What's Changed

Dom4j version 2.2.0 requires Java 11 or higher. The reason is the migration from JavaEE to JakartaEE, which requires Java 11. Dom4j 2.1.x remains compatible with Java 8.

• Migrate from JavaEE to JakartaEE by @dskilesdf in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/186
• Improves multiple threads parsing efficiency by @qingzhongli in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/57
• F...

What's Changed

• Bump gradle from 6.3 to 8.13 (fixes #187) by @reinhapa in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/188
• Remove unnecessary constant conditional by @ecki in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/174
• Remove misleading no-op lines incorrectly trying to disable external entities by @chadlwilson in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/173

New Contributors

• @ecki made their fir...

What's Changed

• updated pull-parser version by @jayknoxqu in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/129
• Reuse the writeAttribute method in writeAttributes. by @Ekryd in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/134
• support build on OS with non-UTF8 as default charset by @qxo in https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/pull/96
• Gradle: add an automatic module name (fixes #67) by @carlosame in https://gi...

Improvements

• Added new factory method org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.createDefault(). It hase more secure defaults than new SAXReader(), which uses system XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader() or SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser(). SAXReader.createDefault() disable parsing of external entities in the SAX parser.

Branch 2.0.x for Java 1.5 aligned with branch 2.1.x.

Improvements

• Added new factory method org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.createDefault(). It hase more secure defaults than new SAXReader(), which uses system XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader() or SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser(). SAXReader.createDefault() disable parsing of external entities in the SAX parser.