We have fixed quite a few bugs and added some significant enhancements since Apache Commons CSV 1.7 was released, so I would like to release Apache Commons CSV 1.8.
Apache Commons CSV 1.8 RC1 is available for review here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1 (svn revision 37670) The Git tag commons-csv-1.8-RC1 commit for this RC is c1c8b32809df295423fc897eae0e8b22bfadfe27 which you can browse here: https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=commons-csv.git;a=commit;h=c1c8b32809df295423fc897eae0e8b22bfadfe27 You may checkout this tag using: git clone https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-csv.git --branch commons-csv-1.8-RC1 commons-csv-1.8-RC1 Maven artifacts are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-1489/org/apache/commons/commons-csv/1.8/ These are the artifacts and their hashes: #Release SHA-512s #Sat Jan 18 12:01:01 EST 2020 commons-csv-1.8-bin.tar.gz=85a876b41aa9ce61f7f533c46df48754e05bddbdef892aed2bac7674b5ea13855de25576364649048dbb55e7fb18a354305b56cb697e85df68a87113954128ed commons-csv-1.8-bin.zip=9b86a22367c84a0c96a457e8495f81113b64ae5501eabbe2ea4137654b6baa05bcc24a19626452b80e30ff2dd39214840c6ec534be1db9eec2d12c93eeab2de1 commons-csv-1.8-javadoc.jar=a481149dfeffe4e915d5d2e846831994223fc7d09ed2b61398c68eed5a672654a141fa6de705aa743d0b5af6fd24a3f4b0d5e7cee238a1f7642673288d4a985d commons-csv-1.8-sources.jar=f68e50f8a025a8b2a570b46905b22b5753a83c19bee5c38103d92ec1e47b4e0d27353e7931961e74fe8e67c4909b0ece6ede49a585d2f9180a7a15458b020bc0 commons-csv-1.8-src.tar.gz=c3268f456978e75c19134e35d05bff77002b2fa7439be2623d58a102cab4f93b0913a1a789f962aafcd677938be1547f47c5dd86e3ea08b7bf8f0420e81beb7a commons-csv-1.8-src.zip=ebb32f2406b6afa48472283612c7d0a94f932d7ae7a72ad1d239e2249de12f1e0da7f61d34d95d66b1d1fe95b66b6316af9d1fc93734f610cce4a7163b0900d0 commons-csv-1.8-test-sources.jar=13508d417e23a5d3f575a39b3aedb20d0d834335d7994f3045fff316e6b12e50cbf9afe908271357b4091d981c178a28dc61bcdb8db60bd0ada07d3de59eacbf commons-csv-1.8-tests.jar=901889d4be203c2044df89b7e051d21e7b806e5e56438bf9a7483b334331da94b71de1a129c8bf7967e02479a0922bb834ce37eaabf6662702e147813ecb2b7f I have tested this with ' mvn -V -Prelease -Ptest-deploy -P jacoco -P japicmp clean package site deploy' using: Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 1.8.0_241, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_241\jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Additional tests with 'mvn -V clean test' using: Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 1.8.0_241, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_241\jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 11.0.6, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.6 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 12.0.2, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-12.0.2 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 13.0.2, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.2 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 14-ea, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\openjdk\jdk-14 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" JaCoCo fails on Java 15-EA because it does not know about class file major version 59: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 59 at org.jacoco.agent.rt.internal_43f5073.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:195) Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin\.. Java version: 15-ea, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: C:\Program Files\Java\openjdk\jdk-15 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows" Details of changes since 1.7 are in the release notes: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1/site/changes-report.html Site: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1/site/index.html (note some *relative* links are broken and the 1.8 directories are not yet created - these will be OK once the site is deployed.) JApiCmp Report (compared to 1.7): https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1/site/japicmp.html RAT Report: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/csv/1.8-RC1/site/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. 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