Mojo Animal Sniffer Version 1.14 Released
The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.14.
Animal Sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes compiled with a newer JDK/API are compatible with an older JDK/API.
The following tools are provided by animal sniffer:
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A command line tool to dump the class file version number This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see UnsupportedClassVersionError.
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A set of ANT tasks for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as tasks for creating API signatures from a JDK, or a collection or jar and class files, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements.
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A rule for use in the maven-enforcer-plugin for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature .
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A maven plugin for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as for creating API signatures from a JDK, or the current module's classes, or the current module's dependencies, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements.
The artifacts have are available from the Maven Central repository.
Release Notes - Mojo's Animal Sniffer - Version 1.14
Bugs:
- MANIMALSNIFFER-49 - Support covariant return types
- MANIMALSNIFFER-53 - Documentation error : checking dependency classes
Improvement:
- MANIMALSNIFFER-50 - Apply plugin Annotations (instead of current doclet tags)
Task:
- MANIMALSNIFFER-51 - Upgrade ASM to 5.0.3
The Mojo Team.