Changes in Apache Creadur RAT

Release History

Version Date Description
0.17-SNAPSHOT xxxx-yy-zz Current SNAPSHOT - release to be done
0.16.1 2024-01-24 As release 0.16 introduced breaking changes concerning the configurability of the Maven plugin, these configuration options are reintroduced albeit as deprecated elements. You need to adapt your configuration in contrast to pre-0.16 settings: please consult our webpage for more details and examples. Apart from dependency updates the release contains new features in .gitignore-parser and reduces log spam of RAT. The most important bugfix relates to performance issues (due to expensive regex scanning) in combination with the Copyright-matcher and SPDX-detection. All feedback was used to overhaul the homepage to include how to configure custom licenses and matchers. We migrated to jUnit5 and removed the 'apache-rat-api' module in this release. Thanks for your patience and all the feedback in the making of this release!
0.16 2023-12-28 Apart from dependency updates and multiple bugfixes, this release brings the ability to use SPDX license identifiers and enhances the .gitignore-exclusion filterung during RAT runs. Furthermore new CLI options were added and new file types can be used by default. This release makes RAT a fully Maven3-compatible plugin and removes deprecated Maven2 completely. Thanks to all new contributors for improving RAT!
0.15 2022-08-31 This release fixes a warning during site builds and updates various dependencies.
0.14 2022-05-28 This release contains dependency updates, bugfixes and many improvements apart from infrastructure updates at ASF.
0.13 2018-10-13 Lots of bugfixes and improvements.
0.12 2015-09-30 We now require Maven 3.0.5+ to build Rat, but as before we only require Maven 2.2.1+ if you want to use Rat in your own Maven projects. We've integrated Rat into the ASF Jenkins to ensure continuous builds with various JDK versions.
0.11 2014-08-31 * Rat stays at compiler level 1.5 to be more compliant with other Maven plugins, fixed build/CI environment to reflect and ensure that. * Fixed Javadoc warnings during build, upgraded Maven Plugin Plugin to avoid warnings in generated code (https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-237)
0.10 2013-09-05 The 0.10 version includes several bug fixes, most notably a fix for 0.9 performance issues. * Simpler binary archive * Updated dependencies and plugins * Fixed up generics and annotations
0.9 2013-05-02 * Improved documentation * Rat now requires Java5 at runtime * The Antlib contains a new matcher type that allows matching on the full text of the license rather than a single line. * Support automatic addition of license headers to svg files.
0.8-incubating 2011-11-15 Version 0.8 improves the command line interface, supports more file types when adding license headers and makes it easier to detect custom licenses. Some website fixes The Antlib and Maven plugins now provide simpler ways to detect licenses not directly supported by Rat.
0.7-incubating 2013-05-02 The following changes have been made in Apache RAT 0.7: - Add support for Python scripts, C source files, Unix shell scripts (.sh) and Windows batch files (.bat) (RAT-68) - Allow Ant task to output report as XML. (RAT-73) - Allow users to specify a custom XSLT stylesheet for reports (RAT-74, and RAT-75) - Some website fixes - Optionally auto-add headers to source files. (RAT-76)
0.6-incubating 2009-04-10 This is the first version using the org.apache package structure and related names. RAT users are strongly encouraged to migrate, as the old Google version will no longer be maintained. * Support for TMF header * Comprehend PEM, CRL file endings * Added reporting capability to recursive rat script * Moved to the Incubator@Apache
0.5.1   * Fixed file closing bug * Fixed XML bad character bug
0.5   * Added header matcher for DoJo. * Refactoring existing codebase to separate concerns and use resource pipeline. * New header matching library.
0.4.1   Rat 0.4.1 is the first release with distributions. The release was cut for this purpose. * Created POM for use with Rat library. * Ant task switched to use Xml based report.
0.4   * Ant tasks added. These allow Rat reports to be run against a wide variety of resources from within Ant. * Legacy report is now deprecated. It will be removed before the next release. * Created stylesheet for xml reports which produce output similar to the legacy plain text report. Application now uses the xml report with that stylesheet. * Revised xml output format * Improve support for binary recognition by adding code that tastes files
0.3   * This is the last release with the original hacked together plain test report. The new XML reporting code is present but is not yet the default. * Rat 0.3 is the first release with release notes. All previous releases are now consigned to Ancient History. No record of them will be found here.

Release 0.17-SNAPSHOT – xxxx-yy-zz

Type Changes By
Add Report skipped/excluded files and integrate testing of inclusion-exclusion and DocumentNames to work under Unix, Windows and Mac. Fixes RAT-98. claudenw
Add Integrate Creadur RAT into the updated develocity.apache.org instance. Fixes RAT-471. Thanks to clayjohnson. pottlinger
Fix Fix 'Path must include project or resource name: /' error after importing RAT into Eclipse IDE by changing the way resources are copied around submodules. Fixes RAT-379. Thanks to pottlinger. jochenw
Add Verify that projects that configure valid other licenses than the defaults, report correctly as well. Fixes RAT-469. Thanks to pottlinger. claudenw
Add Add .externalToolBuilders to the default Eclipse exclusions during RAT runs. Fixes RAT-467. pottlinger
Add Change layout and rendering of RAT report to contain RAT version information, counter values, encoding information of scanned files and aggregation by license type. Fixes RAT-453. claudenw
Add Added tests to TikaProcessorTests and DefaultAnalyserFactoryTest to properly handle non-existent and unreadable files during processing runs of our BinaryGuesser. Fixes RAT-178. claudenw
Add Do not show sample output of scanned files in XML anymore. As files are report different tooling can be used to edit/check the files. Fixes RAT-405. claudenw
Add Add new option --input-source to explicitly specify which files to scan for licenses. Fixes RAT-259. claudenw
Add Disallow GPL license family by default as ASF does not allow this license family. Fixes RAT-455. claudenw
Fix Added core integration test to verify JAR processing works correctly. Fixes RAT-457. claudenw
Add Added core integration test to verify log level can be set from the command line. Fixes RAT-458. claudenw
Fix Exclusions of defaults should work recursively and in submodules now. Added unit and integration tests. Fixes RAT-107. claudenw
Add Added --input-exclude-size as an option to skip the scanning of very small files. Fixes RAT-2. claudenw
Fix Added core integration tests and verified results without generating output via ClaimStatistics. Fixes RAT-41. claudenw
Add Added encoding information of the file being read to the RAT report in case of STANDARD document files. Added media type attribute in report for all files. Fixes RAT-81. claudenw
Fix Fixed encoding issue where text files not in UTF-8 encoding would not be read properly. Change adds charset to the metadata when it can be discovered. If not UTF-8 is returned. Added integration test to show reading of UTF8 and IBM037 encoding works. Fixes RAT-81. claudenw
Fix Added core integration tests and verified RAT-408 is fixed with the new exclusion engine. Fixes RAT-408. claudenw
Fix Added core integration tests and verified RAT-426 is fixed with the new exclusion engine. Fixes RAT-426. claudenw
Fix Harmonize log output messages that are automatically generated for Maven command line options to ease migration to v0.17. Fixes RAT-450. pottlinger
Add Moved the ignore code into apache-rat-core and provide more statistics in RAT report. Furthermore the CLI allows configuration of counter minimum and maximum values, e.g. maximum number of allowed unapproved licenses. Fixes RAT-399. claudenw
Fix Generate Maven help Mojo documentation under the same package as the auto-generated plugin parts: org.apache.rat.plugin. Fixes RAT-358. pottlinger
Add Overhaul documentation of the new functionality of RAT 0.17. Improve and comprehend the whole project webpage. Fixes RAT-358. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues and make the build fail in case of new checkstyle warnings and errors. Fixes RAT-439. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in plugin module. Deprecated several classes. Fixes RAT-438. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in tools module. Fixes RAT-438. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in configuration. Fixes RAT-422. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in document subdirectories. Fixes RAT-423. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in root package. Fixes RAT-435. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in report. Fixes RAT-431. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in report/claim. Fixes RAT-428. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in help. Fixes RAT-425. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in license. Fixes RAT-426. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in document. Fixes RAT-424. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in config. Fixes RAT-420. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in config/parameters. Fixes RAT-419. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in configuration/builders package. Fixes RAT-421. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in commandline. Fixes RAT-415. pottlinger
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in analysis package. Fixes RAT-412. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in api package. Fixes RAT-414. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in annotation package. Fixes RAT-413. claudenw
Fix Fix checkstyle issues in analysis/matchers. Fixes RAT-411. claudenw
Fix Fix layout error when rendering available help options (double dot). Fixes RAT-441. pottlinger
Add Move and reimplement exclusion configuration from Maven plugin to RAT core. ExclusionProcessor is the central place to handle file inclusions and exclusions now. Fixes RAT-390. claudenw
Fix Exclusions can be configured as a full path (due to the newly written ignore engine as of RAT-390). Fixes RAT-240. claudenw
Add As part of the usage the harmonization generation of Ant documentation was added. Fixes RAT-383. claudenw
Fix Clarify how our site is generated and adapt Maven build lifecycles and parameters accordingly to include package phase. Fixes RAT-409. claudenw
Add As part of the usage harmonization XSD generation was added. Fixes RAT-384. claudenw
Add As part of the usage harmonization among all UIs command line options and their arguments as well as the management of the license exclusion/inclusion and stylesheets were refactored. Fixes RAT-378. claudenw
Add Commons-cli >=1.8.0 properly reports when deprecated CLI options are used. RAT does not need to check for deprecated options anymore as part of the usage harmonization among all UIs. Fixes RAT-380. claudenw
Fix Do not use URL internally to load multiple files anymore and migrate to URI in order to avoid URL's equals/hashCode blocking method calls. Fixes RAT-371. claudenw
Add As part of the harmonization efforts CLI options are centralized into one class, which is used to generate specific classes for Ant and Maven runs of RAT. Fixes RAT-323. claudenw
Fix Centralize RAT's checkstyle configuration for all submodules under src/conf. Fixes RAT-369. claudenw
Add Integrate develocity service from Gradle and link to current results from badge in README.md. Fixes RAT-391. pottlinger
Add Update build scripts and Maven wrapper in the RAT repo to Maven 3.9.7. Fixes RAT-345. pottlinger
Add Automatically generate commandline options/CLI help during the build and include it into the project webpage. Adapt READMEs. Fixes RAT-374, RAT-381. claudenw
Add Added ability to specify the level of reporting on STANDARD files within a project. This necessitated an addition of a command line option "standard" to limit specify the level of detail in the STANDARD file reporting. See command line help for more details. By default, there is no change in the reporting and only the presence of archives are reported. Change also fixed a major issue in license sorting. Resulting in a change in order and expanding the name space for licenses. Licenses now must have a unique id within the family name space. (e.g. family1/one is different from family2/one). Fixes RAT-377. claudenw
Fix Javascript (.js) files not processed as text. Fixed as part of the Tika change. Fixes RAT-190. claudenw
Fix Fixed the filter compilation so that illegal regex do not cause other filters to be ignored. Updated the logging to only log a warning when at least one filter was skipped. Fixes RAT-265. claudenw
Add Added ability to process archive files within a project to look for license files. This necessitated an addition of a command line option "archive" to limit specify the level of detail in the archive report. See command line help for more details. By default, there is no change in the reporting and only the presence of archives are reported. This change also marked as deprecated the "-a", "--dir" and command line options. This change also marks an architecture change from processing Files to processing Documents in order to facilitate processing nested files in archives. Fixes RAT-372. claudenw
Add Add integration test for new default exclude .mvn, that was introduced with v0.16. Fixes RAT-314. pottlinger
Add Integrate checkstyle and spotbugs into the build and webpage generation. Most charset-related errors cannot be fixed until we break JDK8-compliance and move to newer versions. Configured a maximum of allowed bugs to fail the build if new errors are introduced. Fixes RAT-369. pottlinger
Fix Chinese characters in comments are not classified as binary anymore (due to Tika integration). Fixes RAT-301. Thanks to claudenw. pottlinger
Add MIME Detection Using Apache Tika. Fixes RAT-54. claudenw
Fix Changed to detecting binary by content not name. Fixes RAT-20. claudenw
Fix Change to detect non UTF-8 text files as text not binary. Fixes RAT-147. claudenw
Fix Switch to Tika to detect file types. This will result in more file types being properly categorized and may result in some failures where the scans previously did not fail because we now properly check all text files. Fixes RAT-150. claudenw
Fix Generated rat-output.xml is now well-formed, even if BinaryGuesser fails or there is XML content in the sample element. Fixes RAT-211. claudenw
Remove Removed ReportFailedRuntimeException, ReportTransformer, RatReportAnalysisResultException, MimeTyper, ToNameTransformer, UnsuitableDocumentException, ReportTransformerTest, and ToNameTransformerTest as they are no longer used in the codebase. Note: FullTextMatchingeLicense and SimplePatternBasedLicense will be removed in 0.18.0. Fixes RAT-368. claudenw
Fix Fix integration test failure with Maven4 by adding a version property in integration test's pom.xml. Versions above Maven4-alpha13 require Java17 and cannot be used with RAT, as it relies on Java8. Fixes RAT-354. Thanks to Guillaume Nodet. pottlinger
Add Optionally export XML configuration file as part of run. Added framework to inspect available licenses and matchers. Fixes RAT-355. claudenw
Update Switch to processing header matches in one call rather than line by line. This change also resulted in the possibility of multiple licenses being detected and reported. forcing a change in the XML ouptut. XML schema was developed for the output. Fixes RAT-366. claudenw
Fix Fix if --force option is used executable bit is not set properly on newly created/license-augmented file. Fixes RAT-333. claudenw
Update Update gitignore-reader from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1 to fetch changes resulting from fixes of RAT-362. Fixes RAT-345. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Fix Gitignore parsing fails when excluded element is part of the current base directory. Fixes RAT-362. Thanks to Niels Basjes, Arnout Engelen. pottlinger
Fix Older jUnit3 tests were not run during the build after switching to jUnit5. Fixes RAT-367. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Add Adds another stylesheet to explicitly output files with missing-headers. Thus plain-rat (default), missing-headers, and unapproved-licenses can be used in all RAT clients. From the CLI the -s option allows to use a short name (e.g. -s missing-headers or -s unapproved-licenses). Fixes RAT-77. claudenw
Update TODO: collect all dependabot updates for release 0.17. Fixes RAT-345. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger

Release 0.16.1 – 2024-01-24

Type Changes By
Add Use Maven wrapper (with version 3.9.6) for reproducable local builds and on ASF Jenkins and Github Actions. Fixes RAT-342. pottlinger
Fix Reimplement old configuration elements for custom licenses in Maven plugin configurations (and updates to the webpage). Fixes RAT-343. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Fix Add integration test to allow enhanced testing of custom licenses. Fixes RAT-343. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Add Update gitignore-reader library to 1.3.1 to get latest changes in gitignore parsing. Fixes RAT-348. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Fix Fix NPE by falling back to default stylesheet if none was configured before. Fixes RAT-349. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Add Issue a warning if a user defined License family has the same name as an existing one. Fixes RAT-346. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Add Migrate to JUnit5 and fix minor issues in tests and javadoc. Fixes RAT-346. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Remove Remove apache-rat-api module that contains misleading license-related classes. Fixes RAT-346. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Fix To improve the performance during SPDX processing a check to skip expensive regex operations was added. Fixes RAT-325. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Fix Internal logging feature enabled for license matching tests to avoid random test failures when manipulating System.out in test runs. Fixes RAT-325. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Add Set log level default for CLI runs to WARN. This applies to test runs as well, as other UIs configure their logging natively. Fixes RAT-325. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Add Add missing dejavu font in Javadoc, generate MOJO metadata in site and fix broken links in webpage. Fixes RAT-325. pottlinger
Fix Do not load fonts via Google/remotely, but use files hosted by ASF only and add privacy link to comply with ASF- and data protection/privacy regulations. Fixes RAT-325. pottlinger
Fix Fix double output by deleting any existing RAT report before writing a fresh file during plugin runs. Fixes RAT-344. claude
Update Update mavenPluginPluginVersion from 3.10.2 to 3.11.0 and introduce goalPrefix in plugin configuration. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update junit-platform-runner from 1.8.1 to 1.10.1. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update junit from 5.10.0 to 5.10.1. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update actions/cache from 3.3.2 to 4.0.0. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.3 to 3.2.5. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-jxr-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update slf4j-simple from 2.0.9 to 2.0.11. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update assertj-core from 3.24.2 to 3.25.1. Fixes RAT-339. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger

Release 0.16 – 2023-12-28

Type Changes By
Update Update actions/setup-java from 3.4.1 to 4.0.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update actions/cache from 3.0.11 to 3.3.2. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update actions/checkout from 3 to 4. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update mockito-core from 4.7.0 to 4.11.0, newer versions 5.x cannot be applied due to our JDK8-compatibility restriction. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update plexus-utils from 3.4.2 to 3.5.1, versions 4.x are for upcoming Maven4 and must not be applied here. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-plugin-version from 3.6.4 to 3.8.2. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update wagon-ssh from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update Ant from 1.10.12 to 1.10.14. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update ASF parent pom from 27 to 31 and update multiple maven plugin versions implicitly (surefire, release, project-info, enforcer, jxr). Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update doxiaVersion from 1.11.1 to 1.12.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-shared-utils from 3.3.4 to 3.4.2. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update org.slf4j:slf4j-simple from 1.7.36 to 2.0.9. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update commons-lang3 from 3.5 to 3.14.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update commons-compress from 1.21 to 1.25. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update commons-io from 2.11.0 to 2.15.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update commons-cli from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-pmd-plugin from 3.18.0 to 3.21.2. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-dependency-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.6.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-compiler-plugin from 3.10.1 to 3.12.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.4.1 to 3.6.3. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-release-plugin from 2.5.3 to 3.0.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.1.0 to 3.4.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update extra-enforcer-rules from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-release-plugin from 2.5.3 to 3.0.1. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.22 to 1.23. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3. Fixes RAT-311. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Fix existing javadoc build errors and add javadoc generation to existing GithubActions to not introduce build errors via merge requests. Fixes RAT-326. pottlinger
Add Update minimal build Maven version to 3.2.5 and maven dependencies to 3.9.6. Remove pre-JDK8 code constructs and minor refactorings. Fixes RAT-338. Thanks to Tamás Cservenák. pottlinger
Add Enhance .gitignore handling; support multiple .gitignore files and allow a more complete parsing of Git's ignore files. Fixes RAT-335. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Add Add configuration option to scan hidden directories: --scan-hidden-directories on the command line and scanHiddenDirectories as a Maven plugin parameter. Fixes RAT-322. Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Onofré. pottlinger
Add Add new command line option -o/--output to write RAT's output to a file. Fixes RAT-320. Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Onofré. pottlinger
Add Add markdown (MD) and yaml (YML/YAML) as a recognized extension for file and license processing. Fixes RAT-329. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Fix Ensure that System.out does not get closed during report generation and updated javadocs. Fixes RAT-328. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Add Add default exclusion of MANIFEST.MF as it must not contain comment lines to include a license. Fixes RAT-316. pottlinger
Add Allow text-based XML configuration of RAT. Fixes RAT-321. Thanks to Claude Warren. pottlinger
Fix Update commons-compress to 1.24.0 in order to circumvent CVE-2023-42503. Fixes RAT-311. pottlinger
Fix Added SPDX processing for default licenses. Fixes RAT-251. Thanks to Claude Warren. jochenw
Fix Fix warnings when using RAT with newer Maven versions as methods from Maven v2 are deprecated. Minimum version of required Maven changed to 3.2.5. Fixes RAT-315. Thanks to Guillaume Nodet. jochenw
Fix Change log output level of SCM ignore parser from info to debug in order to produce less log output in RAT runs. Fixes RAT-317. Thanks to Gary Gregory. pottlinger
Fix Add default recursive exclusion for maven-induced build artifacts in folder .mvn. Fixes RAT-314. Thanks to François Guillot. pottlinger
Fix Remove Travis build as it is unreliable. Builds with ASF Jenkins and Github Actions remain as before. Fixes RAT-312. pottlinger

Release 0.15 – 2022-08-31

Type Changes By
Update Update maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-jxr-plugin from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.21 to 1.22. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-site-plugin from 3.12.0 to 3.12.1. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-pmd-plugin from 3.16.0 to 3.18.0. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update mockito-core from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update extra-enforcer-rules from 1.5.1 to 1.6.1. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update Apache parent pom from 26 to 27. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update wagon-ssh from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update maven-enforcer-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Update Update actions/setup-java from 3.3.0 to 3.4.1. Fixes RAT-305. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Site builds could not be generated properly due to API changes: solution was to upgrade Maven Reporting API to 3.1.1 and use details of Maven Reporting Implementation 3.2.0 in RAT's Mojo hierarchy. Fixes RAT-309. Thanks to Michael Osipov, Gary Gregory. pottlinger
Fix Updated internal data structures from deprecated ArrayStack to JDK's ArrayDeque. Fixes RAT-309. pottlinger
Fix Add note about hierarchy of changelogs in RAT project structure when publishing the project webpage. Fixes RAT-306. pottlinger
Update Fix deprecation warnings in tests. Use hamcrest's annotations instead of ones from JUnit. Fixes RAT-310. pottlinger
Fix Update to focal (Ubuntu 20.04) on Travis to circumvent build errors and be able to use more modern JDK versions. Deprecate openJDK8 build with focal as it is not supported on Travis. Fixes RAT-307. pottlinger

Release 0.14 – 2022-05-28

Type Changes By
Fix Update maven-jxr-plugin from 2.5 to 3.2.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-antrun-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update github actions/checkout from 2 to 3. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update github actions/setup-java from 2.5.0 to 3.3.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-pmd-plugin from 3.14.0 to 3.16.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-javadoc-plugin from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-compiler-plugin from 3.8.1 to 3.10.1. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update wagon-ssh from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-site-plugin from 3.9.1 to 3.12.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-project-info-reports-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.3.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update mockito-core from 3.11.2 to 4.6.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update ASF parent from 23 to 26. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Add Adapt logging output to be more compliant with future Maven versions as debug is deprecated and verbose is the recommended way to go. Fixes RAT-288. Thanks to Michael Osipov. pottlinger
Fix Some tests were based on the assumption, that the value of file.encoding can be changed on runtime. (Won't work nowadays, beginning with Java 16.) Removed this assumption in favour of a proper surefire configuration. Fixes RAT-273. jochen
Fix Workaround for an incompatibility in the java.io.LineNumberReader, which is being replaced by the org.apache.rat.header.LineNumberReader. Fixes RAT-273. jochen
Add Update maven-reporting-api from 3.0 to 3.1.0 and remove usage of deprecated Sink API. Fixes RAT-297. Thanks to Michael Osipov. pottlinger
Fix Update animal-sniffer-maven-plugin from 1.20 to 1.21. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to Jin Xu/Xeno Amess. pottlinger
Fix Use Github Actions for matrix builds on Windows and ubuntu with JDK 8,11,12,13,14,15. Simplify Travis integration to avoid dockerhub-related build failures. Fixes RAT-296. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Apache Ant 1.10.12. Fixes RAT-274. pottlinger
Fix Fix links to Travis builds for all creadur projects. Fixes RAT-291. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-dependency-plugin from 3.1.1 to 3.2.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update plexus-utils from 3.0.21 to 3.4.1. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update commons-cli from 1.4 to 1.5.0. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update maven-plugin-annotation and maven-plugin-plugin from 3.6.1 to 3.6.2. Fixes RAT-290. Thanks to dependabot. pottlinger
Fix Update to doxia 1.11.1 in order to get CVE-2020-13956-httpclient problem fixes in doxia. Fixes RAT-275. pottlinger
Add Enable dependabot integration - write access is forbidden, but email alerts and pull requests should be ok. Fixes RAT-289. pottlinger
Fix Update plugin versions and dependencies in order to run properly with Java8 as minimal compiler level. Fixes RAT-283. pottlinger
Fix Update to maven-plugin-plugin v3.6.1 in order to circumvent error during maven site builds. Fixes RAT-286. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Apache Ant 1.10.11 in order to fix issues related to dependency commons-compress in Ant itself. Fixes RAT-285. pottlinger
Fix Properly report thread-safeness to Maven. Fixes RAT-207. Thanks to Xavier Dury. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Commons IO to fix CVE-2021-29425 (Moderate severity). Fixes RAT-281. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Apache Ant 1.10.10. Fixes RAT-274. pottlinger
Add Migrate vom Travis CI.org to Travis-ci.com. Fixes RAT-279. pottlinger
Fix Update to junit 4.13.1 to fix CVE-2020-15250. Fixes RAT-277. pottlinger
Fix Update to new ASF parent 23 in order to get rid of doxia version management that generated warnings. Fixes RAT-158. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Apache Ant 1.10.9 to fix CVE-2020-11979. Update to JDK8 as minimal version/compiler version. Fixes RAT-274. pottlinger
Add Move all Creadur projects to new Jenkins infrastructure at ASF and migrate from Subversion to Gitbox/Github. Please update your repository URLs and use the new default branch master in all projects. Fixes RAT-271. pottlinger
Add Change default behaviour to output erroneous files to console. Can be disabled by setting rat.consoleOutput to false. Fixes RAT-270. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest Apache Ant to fix CVE-2020-1945. Fixes RAT-269. pottlinger
Fix Allow handling of pom-file-only projects by not assuming that all modules are in directories. Fixes RAT-268. Thanks to Robert Scholte. pottlinger
Fix Report ignored lines from exclusion file to stderr instead of std to not generate erroneous JSON. Fixes RAT-267. Thanks to Fabio Utzig. pottlinger
Add Add .factorypath to Eclipse-default exclusions. Fixes RAT-266. Thanks to Michael Osipov. pottlinger
Fix Treat JSON data as binary to avoid reports of missing licenses. Fixes RAT-262. pottlinger
Fix Change to docker image when building on Travis to avoid JDK version mixup in traditional build setup. Fixes RAT-260. Thanks to Kamil Breguła. pottlinger
Fix Update to latest commons-compress to fix CVE-2019-12402. Fixes RAT-258. pottlinger
Fix Adapt help text for CLI usage of RAT. Fixes RAT-257. pottlinger
Add Properly finish move to gitbox/github, get rid of SVN references and adapt main branch to master and fix all Jenkins build jobs for RAT. Fixes RAT-254. pottlinger
Add Update compiler level to 1.7 to allow building with more recent JDKs. Update plugins and dependencies to more modern versions to fix security issues (CVE-warnings). Fixes RAT-244. pottlinger
Add Add alternative https URLs in Apache License, Version 2.0 to allow automatic recognition as valid ASF2.0. Fixes RAT-212. Thanks to Niels Basjes. pottlinger
Add Update to latest available and compatible Apache ANT 1.9.14 to get bugfixes. Fixes RAT-250. pottlinger
Add SCM repository has been moved from svn.apache.org (Subversion) to gitbox.apache.org (Git). Fixes INFRA-17348. jochen

Release 0.13 – 2018-10-13

Type Changes By
Add Fixing broken Ant unit test setup and making tests run more deterministic. Fixes RAT-228. Thanks to Romain Manni-Bucau. pottlinger
Add Update to latest available and compatible Apache ANT 1.9.12 to get bugfixes and newer JDK support. Fixes RAT-245. pottlinger
Add Update to latest available and compatible Apache ANT 1.9.11 to get bugfixes and newer JDK support. Fixes RAT-245. pottlinger
Add Update to latest available and compatible Apache ANT 1.9.10 due to CVE-2017-5645. Fixes RAT-245. pottlinger
Fix Use UTF-8 as default encoding for RAT Ant reports. Fixes RAT-242. Thanks to Matthias Bläsing. pottlinger
Fix Do not treat TypeScript files as binary. Fixes RAT-234. Thanks to ajbanck. pottlinger
Add Add .checkstyle to Eclipse default exclusions. Fixes RAT-243. Thanks to Matthew Ouyang. pottlinger
Add Reduce default log level of used exclusions to debug, only print totals into the maven log like includes. Fixes RAT-241. Thanks to Andrew Gaul. pottlinger
Fix Overhauled CLI module to allow file based exclusions with wildcards and explicit file names. Fixes RAT-240. pottlinger
Add Recognize XML-based .Net Core xproj files. Fixes RAT-233. Thanks to Stefan Bodewig. pottlinger
Add Update to latest available and compatible Apache ANT 1.9.9. Fixes RAT-226. pottlinger
Fix Download section does not work if SNAPSHOT is deployed, add download of previous RAT release. Fixes RAT-222. pottlinger
Fix Fixed example on webpage about usage of custom licenses. Fixes RAT-224. Thanks to John Patrick. pottlinger
Fix Add support for Golang and Perl module files. Fixes RAT-223. Thanks to Eric Friedrich. pottlinger

Release 0.12 – 2015-09-30

Type Changes By
Fix Add WOFF2, WOFF, TTF and EOT font file extensions to binary file collection to allow faster detection as binary without reading in the files. Fixes RAT-215. pottlinger
Fix Upgrade commons-compress and apache-ant due to possible security problems. Fixes RAT-214. pottlinger
Fix Upgrade to commons-collections 3.2.2. Fixes RAT-213. pottlinger
Fix Adapt layout of Creadur project pages to use the new ASF logo. Change links to SSL. Fixes RAT-210. pottlinger
Fix Removing the Gradle Plugin from the Rat Core project, so that building with Java 5 works again. Fixes RAT-163. jochen
Fix Fix SAX-Parser warning by explicitly excluding xerces in Doxia 1.2. Fixes RAT-158. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy. pottlinger
Fix Allow complete skip of RAT plugin with rat.skip property. Fixes RAT-173. Thanks to Chris Burroughs. pottlinger
Fix CDDL1License still very slow, replace Pattern matching with simple String comparison. Fixes RAT-174. Thanks to Chris Burroughs. pottlinger
Fix SourceCodeManagementSystems.hasIgnoreFile() should return boolean. Fixes RAT-175. sebb
Fix Final arrays should be private. Fixes RAT-177. pottlinger
Fix Fix problems with AnimalSniffer-plugin when running in GUMP with Java 8. Workaround for https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANIMALSNIFFER-45. Fixes RAT-188. Thanks to Mark Thomas. pottlinger
Fix Ignore build.log created by maven-invoker-plugin. Fixes RAT-160. Thanks to Christopher Tubbs. pottlinger
Fix Maven plugin and Ant task do not support adding extra approved licenses. Fixes RAT-179. pottlinger
Fix Generify and beautify texts in RAT report. Fixes RAT-180. pottlinger
Add Minor refactoring in pom.xml. Fixes RAT-196. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. pottlinger
Fix Upgrade to Doxia 1.6 if called directly, does not affect problems reported in RAT-158. Minor improvements. Fixes RAT-194. Thanks to Hervé Boutemy. pottlinger
Add List files with unapproved licenses in Maven output. Fixes RAT-61. Thanks to Jukka Zitting. dennisl
Add RAT should use itself during build and site generation. Fixes RAT-170. Thanks to Philipp Ottlinger. dennisl
Add BinaryGuesser should treat *.truststore as binary. Fixes RAT-181. sebb
Add Add DEPENDENCIES to the list of ignored files in NoteGuesser. Fixes RAT-184. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. pottlinger
Add .repository folder should be ignored. Fixes RAT-185. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. dennisl
Add BinaryGuesser should recognize PSD files as images. Fixes RAT-186. dennisl
Add Add 'SAR', 'HAR', 'WSR' as archives which should be ignored. Fixes RAT-187. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. dennisl
Add Improve exclusion defaults when working with Maven 3.3.1 (exclude .mvn). Fixes RAT-197. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. pottlinger
Fix Upgrade plexus-utils to 3.0.20. Fixes RAT-198. Thanks to Karl Heinz Marbaise. pottlinger
Fix Exclude technical directories of source code management systems and their ignore files from RAT scans. Fixes RAT-172. pottlinger
Fix Upgrade ASF parent POM to 17. Fixes RAT-200. pottlinger
Add BinaryGuesser should treat *.swf as binary. Furthermore BinaryGuesser falls back to UTF-8 encoding in case the encoding given via system property (-Dfile.encoding) was not found. Fixes RAT-201. pottlinger
Add Report layout differs between successful RAT checks and existence of unapproved files. Fixes RAT-202. pottlinger
Add Report layout differs between successful RAT checks and existence of unapproved files. Fixes RAT-202. pottlinger
Add Using 'license' in README, source code, javadoc, comments and site instead of 'licence'; improve terminology to not confuse RAT consumers. Fixes RAT-203. pottlinger
Add Unify resource handling in code and tests, make sure the resources are properly closed. Apply minor refactorings. Fixes RAT-204. pottlinger

Release 0.11 – 2014-08-31

Type Changes By
Fix addLicenseHeaders is missing a space on license header. Fixes RAT-135.
Fix AbstractRatMojo String constant arrays should be private. Fixes RAT-144.
Fix LicenseAddingReport#report has useless call to metaData.getData. Fixes RAT-148. Thanks to Chris A Mattmann.
Fix Detect more archive file formats. Fixes RAT-151.
Fix Recognize the format for .bsh, .fml and .jsp file types. Fixes RAT-152.
Fix Do not add extra empty lines when appending headers for the Apache License. Fixes RAT-153.
Fix Indentation of the license header should be decided per family. Fixes RAT-154.
Fix Do not add empty first and last lines in the license header for certain families. Fixes RAT-155.
Fix Add some symmetry when applying license headers to files with file type specific headers. Fixes RAT-156.
Fix Detect OpenOffice documents as being archives. Fixes RAT-159.
Add Add support for CDDL 1.0. Fixes RAT-129.
Add CDDL1License.matches slow with large inputs. Fixes RAT-162. Thanks to Andrew Gaul.
Add Allow skipping execution entirely. Fixes RAT-164.
Add Use a maven defaultGoal for RAT's base pom.xml. Fixes RAT-165.

Release 0.10 – 2013-09-05

Type Changes By
Fix Website shows incorrect Maven goals in some pages. Fixes RAT-137.
Fix Use the proper name for the Apache License. Fixes RAT-128.
Fix RAT runs very slowly on some input. Fixes RAT-138.
Fix OASISLicense allows invalid Copyright line. Fixes RAT-140.
Fix FullTextMatchingLicense.prune uses inefficient deleteAtChar. Fixes RAT-139.
Fix Maven plugin should not run in the "verify" phase, but in the "validate" phase. Fixes RAT-145.
Add Add support for CDDL 1.0. Fixes RAT-129.

Release 0.9 – 2013-05-02

Type Changes By
Fix Incorrect alignment of file contents. Fixes RAT-3.
Fix typo in pom.xml / field description. Fixes RAT-102.
Fix Return value of mkdirs() is not checked and no error handling occurs. Fixes RAT-109.
Fix Docs don't say what the default excludes are. Fixes RAT-116.
Fix fix some maven warnings and upgrade some dependencies. Fixes RAT-120.
Fix use maven java5 annotations for maven plugins. Fixes RAT-121.
Fix Maven Plugin: field to ignore errors and continue the build. Fixes RAT-122.
Fix Rat plugin should exclude the configuration directory used by IDEA. Fixes RAT-124.
Fix Default excludes do not ignore .git/ repository. Fixes RAT-126.
Update [GOOGLE-14] GNU License support. Fixes RAT-13.
Update Recognise MIT LIcense. Fixes RAT-49.
Update Using jUnit4 annotation based tests instead of junit3 - migration from junit 3.8.2 to current junit 4.10. Fixes RAT-104.
Fix Minor Javadoc errors fixed in 3 files. Fixes RAT-106.
Update Add native support for thrift generated code to be ignored. Fixes RAT-108.
Update RAT does not ignore javah generated files. Fixes RAT-111.
Update Support applied AL20 license headers, including checking for required copyright header line. Fixes RAT-125.
Add Support doxia 1.1.2. Fixes RAT-78.
Update Upgrade To Java 1.5. Fixes RAT-59.
Update Upgrade Maven prerequisite to 2.2.1. Fixes RAT-119.

Release 0.8-incubating – 2011-11-15

Type Changes By
CLI doesn't allow adding of licenses unless a custom stylesheet has been specified. Fixes RAT-86.
Tests could leave temporary files around.>. Fixes RAT-87.
When adding licenses Rat used \n instead of the platform dependent line--end character(s). Fixes RAT-92.
Streams were not always closed immediately when adding licenses. Fixes RAT-94.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers to Velocity templates. Fixes RAT-79.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers to Scala source files. Fixes RAT-83.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers to Ruby source files. Fixes RAT-84.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers to Perl, TCL, C++, C# and PHP source files. Fixes RAT-89.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers to Groovy source files. Fixes RAT-91.
Update Allow --addLicense as an alias for --addLicence for people used to the US spelling. Fixes RAT-85.
Update --addLicense will add the license to the top of Java files without a package line or XML files without an XML declaration now - it used to not add anything. Fixes RAT-34.
Update The XML and standard plain text reports now contain a timestamp with the time the report has been generated. Fixes RAT-67.
Update When adding licenses Rat will now remove any BOM from the file. Fixes RAT-95.
Update --addLicense now supports more .NET specific files like MS Visual Studio project and solution files. Fixes RAT-93.
Update The command line interface has a new option that specifies a file containing regular expressions for files to exclude. Fixes RAT-99.

Release 0.7-incubating – 2013-05-02

Type Changes By
Fix Some of Rat's own files missing License Headers. Fixes RAT-62.
Fix ant-task-examples.xml has an wrong uri in the -typedef ant target. Fixes RAT-63.
Fix Missing closing html tag in generated report by. Fixes RAT-70.
Update Support the use of archives as input. Fixes RAT-17.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers. Fixes RAT-30.
Update Support automatic addition of license headers. Fixes RAT-76.
Update Merge In Rat Output Semantics. Fixes RAT-52.
Update Commons IO Wildcard Excludes. Fixes RAT-56.
Update Rat Pom cleanup. Fixes RAT-65.
Update Add support for Python, C, & script files (.bat & .sh). Fixes RAT-68.
Update Keep version in plugins sample doc up to date. Fixes RAT-72.
Update Support for XML output in Ant task and Maven Plugin. Fixes RAT-73.
Update Support for XML output in Ant task and Maven Plugin. Fixes RAT-73.
Update Support for custom XSLT stylesheets. Fixes RAT-74.
Update Support for custom XSLT stylesheets. Fixes RAT-75.

Release 0.6-incubating – 2009-04-10

Type Changes By
Fix List all resources with unapproved licenses at the beginning of the report. Fixes RAT-37. Thanks to Jukka Zitting. jochen
Fix Report header incorrectly refers to an "L" license marker. Fixes RAT-36. Thanks to Jukka Zitting. jochen
Fix Mailing list subscribe points to unsubscribe. Fixes RAT-33. Thanks to Gavin. jochen
Fix Incorrect alignment of file contents. Fixes RAT-3.
Fix Incorrect number of unnapproved licences reported. Fixes RAT-11.
Fix Incorrect SCM info in maven plugin pom. Fixes RAT-12.
Fix NPE on "mvn install" in rat-anttasks. Fixes RAT-29.
Fix No license header added for java files that do not contain project line. Fixes RAT-34.
Fix Incorrect number of unapproved licenses reported by rat:check. Fixes RAT-35.
Update add JavaCC to GeneratedLicenseNotRequired. Fixes RAT-8.
Update A more informative website. Fixes RAT-9.
Update A few Javadoc comments. Fixes RAT-10.
Update More details in text summary. Fixes RAT-23.
Update Include checksums on web page. Fixes RAT-24.
Update Improve web summary. Fixes RAT-26.
Update Index page. Fixes RAT-27.
Add RAT Source Import. Fixes RAT-6.
Add Repackage maven plugin. Fixes RAT-28.
Add maven-rat-plugin and ant-rat tasks. Fixes RAT-1.

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