Release 2.8.1

README.md

@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ Various documentation is available:
 
 
 ### Releases
-[Release 2.8](http://www.joda.org/joda-time/download.html) is the current latest release.
+[Release 2.8.1](http://www.joda.org/joda-time/download.html) is the current latest release.
 This release is considered stable and worthy of the 1.x tag.
 It depends on JDK 1.5 or later.
 
-Available in the [Maven Central repository](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|joda-time|joda-time|2.8|jar)
+Available in the [Maven Central repository](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|joda-time|joda-time|2.8.1|jar)
 
 
 ### Related projects

pom.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <name>Joda-Time</name>
-  <version>2.8.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>2.8.1</version>
   <description>Date and time library to replace JDK date handling</description>
   <url>http://www.joda.org/joda-time/</url>
 

src/conf/MANIFEST.MF

@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@ Specification-Vendor: Joda.org
 Specification-Version: 2.8
 Implementation-Vendor: Joda.org
 Implementation-Title: org.joda.time
-Implementation-Version: 2.8
+Implementation-Version: 2.8.1
 Implementation-Vendor-Id: org.joda
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Vendor: Joda.org
 Bundle-Name: Joda-Time
 Bundle-SymbolicName: joda-time
-Bundle-Version: 2.8
-Export-Package: org.joda.time;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.base;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.chrono;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.convert;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.field;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.format;version=2.8,
- org.joda.time.tz;version=2.8
+Bundle-Version: 2.8.1
+Export-Package: org.joda.time;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.base;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.chrono;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.convert;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.field;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.format;version=2.8.1,
+ org.joda.time.tz;version=2.8.1
 Bundle-License: Apache 2.0
 Bundle-DocURL: http://www.joda.org/joda-time/

src/site/markdown/index.md

@@ -125,21 +125,21 @@ Joda-Time is licenced under the business friendly <a href="license.html">Apache
 
 ## <i></i> Releases
 
-[Release 2.8](download.html) is the current latest release.
+[Release 2.8.1](download.html) is the current latest release.
 This release is considered stable and worthy of the 2.x tag.
-See the [upgrade notes](upgradeto280.html) for full details.
+See the [upgrade notes](upgradeto281.html) for full details.
 
 Joda-Time requires Java SE 5 or later and has [no dependencies](dependencies.html).
 There is a *compile-time* dependency on [Joda-Convert](http://www.joda.org/joda-convert/),
 but this is not required at runtime thanks to the magic of annotations.
 
-Available in [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Cjoda-time%7Cjoda-time%7C2.8%7Cjar).
+Available in [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Cjoda-time%7Cjoda-time%7C2.8.1%7Cjar).
 
 ```xml
 <dependency>
   <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
   <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-  <version>2.8</version>
+  <version>2.8.1</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Key changes included the use of Java SE 5 or later, generics, and the removal of
 deprecated methods. See the [upgrade notes](upgradeto200.html) for full details when upgrading from 1.x
 including information on the corner cases that are not compatible.
 The ancient release [1.6.2](https://sourceforge.net/projects/joda-time/files/joda-time/1.6.2/) was
-the last release to support Java SE 4 and the last v1.x release
+the last release to support Java SE 4 and the last v1.x release.
 
 
 ---

src/site/xdoc/installation.xml

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ of the source code suitable for linking to the jar file in IDEs such as Eclipse.
 <p>
 The release notes for upgraders can be found here:
 <ul>
+<li><a href="upgradeto281.html">Version 2.8.1</a> - upgrade from Version 2.8</li>
 <li><a href="upgradeto280.html">Version 2.8</a> - upgrade from Version 2.7</li>
 <li><a href="upgradeto270.html">Version 2.7</a> - upgrade from Version 2.6</li>
 <li><a href="upgradeto260.html">Version 2.6</a> - upgrade from Version 2.5</li>

src/site/xdoc/upgradeto281.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+
+<document>
+ <properties>
+  <title>Java date and time API - Upgrade from 2.8 to 2.8.1</title>
+  <author>Stephen Colebourne</author>
+ </properties>
+
+<body>
+
+<section name="Upgrade">
+<p>
+These are the release notes and advice for upgrading Joda-Time from version 2.8 to version 2.8.1.
+<source>
+Joda-Time version 2.8.1
+-----------------------
+
+Joda-Time is a date and time handling library that seeks to replace the JDK
+Date and Calendar classes.
+
+This release contains enhancements, bug fixes and a time zone update.
+The release runs on JDK 5 or later.
+
+Joda-Time is licensed under the business-friendly Apache License Version 2.
+This is the same license as all of Apache, plus other open source projects such as Spring.
+The intent is to make the code available to the Java community with the minimum
+of restrictions. If the license causes you problems please contact the mailing list.
+
+**  Please also check out our related projects   **
+** http://www.joda.org/joda-time/related.html **
+
+
+Changes in 2.8.1
+================
+- Fixed to handle JDK 8u60 [#288, #291]
+  Without this fix, formatting a time-zone will print "+00:00" instead of "GMT" for the GMT time-zone
+
+- DateTimeZone data updated to version 2015e
+
+
+Changes in 2.8.0
+================
+
+See http://www.joda.org/joda-time/upgradeto280.html
+
+</source>
+</p>
+</section>
+
+</body>
+</document>