Re: [xml-dev] jaxen 2.0.0 beta 1

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:53:39 +0000
Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org> wrote:

> I've posted the first beta of the Jaxen XPath engine 2.0 on Maven
> Central. The coordinates are:
> 
> <dependency>
>     <groupId>jaxen</groupId>
>     <artifactId>jaxen</artifactId>
>     <version>2.0.0-beta-1</version>
> </dependency>
> 
> Despite the major version bump, I believe this should be a drop in
> replacement for almost every project (though I'm not 100% sure, which
> is why this is a beta.) The two major possible incompatibilities are:
> 
> * The minimum supported Java version is now 1.5, up from 1.4 in 1.2.0
> and 1.3 in 1.1.6.
> * dom4j, XOM, and JDOM are now optional dependencies so if a project
> was depending on them to be loaded transitively it will need to add
> explicit dependencies to build.
> 
> On the plus side, this makes classpaths much smaller and less complex,
> and will shut up a lot of noise from static analysis tools.
> 
> In addition the Jaxen core code is also a little smaller and has fixed
> a few minor bugs in XPath evaluation, mostly weird cases found by
> fuzzing that are unlikely to arise in practice.
> 
> If you do have any trouble at all upgrading to this release, please
> file an issue in the repo:
> 
> https://github.com/jaxen-xpath/
> 
> Questions can be directed to Github discussions:
> 
> https://github.com/jaxen-xpath/jaxen/discussions
> 

thanks. And i wasn't aware of this github feature.

> Thanks!
> 



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