Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Commons-Net 1.4.0 Released [net]

[Steve Cohen <sc...@javactivity.org>]

Rory Winston wrote:
> The Commons-Net team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.0. This release provides several fixes and enhancements, including:
> 
>  - The addition of a new configuration mechanism that enables the FTPClient component to work with a much larger range of server formats and locales;
>  - The addition of missing NTP unit tests;
>  - The addition of a new FTP parser implementation for MVS;
>  - Various fixes to the TFPClient and NTPClient components
> 
> A list of changes can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/changes-report.html#1_4_0
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Rory, could we change the release notes slightly for 1.4.0?  I think 
your description of the date format changes doesn't really give the 
flavor of what's involved here.  This bit from the FTPClientConfig 
javadoc is a fuller description:

  Use cases: You are trying to access a server that

     * lists files with timestamps that use month names in languages 
other than English
     * lists files with timestamps that use date formats other than the 
American English "standard" MM dd yyyy
     * is in different timezone and you need accurate timestamps for 
dependency checking as in Ant

and I would now add a fourth
     * supports the new all-numeric date formats now being used on the
ftp servers distributed with some newer Linux distributions.

(That fourth one was really a defect that was never logged as such but 
communicated on the list about a month ago).

Steve

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