# Releases

## 1.6.2

* remove hashCode caching since it could introduce very subtle bugs

## v1.6.1

* now build by JDK 11 and removed errorprone compiler #52

* introduce sonarqube and remove codecov

* improve javadoc by fixing many typos #53

* some small bugfixes

## v1.6.0

* migrate to github actions, codecov and maven central #49

* add `indexOf` (thx @hlyakhovich) #48

* add `toShortArray` (thx @hlyakhovich) #44

* add `from()` constructor from `short` vararg or array (thx @hlyakhovich) #45

* add an automatic module name to support the JPMS (thx @airsquared) #47

* fix warning of junit 4.13 CVE-2020-15250

## v1.5.0

* fix `leftShift()` and `rightShift()` to respect byte order (thx @gfpeltier)

* fix `bitAt()` to respect byte order (thx @gfpeltier)

## v1.4.0

* add `from()` constructor from `float[]`

* add `from()` constructor from `double[]`

* fix throwing `IllegalArgumentException` instead of `IllegalStateException` in `.toUUID()`

## v1.3.0

* improve hex encoder performance by factor 5

## v1.2.0

* let hex decoder accept odd length string #37

## v1.1.0

* add `unsecureRandom()` constructor which creates random for e.g. tests or deterministic randoms

* adds overwrite method to Bytes (thx @JadePaukkunen)

* make project OSGi compatible #36

* add `toFloatArray()` converter #30

* add `toDoubleArray()` converter #30

## v1.0.0

* add `append()` method supporting multiple byte arrays #26

* add `toCharArray()` method which decodes internal byte array to char[] #27

* add `encodeBase64()` supporting padding-less encoding

* add `toIntArray()` converter #28

* add `toLongArray()` converter #29

* add `AutoCloseable` to MutableBytes interface #31

* add `allocate()` as mutable byte static constructor (thx @petrukhnov)

### Breaking

* removed deprecated `toObjectArray()`; use `toBoxedArray()` instead

## v0.8.0

* add radix encoding/parsing and fix radix tests #6, #20

* add support for Base32 RFC4648 non-hex alphabet encoding/parsing #21

* add constructor for `IntBuffer` and `CharBuffer`

* `parse()` methods now expect more flexible `CharSequence` instead of `String` #23

* `from()` constructor reading from `char[]` has new version that accepts offset and length #24

* add `from()` constructor reading file with offset and length parameter #25

### Breaking

* interface `BinaryToTextEncoding.decode()` changed param to `CharSequence` from `String` #23

### Deprecations (will be removed in v1.0+)

* `parseBase36()`/`encodeBase36()` - use `parseRadix(36)`/`encodeRadix(36)` instead

## v0.7.1

* sign AFTER ProGuard so optimized version has correct jar signature

## v0.7.0

* add `count` method for counting byte arrays (like pattern matching)

* add dedicated `md5` and `sha1` transformer methods

* add `from(Inputstream stream, int maxlength)` limiting stream reading constructor #13

* add indexOf() with `fromIndex` parameter #14

* add support for base64 url safe encoding #15

* use EMPTY constant instance for empty byte array to safe memory #16

* add `startsWith()` and `endsWidth()` methods #12

* add cache for calculating the hashCode

* add HMAC byte transformer #11

* add unsigned sort transformer #17

* add `.immutable()` converter in MutableBytes #18

## v0.6.0

* add `encodeCharsetToBytes()` feature #7

* add new `from(char[] charArray, Charset charset)` constructor with improved logic #8

* add constructor/converter from/to UUID #9

* add `empty()` constructor, creating empty byte array

### Deprecations (will be removed in v1.0+)

* `toObjectArray()` renamed to `toBoxedArray()`

## v0.5.0

* better resource handling for compression

* add nullSafe from() constructor

* rename `toObjectArray()` to `toBoxedArray()` (will be removed in 1.0)

* add appendNullSafe and append string with encoding

* add proguard optimized version (can be used with classifier 'optimized')

* add constant time equals

* fix or() operator using and() internally #2

## v0.4.6

* add appending with strings

* add boolean, float, double and char array constructor

* try to fix radix encoder missing prefixing 0 byte

## v0.4.5

* add nullSafe wrapper

* fix accepting illegal hex string when parsing

## v0.4.4

* add feature for gathering parts of the array as primitives (e.g. intAt(int position))

* add to unsigned byte conversations

* add overloaded equals

## v0.4.3

* add toFloat/toDouble

* add resize mode (from 0 or length)

* fix bitAt bug

* add in place byte array shift feature

## v0.4.2

* add check method if transformer supports inplace

* add contains method

* add Iterable interface

* add setByteAt

* add construction from DataInput

## v0.4.1

* add bitAt() utility

* add hash feature

* add checksum transformer

* add gzip transformer

## v0.4.0

* logical expressions in validators

* more validators

## v0.3.1

* better validation and more creation possibilities

* create from bigInteger, int[], long[] and Byte[]

## v0.3.0

* better type hierarchy with read-only and mutable types

* add validator feature

* add bit switch feature

## v0.2.0

initial version