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SoftSmithy news: after the release v1.1.1 last year (I didn't blog about it), I've recently released the version v2.0 of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

As announced in the blog post about the release v1.0, v2.0 is still based on Java SE 8, but requires JUnit 5 when working with the JUnit helper classes.
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SoftSmithy news: after the releases v0.8 and v0.9 last year (I didn't blog about those), I've recently released the version v1.0 of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

With this release I changed the version policy. I'm using now the major version part as well to make it easier to distinguish between major requirement changes such as the Java version and the JUnit version (required by the JUnit helper classes): ... read more

SoftSmithy news: I've recently released the version v0.7 of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

This release consists mainly of some small additions.

Note that for easier version management the version of the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library is aligned with the version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library. As the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library has a dependency on the SoftSmithy Utility Library it's recommended to use the same version of both libraries until the APIs are stable!

You can find the lates Javadoc here: Javadoc

I deployed the artifacts (including the source and javadoc artifacts) to Maven Central.
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SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

This release consists mainly of some small additions.

Note that for easier version management the version of the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library is aligned with the version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library. As the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library has a dependency on the SoftSmithy Utility Library it's recommended to use the same version of both libraries until the APIs are stable!

You can find the lates Javadoc here: Javadoc

I deployed the artifacts (including the source and javadoc artifacts) to Maven Central.
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SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

It has been a while since the last release but a lot of work has been undertaken.

SoftSmithy moved from SourceForge.net to GitHub.
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SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

In addition to some small additions, fixes and clean-ups, SLF4J is now being used for logging (new dependency).... read more

SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

In addition to some small additions, fixes and clean-ups, some migration work has been done and a new utility library has been added: ... read more

SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

In addition to the API updates, a lot of migration work has been done: ... read more

SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

In addition to the API updates, a lot of migration work has been done: ... read more

SoftSmithy news: I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library and the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library.

In addition to the library updates, a lot of migration work has been done: ... read more

I recently released a new version of the SoftSmithy Utility Library. I added new utility methods and classes for locale-sensitive sorting, JPA and more. Have a look at the changelog at the end of the README file and at the Javadoc for more details.

Alongside the SoftSmithy Utility Library (lib) I recently published the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library (devlib). The difference between these two libraries is the SoftSmithy Utility Library (lib) contains classes, which you usually want to deploy with your program, while the SoftSmithy Development Utility Library (devlib) contains classes, which are useful at development and deployment time etc., but you usually won't want them on the classpath of your program. Currently it's quite small. I just added a few utility classes for database population with JPA and for unit testing which are still subject to change while I keep looking for best practices. Have a look at the Javadoc for more details.
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