPLOAD-199] - Uploads have unexpected results for files with
non-ASCII names - support RFC2047
 * [FILEUPLOAD-202] -
org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadBase$IOFileUploadException:
Processing of multipart/form-data request failed. Stream ended
unexpectedly
 * [FILEUPLOAD-204] - FileItem.getHeaders() returns always null.
 * [FILEUPLOAD-212] - Insecure request size checking
 * [FILEUPLOAD-214] - ServletFileUpload only accepts POST requests
 * [FILEUPLOAD-228] - (Servlet|Portlet)RequestContext#contentLength()
must return request.getContentLength() if Content-length header is not
available
 * [FILEUPLOAD-229] - toLowerCase() is Locale-dependent; should use
toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH) instead
 * [FILEUPLOAD-232] - There are no unit tests for the new utils.mime classes

Improvement
=============

 * [FILEUPLOAD-182] - Documentation: add simple HTML form example to
fileupload user guide
 * [FILEUPLOAD-207] - enhance file read/write performance
 * [FILEUPLOAD-209] - Add Support for Generic Types
 * [FILEUPLOAD-210] - Process HTTP Requests Into Maps
 * [FILEUPLOAD-223] - Update commons-io dependency to latest version
that supports JDK1.5
 * [FILEUPLOAD-224] - Avoid string concatenations while parsing
headers, use buffers instead
 * [FILEUPLOAD-225] - Replace java.rmi.server.UID() with java.util.UUID
 * [FILEUPLOAD-226] - DiskFileItem.counter could be converted to
AtomicInteger (or AtomicLong?)
 * [FILEUPLOAD-227] - Private immutable fields which could be final

Task
=============

 * [FILEUPLOAD-201] - Update to JDK 1.5 and bump IO dependency to 2.X
 * [FILEUPLOAD-215] - version 1.3 improvement tasks

Sub-task
=============

 * [FILEUPLOAD-216] - Update the project tree dirs according to
default Maven conventions
 * [FILEUPLOAD-217] - drop JDK1.3 support and update to Java5
 * [FILEUPLOAD-218] - Update version in POM
 * [FILEUPLOAD-219] - upgrade tests to JUnit 4
 * [FILEUPLOAD-220] - replace package.html with package-info.java
 * [FILEUPLOAD-221] - FileItemHeadersImpl can now use LinkedHashMap
 * [FILEUPLOAD-222] - Mark @deprecated classes/methods with
@Deprecated annotation
 * [FILEUPLOAD-233] - Base64Decoder doesn't correctly implement RFC 4648

OTHER NOTES
============

 * This is the first version of Apache Commons FileUpload which requires Java5

Commons FileUpload can be downloaded from the following page:
  http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/download_fileupload.cgi

For information on Commons FileUpload, please visit our website:
  http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-fileupload/

Have fun!
-Simo, on behalf of the Apache Commons community

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