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$Id: RELEASE-NOTES.txt 1236877 2012-01-27 20:36:39Z sebb $
Commons Validator Package
Version 1.4.0
Release Notes
INTRODUCTION
============
This is a maintenance release with improvements. New projects are encouraged to
use this release of Commons Validator.
IMPORTANT NOTES
================
BREAKING CHANGES:
* NONE.
DEPENDENCIES
=============
The dependencies for Validator 1.4 have only one change since the 1.3.1
release, in that the Jakarta ORO dependency has been removed (VALIDATOR-193).
For the current list of dependencies, please see
http://commons.apache.org/validator/dependencies.html
BUGS FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE
===========================
* [VALIDATOR-216] - UrlValidator rejects top-level domains (TLDs) with
more than 4 characters
* [VALIDATOR-218] - UrlValidator fail when path contains "(" / ")"
* [VALIDATOR-220] - EmailValidator fails with ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
on domain names longer than 10 segments
* [VALIDATOR-223] - Move the trim() function from validateRequired.js to
validateUtilities.js
* [VALIDATOR-271] - gmail testing addresses do not validate
* [VALIDATOR-276] - isValidURL call returns false for file scheme/protocol
when URL is correct
* [VALIDATOR-282] - formatDate(String value, Locale locale) in
GenericTypeValidator uses DateFormat.SHORT instead of
DateFormat.DEFAULT
* [VALIDATOR-286] - isValid method for EmailValidator should return false
for domain with special characters only
* [VALIDATOR-289] - UrlValidator.isValid does not properly validate *.travel
domains
* [VALIDATOR-292] - @localhost and @localhost.localdomain email addresses
aren't correctly detected as valid
* [VALIDATOR-293] - Email validation fails with dash or hyphen at end of
local address
IMPROVEMENTS OVER PREVIOUS RELEASE
===================================
* [VALIDATOR-188] - Extend ISBN validator to support smooth transition to
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 standard
* [VALIDATOR-191] - Remove the dependency on Jakarta ORO (move to JDK 1.4
regular expression support)
* [VALIDATOR-192] - Adding ISBNValidator to GenericValidator
* [VALIDATOR-193] - Removing ORO dep. from GenericValidator
* [VALIDATOR-203] - Refactor UrlValidator - especially the line 370-ish.
* [VALIDATOR-211] - Upgrade to Digester 1.8
* [VALIDATOR-213] - Factor out Check Digit logic into separate
implementations
* [VALIDATOR-214] - New Regular Expression validator using JDK 1.4's Regex
* [VALIDATOR-215] - New generic CodeValidator that validates format, length
and Check Digit for a code
* [VALIDATOR-224] - validatorUtilities.js - replace colon characters in the
function name (JSF/Shale)
* [VALIDATOR-226] - Null-Stream input to ValidatorResources leads to
MalformedURLExceptions
* [VALIDATOR-232] - Add script attribute to control script generation
* [VALIDATOR-233] - Switch to using Version 0.4.3 of the Dojo Compressor
from the maven repo
* [VALIDATOR-234] - Create 1.4 DTD
* [VALIDATOR-240] - Support the 65 prefix for Discover Card
* [VALIDATOR-241] - New InetAdress Validator implementation
* [VALIDATOR-242] - Move EmailValidator to routines package
* [VALIDATOR-247] - Move CreditCardValidator to routines package and
refactor to use new CodeValidator
* [VALIDATOR-248] - Add an option to allow 'localhost' as a valid hostname
part in the URL
* [VALIDATOR-249] - Add Diners card validation to CreditCardValidator
* [VALIDATOR-250] - Banking CheckDigit implementations: ABA, CUSIP, IBAN,
ISIN and Sedol
* [VALIDATOR-251] - url with brackets is not validated thru URLvalidator
class.
* [VALIDATOR-252] - Performance improvement of DomainValidator by change
the regular expression
* [VALIDATOR-275] - EmailValidator.isValid(String) follows RFC822 but
violates RFC1034
* [VALIDATOR-288] - UrlValidator does not validate URL with simple domains
(eg: http://hostname )
* [VALIDATOR-300] - clirr Report - EmailValidator.isValidIpAddress() argument
type change
* [VALIDATOR-301] - CheckStyle and FindBug Issues - inner classes and key sets
DEPRECATIONS
============
* Most of the org.apache.commons.validator classes have been deprecated,
in favour of the new org.apache.commons.validator.routines classes.
OTHER NOTES
============
Users should be aware of the following potential issues with migration:
* The protected method validator.EmailValidator.isValidIpAddress() previously
exposed a Jakarta ORO class via its signature. The signature has been
modified to accept a a java.lang.String and is not therefore not compatible.
However, this class is deprecated and clients should use the equivalent
class in the validator.routines package.
* Invocations of the method GenericValidator.matchRegexp() should be inspected
for semantic differences between Jakarta ORO and Java regular expressions.
