Rat 0.10
========
The main change is RAT-138 - Rat 0.9 could run much slower than 0.8 on some input.
* Simpler binary archive
* Issues resolved (see http://issues.apache.org/jira):
* Bugs fixed:
* [RAT-137] Website shows incorrect Maven goals in some pages
* [RAT-128] Use the proper name for the Apache License
* [RAT-138] RAT runs very slowly on some input
* [RAT-140] OASISLicense allows invalid Copyright line
* [RAT-139] FullTextMatchingLicense.prune uses inefficient deleteAtChar
* [RAT-145] Maven plugin should not run in the "verify" phase, but in the "validate" phase
* Improvements:
* [RAT-129] Add support for CDDL 1.0
* Updated dependencies and plugins
* Fixed up generics and annotations
Rat 0.9
=======
* Improved documentation
* Rat now requires Java5 at runtime
* The Antlib contains a new matcher type that allows matching on the
full text of the license rather than a single line.
* Support automatic addition of license headers to svg files.
* Issues Resolved (see http://issues.apache.org/jira):
* Bugs Fixed:
* [RAT-3] - Incorrect alignment of file contents
* [RAT-102] - typo in pom.xml / field description
* [RAT-109] - Return value of mkdirs() is not checked
and no error handling occurs
* [RAT-116] - Docs don't say what the default excludes are
* [RAT-120] - fix some maven warning and upgrade some
dependencies.
* [RAT-121] - use maven java5 annotations for maven plugins
* [RAT-122] - Maven Plugin: field to ignore errors and continue
the build
* [RAT-124] - Rat plugin should exclude the configuration directory
used by IDEA
* [RAT-126] - Default excludes do not ignore .git/ repository
* Improvements:
* [RAT-13] - [GOOGLE-14] GNU License support
* [RAT-49] - Recognise MIT LIcense
* [RAT-104] - Using jUnit4 annotation based tests instead of
junit3 - migration from junit 3.8.2 to current
junit 4.10
* [RAT-106] - Minor Javadoc errors fixed in 3 files
* [RAT-108] - Add native support for thrift generated code to be
ignored
* [RAT-111] - RAT does not ignore javah generated files
* [RAT-125] - Support applied AL20 license headers, including
checking for required copyright header line
* New Features
* [RAT-78] - Support doxia 1.1.2
* Tasks
* [RAT-59] - Upgrade To Java 1.5
* [RAT-119] - Upgrade Maven prerequisite to 2.2.1
Rat 0.8
=======
* Some website fixes
* The Antlib and Maven plugins now provide simpler ways to detect
licenses not directly supported by Rat.
* Issues Resolved (see http://issues.apache.org/jira):
* Bug:
* RAT-86 CLI doesn't allow adding of licenses unless a custom
stylesheet has been specified
* RAT-87 Tests could leave temporary files around.
* RAT-92 When adding licenses Rat used \n instead of the platform
dependent line--end character(s)
* RAT-94 Streams were not always closed immediately when adding
licenses.
* Improvement:
* RAT-79 Support automatic addition of license headers to Velocity
templates
* RAT-83 Support automatic addition of license headers to Scala
source files
* RAT-84 Support automatic addition of license headers to Ruby
source files
* RAT-89 Support automatic addition of license headers to Perl,
TCL, C++, C# and PHP source files
* RAT-91 Support automatic addition of license headers to Groovy
source files
* RAT-85 Allow --addLicense as an alias for --addLicence for
people used to the US spelling.
* RAT-34 --addLicense will add the license to the top of Java
files without a package line or XML files without an XML
declaration now - it used to not add anything.
* RAT-67 The XML and standard plain text reports now contain a
timestamp with the time the report has been generated.
* RAT-95 When adding licenses Rat will now remove any BOM from the file.
* RAT-93 --addLicense now supports more .NET specific files like
MS Visual Studio project and solution files
* RAT-99 The command line interface has a new option that
specifies a file containing regular expressions for files to exclude
Rat 0.7
=======
* Some website fixes
* Issues Resolved (see http://issues.apache.org/jira):
* Bug:
* RAT-62 Some of Rat's own files missing License Headers
* RAT-63 ant-task-examples.xml has an wrong uri in the -typedef ant target
* RAT-70 Missing closing html tag in generated report by
* Improvement:
* RAT-17 Support the use of archives as input
* RAT-30 / RAT-76 Support automatic addition of license headers
* RAT-52 Merge In Rat Output Semantics
* RAT-56 Commons IO Wildcard Excludes
* RAT-65 Rat Pom cleanup
* RAT-68 Add support for Python, C, & script files (.bat & .sh)
* RAT-72 Keep version in plugins sample doc up to date
* RAT-73 / RAT-74 Support for XML output in Ant task and Maven Plugin
* RAT-74 / RAT-75 Support for custom XSLT stylesheets
Rat 0.6
===========
* Support for TMF header
* Comprehend PEM, CRL file endings
* Added reporting capability to recursive rat script
* Moved to the Incubator@Apache
* Issues Resolved (see http://issues.apache.org/jira):
* Bug:
* RAT-3 Incorrect alignment of file contents
* RAT-11 Incorrect number of unnapproved licences reported
* RAT-12 Incorrect SCM info in maven plugin pom
* RAT-29 NPE on "mvn install" in rat-anttasks
* RAT-33 Mailing list subscribe points to unsubscribe
* RAT-34 No license header added for java files that do not contain project line
* RAT-35 Incorrect number of unapproved licenses reported by rat:check
* RAT-36 Report header incorrectly refers to an "L" license marker
* Improvement:
* RAT-8 [PATCH] add JavaCC to GeneratedLicenseNotRequired
* RAT-9 A more informative website
* RAT-10 A few Javadoc comments
* RAT-23 More details in text summary
* RAT-24 Include checksums on web page
* RAT-26 Improve web summary
* RAT-27 Index page
* RAT-37 List all resources with unapproved licenses at the beginning of the report
* New Feature
* RAT-6 RAT Source Import
* Task
* RAT-28 Repackage maven plugin
* Wish
* RAT-1 maven-rat-plugin and ant-rat tasks
Rat 0.5.1
=========
* Fixed file closing bug
* Fixed XML bad character bug
Rat 0.5
=======
* Added header matcher for DoJo.
* Refactoring existing codebase to separate concerns and use
resource pipeline.
* New header matching library.
Rat 0.4.1
=========
Rat 0.4.1 is the first release with distributions. The release was cut
for this purpose.
Rat 0.4.1 Notes
===============
* Created POM for use with Rat library.
* Ant task switched to use Xml based report.
Rat 0.4 Notes
=============
* Ant tasks added. These allow Rat reports to be run against a wide variety
of resources from within Ant.
* Legacy report is now deprecated. It will be removed before the next release.
* Created stylesheet for xml reports which produce output similar to the legacy
plain text report. Application now uses the xml report with that stylesheet.
* Revised xml output format
* Improve support for binary recognition by adding code that tastes files
Rat 0.3 Notes
=============
* This is the last release with the original hacked together plain test report.
The new XML reporting code is present but is not yet the default.
* Rat 0.3 is the first release with release notes. All previous releases are
now consigned to Ancient History. No record of them will be found here.
