ProGuard Java Optimizer and Obfuscator

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 4.4beta

Notes:
This distribution comes as a tar.gz file or as a zip file.
It contains the following directories:

- lib      : the main jars, compiled and ready to use with
             "java -jar ...."
- docs     : the complete documentation, licenses, etc.
             in html format
- examples : some example configuration files
- src      : the source code

The best place to start is docs/index.html

Enjoy!


Changes:
- Added new peephole optimizations.
- Added option -optimizations for fine-grained
  configuration of optimizations.
- Added option -adaptclassstrings for adapting
  string constants that correspond to obfuscated
  classes.
- Added option -keeppackagenames for keeping
  specified package names from being obfuscated.
- Added option -keepdirectories for keeping
  specified directory entries in output jars.
- Extended options -dontnote and -dontwarn for
  fine-grained configuration of notes and warnings.
- Added option -regex in ReTrace, for specifying
  alternative regular expressions to parse stack
  traces.
- Extended renaming of resource files based on
  obfuscation.
- Avoiding bug in IBM's JVM for JSE, in
  optimization step.
- Avoiding ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in
  optimization step.
- Fixed configuration with annotations that are
  not preserved themselves. 
- Fixed preverification of invocations of super
  constructors with arguments containing ternary
  operators.
- Fixed processing of unreachable exception
  handlers.
- Fixed repeated method inlining.
- Fixed inlining of finally blocks surrounded by
  large try blocks, compiled with JDK 1.4 or earlier.
- Fixed optimization of complex finally blocks,
  compiled with JDK 1.4 or earlier.
- Fixed obfuscation of anonymous class names,
  if EnclosingMethod attributes are being kept.
- Fixed obfuscation of inner class names in
  generic types. 
- Fixed decoding of UTF-8 strings containing
  special characters.
- Fixed copying of debug information and
  annotations when merging classes.
- Fixed writing out of unknown attributes.
- Fixed updating manifest files with split lines.
- Updated documentation and examples.