What's Changed

• 4.0.4 release by @lukasj in #324
• [#325] restore permissive base64 decoding by @laurentschoelens in #326
• [#330] fixes documentation by @laurentschoelens in #331
• add dependabot by @lukasj in #332
• move dependabot config to the right location by @lukasj in #333
• Bump the actions-dependencies group with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #334
• Bump the dependencies group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #336
• Bump the maven-plugins group across 2 directories with 15 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #335

Full Changelog: 4.0.4...4.0.5

What's Changed

• 4.0.3 release by @lukasj in #322
• Create TCK Challenge Template by @Pandrex247 in #319
• activation-api 2.1.4 by @lukasj in #321
• fix #315 by @antoniosanct in #320

New Contributors

• @Pandrex247 made their first contribution in #319

Full Changelog: 4.0.3...4.0.4

What's Changed

• 4.0.2 release by @lukasj in #307
• Handle empty string input for parseBase64Binary instead of throwing IllegalArgumentException by @SanderHestvik in #309
• Fix #316, Unable to override JAXBContextFactory through properties by @blutorange in #317
• fix: Unmarshalling hexBinary with leading whitespaces yields null by @netmikey in #313

New Contributors

• @SanderHestvik made their first contribution in #309
• @blutorange made their first contribution in #317
• @netmikey made their first contribution in #313

Full Changelog: 4.0.2...4.0.3

The 4.0.2 release is a bug fix release of 4.0.0.

Following changes are included:

• #229 - Documented exception thrown is incorrect for javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter#print(Object) methods
• #231 - Incorrect exception thrown by javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter
• #236 - Fix the link to WS-I BP 1.0 in the spec
• #284 - Re-use SAXParserFactory in AbstractUnmarshallerImpl for better performance
• Javadoc improvements - formatting, typos, grammar, sample code
• uses Jakarta Activation APIs 2.1.3

New Contributors

• @antoniosanct made their first contribution in #281

Full Changelog: 4.0.1...4.0.2

The 4.0.1 release is a bug fix release of 4.0.0.

Following changes are included:

• #240 - Fixes parseBoolean according spec
• #273 - Allow usage of API jar on Android platform
• #275 - Make sure providers get only properties they are required to understand
• #276 - Add instructions for OSGi mediator
• uses Jakarta Activation APIs 2.1.2

New Contributors

• @laurentschoelens made their first contribution in #279

Full Changelog: 4.0.0...4.0.1

The major release contains following changes:

• drops compatibility with JAXB 1.0
• removes constraints on using java.desktop/java.beans.Introspector
• removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.Validator
• removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.context.factory property
• drops implementation lookup through META-INF/services/jakarta.xml.bind.JAXBContext
• drops implementation lookup through jaxb.properties file
• adds implementation lookup through the properties Map passed to JAXBContext.newInstance(...) methods
• provided implementation of the DatatypeConverterInterface throws exception on invalid input

Project Board: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jaxb-api/projects/1
Full Changelog: 3.0.0...4.0.0

The 4.0.0 RC2 is a second release candidate of 4.0.0.

Following changes are included:

• Simplified generics in XmlJavaTypeAdapter
• uses Jakarta Activation APIs 2.1.0-RC1

The 4.0.0 RC1 is a first release candidate of 4.0.0.

Following changes are included:

• JDK17 support
• Removed deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.Validator
• Implementation lookup simplified
• uses Jakarta Activation APIs 2.1.0-RC1

The 3.0.1 release is a bug fix release of 3.0.0.

Following changes are included:

• #172 - Default factory class name changed
• Classloading related fixes
• uses Jakarta Activation APIs 2.0.1

The 3.0.0 release is the first release under the jakarta.xml.bind.* namespace.