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    <title>Java convert - Changes</title>
    <author>Stephen Colebourne</author>
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    <release version="1.8.1" date="2015-10-02" description="Version 1.8.1">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        More lenient test of InetAddress format.
        Fixes #13.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Make Guava dependency optional again.
        Add test run to ensure this
        Fixes #14.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.8" date="2015-09-29" description="Version 1.8">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="update" >
        Avoid use of java.xml.DatatypeConverter which may help Android.
        Fixes #7.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for Guava TypeToken and java.lang.reflect.Type.
        Most string formats of TypeToken are handled, but not all (eg. union types, mult-dimensional arrays).
        The Guava dependency is completely optional, loaded by reflection.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Avoid possible null pointer exception when loading a class.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.7" date="2014-08-04" description="Version 1.7">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add ability to extract the effective type.
        Useful when serializing data to avoid exposing private subclasses.
        The effective type is the class defining the FromString.
        Fixes #8.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.6" date="2014-01-27" description="Version 1.6">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for renaming types and enum constants.
        Fixes #6.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.5" date="2013-09-17" description="Version 1.5">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for all primitive object arrays.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for boolean[].
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for numeric primitive arrays.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for char[] and byte[].
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add StringConverterFactory for more flexible initialization.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Weaken generics to better support framework-level access.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add isConvertible() method.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="update" >
        Validate the @FromString is a static method.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.4" date="2013-08-15" description="Version 1.4">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="update" >
        Change to use Maven plugin for OSGi, changing some published info.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Home page at GitHub.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for FromString using a factory. Issue #5.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="update" >
        Change to use m2e Maven Eclipse.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.3.1" date="2013-03-08" description="Version 1.3.1">
      <action dev="rocketraman" type="fix" >
        Fix OSGI manifest.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.3" date="2013-01-25" description="Version 1.3">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add register method designed for JDK 1.8 method references or lambdas.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="update" >
        Change to requiring JDK 1.6.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add alternate package locations for JSR-310 classes.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.2" date="2011-10-27" description="Version 1.2">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for CharSequence based fromString methods.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Add support for JSR-310 by reflection, avoiding a dependency.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Allow registration of conversions by method name.
      </action>
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="add" >
        Allow toString conversion to specify the desired type.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.2" date="2011-10-21" description="Version 1.1.2">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Allow conversion of primitive types.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1.1" date="2011-10-24" description="Version 1.1.1">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Allow conversion of primitive types
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.1" date="2010-12-04" description="Version 1.1">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Enable superclass factories.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.0" date="2010-09-05" description="Version 1.0">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Lots of tests and fixes.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="0.5" date="unreleased" description="Version 0.5">
      <action dev="jodastephen" type="fix" >
        Initial checkin.
      </action>
    </release>
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