[jflex-announce] JFlex 1.7.0 released

[Gerwin K. <ge...@do...>]

JFlex 1.7.0 has been released yesterday at http://jflex.de

Version 1.7.0 contains many small internal modernisations and code improvements.

The user-visible changes are:
 • Unicode 8.0 and 9.0 are now supported
 • JFlex build and runtime now depend on JDK 1.7+
 • Maven build now depends on >= 3.2.2
 • Ant build now depends on >= 1.9.7
 • Updated to most recent version of CUP (11b)
 • The deprecated option --noinputstreamctor has been removed
 • Documentation was improved
 • JFlex start script is now more robust for other locales, such as Japanese
 • An --encoding option to specify input/output encoding
 • Now will report a debug character position when %debug and %char are present

See the full change log at https://github.com/jflex-de/jflex/milestone/10?closed=1 for more detail.

It’s been slightly more than 20 years that JFlex 1.0 was released in May 1998, and it’s been very
nice to see JFlex grow from a small first open source release towards a development tool that is
used all over the planet with active community support, a stable code base, and still excellent
performance. We have more such plans for the future!

Enjoy!
Gerwin
(for the JFlex team Régis Décamps, Steve Rowe, and Gerwin Klein)