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Hibernate Validator Changelog
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4.3.4.Final (29.05.2018)
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** Bug
    * [HV-1498] - Privilege escalation when running under the security manager

4.3.3.Final (19.05.2016)
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** Bug
    * [HV-665] - Consider concerned constraint in identity of constraint violations
    * [HV-1012] - XSS vulnerability not caught by SafeHtml
    * [HV-1055] - Default group sequence does not honour group hierarchy
    * [HV-1057] - Group sequences don't honor inheritance relationships properly

** Improvement

    * [HV-927] - Upgrade TCK Runner to use latest JSR-303 TCK

** Task
    * [HV-916] - Disable BeanMetaDataManagerTest


4.3.2.Final (25.07.2014)
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** Improvement
    * [HV-885] - Contention generated on runtime lookup for @GroupSequence annotation

** Task
    * [HV-912] - Improve integration with Java's security manager


4.3.1.Final (28.11.2012)
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** Bug
    * [HV-591] - EmailValidator throws an IllegalArgumentException for long email addresses
    * [HV-601] - NPE w/ overloaded methods on class validated with MethodValidationInterceptor
    * [HV-607] - Email Validator producing error for large email addresses
    * [HV-609] - EmailValidator fails where email address is large
    * [HV-613] - email handles complete address as idn label and fails for valid longer addresses
    * [HV-622] - Assumes all getX/setX methods are bean properties and errors with "wrong number of arguments"
    * [HV-623] - Wrong constraint validator type resolution in case of constraint placed on parameterized type in class hierachy
    * [HV-625] - EmailValidator.isValid sometimes throws an exception instead of returning false
    * [HV-626] - AnnotationMetaDataProvider should use #getDeclaredAnnotations instead of #getAnnotations when reading metadata from class and members

** Task
    * [HV-639] - Evaluation of composed constraints should stops on first validation error when @ReportAsSingleViolation is used


4.3.0.Final (09.05.2012)
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** Improvement
    * [HV-568] - Perform a profiling of the annotation processor code and make use of caching where appropriate
    * [HV-577] - Include javadoc jar in Maven repo

** Task
    * [HV-578] - Remove remaining references to slf4j
    * [HV-580] - Remove deprecation of package org.hibernate.validator.group


4.3.0.CR1 (30.04.2012)
----------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-572] - Ensure the docs directory gets properly included into the distribution
    * [HV-573] - Need graceful handling of return value constraint applied to method with void return type
    * [HV-574] - Annotations processing fails with 4.3.0 Beta1
    * [HV-575] - NPE in annotation processor ConstraintHelper.getName()

** Improvement
    * [HV-538] - Perform a profiling of the HV code in order to identify performance bottlenecks
    * [HV-554] -  Regular Expression for @Email

** Task
    * [HV-100] - Implement a performance test harness for Bean Validation
    * [HV-569] - Switch to Java 6


4.3.0.Beta1 (04.04.2012)
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** Bug
    * [HV-563] - Enable Configuration#buildValidatorFactory() to be callable several times
    * [HV-567] - @Email reported as "disallowed" for String field

** Improvement
    * [HV-457] - Simplify annotation processor setup in IDEs in regards to required dependencies
    * [HV-463] - Revisit the class and implementation of Group/GroupChain
    * [HV-479] - Implement an eviction strategy for BeanMetaDataCache
    * [HV-517] - Establish the notion of AnnotationIgnores for programmatic API
    * [HV-564] - Allow caching of ConstraintValidator instances also for custom ConstraintValidatorFactories
    * [HV-566] - Shorten directory names

** Task
    * [HV-558] - Upgrade AS 7 dependencies
    * [HV-561] - Determine and mark the API to be deprecated for HV5


4.3.0.Alpha1 (06.03.2012)
-------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-443] - Scope of ConstraintDescriptors sometimes wrong in type hierarchies
    * [HV-472] - E-Mail Validator does not validate IDN E-Mail-Addresses
    * [HV-480] - Constraints configured via XML and programmatic API aren't merged
    * [HV-506] - Message interpolation should check whether an interpolated annotation paramter is an array
    * [HV-508] - DecimalMaxValidatorForNumber for a double values is not correct
    * [HV-509] - Property path is wrong for cascaded validation of class-level constraints
    * [HV-511] - Minor documentation error
    * [HV-516] - Hibernate Validator doesn't work well with hibernate persistence when generating DDL
    * [HV-519] - Typos in ValidationMessages_de.properties
    * [HV-524] - java.util.NoSuchElementException in type level validation using EclipseLink
    * [HV-525] - tests fail on openjdk
    * [HV-531] - hibernate-validator-annotation-processor tests fails when running against JDK7
    * [HV-537] - Reintroduce jdocbook.ignoreTranslations in the docbook configuration
    * [HV-543] - spelling mistake in org.hibernate.valisdator.validationMessages_fr.properties
    * [HV-546] - LazyValidatorFactory does not allow alternative bean validation providers
    * [HV-550] - fail-fast doesn't work on composite constraints
    * [HV-551] - @Size doesn't work on List with bounded wildcard

** Improvement
    * [HV-473] - Add option to Canonicalize String Input
    * [HV-491] - Add support for MOD11 Algorithm
    * [HV-500] - ConfigurationImpl should support multiple programmatic constraint mappings
    * [HV-502] - Changing Generic Type on @Size, @Pattern a.s.o. from String to CharacterSequence
    * [HV-515] - Performance improvement for MinValidatorForString
    * [HV-518] - Create copyright.txt as mentioned by the license headers
    * [HV-520] - Remove package cycle between "descriptor" and "aggregated" packages
    * [HV-527] - ValidationMessages in Czech language
    * [HV-529] - ConstraintHelper is obsolete in ValidatorImpl
    * [HV-539] - Modify how MANIFESTs are generated
    * [HV-545] - Update TCK runner to run against AS 7.1
    * [HV-547] - Make Hibernate Validator build not fail

** Task
    * [HV-441] - Refactor BeanMetaDataImpl
    * [HV-465] - Remove obsolete type parameter from MetaConstraint#validateConstraint()
    * [HV-481] - Move to i18n logs and exception via JBoss Logging
    * [HV-484] - Refactor package organisation to clearly separate spi, public and private APIs - part 1 (internal packages)
    * [HV-496] - Include Hibernate Validator test classes in a different classifier
    * [HV-505] - Update tck runner to run against AS 7.0.0.Final
    * [HV-510] - Upgrade BV TCK dependency to 1.0.6.GA 
    * [HV-528] - Compilation fails with JDK 7 due to incompatabilites of JAXB versions
    * [HV-530] - Explain propagation of redefined default groups across associated instances annotated with @Valid
    * [HV-534] - Consider removing the shading plug-in
    * [HV-536] - Upgrade JSoup dependency
    * [HV-540] - Remove repository settings from the master pom
    * [HV-544] - Create a integration test moodule 

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4.2.0.Final (20.06.2011)
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** Improvement
    * [HV-315] - Create package-level JavaDoc for the AP
    * [HV-485] - Determine an order for the constraint mapping fluent API
    * [HV-486] - Remove getMethod() from MethodConstraintViolation
    * [HV-490] - Create @SafeHtml annotation
    * [HV-493] - Add support for Brazilian Portuguese for ValidationMessages

** New Feature
    * [HV-372] - Add section to method-level validation to the HV reference guide

** Task
    * [HV-489] - Upgrade dependency to BV TCK to 1.0.5.GA
    * [HV-494] - upgrade to hibernate-jpa-2.0-api-1.0.1.Final
    * [HV-497] - Create aggregated javadocs for the distribution and deployment on docs server

4.2.0.CR1 (09.06.2011)
----------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-406] - URL Validator not effective
    * [HV-437] - Improve the javadocs of the URL constraints
    * [HV-447] - Create documentation for boolean composition of composing constraints
    * [HV-452] - Incorrect Paths when using fluent API to add constraints to a context
    * [HV-458] - Wrong behaviour determining default group constraints in conjunction with @GroupSequence
    * [HV-459] - Run TCK against AS 7
    * [HV-466] - Avoid repeated validation of constraints in certain type hierarchies
    * [HV-468] - Determine whether a property is indexed based on the runtime not static type
    * [HV-470] - resolvedMessages in ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator needs to be synchronized

** Improvement
    * [HV-407] - Update "Presentation layer validation" section
    * [HV-417] - Add section on public API and it's changes to the reference guide
    * [HV-434] - ValidatorImpl#shouldFailFast() and ValidationContext#shouldFailFast() seem redundant
    * [HV-442] - Make clear in the documentation which types are supported for built-in constraints
    * [HV-446] - The annotation processor should allow constraint annotations at non-getter methods
    * [HV-449] - Remove interface check in BeanMetaDataImpl#newGroupSequenceProviderInstance()
    * [HV-453] - Add an example of default group sequence provider configuration with the programmatic API
    * [HV-454] - Fix a mistake in the reference guide about custom properties supported by Hibernate Validator
    * [HV-461] - Refactor TestUtil class
    * [HV-475] - Add required and public packages to the OSGi manifest
    * [HV-488] - Rename MethodDescriptor#getParameterConstraints() method

** New Feature
    * [HV-436] - The annotation processor should check @GroupSequenceProvider

** Patch
    * [HV-483] - ValidationMessages translation to Spanish

** Task
    * [HV-400] - Align the configuration of the archetype plugin with the configuration in search
    * [HV-431] - Extend programmatic API to allow the definition of method level constraints
    * [HV-464] - Remove obsolete type parameter from ParameterMetaConstraint
    * [HV-471] - Group has to be an interface - Documentation or code bug
    * [HV-474] - Get Hibernate Validator a proper changelog file
    * [HV-487] - Settle on an approach for instantiating constraint definitions

4.2.0.Beta2 (09.02.2011)
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** Bug
    * [HV-376] - validateValue() and validateProperty() are too restrictive regarding processable property names
    * [HV-381] - Provide a fail fast switch to stop processing constraints on first failure
    * [HV-414] - Assembly plugin fails with maven 3.0.1
    * [HV-418] - The annotation processor shouldn't report @Past/@Future given at Joda types as errors
    * [HV-421] - Reconsider behavior of parameter validation for inheritance hierarchies
    * [HV-422] - slf4j version in hibernate-validator
    * [HV-426] - Wrong name in version logging message
    * [HV-428] - Java 1.6 specific method used in programmatic validation API
    * [HV-429] - validateValue and validateProperty using wrong default group sequence
    * [HV-430] - XML configuration does not allow configuration of public fields in superclass
    * [HV-433] - Cascaded validation on superclass fields does not work if only @Valid is used
    * [HV-444] - Default group sequence defined with programmatic API is not used if the configured class doesn't define programmatic constraints

** Improvement
    * [HV-415] - Rename validateParameters to validateAllParameters
    * [HV-419] - Update the dependency to slf4j-api to 1.6.x
    * [HV-424] - Validators for Joda types should be specified for ReadableInstant/ReadablePartial

** New Feature
    * [HV-94] - Support dynamic default group sequence definition
    * [HV-371] - Support method-level constraints in meta-data API

** Task
    * [HV-420] - Deprecate legacy validator
    * [HV-440] - Extend programmatic API to allow the definition of default group sequence provider

4.2.0.Beta1 (13.01.2011)
------------------------

** Sub-task
    * [HV-367] - Evaluate @Valid annotation given at parameters
    * [HV-368] - Evaluate @Valid annotation given at return values
    * [HV-369] - Evaluate constraint annotations given at parameters
    * [HV-370] - Evaluate constraint annotations given at return values

** Bug
    * [HV-350] - Inherited Bean validates non-default constraints as default
    * [HV-352] - In some cexceptional cases the original stacktrace is not preserved
    * [HV-355] - RangeDef's min() and max() are just wrong
    * [HV-362] - Including Annotation Processor in Eclipse results in java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    * [HV-363] - HV uses Thread's context class loader to load internal implementation classes
    * [HV-374] - NoSuchMethodError on Persistence.getPersistenceUtil() on WebLogic 10.3.3 (11g)
    * [HV-379] - Remove obsolete dependency exlusion from tck-runner pom
    * [HV-382] - "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.String.isEmpty" in ScriptAssertValidator.java
    * [HV-384] - Performence problem when using programatic constrain declaration
    * [HV-385] - Typo in German validation messages
    * [HV-387] - org.hibernate.validator.cfg.defs.GenericConstraintDef should (probably) not extend the raw type ConstraintDef
    * [HV-391] - Review assertions of @Past and @Future tests
    * [HV-395] - Align Path.Node implementation with the Bean Validation specification
    * [HV-396] - Build for hibernate-validator module fails using Maven 3 due to problem with the maven-shade-plugin
    * [HV-398] - Build of Hibernate Validator Quickstart failed with another default locale than en
    * [HV-402] - Make sure that Validator still works on JDK 5 due to ValueMessageInterpolator
    * [HV-403] - Create a ValueMessageInterpolator based on java.text.Format instead of the scripting engine
    * [HV-405] - Hibernate validator doesn't work well on JDK5
    * [HV-408] - Validator throws wrongly an exception for constraints placed on  non-getter methods

** Improvement
    * [HV-346] - Improve some of the default debug/info messages
    * [HV-353] - Support inheritance for group validation
    * [HV-359] - chinese message template
    * [HV-365] - It is very hard to find the HV annotation processor
    * [HV-366] - The documentation refers to http://repository.jboss.com/maven2: this should be fixed to point to the new maven settings
    * [HV-410] - Clarify the license on both the website and the reference documentation
    * [HV-412] - Move GenericConstraintDef into org.hibernate.validator.cfg

** New Feature
    * [HV-299] - Annotation processor should check constraint annotation type declarations
    * [HV-307] - Support @Past/@Future annotations at types from the Joda Time API
    * [HV-347] - Create method level validation
    * [HV-357] - Create a chapter for the reference guide describing the meta-data API
    * [HV-358] - Create a pluggable MessageInterpolator which can interploate ${value}
    * [HV-390] - Boolean composition of constraints
    * [HV-401] - Ensure that the default validation provider is Hibernate Validator in LazyValidatorFactory

** Task
    * [HV-327] - Update TCK runner dependecies to not depend on the JBoss deprecated repo
    * [HV-348] - Add note to JPA integration section about access type when using lazy loaded OneToOne and ManyToOne associations
    * [HV-349] - Hungarian translation for ValidationMessages.properties
    * [HV-351] - Translate hv document into chinese
    * [HV-375] - Update jboss-testharness and bv tck dependecies
    * [HV-378] - Cleanup the pom
    * [HV-383] - Update VCS information in pom
    * [HV-386] - Move readme.txt into top level directory
    * [HV-392] - Update entity-manager tests dependecy to 3.6.0.Final
    * [HV-393] - Version class should get the version injected via the maven-injection-plugin
    * [HV-394] - Change log level from info to debug in DefaultTraversableResolver
    * [HV-413] - Activate chinese transalation, update po and pot files and make sure that the translation gets included in the dist bundle

4.1.0.Final (21.06.2010)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-335] - @Max, @Min, @DecimalMax and @DecimalMin can give wrong results
    * [HV-339] - ^ not allowed in Email
    * [HV-343] - Package type in the documentation example

** Improvement
    * [HV-338] - Move the discovery of constraint types into the constructor of ConstraintTree
    * [HV-340] - When checking for composing constraints ignore annotations like @Target, @Documented, ...
    * [HV-341] - Reduce the amounf of Annotation.annotationType() calls since reflection calls are expensive
    * [HV-342] - Reduce the amout of calls to ConstraintHelper.isMultiValueConstraint
    * [HV-344] - Add example for configuring hibernate validator through Spring session factory bean

** Task
    * [HV-334] - Stop hibernate-validator-legacy to be deployed in the maven repo
    * [HV-336] - Remove deprecated constructor in ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator
    * [HV-337] - Update documentation regarding the effects of @Length during DDL generation

4.1.0.CR1 (14.06.2010)
----------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-332] - Investigate the usage of CachingResourceBundleLocator in ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator
    * [HV-333] - Verify that MessageInterpolatorContext.getValidatedValue returns the right value

** Task
    * [HV-331] - Investigate use of  field/method.setAccessible( true )

4.1.0.Beta2 (02.06.2010)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-281] - validation of a persisted map
    * [HV-293] - Annotation processor fails in Eclipse when evaluating custom constraints not defined in the current project
    * [HV-305] - JPATraversableResolver tries to access properties that do not exist
    * [HV-306] - Falling back to system´s default locale if chosen locale was EN
    * [HV-309] - POM file's content-type is text/plain
    * [HV-312] - Close all input streams opened by HV
    * [HV-319] - Example in online documention reference javax.validation.ConstraintPayload instead of  javax.validation.Payload
    * [HV-321] - javax.persistence.PersistenceException when trying to validate an object graphs with a class-level constraint annotation. In addition to the error report HV-266
    * [HV-323] - URL Validator needs to pass on empty Strings
    * [HV-324] - Default annotation not executing when group selector activated
    * [HV-326] - Verify that for caching user objects during the validation process we use a IdentityHashMap or IdentityHashSet
    * [HV-328] - Configuration.addMapping( null ) should throw IllegalArgumentException
    * [HV-329] - Update quickstart section and remove reference to archetype catalog

** Improvement
    * [HV-156] - Exploring properties and cascade is unnecessary if TraversableResolver returns false
    * [HV-298] - Add a section on using the annotation processor to the HV reference guide
    * [HV-302] - JAXB shouldn't be required when not using XML configuration
    * [HV-310] - Define, which parts of HV constitute its public API
    * [HV-313] - Extract messaging related stuff from ConstraintAnnotationVisitor
    * [HV-314] - Add @List annotations to the HV-specific constraints
    * [HV-316] - Extract constraint checking from ConstraintAnnotationVisitor into separate check classes
    * [HV-322] - Establish a processor option "verbose"

** New Feature
    * [HV-230] - Database Connective or @Unique
    * [HV-274] - Write a programmatic mapping API for constraint declarations
    * [HV-292] - Provide a constraint annotation @ScriptAssert

** Patch
    * [HV-151] - The mongolian validation message translation patch.

** Task
    * [HV-311] - Update pom to use the new distributationManagement information
    * [HV-317] - Rename Global- and LocalExecutionContext
    * [HV-325] - Align javadoc styles with the Core javadoc styles
    * [HV-330] - Add a new constructor to ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator which enable/disables internal message caching

4.1.0.Beta1 (24.03.2010)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-246] - BeanValidationEventListener has a bug (technically a problem with hibernate-annotations 3.5.0beta1... but I couldn't find that project)
    * [HV-261] - Invalid license info
    * [HV-266] - NullPointerException when trying to validate an object with a class-level constraint annotation.
    * [HV-272] - jaxb dependencies should be dependencies with scope 'provided' instead of profile dependencies
    * [HV-275] - Update french message template for @Email
    * [HV-279] - Validator docbook files still reference GPL
    * [HV-288] - The validator doesn't validate correctly groups composing a group sequence
    * [HV-290] - Check the right copyright header is used in documenation
    * [HV-291] - ConstraintViolation not serializable for composed constraints
    * [HV-294] - Annotation processor should raise an error when @Valid is given at wrong places
    * [HV-297] - Custom error messages built via ConstraintValidatorContext get ignored when constraint uses @ReportAsSingleViolation
    * [HV-300] - Relocation from com.googlecode.jtype to org.hibernate.validator.jtype didn't catch all references

** Improvement
    * [HV-251] - ResourceMessageInterpolater - allow create with map of user resource bundles
    * [HV-267] - Enhance distribution jar to make it OSGi bundle
    * [HV-278] - ValidationMessages_de.properties spelling: "erwartet" instead of "erwarted"
    * [HV-287] - French translation is not complete

** New Feature
    * [HV-229] - @Url needs to be added
    * [HV-238] - Introduce a ResourceBundleLocatorStrategy interface which allows the ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator to delegate the loading of the resource bundle
    * [HV-269] - Create an annotation processor validating constraint and property matching
    * [HV-301] - Add a trim property to @NotEmpty please

** Patch
    * [HV-227] - hibernate validator message for turkish locale
    * [HV-284] - Documentation fixes for hibernate-core integration
    * [HV-286] - NoSuchMethodError on Persistence.getPersistenceUtil() when one follows the README file

** Task
    * [HV-141] - Use commons-annotations to apply the configuration specified in XML
    * [HV-254] - Add section about ConstraintValidatorContext to documentation
    * [HV-273] - Upgrade jtype and jpa2 dependency
    * [HV-276] - Make sure that all used maven plugins specify their version explicitly
    * [HV-282] - Create CreditCardValidator
    * [HV-283] - Remove the legacy module from the main aggregator
    * [HV-289] - Add requirements section to online manual about usage of Validator in JDK 5 and 6

4.0.2.GA (06.11.2009)
---------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-263] - NullPointerException when no constraint in xml
    * [HV-265] - Constraints not loaded consistently for inherited classes
    * [HV-268] - Wrong message templates for @Email and @Range

4.0.1.GA (28.10.2009)
---------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-250] - No validator could be found for type: T
    * [HV-252] - HV with XML config tells me "Invalid property path." even though I know there is such a property.
    * [HV-255] - Improve error handling for validateValue and validateProperty
    * [HV-257] - ReflectionHelper.getValue fails to retrieve values from methods defined on a parent interface
    * [HV-258] - The documentation for HV contains a invalid reference in section 2.1.3 class level constraints
    * [HV-262] - Using interface in xml configuration does not work

** Improvement
    * [HV-253] - Fluent API to add path nodes is not flexible enough

** Task
    * [HV-259] - Add a payload example to the documentation

4.0.0.GA (08.10.2009)
---------------------

** Sub-task
    * [HV-217] - ValidatorResolutionTest#testResolutionOfMultipleSizeValidators uses generics in the constraintValidator resolution
    * [HV-218] - Validator implementation resolution is based on the returned value (at runtime) instead of the returned type
    * [HV-222] - MessageInterpolationTest#testFallbackToDefaultLocale
    * [HV-223] - BeanDescriptorTest#testGetConstraintsForNullProperty should be mapped
    * [HV-224] - ConstraintValidatorContextTest#testDisableDefaultErrorWithoutAddingCustomError should raise a ValidationException
    * [HV-225] - Tests in GroupSequenceIsolationTest and NestedConstraintCompositionTest need to be mapped or moved to the HV test suite
    * [HV-244] - Cache the type to ConstraintValidator class computation per constraint declaration

** Bug
    * [HV-134] - Built-in constraint parameter validation
    * [HV-180] - Failure when compiling Hibernate Validator
    * [HV-199] - Various TCK issues
    * [HV-213] - Should we mark ConstraintViolation as Serializable?
    * [HV-231] - Add default messages for DecimalMin and DecimalMax to resource bundle
    * [HV-234] - make sure int[] is converted in Integer[] when needed by a constraintValidator call
    * [HV-249] - findConstraints() .unorderedAndMatchingGroups in ElementDescriptor honors default sequence overriding

** Improvement
    * [HV-129] - ResourceBundleMessageInterpolatorTest should not test ResourceBundleMessageInterpolato but rather the Bean Validation provider default bundle
    * [HV-132] - Support hasBoolean format
    * [HV-235] - More useful exception error messages
    * [HV-236] - Spring/Hibernate integration, and maven suggestions
    * [HV-239] - Rename ValidatorConfiguration to HibernateValidatorConfiguration and move from o.h.v.engine to o.h.v package
    * [HV-240] - Replace Red Hat Middleware LLC to Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
    * [HV-242] - Cache ConstraintValidator instances per ValidatorFactory and not per ConstraintTree
    * [HV-245] - Make ConstraintViolation + Path implementations Serializable

** Task
    * [HV-220] - Complete documentation
    * [HV-221] - Create a JPAValidateListener equivalent in the new hibernate validator
    * [HV-232] - Modify the BeanValidationEventListener in the annotation project to be configurable via the hibernate config file
    * [HV-233] - Make sure jtype implements the following rules
    * [HV-237] - Add a toString implementation to ConstraintViolationImpl
    * [HV-241] - Add @Email and @Range constraints
    * [HV-247] - Implement latest changes to meta data API in ri

4.0.0.CR1 (27.08.2009)
----------------------

** Sub-task
    * [HV-200] - ValidationProviderResolverTest#testValidationExceptionIsThrownInCaseValidatorFactoryCreationFails => enable=false?
    * [HV-201] - BootstrapTest#testServiceFileExists shouldn't we test for the actual provider passing the TCK ie get the right name?
    * [HV-202] - BootstrapTest#testCustomMessageInterpolatorViaConfiguration is not testing via configuration but via validator context (ie like testCustomMessageInterpolatorViaValidatorContext)
    * [HV-203] - MappingStreamHandlingTest#testMappingStreamGetsClosed and testMappingStreamGetsClosedInExceptionalCondition are wrong and a failure for HV
    * [HV-206] - CustomConstraintValidatorTest#testNonInterpolatedMessageParameterIsUsed assumes English locale, needs fix before commented line reactivation

** Bug
    * [HV-183] - Composite constraints have to honour the payload parameter as well
    * [HV-191] - JPA 2 Dependency
    * [HV-208] - Wrong Path in ConstraintViolation
    * [HV-209] - Correctly handle <valid> configured in xml
    * [HV-210] - XML constraint declaration with missing mandatory elements throws IllegalArgumentException insteadof  ValidationException
    * [HV-212] - Group sequence resolution has to take sequence order of composing groups (via inheritance or other group sequence) into account
    * [HV-214] - Constraints from interfaces and superclasses are not inherited when XML descriptors are used
    * [HV-216] - Add the payload parameter to the xml configuration


** Improvement
    * [HV-185] - Change package name in codebase from org.hibernate.validation to org.hibernate.validator
    * [HV-189] - ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator should cache the interpolation results for step 1-3 of the interpolation algorithm

** New Feature
    * [HV-91] - Make sure Validator<T> is thread-safe in the RI
    * [HV-176] - Return the list of matching ConstraintDescriptor for a given set of groups



** Task
    * [HV-99] - Write unit tests for bootstrapping
    * [HV-140] - Review all unchecked warnings
    * [HV-188] - Cleanup ElementDescriptorImpl after we depend on bv api post CR3
    * [HV-211] - Class name refactoring
    * [HV-215] - Rename ConstraintPayload to Payload

4.0.0.Beta3 (12.08.2009)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-124] - Hundreds of raw type use across the codebase
    * [HV-186] - ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator has to allow all characters as message parameter
    * [HV-187] - An exception occuring during a cal to the TraversableResolver has to be wrapped in a ValidationException
    * [HV-190] - The Path implementation has to be matched with the specification
    * [HV-192] - DigitsValidatorForNumber should strip trailing zeros
    * [HV-193] - @OverridesAttribute.index starts at 0, not 1
    * [HV-194] - Loading XML resources leads to NPE if the context classloader is not set
    * [HV-196] - validateValue incorrectly reports java.lang.IllegalArgumentException on non constrained properties
    * [HV-198] - Wrong constraint violation path when adding subnode error to subnode


** Improvement
    * [HV-171] - Hibernate Validator must specify how to run in environments that use a SecurityManager
    * [HV-195] - Be permissive to heading '/' in mapping file names

** New Feature
    * [HV-197] - Implement a LazyValidatorFactory


4.0.0.Beta2 (20.07.2009)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-79] - The test suite assumes Hibernate Validator as the BV provider
    * [HV-146] - ConstraintValidator impls cannot inherit from a super class implementing ConstraintValidator
    * [HV-149] - ReflectionHelper.containsMethod ignores "is" methods
    * [HV-150] - TraversableResolver pathToTraversableObject incorrectly includes traversableProperty
    * [HV-153] - ConstraintValidators created out of CVF should be cached to minimize initialization overhead
    * [HV-154] - isTraversable is called with a root bean class null when validateValue is used
    * [HV-157] - properties are cascaded despite TraversableResolver answering no
    * [HV-158] - ClassCastException in org.hibernate.validation.constraints.FutureValidatorForDate.initialize
    * [HV-159] - NullPointerException in ValidatorFactoryImpl, if XML config file doesn't contain at least one constraint and one cascade configuration
    * [HV-162] - XML based configuration should be tolerant to line breaks and white spaces where appropriate
    * [HV-164] - Add test for default group sequence isolation
    * [HV-165] - Hibernate Validator does not validate groups in class level annotations.
    * [HV-169] - Make sure Validator is concurrent safe
    * [HV-170] - Refactor the group sequence expansion and take the default sequence expansion of the validated entity into considertation
    * [HV-172] - Static fields and methods annotated with constraints should be ignored
    * [HV-173] - @Valid on an array type does not properly validate the elements of the array
    * [HV-174] - When using Matcher.appendReplacement all \ and $ characters must be escaped
    * [HV-175] - @Valid should be polymorphic
    * [HV-181] - Refactor ConstraintDescriptorImpl
    * [HV-182] - Error when using composite constraints (wrong messages and stack traces)
    * [HV-184] - ResourceBundlerMessageInterpolator fails to meet the spec in some issues

** Improvement
    * [HV-155] - Use a TraversableResolver caching results within a call stack to reduce overhead
    * [HV-166] - Move constraints validator impl into org.hibernate.validation.constraints.impl
    * [HV-167] - Rewrite @NotEmpty as a composition of @NotNull, @Size(min=1) @ReportAsSingleViolation

** New Feature
    * [HV-89] - Implement XML mapping
    * [HV-97] - Support XML Configuration and merge of configuration metadata
    * [HV-131] - Support @DecimalMin / @DecimalMax
    * [HV-160] - Make use of the TraversableResolver contract spliting reachability and cascadability
    * [HV-163] - Add [] to non-indexed iterable in paths

** Task
    * [HV-101] - Write unit tests for constraint composition
    * [HV-107] - Implement a Hibernate Core specifc implementation of TraversableResolver
    * [HV-109] - Implement test for bootstrapping with multiple providers
    * [HV-127] - Implement test for the different types of Size validators
    * [HV-133] - Create test baseclass to allow test to run w and w/o xml configuration
    * [HV-147] - Invetigate problem with maven release plugin
    * [HV-148] - Make sure that context as well as current class loader are used when trying to load xml configuration files
    * [HV-168] - Add validators for DecimalMin and DecimalMax
    * [HV-177] - Integrate the new Path model
    * [HV-178] - Add check for payload parameter


4.0.0.Beta1 (27.04.2009)
------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-139] - BeanMetaDataCache and ConstraintValidatorDefinitionsCache should not be static

** New Feature
    * [HV-144] - Add support for ConstraintViolation.getRootBeanClass

** Task
    * [HV-110] - Implement parser for validation.xml
    * [HV-111] - Bootstrap HV using validation.xml
    * [HV-112] - Map constraints using XML
    * [HV-137] - Create a Hibernate Validator maven archetype
    * [HV-142] - Extract the xml parsing code from ValidatorFactoryImpl and delegate the parsing to a seperate class


4.0.0.Alpha3 (20.03.2009)
-------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-78] - ValidatorImpl.expandGroupName() does not seem to expand recursively, this goes against the spec
    * [HV-80] - Group sequence sequences can contain group sequence names
    * [HV-83] - Object graph traversed too many times
    * [HV-85] - Group sequence expansion and validation execution should be decoupled
    * [HV-117] - BuiltinConstraints doesn't contain @Digits
    * [HV-118] - BuiltinConstraints doesn't contain @Past
    * [HV-120] - ConstraintDescriptor.getGroups() returns Default.class if no group is declared on the constraint
    * [HV-123] - Wrong elementType in MetaConstraint constructor

** Improvement
    * [HV-103] - Default error message for Min/Max constraints doesn't reflect constraint specification and implementation

** New Feature
    * [HV-92] - Implement sequences on group interfaces and group inheritance
    * [HV-121] - @Pattern support
    * [HV-122] - Add byte support for numeric constraints (digits, max etc)

** Task
    * [HV-106] - Integrate TraversableResolver into reference implementation
    * [HV-108] - Verify correct polymorphic behaviour for validation
    * [HV-113] - Redefining the Default group for a class
    * [HV-114] - Implement error report customization via ConstraintValidatorContext



4.0.0.Alpha2 (03.03.2009)
-------------------------

** Bug
    * [HV-78] - ValidatorImpl.expandGroupName() does not seem to expand recursively, this goes against the spec
    * [HV-80] - Group sequence sequences can contain group sequence names
    * [HV-83] - Object graph traversed too many times
    * [HV-85] - Group sequence expansion and validation execution should be decoupled
    * [HV-117] - BuiltinConstraints doesn't contain @Digits
    * [HV-118] - BuiltinConstraints doesn't contain @Past
    * [HV-120] - ConstraintDescriptor.getGroups() returns Default.class if no group is declared on the constraint
    * [HV-123] - Wrong elementType in MetaConstraint constructor

** Improvement
    * [HV-103] - Default error message for Min/Max constraints doesn't reflect constraint specification and implementation

** New Feature
    * [HV-92] - Implement sequences on group interfaces and group inheritance
    * [HV-121] - @Pattern support
    * [HV-122] - Add byte support for numeric constraints (digits, max etc)

** Task
    * [HV-106] - Integrate TraversableResolver into reference implementation
    * [HV-108] - Verify correct polymorphic behaviour for validation
    * [HV-113] - Redefining the Default group for a class
    * [HV-114] - Implement error report customization via ConstraintValidatorContext