The Apache Commons BCEL team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons BCEL 6.5.0!
The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate compiled .class files. Classes are represented by objects containing all the symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code instructions. Minor feature and bug fix release. FIXED BUGS: =========== o BCEL-329: MethodGen duplicates some attributes. Thanks to Gary Gregory, Mark Roberts. CHANGES: ======== o BCEL-330: Remove unnecessary references to Constants. Thanks to Mark Roberts. o BCEL-336: MethodGen throws NullPointerException upon Invalid Class File Missing Constructor Body. Thanks to Tomo Suzuki, Gary Gregory. o Improve documentation of Pass3bVerifier (#37). Thanks to Michael Ernst. o Replaced deprecated constants in examples (#38). Thanks to Arthur Kupriyanov. o Update tests from JNA 5.4.0 to 5.5.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests JUnit from 4.12 to 4.13. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from Apache Commons Lang 3.9 to 3.10. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update build maven-pmd-plugin 3.12.0 -> 3.13.0. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests maven-surefire-plugin 3.0.0-M3 -> 3.0.0-M4. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update build japicmp-maven-plugin 0.14.1 -> 0.14.3. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update build jacoco-maven-plugin 0.8.4 -> 0.8.5. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Update tests from commons-io:commons-io 2.6 to 2.7. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Add support for invokestatic of an InterfaceMethodref #39. Thanks to Mark Roberts. o Add attribute name(s) to Code.toString() #40. Thanks to Mark Roberts. o BCEL-338: org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory.createInvoke() populates its internal ConstantPoolGen on bad input, then throws exception. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o BCEL-339: Throw IllegalArgumentException, IllegalStateException, UnsupportedOperationException instead of RuntimeException. Thanks to Gary Gregory. o Make some annotation methods public (#45). Thanks to Mark Roberts. o Fix ConcurrentModificationException in the maven-bundle-plugin:4.2.1:manifest on Java 15-ea. Thanks to Gary Gregory. Historical list of changes: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/changes-report.html For complete information on Apache Commons BCEL, including instructions on how to submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons BCEL website: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel Download it from https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/download_bcel.cgi Have fun! -Apache Commons Team
