History of Changes
Version 5.2.0 (2023-11-16)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | XMLBEANS-474 | NegativeArraySizeException thrown from TextSaver.resize |
| XMLBEANS-625 | Remove unused JarHelper code |
| XMLBEANS-626 | Interface extensions need explicit dependency on javaparser-symbol-solver-core |
| XMLBEANS-631 | upgrade to log4j 2.21.1 |
| XMLBEANS-632 | upgrade to ant 1.10.14 |
| XMLBEANS-634 | upgrade to javaparser 3.25.5 |
| XMLBEANS-637 | Combine same contiguous element types incorrectly while generating XSD from an XML instance |
| XMLBEANS-638 | make gradle build produce reproducible jars |
| XMLBEANS-639 | add license/notice to sources and javadoc jars |
| XMLBEANS-640 | upgrade to saxon-he 12.3 |
| XMLBEANS-641 | use java.nio.file.Files APIs |
Version 5.1.1 (2022-08-29)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-612 | Adjust Class loading to allow using XMLBeans on Android |
| XMLBEANS-614 | upgrade to log4j 2.18.0 |
| XMLBEANS-619 | Performance enhancement for interface extension generation |
| XMLBEANS-622 | javaparser 3.24.4 |
| XMLBEANS-623 | Hardening of zip slip check in JarHelper |
| XMLBEANS-624 | remove xstc tool |
Version 5.1.0 (2022-06-12)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-47 | Inner Class Handler is not supported |
| XMLBEANS-416 | Allow referencing cross-xsd usertypes |
| XMLBEANS-567 | Fix some problems with XMLBeans Extension Interfaces Feature |
| XMLBEANS-582 | Make XmlCursor AutoCloseable |
| XMLBEANS-584 | Change version code so that the value is automatically generated |
| XMLBEANS-585 | Add sonarqube build |
| XMLBEANS-586 | Migrate ant build to gradle |
| XMLBEANS-588 | GDate can return different values on different current timezones |
| XMLBEANS-591 | Use generics in Collections |
| XMLBEANS-595 | Upgrade to Saxon 11 |
| XMLBEANS-596 | Upgrade to Junit 5 |
| XMLBEANS-597 | Improve support for using XMLBeans on Android |
| XMLBEANS-599 | Line breaks in base64binary caused a validation error |
| XMLBEANS-601 | Create temp files using java.nio.files.Files |
| XMLBEANS-603 | Upgrade to log4j-api 2.17.2 |
| XMLBEANS-604 | Incorrect Assert in Saver.TextSaver |
| XMLBEANS-608 | Memory leak in interface extension handling |
| XMLBEANS-609 | Parameterised return types not handled correctly in interface extensions |
| XMLBEANS-610 | Compiling XSD is slow since version 5.0.1 |
Version 5.0.3 (2021-12-29)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-579 | SampleXmlUtil misses root element with only one child |
| XMLBEANS-580 | upgrade to log4j-api 2.17.1 |
| XMLBEANS-583 | Duplicated "xmlns" attribute in XmlObject.toString() result |
Version 5.0.2 (2021-10-20)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-572 | When generating Java code, there is a wrong reference to java.util.Object[] |
| XMLBEANS-569 | support disallow-doctype-decl setting on XML parser |
| XMLBEANS-566 | Configuration property "quiet" in the maven plugin is spelled wrong |
| XMLBEANS-495 | StackOverflowError when parsing a large number of characters in an XML element |
| XMLBEANS-576 | upgrade javaparser dependency to 3.23.0 |
| XMLBEANS-577 | upgrade to log4j 2.14.1 |
| XMLBEANS-578 | upgrade to saxon 10.6 |
Version 5.0.1 (2021-07-10)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-564 | SAXHelper creates noisy logging with stacktraces |
| XMLBEANS-565 | Generate TypeSystemHolder as .java (in sources) instead of .class (in resources) |
| XMLBEANS-563 | maven plugin does not have feature parity with codehaus maven plugin or allow all configuration options |
| XMLBEANS-235 | Support annotations > 64kb characters |
| XMLBEANS-556 | Support enumerations with more than 64k entries |
| XMLBEANS-487 | Entity replacement in wrong place when expansion coincides with buffer growth |
| XMLBEANS-82 | Use XSD Annotations for comment generation |
| XMLBEANS-214 | Support the 2009 version of xml.xsd |
| XMLBEANS-481 | Base64 to byte[] is not very efficient |
| XMLBEANS-535 | Error line number always -1 for XML validation errors |
| XMLBEANS-559 | Race condition in SchemaIdentityConstraintImpl.java |
Version 5.0.0 (2021-03-14)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-555 | Partial method generation and remove inner factory classes - re-generation of the beans necessary (breaks backwards compatibility) |
| XMLBEANS-551 | use log4j-2 for logging |
| XMLBEANS-486 | Provide Maven plugin |
| XMLBEANS-557 | Duplicate classes in jar |
| XMLBEANS-554 | xmlbean doesn't support the "javasource" attribute |
Version 4.0.0 (2020-10-16)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-540 | Prevent trim of elements when pretty print is used |
| XMLBEANS-542 | SAX Parsing should not fail if parser does not allow the setting of declaration-handler |
| XMLBEANS-548 | XmlDocumentProperties.setStandalone is ignored when saving |
| XMLBEANS-539 | Support for newer versions of Saxon as an XPath engine |
| XMLBEANS-536 | Increase Java 9+ compatibility - Jigsaw/JPMS support - layout of the schema classes changed - regeneration of the schema classes is recommended (breaks backwards compatibility) |
Version 3.1.0 (2019-03-26)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | XMLBEANS-502 | Allow to clear all ThreadLocals from the current thread |
| XMLBEANS-503 | Allow to specify -nowarn in the Ant task |
| XMLBEANS-537 | Add missing StscState.end() to avoid memory leaks |
| XMLBEANS-532 | Streamline build.xml and update tests to Junit4 |
| XMLBEANS-531 | Fix schema gen of attributes |
| XMLBEANS-530 | Allow namespaces of XmlOptions to be passed to the XQuery engine |
| XMLBEANS-529 | Format xmlobjects to the correct string representation on XPath access |
| XMLBEANS-528 | Allow document locator to be set after initialization |
| XMLBEANS-527 | Rename shell script directory, to align on typical directory layout |
| XMLBEANS-526 | Fix issue with loading META-INF/services files |
| XMLBEANS-538 | fix issue with parsing DOM with DTD |
Version 3.0.2 (2018-10-23)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-520 | xmlbeans 3.0.1 - wrong name for source(s) artifact |
| XMLBEANS-519 | issue with using firefly & apache harmony parser |
| XMLBEANS-511 | NPE @ SchemaTypeImpl.isAssignableFrom() |
| XMLBEANS-506 | NPE trying to load resource file if XmlBeans was loaded by the bootstrap ClassLoader |
Version 3.0.1 (2018-08-24)
Version 3.0.0 (2018-06-29)
Summary
- use safe xml parsing - remove piccolo support
- Java 6 is now minimum supported JRE
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XMLBEANS-517 | use safe XML parsers |
 | XMLBEANS-516 | remove unnecessary javax and org.w3c classes (breaks backwards compatibility) |
| XMLBEANS-515 | remove piccolo support (breaks backwards compatibility) |
| XMLBEANS-514 | make java 6 the lowest supported runtime (breaks backwards compatibility) |
| XMLBEANS-489 | fix for Cursor getAllNamespaces not returning default namespace |
| XMLBEANS-499 | xmlbeans2.6.0.jar contains duplicate class files (causes issues on Android) |
| XMLBEANS-447 | Drop the ConcurrentReaderHashMap source code |
| XMLBEANS-404 | entitizeContent CDATA loop iterating too many times (causes assertion error or ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in replace) |
| XMLBEANS-332 | XMLBeans changes surrogate pair bytes to question marks |
Version 2.6.0 (2012-08-14)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Add new xml option CopyUseNewSynchronizationDomain used for copy. This fixes the scenario when copy and access (ex. selectPath) are used in a multithreading environment. | |
| Entitize \r when not in pretty print, this helps with maintaining \r entities. | |
| Validation of integer value containing dot char. | |
| Fix chars in comments to avoid errors in IntelliJ under linux. | |
| Update durations to latest spec. | |
| Compiling schema that contains complex type with simple content that has facets defined in the base simple type | |
| Fix for Piccolo lexer when read method returns 0. | |
| Preserve the CDATA bookmarks when copy from one xmlobject to another. | |
| Resizing circular buffer in saver's output stream implementation. | |
| When not specifing type for a particle in derived schema type and when minOccurs is 0. | |
| Fixed error messages when contain base and derived type names. | |
| Introducing a default maximum entity replacement limit of 10kb, it can be controled by using the option XmlOptions.setLoadEntityBytesLimit. | |
| Fixed javadoc for inst2xsd and xsd2inst tools. | |
| Fix NPE in SchemaTypeImpl.getEnumJavaClass(). | |
| Added multiple entry points and refactored code for xsd2inst code. | |
| Remove org.w3c.dom files from xbean.jar. | |
| Add another xpath and xquery interface implementation. | |
| Add src/xmlinputstream classes org.apache.xmlbeans.xml.stream.* to xmlpublic.jar. | |
| Make bootstrap run twice to avoid GUMP error emails. | |
| XMLBEANS-396 | GML 3.1.1 generated code fails to compile. |
| XMLBEANS-412 | Fix for bug : Pattern facet regex requires dash - to be escaped. |
| XMLBEANS-414 | error cvc-complex-type.2.1: Element 'XXXX' with empty content type cannot have text or element content. |
Version 2.5.0 (2009-12-14)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Exit codes for InstanceValidator | |
| Decimal precision handling fix in xsd2inst | |
| XMLBEANS-350 | Option to perform additional, stricter Schema validation checks |
| updated pattern for dayTimeDuration | |
| Extended year min/max value limitations | |
| Support for date and time types with hour 24. | |
| NOTATION built-in type | |
| DocType fix when root element is changed | |
| "User types" feature - allows mapping of Schema simple types to custom user Java classes http://wiki.apache.org/xmlbeans/UserTypes | |
| XMLBEANS-381 | Nested enumeration type compilation error fix |
| Deadlock fix in generated impl setter simple and array | |
| Required attribute fix in streaming validator | |
| Many other fixes and optimizations |
Version 2.4.0 (2008-07-08)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pluggable XPath/XQuery engine support | |
| Upgraded support for Saxon 9 | |
| Added Schema compilation option to skip errors in case duplicate component declarations are encountered. | |
| Finer grained support for CDATA | |
| Tool to generate XPath for a given cursor position in a document | |
| added more fine-grained control over XML to Java name mapping | |
| Add support for JVM-supported encodings | |
| Adding XmlError codes | |
| Replace static HashMaps with WeakHashMaps | |
| XMLBEANS-309 | Warnings on Generated code |
| XMLBEANS-361 | invalid NaN comparisons |
| Fix qname marshaling when empty namespace | |
| Various other bug fixes |
Version 2.3.0 (2007-06-01)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Improved Saxon support, Saxon 8.8 became the recommended version | |
| Added options to control use of CDATA sections when saving to XML | |
| Added support for QNames in Schema annotations | |
| Added support for new encodings: UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, CP936/GBK. | |
| XMLBEANS-274 | overzealous whitespace cropping after parsing entities like & |
| XMLBEANS-276 | selectPath() with setXqueryCurrentNodeVar() option does not work for Saxon |
| synchronization problem with array setters | |
| XMLBEANS-209 | Saver$TextSaver.replace method throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException |
| XMLBEANS-290 | QNameSet generated by QNameSet.forArray(QName[]) can't be unioned with other QNameSets |
| XMLBEANS-291 | java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when saving XML |
| XMLBEANS-275 | XQuery gives wrong result with Saxon 8.6.1 |
| bug during generation of complex types with simple content | |
| improved error handling during loading of Schema type system | |
| bugs in Duration serialization | |
| XMLCursor.getTextValue() | |
| Remove year zero from GDate, GDateBuilder and XmlCalendar per XMLSchema spec D.3.2 |
Version 2.2.0 (2006-06-23)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Allow polymorphism in Extension Interfaces Feature | |
| Fix for circular buffer in TextSaver | |
| Tuned synchronization for multithreaded validation | |
| Updated to the latest XMLSchema.xsd - January 25, 2006 | |
| Better QName validation | |
| Fix insertion positions when using substitution groups with arrays | |
| Updated XmlBeans to work with SaxonB-8.6.1 in place of SaxonB8.1 | |
| Fix for regex validation in multi-threaded, multi-processor environment | |
| Fix for schema compilation error when restricting complex type with simple content | |
| Implemented XMLInputStream interface for saving a store | |
| XQuery external variable binding support | |
| Various other bug fixes |
Version 2.1.0 (2005-11-16)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed the issue whereby some IDEs would have problems with the TypeSystemHolder class being generated in the classes directory | |
| Better integration with Maven | |
| Implemented support for ID/IDREF in DTDs via DOM's .getElementByID() | |
| Integrated a patch that makes XmlBeans work in a sandboxed environment | |
| Added the ability to control entitization of characters when saving documents | |
| Fixed issue with memory reclamation in multi-threaded environments, which was delayed too much so it could be mistaken for a memory leak | |
| Added numerous new test cases and performance tests | |
| Continued improving performance, especially in the DOM support and XmlCursor areas | |
| Added column numbers support in our snapshot of Piccolo; validation and XMLSchema error reporting benefit from this and is of course usable from user code | |
| Line/column number is now also available for end-tags | |
| Solved a legal inconsistency surrounding our use of JSR173 APIs | |
| Fixed a lot of reported issues in various areas of the product |
Version 2.0.0 (2005-06-30)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| many performance related changes, especialy in the DOM and Cursor areas | |
| rewrite of the <xs:redefine> support | |
| Completed the implementation of Filer | |
| new documentation on xs:any, validation plus updates of the old docs | |
| many bug fixes, including perm gen memory bug |
Version 2.0.0-beta1 (2005-02-24)
Changes
| Type | Bug | Description |
|---|---|---|
| new store implementation, including native DOM implementation | |
| Piccolo is now the default parser.XmlOptions.setLoadUseXMLReader (XMLReader xmlReader) can be used when a diffrent parser is required. | |
| Sample xml generation from an schema file | |
| New failfast behavior for simple types, more consistent | |
| EntityResolver is setable in SchemaCompiler | |
| XPath 2.0 and Xquery support through Saxon | |
| java 1.5 generics for array properties added to generated source | |
| Simplified working with substitution groups by adding XmlObject.substitute() method | |
| "-noVDoc" command-line option for scomp to skip validation of <xs:documentation> contents | |
| uniform access to the getSourceName() method in Schema Object Model | |
| Cleaned up schema compilation APIs with a XmlBeans.compileXmlBeans() | |
| Added error codes and improved validation error messages | |
| Changed .xsb format and loading strategy to improve performance | |
| Ability to pass URLs instead of Files for Wsdl/Schemas | |
| Added option to pass in "##local" to -allowmdef | |
| Inst2xsd: support for xsi:nil and qname fix. | |
| adding getCurrentElementSchemaType in Validator for finding schema types of elements with xsi:type attribute | |
| adding ValidatingInfoXMLStreamReader for PSVI access on XMLStreamReaders | |
| added Location to streaming validation errors | |
| Instance 2 schema tool | |
| Support for arbitrarily nesting <xsd:redefine>s | |
| New "schema bookmark" mechanism allowing one to tag user data on Schema Object Model entities | |
| Add ability for XmlSaxHandler to insert bookmarks while loading | |
| Added a diff utility that compares two jars (or directories) containing compiled Schema types | |
| Interface and pre-post extensions | |
| Enabled ValidatingXMLStreamReader to start validating from both current and next event in the XMLStreamReader | |
| Functionality to retrieve xml validation errors programatically | |
| Added saver options to not save xml decl | |
| Added ability to compile Schemas containing references to SOAP11 encoded arrays | |
| selectChildren and selectAttributes for dynamic getters and some wildcard scenarios | |
| Location in ValidatingXmlStreamReader | |
| Added a wrapper over jsr173's XMLStreamReader | |
| Added support for default value in XMLStreamReaderExt interface and implementation | |
| Adding typed value for QName case in the Validator | |
| Adding an utility for validation of simple schema types | |
| Improved the Validator to ofer PSVI info | |
| Exposed some of the XMLSchema validator functionality in the public interfaces | |
| Added support for XML Catalog, based on Apache Commons CatalogResolver | |
| Added XMLStreamReaderExt an extention of XMLStreamReader which alowes getting strongly typed java values from a stream | |
| Adds support for annotations in XMLSchema | |
| Added JSR 173 support | |
| performance tests | |
| various feature tests | |
| samples and documentation | |
| packaging, licencing changes |