Hi, I'd like to release Apache Commons BCEL 6.0 based on RC7. Changes compared to RC6 are:
- restored binary compatibility to a greater degree - fixed issue BCEL-262 BCEL 6.0 RC7 is available for review here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/bcel/ (svn revision 14251) The tag is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/bcel/tags/BCEL_6_0_RC7/ (svn revision 1751084) Maven artifacts are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-1181/org/apache/bcel/bcel/6.0/ These are the Maven artifacts and their hashes bcel-6.0-javadoc.jar (SHA1: f1e1534867a901b9ba4884e5805317635c324589) bcel-6.0-sources.jar (SHA1: 9ba3b50aa95289d01ec119b60be68eb4c608ba1d) bcel-6.0-test-sources.jar (SHA1: 484b29d3a73fbe0c103d85965c4fd22e6253f545) bcel-6.0-tests.jar (SHA1: f8b5857f3245e10548ef29cf7006c045b913a199) bcel-6.0.jar (SHA1: fe1ecaf2ba3b1f9f18cdde4f13943e3ccc1d5e69) bcel-6.0.pom (SHA1: ea17ee1b2c28804437212970ea2d273efeb3807e) I have tested this with JDK 7, 8 using Maven 3.3.9. Details of changes since 1.1 are in the release notes: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/bcel/RELEASE-NOTES.txt http://home.apache.org/~britter/commons/bcel/6.0-RC7/changes-report.html Site: http://home.apache.org/~britter/commons/bcel/6.0-RC7/ (note some *relative* links are broken and the 6.0 directories are not yet created - these will be OK once the site is deployed) Clirr Report (compared to 5.2): http://home.apache.org/~britter/commons/bcel/6.0-RC7/clirr-report.html Note that Clirr reports several errors. These are considered OK for the reasons stated below. These exceptions are also noted in the Changes and Release Notes. Errors reported: - methods added to org.apache.bcel.classfile.Visitor interface: OK because that does not affect binary compatibility. - Removed java.io.Serializable from all classes: OK, because we don't expect anybody to rely on serialization for BCEL classes - Return type of method 'public java.lang.Object getElementAt(int)' has been changed to java.lang.String in class org.apache.bcel.verifier.VerifierFactoryListModel: OK, because this class is part of an UI application and for this reason should only used by Swing. RAT Report: http://home.apache.org/~britter/commons/bcel/6.0-RC7/rat-report.html KEYS: https://www.apache.org/dist/commons/KEYS Please review the release candidate and vote. This vote will close no sooner that 72 hours from now, i.e. sometime after 21:00 CEST 05-July 2016 [ ] +1 Release these artifacts [ ] +0 OK, but... [ ] -0 OK, but really should fix... [ ] -1 I oppose this release because... Thanks! Benedikt
