v4.11

Version 4.11

• The 'naaccrName' attribute is now enforced to be up to 50 characters.
• Standalone GUI now shows the number of written Patient and Tumor when creating XML files.
• Added new menu item to standalone GUI to save a given dictionary as CSV file.
• Added support for user-defined dictionary to SAS module.
• Updated commons-lang3 dependency from version 3.6 to version 3.7.
• Updated commons-io dependency from version 2.5 to version 2.6.
• Updated XZ compression library from version 1.6 to version 1.8.

I am now attaching the SAS macros to this release, its' more convenient to download the 3 SAS-related files from one location...

v4.10

Version 4.10

• Added maximum length of 50 characters for NaaccrId attribute in the dictionaries.
• Added new DuplicateItemException to deal with duplicate items, which are never allowed in this standard.
• Writing unknown items is now tied to the 'unknownItemHandling' option.
• Improved handling of CDATA sections when reading/writing XML for SAS.

v4.9

Version 4.9

• Added a missing flush to the PatientFlatWriter.closeAndKeepAlive method.
• Now replacing a single CR (without a LF) by a space when writing to a flat file.
• Fixed an exception happening when trying to write XML with padding turned ON.
• PatientReader and PatientWriter interfaces are now extending Closeable instead of AutoCloseable.
• Added support for creating SAS definition file in the standalone GUI interface.

v4.8

Version 4.8

• Fixed padding, alignment and dataType attributes for items in NAACCR dictionaries

v4.7

Version 4.7

• Fixed typos in NAACCR ID of new NAACCR 18 data item from 'ceaPretreatmentIntrepretation' to 'ceaPretreatmentInterpretation'.
• Fixed wrong NAACCR ID and name for item #1788 in version 15 dictionary.

v4.6

Version 4.6

• Final version of the NAACCR 18 dictionary.

v4.5

Version 4.5

• Added support for NAACCR 18; that version is not final yet and it's possible it will change in a future release.
• Extensions now return their line number if the class implements NaaccrXmlExtension.
• Added a new dictionary editor in the standalone GUI.
• Added new jaxb-api (version 2.3.0) dependency required by Java 9.

v4.4

Version 4.4

• Fixed an exception in new validation method added in version 4.3.

v4.3

Version 4.3

• Added a new dictionary utility method that validates a combination of dictionaries instead of a single one.
• The patient readers/writers are now implementing a common reader/writer interface.
• Improved handling of extension to allow several extension objects per data level instead of a single one.
• Improved the algorithm that generate NAACCR XML ID from names so it handles roman numerals better.
• Improved user-defined dictionaries validation; an error will now be reported if two dictionaries define overlapping columns.
• Added a proper security environment to XStream by limiting the classes that it can create when loading XML files.
• Updated XStream dependency from version 1.4.9 to version 1.4.10.
• Updated commons-lang3 dependency from version 3.4 to version 3.6.
• Updated XZ compression library from version 1.5 to version 1.6.

v4.2

Version 4.2

• Fixed a bug in the dictionary validation that would not flag as invalid a dictionary with a missing URI attribute.
• Added support in NaaccrXmlUtils for new lineToPatient and patientToLine methods.