GNU Libidn 0.4.9 alpha released

[Simon Josefsson]

This release include a new native Java implementation, contributed by
Oliver Hitz.

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA
specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names.  The
library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode
3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibitation of characters, and
bidirectional character handling.  Profiles for Nameprep, iSCSI, SASL
and XMPP are included.  Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE)
via IDNA are supported.  A mechanism to define Top-Level Domain (TLD)
specific validation tables, and to compare strings against those
tables, is included.  Default tables for some TLDs are also included.

Here are the compressed sources:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.4.9.tar.gz   (1.8MB)
  http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.4.9.tar.gz   (1.8MB)

Here are GPG detached signatures:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.4.9.tar.gz.sig
  http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.4.9.tar.gz.sig

Here are the build reports for various platforms:
  http://josefsson.org/autobuild/libidn.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:

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Noteworthy changes since version 0.4.5 (the last version announced here):

* Version 0.4.9 (released 2004-06-11)

** The Java library (java/libidn-*.jar) is included in the distribution.

** JavaDoc manuals (doc/javadoc/) are included.

** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.

* Version 0.4.8 (released 2004-06-01)

** The Java source code is actually included in the distribution.

** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.

* Version 0.4.7 (released 2004-05-31)

** The Java port should now be functional, contributed by Oliver Hitz.
See the new section "Java API" in the manual for more information.

** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.

* Version 0.4.6 (released 2004-05-24)

** The header file idn-free.h is actually installed by 'make install'.

** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.