The Apache Commons VFS Project team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons VFS Project 2.4.
Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library. New features and bug fix release. Changes in this version include: New features: o VFS-690: Allow to set key exchange algorithm explicitly. GitHub #32. o VFS-497: Ported filters from Commons IO #9. Thanks to Michael Schnell. o VFS-696: More efficient comparison in FileExtensionSelector #44. Thanks to Robert DeRose. o VFS-660: Expose workaround for connecting to FTP server from different subnets in PASV mode #35. Thanks to Liu Yubao. o VFS-699: Add setting for FTP encoding auto-detection #58. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-706: Add ability to specify buffer sizes #59. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-609: SFTP provider doesn't support a private key as byte array #60. Thanks to stevezhuang, Rostislav, Gary Gregory. o VFS-707: Update Apache HttpClient from 4.5.7 to 4.5.8. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-712: Add null-safe org.apache.commons.vfs2.util.FileObjectUtils.exists(FileObject). Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-713: Add FileObjectUtils.readProperties(FileObject) method to read a .properties file. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-715: Add org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileContent.getByteArray(). Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-719: Add methods to get the contents of file objects as strings. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-720: Implement Closeable for RandomAccessContent #66. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-721: Add support for symbolic links for the local file system and add FileObject#isSymbolicLink(). Thanks to Gary Gregory. Fixed Bugs: o VFS-694: Fix inability to start the DefaultFileMonitor after it has been stopped. GitHub PR #55. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-696: SFTP HTTP and SOCKS proxy authentication. GitHub PR #49. Thanks to rayzzed. o VFS-707: [SFTP] SftpFileSystem.executeCommand(String, StringBuilder) can leak ChannelExec objects. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-709: [SFTP] SftpFileSystem.getGroupsIds() can initialize underlying data more than once while multithreading. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-710: [SFTP] SftpFileSystem.getUid() can initialize underlying data more than once while multithreading. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-711: [SFTP] SftpFileSystem can initialize underlying Session more than once while multithreading. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-662: [SFTP] SftpFileSystem has Thread-safe issue about idleChannel (#36). Thanks to qxo, Alexey Abashev, Gary Gregory. o VFS-700: Some tests fail on Java 11 and above. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Matthias Krueger. o VFS-716: Fix AbstractFileName.getURI returning unencoded #-sign #64. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-698: SFTP file attributes are fetched multiple times leading to very slow directory listing; #65. Thanks to David Septimus, Bernd. o VFS-717: Update org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient from 4.5.8 to 4.5.9. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-718: MonitorInputStream should not close the stream in "read" #67. Thanks to Boris Petrov. Changes: o VFS-692: Update Apache Commons Collections from 4.2 to 4.3. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-693: Add support for customizing FTP transfer aborted status codes. GitHub PR #51. Thanks to Boris Petrov, Gary Gregory. o VFS-702: Simplify adding files to DefaultFileMonitor #57. Thanks to Boris Petrov. o VFS-703: Update Apache Commons Lang from 3.8.1 to 3.9. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o VFS-722: Update Apache Commons Collections from 4.3 to 4.4. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Source incompatibility: org.apache.commons.vfs2.FileFilter.accept(FileSelectInfo) now throws checked exception FileSystemException. o Public API note: The overridden methods getURI() and getFriendlyURI() in org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.local.LocalFileName where removed but are implemented in a superclass. o Public API note: The overridden method org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpFileObject#refresh() was removed but is implemented in a superclass. o Public API note: The overridden method org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.sftp.SftpFileProvider#init() was removed but is implemented in a superclass. Historical list of changes: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/changes-report.html For complete information on Apache Commons VFS Project, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons VFS Project website: Visit http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/ Download it from http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/download_vfs.cgi Gary Gregory On behalf of Apache Commons
