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0.23.0 (2024-08-20)

• New option –markdown to generate a Markdown report. #404

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0.22.0 (2024-07-21)

• New option –report-only-summary to make reports less verbose. #398

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0.21.2 (2024-05-03)

• Break build if return type of method changed incompatible. #397

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0.21.1 (2024-04-24)

• No StackOverflowException in case an annotation's element is annotated with the annotation itself. #395

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0.21.0 (2024-04-22)

• New compatibility changes: ANNOTATION_ADDED, ANNOTATION_MODIFIED, ANNOTATION_MODIFIED_INCOMPATIBLE, ANNOTATION_REMOVED. #385
• In case of method with array (byte[]) and varargs array (byte[]…) parameter, methods are matched correctly. #393
• AnnotationClassFilter no longer uses ctClass.getClassFile().getAttributes() as this may throw a RuntimeException when CtClass is frozen. #394
• javassist 3.30.2-GA

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0.20.0 (2024-03-06)

• HTML is generated by new class HtmlOutputGenerator instead through XMLOutputGenerator and XSLT. #390

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0.19.1 (2024-03-03)

• The attribute type in JApiCompatibilityChange should have a @XmlAttribute annotation. #387

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0.19.0 (2024-03-03)

• List of compatibilityChanges is no longer an enum but an instance of JApiCompatibilityChange to reflect that METHOD_RETURN_TYPE_CHANGED is not incompatible in case the method's visibility increased #384

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0.18.5 (2024-02-18)

• JApiCmpArchive accepts byte array. #377
• Add CLASS_GENERIC_TEMPLATE_CHANGED only if change status of generic template is MODIFIED. #368
• Take volatile modifier into account. #378

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0.18.4 (2024-02-15)

• Do not mark class as changed in case of synthetic members #375
• Make classes implement JApiHasChangeStatus if they already do. #373
• Take transient modifier into account. #372

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0.18.3 (2023-11-03)

• skip-Tag in plugin configuration and -Djapicmp.skip work #366
• Do not report any incompatibilities if class becomes public. #365

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0.18.2 (2023-10-18)

• Upgrade to groovy 4.0.15 #364
• correct name of package_protected in documentation #365

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0.18.1 (2023-09-29)

• METHOD_NON_STATIC_IN_INTERFACE_NOW_STATIC not source and binary incompatible #363

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0.18.0 (2023-09-22)

• added METHOD_NEW_STATIC_ADDED_TO_INTERFACE, METHOD_NON_STATIC_IN_INTERFACE_NOW_STATIC and METHOD_STATIC_IN_INTERFACE_NO_LONGER_STATIC. #289
• htmlTitle is used as title for maven report. #362

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0.17.3 (2023-09-02)

• METHOD_NEW_DEFAULT is now binary and source compatible. #289

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0.17.2 (2023-03-01)

• Less warnings in maven build. #358
• No warning in maven 3.9.1 due to unused parameter. #357

0.17.1 (2022-11-16)

• Added new compatibility check METHOD_MOVED_TO_SUPERCLASS. #350
• No IllegalStateException when method is removed from sub and super class. #349

0.17.0 (2022-11-16)

• Support for generic type information in class files. #337
• Check implemented interfaces for default methods of super interface. #343
• Detect methods moved to super class with added final. #344

0.16.0 (2022-08-30)

• Detect method varargs changes (METHOD_NOW_VARARGS, METHOD_NO_LONGER_VARARGS). #331
• Constructors are now also reported in case of changes of checked exceptions. #332
• Reduced the maximum memory requirement of the JarArchiveComparator. #333

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0.15.7 (2022-02-27)

• Do not report new methods in super-interface of interface as METHOD_ABSTRACT_ADDED_IN_IMPLEMENTED_INTERFACE. #281
• Detect default implementation in newly added interface. #321

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0.15.6 (2022-01-30)

• Correct resolution of artifact to compare for ejb packaging. #302
• Add option to include SNAPSHOTs in compared version. #301
• Build runs concurrently. #300
• Fix typo in sample configuration. #287

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0.15.5 (2022-01-29)

• METHOD_NEW_DEFAULT is not reported in case default methods overrides other default method. #312
• Valid processing in case interface becomes class and vice versa. #309
• Refine CONSTRUCTOR_LESS_ACCESSIBLE evaluation. #310
• Packing type bundle is supported correctly. #280
• Upgrade to ant 1.10.11 due to security issues
• Upgrade to jsoup 1.14.2 due to security issues

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0.15.4 (2021-10-06)

• ignoreNonResolvableArtifacts is honored for first version of artifact. #288
• Do not report METHOD_ABSTRACT_ADDED_IN_IMPLEMENTED_INTERFACE if it is implemented in superclass. #281
• EOptional.or() returns secondChoice instead of this. #297

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0.15.3 (2021-03-06)

• Exceptions during the artifact resolution do no longer break the build if the artifact was found. #284
• Option ignoreNonResolvableArtifacts is evaluated correctly again. #283
• Workaround was added to support bundle packaging. #280

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0.15.2 (2021-01-07)

• New annotations or new enums are no longer tracked as incompatible (regression) #279
• Updated guava version to 30.0-jre

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0.15.1 (2020-12-30)

• No ArtifactNotFoundException when comparison list is build from maven project #278

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0.15.0 (2020-12-30)

• The maven plugin runs with Java-16. This also made changes necessary to migrate to the maven-resolver-API. Hence; the japicmp-maven plugin only runs with maven >= 3.1.0 #275
• New change that is detected: METHOD_DEFAULT_ADDED_IN_IMPLEMENTED_INTERFACE. #267
• StdoutOutputGenerator does not print superclass if class itself has changed.

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0.14.4 (2020-10-17)

• New compatibility change METHOD_NO_LONGER_THROWS_CHECKED_EXCEPTION. #263
• More detailed output message when skipping the build. #273
• StdoutOutputGenerator prints modified superclasses if outputOnlyModifications=false. #272

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0.14.3 (2019-12-24)

• METHOD_REMOVED_IN_SUPERCLASS is no longer reported if method is moved from superclass to superclass of superclass. #253
• Added METHOD_ADDED_TO_PUBLIC_CLASS as a new compatibility check. #241

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0.14.2 (2019-11-23)

• New properties: japicmp.skip, japicmp.skipXmlReport, japicmp.skipHtmlReport, japicmp.breakBuildOnModifications, japicmp.breakBuildOnBinaryIncompatibleModifications, japicmp.breakBuildOnSourceIncompatibleModifications, japicmp.breakBuildBasedOnSemanticVersioning, japicmp.breakBuildBasedOnSemanticVersioningForMajorVersionZero. #240
• Do not filer modified classes when outputOnlyModifications is set and all members are unchanged. #247

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0.14.1 (2019-05-01)

• New option reportLinkName that allows to define a name for the report link in site reports when using report sets. #236

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0.14.0 (2019-04-14)

• Invocations from different reportSets supported. #232
• Optional dependencies are included, but can be excluded using the new option ignoreMissingOptionalDependency. #230
• Update to javassist 3.24.0-GA (no longer support for Java 1.7).
• Fixed ErrorOnSemanticIncompatibilityForMajorVersionZero. #227
• Support ‘effective final’. #229
• Changed link to javassist site. #233

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0.13.1 (2019-02-25)

• Do not report METHOD_REMOVED_IN_SUPERCLASS if method is pulled up. #222

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0.13.0 (2018-08-20)

• Use javassist 3.23.1-GA.
• Added configuration option to . #213
• CLI support to error on incompatibilities. #216
• japicmp-maven-plugin writes now errors to the console if an incompatible change is detected. #215
• Use MavenParameters to obtain mavenProject in isPomModuleNeedingSkip(). #210
• CompatibilityChanges only detects ANNOTATION_DEPRECATED_ADDED if the annoation has change status NEW or MODIFIED. #213
• The two compatibility changes METHOD_NEW_DEFAULT and METHOD_ADDED_TO_INTERFACE are not set simultaneously. #201
• Added maven dependency on javax.activation. #177

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0.12.0 (2018-05-02)

• If a change is evaluated as binary or source incompatible can be configured. #209
• Proper error message in case class could not loaded from old and new classpath if specified separately. #200
• Skip pom modules in site report. #207
• The parameters for exclusive filters are checked in CLI tool. #202

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0.11.1 (2018-03-12)

• Reduced extraneous whitespace in the generated HTML report. #197
• Addition of a default method to an interface or making a previously abstract method to a default method is marked as incompatible. #201
• japicmp can be build under Oracle JDK 9.0.1 [#182(https://github.com/siom79/japicmp/issues/182)
• If maven artifact is a directory, no stacktrace is printed to stdout. #196
• If interface/class has been removed/added, the class file format version is printed as ‘n.a.’. #194

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0.11.0 (2017-10-18)

• japicmp has now an Ant task. #171
• Two new options includeExclusively and excludeExclusively allow to exclude or include sub-packages. #170
• Changed class file format version is reported. #168
• Square brackets are escaped in regular expressions for behavior matching. #176
• japicmp can be build and run under JDK 1.9. #182

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0.10.0 (2017-04-02)

• The maven plugin relaxes the semantic versioning check for 0.x.x versions, it can be enabled with the option breakBuildBasedOnSemanticVersioningForMajorVersionZero. #165
• The XML report contains now the old and new version of the two archives compared. #164
• The maven plugin execution can be skipped using a CLI property (-Djapicmp.skip=true).
• Removed unnecessary XML element titleOptional from report. #161
• SemverOut now returns 0.0.0 in case no JApiClass(es) are there. #162
• Method throwing in new version RuntimeException is no longer reported to be source incompatible. #167

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0.9.4 (2017-02-16)

• exclude option now also works for inner classes and methods/fields of inner classes. #157
• Added threadSafe=true to @Mojo annotation to suppress @threadSafe warning in parallel builds. #158
• The automatic detection of old version does no longer only compares the qualifier with SNAPSHOT but checks if it ends with SNAPSHOT. #160

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0.9.3 (2016-11-27)

• Added new parameters includeModules and excludeModules to maven plugin. #154
• Do not break build if breakBuildBasedOnSemanticVersioning=true and ignoreMissingOldVersion=true and old version missing. #153
• FIELD_STATIC_AND_OVERRIDES_STATIC and FIELD_LESS_ACCESSIBLE_THAN_IN_SUPERCLASS should not be reported in case field in superclass is also new. #154
• Cover more edit operations on class and interface inheritance hierarchies. #155

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0.9.2 (2016-11-07)

• Illegal characters are removed from filename of diff report. #152
• If method is new, new checked exception is not considered as source incompatible. #151

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0.9.1 (2016-09-28)

• Added new option reportOnlyFilename. #144
• Added new parameter ignoreMissingNewVersion. #148
• Reworked CompatibilityChanges.forAllSuperclasses() such that evaluate() cannot be called recursively. #146

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0.9.0 (2016-08-17)

• Added new option –ignore-missing-classes-by-regex for CLI-Tool. #124
• Added new maven plugin option: breakBuildIfCausedByExclusion. #126
• Implemented skipDiffReport. #139
• Changed the maven site japicmp report to be more descriptive. #141
• Extended automatic detection for new version in case packaging is not jar. #137
• Moving abstract method to interface is binary compatible. #140

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0.8.1 (2016-07-09)

• Variable mavenProject in maven-plugin is read from MavenParameters and not from injected field. #128
• Moving protected field to superclass is no longer marked as binary incompatible. #132
• Maven plugin can be run without section. #134

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0.8.0 (2016-05-14)

• Declaration of and should be optional. #129
• New parameter allows filtering of automatically chosen old version. #129
• Better error message in case exception class could not be loaded from classpath. #130
• serialVersionUID is ignored for enums. #131

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0.7.2 (2016-03-20)

• maven plugin has new option to skip XML, HTML and diff report. #121
• maven-plugin has new option to ignore missing old version. #122
• Interface moved to abstract class is no longer reported to be source incompatible. #123
• When file for optional dependency could not be resolved the plugin does not break the build with ‘could not resolve dependency…’. #125
• Improved output if build is broken due to found incompatibilities.

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0.7.1 (2016-03-14)

• Exceptions declared in method signatures are now tracked and evaluated regarding source incompatibility. #110
• HTML report now names all incompatible changes additional to the markers * and !. #115
• Maven plugin has new parameter postAnalysisScript that allows execution of Groovy script after comparison phase. #120
• Method added to new interface is no longer detected as source incompatible. #112
• Method that overrides in subinterface method from superinterface is no longer detected as source incompatible. #113
• Excluded xerces vom maven-reporting dependency in order to prevent warnings from SAXParserImpl. #109
• Indirectly implemented interfaces are no longer reported as removed. #119

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0.7.0 (2016-02-21)

• japicmp now also supports tracking of source incompatible changes. #59
• The XML report now also outputs the reason for each change for better traceability. #105
• The maven plugin comes now with the new option breakBuildBasedOnSemanticVersioning that breaks the build based on the version numbers of the old and new archive(s) assuming they are using semantic versioning. #108
• The maven plugin now has a new option packagingSupported that lets you define for which packaging types the plugin should be invoked. This is useful when the plugin is defined in the root pom and should be executed for all submodules, but you want to exclude some of these submodules by packaging type. #100
• Fixed NPE in JavadocLikePackageFilter when matching against classes in the default (empty) package. #106

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0.6.2 (2015-12-20)

• Change tracking can now be filtered by annotations (#88).
• Improved error message in case dependent class is not found (#95).
• Added new option <ignoreNonResolvableArtifacts/> for the maven plugin (#94).
• Added option --no-annotations to CLI tool and maven plugin (#91).
• fixed: Values for XML attribute value of JApiAnnotationElementValue are escaped properly (#90).

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0.6.1 (2015-11-09)

• semantic versioning information is now also part of the HTML report (#81)
• title of HTML report is now configurable via maven-plugin (#84)
• line numbers are reported for methods and constructors (#77)
• support for type attribute in japicmp.maven.Dependency
• resolution filter that does not include optional dependencies(#76)
• fixed: methods pulled up to new superinterface are no longer reported as binary incompatible (#85)
• fixed: project dependencies are not resolved transitively (#83)

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0.6.0 (2015-10-11)

• You can provide now a list of jar files to the CLI tool or a list of dependencies to the maven plugin in order to assemble a report over a bunch of jar files (#67).
• It is now possible to provide separate classpaths for the old and new version (#61).
• You can now provide a classifier for the old and new version (#73).
• The maven plugin provides now an option to specify a separate CSS file for the HTML report (#63).
• Dependencies declared with one of the dependency elements (<dependencies/>, <oldDependencies/>, <newDependencies/>) are now resolved transitively and all transitive dependencies are added to the classpath (#75).

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0.5.3 (2015-08-16)

• Supported maven version is now 3.0.3 instead of 3.1.0 (#70).
• maven plugin does not fail if run consecutively (#68).

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0.5.2 (2015-08-08)

• The maven plugin now also includes transitive dependencies (#65).
• The maven plugin now automatically skips pom modules and can be configured to not skip them if necessary (#66).

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0.5.1 (2015-07-19)

• The new option --ignore-missing-classes allows to ignore superclasses or implemented interfaces from third party libraries that are not available on the classpath. #52
• The maven plugin can be invoked by the maven-site-plugin and therewith integrated into the site report. #33
• The new option --html-stylesheet allows to provide an individual CSS stylesheet for the HTML report. #33
• The maven plugin has a new parameter skip that allows to skip its execution (e.g. based on some profile properties). #56
• Fixed: Exception when class has no superclass (comparing rt.jar).
• Fixed: Parameter includes is ignored by the maven plugin.

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0.5.0 (2015-05-26)

• The parameters --exclude and --include have been extended such that next to packages now also classes, methods and fields can be excluded or only included. The syntax is similar to the one used for javadoc references: package.to.include;package.ClassToInclude;package.Class#methodToInclude();package.Class#fieldToInclude. Please note that the separator char has changed from , to ;. This was necessary as the , is now used to separate the arguments for a method in package.Class#methodWithParams(long,int) (#51).
• Parameters classes for methods with the same name but different signatures are no longer resolved through the classpath (#55).

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