[Colander-users] Development Release 0.5.4

[Craig R. <cro...@us...>]

A lot of reworking of the code went into this release to properly  
identify and support various character encodings.  The ByteStream class  
also had to be altered to take advantage of the non-blocking  
capabilities of the Java nio Channel classes.

The changes seem to be running smoothly, although the code needs to be  
cleaned up a little again.  The development series is now feature  
complete for the forthcoming 0.6 stable series, which will be beta  
status.  The remaining 0.5 releases will be rounding out the test  
suite, fixing bugs, cleaning up code and documentation.

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Colander is a Java application which acts as a scripted personal  
Internet agent (performance of arbitrary scripted tasks through the  
provided framework.) Access is possible through a standard web browser.

This is an unstable release which should function correctly, but may  
have some bugs and rough edges. Also, it doesn't have up-to-date  
documentation like the stable releases.