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  <developers>
    <person name="Jeremias Märki"          email="jmaerki@users.sourceforge.net"        id="jmaerki" />
    <person name="Web Maestro Clay Leeds"  email="the_webmaestro@users.sourceforge.net" id="the_webmaestro" />
    <person name="Nicola Ken Barozzi"      email="nicolaken@krysalis.org"               id="nicolaken" />
    <person name="Dietmar Bürkle"          email="buerkle@users.sourceforge.net"        id="buerkle" />
    <!-- Add more people here -->
  </developers>

  <todo>
    <actions priority="high">
      <action context="feedback" dev="everyone">
        Provide feedback (positive or negative) on the barcode package and help make it better. Thanks!
      </action>
    </actions>
    <actions priority="medium">
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Escape special characters in Code 128 messages.
      </action>
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Implement Australian Post Customer Barcode based on FourState base implementation.
      </action>
    </actions>
    <actions priority="low">
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Special bitmap generation mode that allows for the narrow bar to match exactly one pixel 
        (smallest possible bitmap to paint the barcode in).
      </action>
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Optimize generation of 2D barcodes in EPS using monochrome bitmaps.
      </action>
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Fix problems with the SAXON 6.x integration: XML prolog generated by an XML 
        fragment included in the output stream. (SAXON 6 will no longer be improved. 
        The SAXON 8 extension can take its place. Keeping this item just as a reminder.)
      </action>
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Implement plausibility checks for configuration.
      </action>
      <action context="code" dev="open">
        Build Playground application.
      </action>
    </actions>
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      <action context="code" dev="SN">
      </action>
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    <actions priority="medium">
      <action context="docs" dev="open">
      </action>
    </actions>
    -->
  </todo>

  <changes>
    <!-- Add new releases here -->
    <release version="dev">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added URL-support for binary data encoding to PDF417 (same pattern as for DataMatrix). 
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="3294287">
        Fixed a NullPointerException when setting minSize or maxSize to null in DataMatrixBean. 
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed a refactoring mistake in the barcode web application which caused a
        NullPointerException. 
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Improved XHTML production to make the XHTML more compatible with current browsers. 
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.1" date="2010-12-15">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added OSGi metadata to barcode4j.jar and barcode4j-light.jar. 
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="3048549">
        Bugfix for DataMatrix when character 0x0060 (&#x0060;) is encountered. 
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="2804024">
        Fixed PDF417 high-level encoding: shift to byte must not reset text encoding's sub-mode.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed stray "Content is not allowed in prolog" message caused by the PreloaderBarcode's
        underlying XML parser by switching from Transformer to DocumentBuilder for XML loading.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="2815887" due-to="Chris Bowditch" due-to-email="cbowditch.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Fixed mistake in an error message of the EAN-13 implementation.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Changed SVG production to make it compatible with Firefox (no use of CSS style attributes).
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="2688716" due-to="Chris Bowditch" due-to-email="cbowditch.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Fixed a NullPointerException in PreloaderBarcode.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Adding a filter for non-printable ASCII characters for the human-readable part of Code128
        so these characters don't mess it up.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed a bug concerning size calculation for Code39.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="1679185">
        Added support for ITF-14.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="2113589" due-to="Thomas Jost" due-to-email="joscht.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Added support for restricting Code128 codesets to A, B, C or a combination.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="2482570">
        Bugfix for an StringIndexOutOfBoundsException with PDF417 (single trailing punctuation
        character in mixed sub-mode). 
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added plug-ins for the image loading framework in Apache XML Graphics Commons. This
        enables, among other things, barcodes in Apache FOP for RTF output and for the new
        intermediate format being developed. 
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="2294201" due-to="Didier Donsez" due-to-email="donsez.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Added a Apache Ant task for generating barcodes inside Ant scripts.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="2353982" due-to="Kalle Sandberg" due-to-email="ks.at.viaduct.se">
        Support in FOP extensions for escaping characters that are not encodable in XML,
        such as RS or GS. Java Unicode escaping syntax is used: \u001e
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="2353976" due-to="Kalle Sandberg" due-to-email="ks.at.viaduct.se">
        Support added for a deletion placeholder when formatting the human-readable part.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" fixes-bug="2207427" due-to="ToM" due-to-email="tom_1st.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Codabar: Option to suppress/display the start/stop characters in the human-readable part
        like for Code39.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        DataMatrix: Added support restricting the desired symbol sizes.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        DataMatrix: Added support for referencing binary data through URLs
        (RFC 2397 data URLs, too).
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="1970483">
        Bugfix for sub-mode switch from Punctuation to Alpha in PDF417.
      </action>      
    </release>
    <release version="2.0" date="2008-05-14">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added support for the Code 39 extended character set.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added support for left, right, center and justify alignment of the human-readable part.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added an implementation for USPS Intelligent Mail (4-State Customer Barcode).
      </action>      
      <action dev="buerkle" type="fix" context="code">
        Various improvements and bugfixes for EAN-128.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="1945793">
        Bugfix for text painting at small text sized when anti-aliasing is disabled.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed two bugs concerning Base 256 encoding (DataMatrix).  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Branko van Abel" due-to-email="branko.at.edmond.nl">
        Added auto-sizing feature for PDF417 with an option to specify the width-to-height ration
        for the symbol.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" due-to="Branko van Abel" due-to-email="branko.at.edmond.nl">
        Improved Code128 encoding results in smaller barcodes in some cases.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added support for Macro 05/06 character abbreviation (DataMatrix).
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed pattern handling: Trailing pattern text was omitted.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Trevor Spiteri" due-to-email="tspiteri.at.falmalta.com">
        Added the possibility to restrict the generation of DataMatrix to square or rectangular
        symbols.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="1698523" due-to="Dan Anderson" due-to-email="mordrid52.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Fixed default values for POSTNETBean (so they match the values defined in DMM 708).  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed several problems in PDF417 (high-level encoding).  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="1664266">
        Fixed a bug in DataMatrix (more specifically with EDIFACT encodation).  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed a bug in the DataMatrix look-ahead test for high-level encoding.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed row-height setting for PDF417 which was completely ignored.  
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="2.0 alpha 2" date="2007-02-14">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed the registration of all barcode types in the FOP 0.20.5 extension. PDF417 and 
        DataMatrix didn't work in 2.0 alpha 1.  
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added support for orientation in the FOP 0.20.5 extension.
      </action>      
    </release>
    <release version="2.0 alpha 1" date="2007-01-19">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Dimitar Vlasev" due-to-email="vlasevdr.at.yahoo.com">
        Added a feature for applying a formatting pattern to the human-readable message (for
        Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128 and Codabar).
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code" due-to="Robert Deeken" due-to-email="rdeeken.at.users.sourceforge.net">
        Adjusted SAXON 8 extension to versions 8.7.1 and later. This was necessary because of
        backwards-incompatible changes in the extensions API after the 8.0 release.
      </action>      
      <action dev="buerkle" type="add" context="code">
        Added an initial version of a EAN-128 implementation.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Bugfix: Skip generating metadata using ImageIO if it's not writable (as for image/bmp 
        in JDK 1.5)
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added an initial version of a DataMatrix implementation.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added a Royal Mail Customer Barcode implementation. This is a "four state" barcode.
        The base implementation can also be used for other four state barcodes later.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added support for barcode orientation (0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees).
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
        Made logic handlers local to a barcode where appropriate to reflect reality 
        and provide greater flexibility.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added a PDF417 implementation.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added extension for the redesigned Apache FOP.
      </action>      
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        For Code128, the font descender has to be added to the overall barcode height so
        lower-case characters don't get clipped.
      </action>      
    </release>
    <release version="1.0" date="2004-11-18">
      <action dev="the_webmaestro" type="update" context="docs">
        Documentation updates.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.0rc1" date="2004-10-31">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
        For Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39 and POSTNET, added the ability to include the generated 
        checksum in the human-readable part. For Code39, the start and stop characters can also 
        be enabled.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
        Barcode XML for the human-readable part is now different, all parameters sub-elements of 
        a "human-readable" element.      
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        POSTNET now displays the correct expected checksum character.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added a sample applet to demonstrate barcodes on the website and the use of the Bean-API
        in conjunction with Java2D/AWT-drawing.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Barcode4J now has a Bean-style API making Avalon Framework an 
        optional dependency. The build produces a new JAR, 
        barcode4j-light.jar, which only contains the 
        non-Avalon-Framework-dependant classes.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="legal">
        Barcode4J is now under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The Copyright name has been changed 
        from Nicola Ken Barozzi to Jeremias Maerki. The latter was requested by Nicola Ken Barozzi 
        and was approved through community decision. At least 95% percent of the code has been 
        developed by Jeremias Maerki anyway.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        SVG generators now create a viewBox and work with logical units 
        instead of with real world units.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Changed internal unit for font sizes from points to millimeters to 
        faciliate SVG generation with a viewBox attribute.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added an XSLT extension for SAXON 8.x.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" due-to="Bruno Marçal Dias" due-to-email="bruno-m-dias.at.telecom.pt">
        Fixed FOP extension to work with the AWT renderer.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code" fixes-bug="942246">
        Bug 942246: Fixed a bug in the default Code 128 encoder for FNC1 commands in codeset C.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="admin">
        "Krysalis Barcode" renamed to "Barcode4J" and moved to its own
        SourceForge project.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Andrew Nelson" due-to-email="Andrew.Nelson.at.hsc.utah.edu">
        Added support for font and font size (human-readable part) from barcode XML, the servlet and the example webapp.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed a mistake in the FOP extension so it accepts the message in both the "message" and 
        "msg" attributes.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="1.0beta" date="2003-10-31">
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
        Allow lowercase a-z in Code39 symbols.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
        Fixed bug where Krysalis Barcode failed under JDK 1.3.x when compiled under JDK 1.4.x (ImageIO not present).
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
        Moved responsibility for instantiating a Canvas object from the user to the barcode implementation. Simplification for users.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Display a full list of supported MIME types in the command line application.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Add support for passing resolution information into the generated bitmaps.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Extended Xalan extension to handle barcode XML just like the SAXON extension instead of using the generate function.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added an extension for the SAXON XSLT Processor from Michael Kay.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added FOP extension for FOP 0.20.5 and an experimental extension with native output support (for EPS and PDF, not going via SVG/Batik).
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Chris Dolphy" due-to-email="dolphycj.at.charter.net">
        Support for inches in lengths.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code" due-to="Chris Dolphy" due-to-email="dolphycj.at.charter.net">
        Added POSTNET implementation.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Improved DOM to Avalon Configuration conversion.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Extended sample webapp to support the new output formats.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Full command-line interface.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Add Java2D (Graphics2D/AWT) output support.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Add bitmap output support.
      </action>
      <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
        Added EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) output support.
      </action>
    </release>
    <release version="0.9" date="2003-05-09">
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		    <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
		      Improve usability of sample web application. Error result in
		      a SVG that shows the detailed error message.
		    </action>
		    <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
		      Reestablished JDK 1.3 compatibility. 
		    </action>
		    <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
    		   Fixed OutOfMemoryError problem with long Code128 messages by 
    		   rewriting the message encoder. The encoder is also factored
    		   out as an interface so plugging in custom implementations is
    		   possible.
		    </action>
		    <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
    		   Added support for supplementals (UPC and EAN barcodes).
		    </action>
		    <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
    		   Added an EAN-8 implementation.
		    </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="code">
            Added a UPC-E implementation.
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
            Fixed size calculation for Interleaved 2 of 5 and Code 128.
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
            Nicer UPC-A painting.
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="fix" context="code">
            Fixed painting of symbols without human-readable message.
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
            Improved checksum configuration (mode="add|check|ignore|auto" 
            instead of add-checksum/enable="yes|no").
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="update" context="code">
            Refactored BarcodeUtil into a Singleton to make usage easier.
          </action>
          <action dev="jmaerki" type="add" context="docs">
            Added some initial content to the website.
          </action>
          <action dev="nicolaken" type="add" context="admin">
            Initial Import
          </action>
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        </release>
      </changes>
    </status>