[ANNOUNCEMENT] Commons Configuration 1.8 Released

[Oliver Heger <oh...@apache.org>]

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce the availability
of Commons Configuration 1.8.

The Commons Configuration software library provides a generic 
configuration interface which enables an application to read 
configuration data from a variety of sources, e.g. properties files, XML 
documents, JDBC datasources and many more. More information can be found 
at the Configuration main site at
http://commons.apache.org/configuration/

The focus of the new release lies in adding support for Java 1.5. This 
is now the minimum required JDK version. The API has been slightly 
adapted to new language features. This could be achieved in a binary 
compatible way; thus Commons Configuration 1.8 is a drop-in replacement 
for Commons Configuration 1.7. In addition, a few bugs have been fixed.

A full list of changes since the previous release can be found in the 
release notes or in the changes report at
http://commons.apache.org/configuration/changes-report.html

Apache Commons Configuration is available in either binary or source 
form from the Configuration downloads page:
http://commons.apache.org/configuration/download_configuration.cgi

(Please remember to verify the provided checksums and/or signatures 
after you have downloaded a distribution!)

Oliver Heger
on behalf of the Apache Commons Team


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