CHANGELOG.md

• Fix inconsistencies when using @Platform(inherit=..., library=...) together (pull #747)
• Let Parser support templates with unnamed type parameters (pull #742)
• Prevent Parser from producing duplicate declarations for basic containers (pull #741)

January 29, 2024 version 1.5.10

• Move native Loader methods to Helper class to avoid deadlocks (issue #737)
• Fix Parser failing to pick up Info for constructors with template arguments (pull #739)
• Fix MoveAdapter and UniquePtrAdapter causing double free on function calls (pull #738)
• Fix Parser handling of template specialization and their friend declarations (pull #733)
• Improve Parser capabilities for operator and function templates (pull #732)
• Fix Parser failing on nested initializer lists and on attributes found inside enum declarations
• Fix Parser for basic containers like std::optional<std::pair<int,int> > (issue #718)
• Add support for std::basic_string basic container (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1311)
• Enhance Parser by adding downcast constructors for polymorphic classes (pull #700)
• Let Generator pick up @Name annotations on allocate() as well (pull #700)
• Fix Parser failing to place annotations on default constructors (pull #699)
• Let Parser output reset() methods for basic containers like std::optional (pull #696)
• Let Parser define front() and back() for one-dimensional basic containers (pull #695)
• Let Parser map iterators of basic containers systematically (pull #694)
• Fix Parser for function parameters contained in template arguments (pull #693)
• Fix Parser on function pointer declarations starting with typedef struct (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1361)

June 6, 2023 version 1.5.9

• Fix Loader.extractResource() for nested JAR files from Spring Boot (pull #685)
• Have Parser desugar ... varargs to array [] for return types as well (pull #682)
• Fix Parser failing on some friend functions for operator overloading (pull #681)
• Fix Parser incorrectly casting const pointers to template arguments of pointer types (pull #677)
• Fix Parser with Info.enumerate failing to translate enum values based on other enum values
• Fix Parser prematurely expanding macros defined in class, struct or union (issue #674)
• Add Info.upcast to support class hierarchies with virtual inheritance (pull #671)
• Pick up @Adapter, @SharedPtr, etc annotations on allocate() as well (pull #668)
• Provide @Virtual(subclasses=false) to prevent Generator from subclassing subclasses (pull #660)
• Fix Loader.getPlatform() detection for linux-armhf with Temurin JDK (issue bytedeco/javacv#2001)
• Fix Parser ignoring Info.skip for enumerators that do not get translated (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1315)
• Fix Parser error on C++17 style namespace declarations containing :: separators (issue #595)
• Fix Parser observing Info.virtualize for non-virtual functions (pull #658)
• Use regex in Parser to match more robustly templates and namespaces (pull #657)
• Fix Builder default output path for class names with the same length (pull #654)
• Add Info.friendly to have Parser map some friend functions to Java methods (pull #649)
• Add Loader.loadProperties(boolean forceReload) to reset platform properties (issue deepjavalibrary/djl#2318)
• Prevent TokenIndexer from recursively expanding macros
• Fix Generator passing empty String objects on callback for arguments using adapters
• Fix Parser failure on enum enumerators generated using the concat ## operator

November 2, 2022 version 1.5.8

• Add static long Pointer.getDirectBufferAddress(Buffer) method for convenience (pull #629)
• Fix UniquePtrAdapter incorrectly deallocating pointers on callbacks (issue #613)
• Fix Generator incorrectly casting @ByVal or @ByRef annotated FunctionPointer arguments (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1244)
• Fix Generator compiler errors for FunctionPointer with @UniquePtr arguments (issue #613)
• Fix Generator compiler errors on Mac for Clang without Objective-C support (pull #610)
• Prevent Parser from outputting cast methods for base classes that are Info.skip (pull #607)
• Ensure Generator and Parser process header files from cinclude before include (issue #580)
• Remove sun.misc.Unsafe config incompatible/unneeded with GraalVM Native Image 22.x (issue bytedeco/sample-projects#63)
• Define default SHARED_PTR_NAMESPACE, UNIQUE_PTR_NAMESPACE, OPTIONAL_NAMESPACE to std on supported compilers (issue #577)
• Let Generator treat long arguments and return values @ByVal or @ByRef with @Cast("...*") (issue #576)
• Add BytePointer.getUnsigned() and putUnsigned() methods for convenience (pull #574)
• Let Parser consider alignas as an explicit attribute to be ignored by default (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1168)
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.findLibraries" system property to disable search for libraries (pull #565)
• Fix Generator causing memory leaks for String parameters on callback (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1141)
• Add Loader.new/access/deleteGlobalRef() methods to store JNI Object references in Pointer (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1141)
• Make Loader.findLibrary() also search in "sun.boot.library.path" for jlink (pull #565)
• Add __int8, __int16, __int32, and __int64 to InfoMap as "basic/types" to support combinations allowed by Visual Studio
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.cacheLibraries" system property to disable cache for libraries (pull bytedeco/gradle-javacpp#21)
• Add public getters for the address fields of Pointer.NativeDeallocator (discussion bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1160)
• Add support for std::function basic container instances with corresponding FunctionPointer (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1051)
• Fix Builder parsing of command line options for platform properties (issue #564)
• Use thread local in Generator to detach automatically native threads on exit for Windows as well (pull #562)
• Add compiler options for C++14 and C++17 to platform properties files for Visual Studio
• Fix Parser incorrectly shortening type names for nested class template instances
• Make Parser output boolean has_value() methods for basic containers like std::optional
• Add OptionalAdapter and corresponding @Optional annotation for containers like std::optional
• Switch to AttachCurrentThreadAsDaemon() when attaching native threads on callback (pull #561)
• Add to InfoMap default pointer and value types for integer types in std:: namespace
• Fix Android platform properties for NDK r23b

February 11, 2022 version 1.5.7

• Add Loader.clearCacheDir() along with new ClearMojo and -clear command line option
• Speed up Loader on Windows when there are no symbolic links or library versions (pull #512)
• Enhance Pointer.physicalBytes() by excluding shared pages from memory-mapped files, etc (issue #468)
• Fix Parser not correctly encoding files of top-level classes produced with @Properties(target=..., global=...)
• Add Pointer.interruptDeallocatorThread() method to make JavaCPP classes eligible for GC (discussion bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1115)
• Let Parser output the content of Info.javaText in the case of FunctionPointer as well
• Fix TokenIndexer failure on macros using the concat ## operator with empty arguments (issue #525)
• Let Parser support arrays of anonymous struct or union containing another one (discussion #528)
• Prevent Parser from outputting duplicate Pointer constructors for basic containers
• Fix Generator compiler errors on callback functions returning objects without default constructors
• Ensure Builder copies resources only from the first directories found in the paths
• Add Loader.getCanonicalPath() to work around bugs in File.getCanonicalPath() on Windows (pull #519)
• Add FunctionPointer and @Virtual methods missing from config files required by GraalVM Native Image
• Let Tokenizer convert characters using ASCII escape sequences '\x...' to normal hexadecimal values 0x...
• Fix Parser incorrectly mapping default function arguments containing multiple template arguments
• Fix Parser failures on variadic templates calling sizeof...() and on variables initialized from template values
• Prevent Parser from failing on nonexistent header files contained in @Platform(exclude=...)
• Add classOrPackageNames parameter to CacheMojo (pull #510)

August 2, 2021 version 1.5.6

• Add missing export to module-info.java file for presets package (pull #508)
• Add @NoException(true) value to support overriding virtual noexcept functions
• Bundle more DLLs from UCRT to fix the systems presets on Windows
• Fix Pointer.sizeof() method for subclasses of subclasses for primitive types (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#1064)
• Throw more accurate UnsatisfiedLinkError when Loader.load() fails to find JNI libraries
• Let Parser check Info.skipDefaults also for types to ignore default constructors (issue #493)
• Fix Parser failure on enum declarations without enumerators
• Let Generator use the third element of @Cast(value) on return values passed to adapters (issue tensorflow/java#345)
• Prevent Generator from swallowing exceptions caught on Buffer.array() (pull #504)
• Add enum classes as well as resources missing from config files required by GraalVM Native Image
• Let Parser annotate && parameters with new @ByRef(true) value used by Generator to call std::move()
• Fix Parser overlooking anonymous class, struct or union with comments after } (issue #501)
• Add Info.beanify to have Parser generate JavaBeans-style getters and setters (pull #495)
• Allow Parser to use Info.javaNames for function names containing parameters as well (issue #492)
• Fix Parser producing incorrect calls to function templates with non-type parameters (issue #491)
• Add missing presets/package-info.java required for OSGi and add profile for M2Eclipse (pull #490)
• Remove unnecessary mutex lock for pthreads on callbacks in Generator (pull #489)
• Fix @AsUtf16 handling for setter methods paired with getters in Generator (pull #488)
• Allow defining NO_JNI_DETACH_THREAD to avoid overhead from pthreads on callbacks (issue #486)
• Pick up @Allocator, @CriticalRegion, @NoException in Generator from @Properties(inherit=classes) as well (issue #484)
• Add support for Deleter of pointer types to UniquePtrAdapter
• Add @Platform(pattern=...) annotation value to allow matching with regular expressions as well
• Allow Parser to consider function pointers declared with using but without indirections
• Let Parser map to annotations whole expressions starting with the __attribute__ keyword
• Fix Parser sometimes failing to create template instances with default arguments (issue #478)
• Enhance Parser to handle typedef correctly in the case of enum as well (issue #477)
• Upon Pointer.getPointer(Class<P>) scale position, limit, and capacity with sizeof() (pull #476)
• Fix Parser incorrectly translating non-documentation comments as part of documentation comments (issue #475)
• Set Pointer.maxPhysicalBytes to 4 * Runtime.maxMemory() by default as workaround for Android, memory-mapped files, ZGC, etc (issue #468)
• Ensure synchronized code in Pointer gets skipped with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" (issue tensorflow/java#313)
• Add protected Pointer.offsetAddress() and use it for getPointer() instead of position()
• Fix potential infinite loop in Parser when processing class, struct, or union declarations
• Have Parser wrap the erase() methods of basic containers with iterators to allow removing from maps
• Let Parser output the content of Info.javaText in the case of basic containers as well
• Fix Parser failure on arguments containing multiple array accesses ending with ]]
• Fix Parser incorrectly considering some array definitions with expressions as multidimensional
• Log loading errors of optional jnijavacpp as debug messages instead of warnings (issue tensorflow/java#189)
• Fix memory leak in Pointer.releaseReference() with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" (issue awslabs/djl#690)
• Fix Parser not stripping annotations from Info.pointerTypes when creating Java peer classes
• Fix Parser not inheriting constructors with existing Info or with nested templates
• Add support for std::tuple, std::optional, and std::variant basic containers and fix various Parser failures
• Add parameter for Loader.load() to return path of a specific executable (pull #466)
• Use std::uninitialized_copy in VectorAdapter to make sure copy constructors get called (pull #465)

March 8, 2021 version 1.5.5

• Ensure System.gc() never gets called with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" (issue tensorflow/java#208)
• Add Info.immutable to disable generating setters for public data members (pull #461)
• Map String to char* with Charset.forName(STRING_BYTES_CHARSET) when that macro is defined (pull #460)
• Fix Loader.ClassProperties not always getting overridden correctly when defined multiple times
• Allow Loader.load() to also rename executables on extraction to output filenames specified with the # character
• Add @AsUtf16 annotation to map java.lang.String to unsigned short* (array of UTF-16 code units) (pull #442)
• Add BasicStringAdapter and corresponding @StdBasicString, @StdU16String, and @StdU32String annotations (pull #448)
• Fix Parser failures on try blocks as function body, nested class templates, and aliases to namespaces starting with ::
• Prevent Loader from failing to find, load, or link libraries multiple times
• Fix Pointer.getPointer() methods sometimes calling the wrong constructor (issue bytedeco/javacv#1556)
• Prevent Android from trying to load PointerBufferPoolMXBean by using it via reflection (pull #447)
• Fix Android build properties for NDK r22 and move legacy to android-*-gcc.properties (pull #444)
• Add support for Mac on ARM processors
• Fix Loader not searching for libraries in more than one package
• Prevent Builder from linking with -framework JavaVM when a path to the JVM library is found
• Replace requires with requires static in JPMS .platform module (pull #436)
• Let Parser output Info.javaText even for template declarations with no instances
• Prevent Tokenizer from using long literals for unsigned integers of 16 bits or less
• Ensure Parser considers >= and <= as single tokens to prevent failures
• Make Parser use Info.cppTypes to override the type of enum values
• Fix Parser not using the correct Info.pointerTypes for const& declarations
• Use pthreads in Generator to detach automatically native threads on exit for Linux and Mac as well
• Let Loader.load() always succeed on optional libraries only available with extensions
• Fix Builder.addProperty() incorrectly appending values together

September 9, 2020 version 1.5.4

• Fix Parser not producing PointerPointer parameters for FunctionPointer subclasses
• Let Builder copy even those platform.executable files without prefix or suffix
• Add missing declaration for GetCurrentThreadId() in Generator when NO_WINDOWS_H is defined
• Process #undef directives to allow redefining macros with Parser (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#935)
• Pick up in Parser methods specified with override, in addition to virtual (issue #419)
• Let Parser create a separate Java peer class when Info.pointerTypes is different for types prefixed with const
• Fix Generator for @Virtual methods protected in subclasses by casting to superclass (issue #419)
• Add missing values to Info.Info(Info) and fix incorrect Info.skipDefaults(boolean) (issue #420)
• Add PointerBufferPoolMXBean to track allocations and deallocations of Pointer (pull #413)
• Change the @Platform(executable=... property to an array and allow bundling multiple files per class
• Prevent Builder unnecessarily linking with -framework JavaVM to fix GraalVM Native Image on Mac (issue #417)
• Add Pointer.getPointer() methods as shortcuts for new P(p).position(p.position + i) (issue #155)
• Fix Generator for cases when a FunctionPointer returns another FunctionPointer
• Fix Parser failure with auto keyword of C++11 used as placeholder type specifier or for trailing return type (issue #407)
• Add Builder.configDirectory option to let Generator output files that GraalVM needs for AOT compilation (issue eclipse/deeplearning4j#7362)
• Fix Parser error on template<> containing non-type parameters without names (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#889)
• Bundle also the vcruntime140_1.dll and msvcp140_1.dll redist files from Visual Studio
• Fix Builder for different "java.home" path returned by latest JDKs from Oracle (pull #400)
• Refactor Builder a little to work around issues with Gradle
• Log as warnings SecurityException thrown on Loader.getCacheDir() instead of swallowing them
• Fix memory leak that occurs with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#878)
• Take into account platform.library.path when extracting executables and their libraries on Loader.load() (issue bytedeco/javacv#1410)
• Move init code for Loader.getPlatform() to Detector to avoid warning messages (issue #393)
• Add HyperslabIndex class with offsets, strides, counts, and blocks parameters (pull #392)
• Add Index class to allow overriding how the index is calculated in Indexer (issue #391)

April 14, 2020 version 1.5.3

• Deprecate but also fix Indexer.rows(), cols(), width(), height(), and channels() (pull #390)
• Fix Parser producing invalid wrappers for basic containers like std::set<std::pair<...> >
• Add compiler options for C++98, C++03, C++14, and C++17 to platform properties files (pull #389)
• Remove default compiler options from linux-armhf.properties that work mostly only for Raspberry Pi
• Add Generator support for enum classes with boolean values (issue #388)
• Fix Parser outputting invalid Java code for enum of boolean, byte, and short types (issue #388)
• Pick up in Generator the @Namespace annotation from paired method too for global getters and setters (issue #387)
• Add presets for jnijavacpp and javacpp-platform artifact to fix issues at load time (issue bytedeco/javacv#1305)
• Prevent potential NullPointerException in Loader.checkVersion() (pull #385)
• Allow using Charset to avoid UnsupportedEncodingException from BytePointer (pull #384)
• Add static Pointer.isNull(Pointer p) helper method, for convenience
• Add MoveAdapter and corresponding @StdMove annotation to support objects that require std::move from C++11
• Always use File.pathSeparator when passing multiple paths via the BUILD_PATH environment variable
• Fix Parser not picking up Info for declarations with decltype() specifier
• Fix Pointer losing its owner when mistakenly ignoring deallocators for const values returned from adapters
• Remove unnecessary declared Exception from Indexer.close() signature (pull #382)
• Make sure Parser recognizes base classes of struct as public by default
• Fix Parser error on initializer lists containing C++11 style { ... } for template instances
• Change the default mapping of jboolean to BooleanPointer instead of BoolPointer
• Fix Parser error on function declarations with ... varargs as single parameter
• Make Parser skip over &&-qualified functions automatically since they cannot be supported
• Fix Parser annotating pointer cast operator methods with incorrect @Cast (issue #379)
• Allow Parser to inherit constructors from template classes with using
• Make Parser honor Info.skip for anonymous struct or union as well
• Optimize Pointer.sizeof() method of subclasses for primitive types
• Let users override Info.enumerate on a per-enum basis and allow attributes after enum class
• Fix Parser not considering identifiers as type names when placed directly after friend or in template<>
• Check for defined NO_WINDOWS_H macro in Generator to skip #include <windows.h>
• Provide UIntIndexer and ULongIndexer, treating array and buffer data as unsigned 32- or 64-bit integers, for convenience (issue #376)
• Fix Parser not evaluating using namespace with respect to the current block (issue #370)
• Fix exception in Loader when running jlink image with JDK 13+ (pull #375)
• Fix errors with @Virtual @Name("operator ...") in Generator by using Java names for C++ (issue #362)
• Apply in Parser missing const to parameters of @Virtual functions using adapters
• Use in Generator C++11 override keyword for @Virtual functions (pull #373)
• Speed up Loader.load() by caching results returned from Loader.findLibrary() (issue #287)
• Pick up Info correctly in Parser also for anonymous function pointers with const parameters
• Make Parser apply Info.translate in the case of enumerators as well
• Fix compiler failures in Builder with platform properties containing relative paths
• Let Parser rename types using Info.javaNames in addition to valueTypes and pointerTypes (pull #367)
• Include in the defaults of InfoMap mappings missing for the std::array and jchar types
• Fix various Parser failures with attributes on constructors, empty macros, enum classes, friend classes, inherited constructors, and keywords in parameter names
• Add to Parser support for C++11 attributes found within [[ and ]] brackets
• Consider Pointer values maxBytes or maxPhysicalBytes suffixed with % as relative to Runtime.maxMemory() (pull #365)
• Prevent Parser from considering constexpr operator declarations as const types
• Fix on Loader.load() the default library name of classes without @Properties(target=..., global=...)
• Prevent Parser from outputting asPointer() cast methods with multiple inheritance (issue #360)
• Add CacheMojo to help extract binaries and resources used by command line tools outside of the JVM
• Fix Android build properties for NDK r20b (pull #357)

November 5, 2019 version 1.5.2

• Provide ByteIndexer with value getters and setters for unsigned byte or short, half, bfloat16, and boolean types as well
• Introduce PointerScope.extend() to prevent deallocation on the next call to close()
• Make Generator avoid ambiguous conversion errors from UniquePtrAdapter to std::unique_ptr (pull #353)
• Fix Parser using fully qualified names for @Name annotations of nested classes (issue #352)
• Add Parser support for macro expansion of __VA_ARGS__
• Fix Builder not processing all classes when given .** as input (issue bytedeco/javacv#1311)
• Introduce reference counting in Pointer and retrofit PointerScope to use it
• Fix Parser incorrectly inheriting default constructors multiple times with using
• Allow in Parser fully qualified names as Info.valueTypes for enumerators as well
• Perform template substitution in Parser also for default argument values (pull #343)
• Introduce PointerScope.forClasses to limit the Pointer classes that can be attached to a given instance
• Add support for custom Allocator to VectorAdapter and custom Deleter to UniquePtrAdapter
• Enable support for OSGi bundles (pull #332)

September 5, 2019 version 1.5.1-1

• Use the native thread ID as name on AttachCurrentThread() (pull #339)
• Make sure we canRead(), canWrite(), and canExecute() what Loader.getCacheDir() returns
• Prevent Generator from copying data unnecessarily when returning Java arrays from adapters (issue #317)
• Fix Parser issues when casting const pointers or enumerating anonymous enum declarations
• Add Info.objectify to map global functions without using the static modifier, similarly to Scala companion objects
• Allow once more abstract subclasses of FunctionPointer (issue #318)

July 9, 2019 version 1.5.1

• Make sure Generator ignores deallocators on const values returned from adapters (issue #317)
• Accelerate Loader.extractResource() for directories already cached, also preventing failures (issue #197)
• Avoid Parser writing allocateArray() when single int, long, float, or double constructor already exists (issue bytedeco/javacv#1224)
• Expose all platform properties to process executed with Builder.buildCommand via environment variables, with names uppercase and all . replaced with _
• Let Parser add @Name or @Namespace annotations to non-translated enumerators as well
• Make Parser pick up the names of type aliases for function pointers declared with using and prevent NullPointerException
• Fix Parser failing on lambda expressions found inside member initialization lists of constructors
• Add special support for constexpr variables in Parser by disabling their member setters automatically
• Fix Parser not placing & and * at the right place inside template arguments containing function declarations
• Support more basic containers in Parser by comparing their names in a case-insensitive manner and add annotations missing from index types
• Fix Generator taking the @By* annotation of the paired method for the index instead of the value argument of a setter
• Fix Parser sometimes considering global C++ identifiers starting with :: as if they were local
• Change default value for Pointer.maxPhysicalBytes to Pointer.maxBytes + Runtime.maxMemory() (pull #310)
• Add Loader.getVersion() and checkVersion() to get versions of Maven artifacts and check against JavaCPP (issue #194)
• Fix compile errors caused by Generator occurring with callback functions returning a value by reference
• Make Builder expand entries from the user class path with * as basename to all JAR files in the directory
• Prevent Loader from creating symbolic links pointing to themselves by comparing with Path.normalize() (pull #307)
• Fix Loader.cacheResource() with the "jrt" protocol as used by jlink (pull #305)
• Fix compiler error with SharedPtrAdapter and UniquePtrAdapter in callback functions (pull #304)
• Start Pointer.DeallocatorThread with setContextClassLoader(null) as required by containers (issue deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j#7737)
• Add -print command line option to access platform properties externally, for example, inside build scripts
• Add to InfoMap default pointer and value types for ssize_t, char16_t, char32_t, std::u16string, and std::u32string
• Support multiple instances of FunctionPointer subclasses, up to the value in @Allocator(max=...) (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#683)
• Allow suffixing library names with : to specify exact relative paths to libraries, ignoring any additional prefix or suffix
• Prevent Loader.load() from trying to load library files that do not exist or to create symbolic links to them
• Let Loader.load() extract libraries suffixed with ##, but still ignored for copying by Builder
• Make sure Loader.load() also initializes classes that are passed explicitly
• Fix Loader.createLibraryLink() incorrectly truncating library versions when there is one before and another after the suffix
• Iterate extensions of libraries or executables on Loader.load() in reverse to be consistent with properties overriding
• Allow prefixing library names with : to have Loader consider them as filenames with prefix and suffix already included
• Add Loader.loadGlobal() to load symbols globally as often required by Python libraries (issue ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues#6401)

April 11, 2019 version 1.5

• Have Parser output setter as dummy parameter name for setter methods to clarify usage
• Add Indexer.strides(long... sizes) and use as default strides when not specified by the user
• Add long... constructors, getters, and setters to CLongPointer and SizeTPointer for convenience
• Fix some Generator issues with FunctionPointer passed or returned @ByPtrPtr
• Use ModiTect to compile module-info.java with JDK 8 and preserve backward compatibility
• Add platform.executable and platform.executablepath properties to bundle executables and extract them with Loader.load()
• Create symbolic links for all libraries preloaded by Loader as they get loaded to satisfy libraries like MKL
• Prevent ClassCastException in Loader on illegal system properties (issue #289)
• Fix Parser not replacing all type names of the base class with Info.flatten (issue #288)
• Let BuildMojo return to the Maven project the detected host platform as ${javacpp.platform.host}
• Have BuildMojo output a JPMS friendly name for the platform and extension back to the Maven project as ${javacpp.platform.module}
• Add Builder.clean option to delete the outputDirectory before generating files
• Let Parser pick up Info explicitly for all constructors by considering their names as functions (issue #284)
• Fix Parser not always generating files using the simple names of classes
• Add a BuildMojo.targetDirectories parameter to allow setting multiple directories where to find generated Java files
• Add Parser support for attributes appearing after struct declarations (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#685)
• Fix Parser overlooking Info for constructors inside namespaces or templates (issue #284)
• Fix Parser applying some Info.annotations at the wrong place (issue #284)
• Make Parser behave the same with @Properties having only one out of global or target value set
• Enhance UniquePtrAdapter with the ability to move pointers out with the && operator
• Let Parser map constructors also for abstract classes with Info.virtualize
• Fix Parser taking the global package as the target package even when both are set
• Consider @Properties(global=..., helper=...) class names without "." as relative to target (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#669)
• Use regex in Parser to translate more Doxygen commands into Javadoc tags (pull #278 and pull #281)
• Do not let Parser map operator=() when prefixing container name with const (pull #280)

January 11, 2019 version 1.4.4

• Allow users to override platform properties via system properties starting with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.platform."
• Have BuildMojo output its class path back to the Maven project as ${javacpp.platform.artifacts}
• Fix potential NullPointerException in Loader.findResources() under the bootstrap class loader
• Add size() and stride() methods to Indexer for convenience
• Let Parser skip over C++11 style { ... } member initializer lists (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#642)
• Fix Parser not picking up Info for cast operator declarations with const, &, or * (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#377)
• Add validation for Builder.environmentVariables to prevent NullPointerException in executeCommand()
• Update android-arm-clang.properties and android-x86-clang.properties to API level 21 (Android 5.0) for consistency and forward compatibility
• Replace calls to Class.getResource() with Loader.findResource() to work around issues with JPMS (pull #276)
• Enhance Loader.findResources() with Class.getResource() and search among parent packages
• Take longest common package name among all user classes for the default output path of Builder
• Add Bfloat16Indexer to access short arrays as bfloat16 floating point numbers
• When Indexer.sizes.length != 3, return -1 for rows(), cols(), width(), height(), and channels() (pull #275)
• Synchronize Loader.cacheResources() on Runtime to avoid OverlappingFileLockException with multiple class loaders (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#650)
• Annotate BuildMojo as threadSafe
• Fix Generator errors for @StdString and other @Adapter on @Virtual return values
• Use simple name from @Properties(target=..., global=...) class as default for @Platform(library=...) name
• Make sure Generator does not use position of @Opaque Pointer output parameters with @Adapter (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#642)
• Prevent Builder from trying to use Pointer as library name for the output
• Add Builder.generate option and corresponding ParseMojo to prioritize parsing header files
• Fix Parser mapping of const function pointer variable declarations
• Enhance Loader.cacheResource() with support for HTTP connections
• Add module-info.java and create a multi-release JAR to comply with JPMS (pull #252)
• Prevent Parser from outputting twice the same Info.javaText by using it as declaration signature
• Provide default Info for std::string* and std::wstring* mapping to BytePointer, and CharPointer and IntPointer
• Ensure Parser skips over attributes of friend declarations or function definitions that are not used
• Do not let Parser output @Override when overloading a method with less parameters using default arguments
• Allow Builder to execute javac and java for convenience, and remove "." from class path (issue #192)
• Enhance support for java.nio.Buffer by taking into account offset, position, limit, and capacity on function calls
• Make sure Parser always uses the short version of identifiers for Java class declarations
• Prevent Parser from inheriting constructors with using when not accessible or of incomplete template instances
• Add default Info to map noexcept attribute from C++11 to @NoException annotation
• Fix Parser failures on variadic function template arguments ... and destructor attributes (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#622)
• Add @Properties(global=...) value to allow Parser to target Java packages (pull #252)
• Fix Generator output for @Const parameters of function pointers

October 15, 2018 version 1.4.3

• Add support for linux-mips64el with linux-mips64el.properties (pull #268)
• Enhance Generator with @ByPtr for primitive types and @NoException for FunctionPointer methods
• Add BooleanPointer and BooleanIndexer to access arrays of boolean values with sizeof(jboolean) == 1
• Let Parser skip over static_assert() declarations of C++11
• Fix android-arm-clang.properties and android-x86-clang.properties for builds with NDK r18 (pull #263)
• Add to default InfoMap missing int value type and IntPointer pointer type for wchar_t
• Add Loader.getLoadedLibraries() method for debugging purposes and fix flaky BuilderTest (issue #245)
• Call PointerScope.attach() as part of Pointer.deallocator(), instead of init(), to support custom deallocators as well
• Fix Parser failing when a value of an std::pair basic container is also an std::pair (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#614)
• Fix build issues with android-arm and recent versions of the NDK (pull #256)
• Add platform.preloadresource property to be able to preload libraries from other Java packages
• Make Builder accept multiple options for platform.link.prefix and platform.link.suffix (pull #250)
• Let Loader rename JNI libraries when "already loaded in another classloader" (issue deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j#6166)
• Add new @CriticalRegion annotation to allow zero-copy access to data of Java arrays (pull #254)
• Allow Builder to create links for resource libraries even when no Java classes are built
• Fix Loader.cacheResource() creating a subdirectory named "null" when caching a top-level file
• Update README.md with references to newly published Basic Architecture of JavaCPP and Mapping Recipes for C/C++ Libraries
• Prevent Parser from appending annotations to setter methods of variables and for basic containers to satisfy the Generator
• Have Parser wrap the insert() and erase() methods of basic containers to allow modifying lists and sets
• Let Parser create mutable instances of map containers without const prefix (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#595)
• Fix Parser sometimes ignoring define of const containers (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#547)
• Explain the purpose of the intern() methods generated for Java enums
• Clarify that Loader.load() can throw UnsatisfiedLinkError when interrupted
• Synchronize Loader.loadLibrary() to fix potential race condition (pull #246)

July 17, 2018 version 1.4.2

• Add Loader.getJavaVM() method to get the JNI JavaVM object as required to initialize some libraries
• Fix Parser from outputting accessors not available with std::forward_list or std::list
• Use pthread_setspecific() in Generator to detach automatically native threads on exit for Android (pull #243)
• Fix issues with anonymous classes by calling getEnclosingClass() instead of getDeclaringClass()
• Add android-arm-clang.properties, android-arm64-clang.properties, android-x86-clang.properties and android-x86_64-clang.properties
• Search in linkpath before preloadpath to avoid copying or loading unwanted libraries
• Fix Builder not bundling libraries containing a # fragment only useful at load time
• Make Parser take into account implicit constructors even when inheriting some with using declarations
• Pick up Parser translation of enum and macro expressions from Info.javaNames
• Let Parser define Info.pointerTypes also for partially specialized templates with default arguments
• Tweak Pointer.formatBytes() to increase the number of digits returned (issue #240)
• Enhance InfoMap and StringAdapter with default mappings and casts for std::wstring
• Templatize StringAdapter to allow other character types like wchar_t and add corresponding @StdWString annotation
• Prevent Loader from creating symbolic links to rename libraries, which does not always work
• Fix memory leak that occurs with "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" (issue #239)
• Make Generator use GENERIC_EXCEPTION_TOSTRING macro on GENERIC_EXCEPTION_CLASS instead of the default what()
• Fall back on Android-friendly System.loadLibrary() in Loader.load() instead of "java.library.path" (issue bytedeco/javacv#970)
• Add to Java enums an intern() method and use it in toString() to return non-null strings
• Add PointerScope to manage more easily the resources of a group of Pointer objects
• Fix Parser failing on const void*& or similar function arguments, and on constructors of class templates
• Add Info.skipDefaults to have the Parser ignore default function arguments and prevent method overloading
• Accelerate copy and extraction of resources by using larger buffers for file operations
• Fix Parser incorrectly referring to function arguments with impossibly qualified names
• Allow using new Info().enumerate() to map all C++ enum to Java enum types by default
• Fix Parser issues surrounding enum classes, anonymous namespaces, and pure virtual classes
• Avoid synchronized on first call to physicalBytes() in Pointer.deallocator() to reduce contention (pull #232)

March 29, 2018 version 1.4.1

• Enhance Loader.createLibraryLink() by allowing to create symbolic links in other directories
• Fix Parser failing on enum declarations where the first line is a macro (issue #230)
• Make call to Pointer.physicalBytes() thread safe and remove lock (issue #231)
• Add Info.enumerate to let Parser map C++ enum classes to Java enum types (issue #108)
• Prevent Loader from loading twice copies of the same DLL (issue deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j#4776)
• Add a BuildMojo.targetDirectory parameter to set a directory containing Java files generated by buildCommand
• Fix missing jnijavacpp.cpp when processing classes from different packages (issue #228)
• Enhance Loader.addressof() by making it try harder to find symbols on Linux and Mac OS X
• Add get() and toString() methods to basic containers defined in Parser
• Fix Parser ignoring Info.define and other information for macros actually defined
• Fix SharedPtrAdapter and UniquePtrAdapter failing to take ownership of temporary objects
• Fix properties for android-arm64 and android-x86_64 platforms that need API level 21
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.pathsfirst" system property to let users search "java.library.path", etc before the class path
• Add Parser support for _Bool, _Complex, _Imaginary, complex, imaginary types from C99
• Fix Generator incorrectly splitting type names for template arguments containing function types
• Fix NullPointerException in Builder when copying resources for static libraries
• Let Generator pick up @NoException annotations from super classes as well
• Add -stdlib=libc++ option to iOS properties, required by clang++ to support C++11 (pull #221)
• Make it possible to define read-only containers with Parser by prepending const (issue #223)
• Fix Parser failure of variable or function declarations on names starting with ::, among other various small issues
• Access elements of basic containers defined in Parser with at() instead of operator[] (issue #223)
• Add third element to @Const annotation to support virtual const functions (pull #224)
• Create more symbolic links to libraries preloaded by Loader to satisfy libraries like MKL
• Work around in Builder the inability to pass empty arguments on Windows
• Catch more exceptions that can occur in Loader when caching resources (pull #226)
• Add .a as an allowed library extension for iOS so they can get bundled
• Fix Parser failing on variables with direct list initialization { ... } (issue #223)
• Allow Parser to map and cast function pointers to Pointer

January 16, 2018 version 1.4

• Output to log all commands executed for Builder.buildCommand via ProcessBuilder
• Switch architecture in android-arm.properties to ARMv7-A
• Fix Parser not producing @Cast annotations for types with Info.cast() on operator(), as well as failing on using operator statements
• Fix Parser issue with multiple container types (std::vector, etc) getting mixed up when mapped to adapters (@StdVector, etc)
• Fix "Negative Buffer Capacity" errors happening in subclasses on Pointer.asBuffer() (issue deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j#4061)
• Prevent JNI_OnLoad() from failing when Loader.putMemberOffset() cannot find a class
• Throw clear error message when Loader.load() gets called on a class not supporting current platform
• Create symbolic links to libraries preloaded by Loader as needed on Mac for renamed libraries
• Update platform properties to support recent versions of the Android NDK
• Fix Generator issues with @ByPtrPtr return of String or Pointer types (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#499)
• Define clear(), empty(), pop_back(), and push_back() for resizable basic containers in Parser (issue bytedeco/javacv#659)
• Add "nowarnings" option for the @Platform(compiler=...) value to suppress all warnings
• Have Builder generate base JNI functions into jnijavacpp.cpp for better iOS support (issue #213)
• Output single value setters for containers in Parser to avoid surprises (issue #217)
• Add Parser support for C++11 using declarations inheriting constructors (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#491)
• Fix compiler error when defining std::set or std::unordered_set with Parser
• Make Parser honor Info.skip() for enumerators and function pointers as well
• Add LoadEnabled interface to allow classes to modify their ClassProperties at runtime
• Move sizeof() and offsetof() data to global variables to prevent StackOverflowError in JNI_OnLoad() (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#331)
• Propagate within Parser type information from macros to other macros referencing them
• Add support for JNI_OnLoad_libname() naming scheme for iOS via new platform.library.static=true property
• Improve the clarity of error messages on Parser failures
• Fix Parser issues with multiple typedef declarations in a single statement
• Require Info.annotations("@Name") to pick up alternate names from attributes
• Add @Platform(exclude=...) annotation value to remove header files from inherited @Platform(include=...
• Fix a few issues with Parser, including missing PointerPointer member setters (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#478)
• Fix potential race conditions and various issues with Loader that could prevent libraries like MKL from working properly
• Add Loader.addressof() to access native symbols, usable via optional ValueGetter/ValueSetter in FunctionPointer
• Add BuildEnabled interface to allow InfoMapper classes to participate in the build
• Try to use symbolic links in Loader.load() for output filenames specified with the # character (useful for libraries like MKL)
• Fix Parser incorrectly resolving type definitions with classes of the same name in parent namespaces
• Fix Generator compile errors for const template types of @Adapter classes using the @Cast annotation
• Call Loader.createLibraryLink() when executing the user specified Builder.buildCommand as well
• Introduce new platform.extension property to manage more than one set of binaries per platform
• Catch SecurityException in Loader.getCacheDir() (pull #198)

July 25, 2017 version 1.3.3

• Call malloc_trim(0) after System.gc() on Linux to make sure memory gets released (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#423)
• Make public the Pointer.formatBytes() and Pointer.parseBytes() static methods
• Use Integer.decode() instead of parseInt() on integer literals to support hexadecimal and octal numbers
• Add Builder.encoding option to let users specify I/O character set name (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#195)
• Prevent race condition that could occur in Loader.cacheResource() (pull #188)
• Fix potential compile errors with Android caused by superfluous typedef from Generator (issue #186)
• Fix Parser translation of strings containing the "::" subsequence (issue #184)
• Prevent Parser from overwriting target classes when nothing was parsed
• Fix Parser error on member variables with initializers plus Info.skip() (issue #179)
• Fix Parser incorrectly recognizing values as pointers when const is placed after type (issue #173)
• Add Parser support for C++11 using declarations that act as typedef (issue #169)
• Let Parser accept variables initialized with parentheses (issue #179)
• Fix Parser confusion between attributes and namespace-less templates (issue #181)
• Fix issue with Loader.getCallerClass() when a SecurityManager cannot be created (issue #176)
• Make it possible to rename enumerators of C++ enum class (issue #180)
• Make the arbitrary resources available to process executed with Builder.buildCommand via the BUILD_PATH environment variable
• Prevent Parser from outputting setters for const member pointers
• Add support for arrays of function pointers
• Let users bundle arbitrary resources, have them extracted in cache, and used as include or link paths (pull #43)
• Fix potential formatting issues with OutOfMemoryError thrown from Pointer
• Fix Loader.getCallerClass() not using the output from the SecurityManager (pull #175)
• Fix Parser not considering empty class, struct, or union declarations as opaque forward declarations
• Provide ByteIndexer and BytePointer with value getters and setters for primitive types other than byte to facilitate unaligned memory accesses
• Add a BuildMojo.buildCommand parameter that lets users execute arbitrary system commands easily with ProcessBuilder

March 11, 2017 version 1.3.2

• Add new "org.bytedeco.javacpp.cachedir.nosubdir" system property to restore old behavior (issue #167)
• Prevent Pointer from copying array data from NIO buffers that are also direct (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#380)
• Fix SharedPtrAdapter and UniquePtrAdapter of the Generator for const types (issue #166)
• Prevent Loader from loading system libraries, which causes problems on Android 7.x (issue bytedeco/javacv#617)
• Make Parser strip return type annotations when naming FunctionPointer (issue #162)
• Let Pointer log debug messages when forced to call System.gc()
• Fix Parser handling of std::map and of documentation comments containing the "*/" sequence
• Add portable and efficient totalPhysicalBytes(), availablePhysicalBytes(), totalProcessors(), totalCores(), totalChips() methods
• Avoid Loader issues with spaces, etc in paths to library files (issue deeplearning4j/nd4j#1564)
• Prevent Generator from creating duplicate using statements (pull #158)
• Make Pointer.asBuffer() thread-safe (issue #155)

December 24, 2016 version 1.3.1

• Fix broken outputDirectory property and corresponding -d command line option (issue #153)
• Add Loader.extractResources() and cacheResources() methods to extract or cache all resources with given name
• Fix potential issues with Parser repeating the @ByPtrPtr or @ByPtrRef annotations on parameters
• To support Scala singleton objects better, consider as static methods from objects that are not Pointer
• Allow Loader.extractResource() and cacheResource() to extract or cache all files from a directory in a JAR file
• Create version-less symbolic links to libraries in cache on those platforms where it is useful to link easily
• Use java.io.tmpdir as fallback in Loader.getCacheDir(), and throw a clear exception on failure

December 7, 2016 version 1.3

• Print memory sizes in a human-readable format with Pointer.formatBytes()
• Map standard malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), and free() functions (issue #136)

November 29, 2016 version 1.2.7

• Fix Loader errors that could occur due to recent changes

November 28, 2016 version 1.2.6

• Improve Loader handling of duplicate libraries found in different JAR files using symbolic links (useful for MKL, etc)
• Prevent Loader from overwriting previously extracted and renamed libraries (issue deeplearning4j/nd4j#1460)
• Allow users to define NO_JNI_DETACH_THREAD to prevent callbacks from reinitializing threads (issue #143)

November 13, 2016 version 1.2.5

• Add support for decltype() declarations to the Parser (issue #135)
• Fix Generator when a FunctionPointer contains methods that start with "get" or "put" (issue #137)
• Enhance Parser to let users skip the default values of arguments, as well as classes when one base class is skipped
• Fix Parser not properly mapping the type of long anonymous enums
• Take into account const on function parameters when looking up in InfoMap, and fix some incorrectly translated macros into variables
• Add to InfoMap.defaults more names that are reserved in Java, but not in C++
• Add via @ByPtrRef support for function pointers passed by reference, as well as support for Info.javaText with typedef
• Make sure Parser exhausts all combinations of method parameter types even with duplicates (issue bytedeco/javacv#518)
• Make Loader cache libraries (in ~/.javacpp/cache/ by default) instead of using temporary files (pull #120)
• Have Parser annotate the allocate() functions and not the actual constructors (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#297)
• Fix Parser handling of class, struct, or union types with variables declared in the same statement
• Add missing platform.link to psapi required by some versions of Visual Studio (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#298)
• Make sure default values placed in nullValue by the Parser have the right type (issue bytedeco/javacv#518)
• Accelerate call to Pointer.physicalBytes() on Linux (issue #133)
• Fix Parser incorrectly skipping over some template function declarations
• Allow C++ types to be prefixed by class, struct, or union to work around name clashes (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#266)
• Properly expand the special predefined __COUNTER__ macro (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#266)
• Create all missing directories in the paths to the source files created by Generator

September 16, 2016 version 1.2.4

• Insure Parser properly ignores the auto, mutable, register, thread_local, and volatile C++ keywords for storage classes
• Fix Generator and Parser for types like std::unordered_map<std::string,std::pair<int,int> > (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#266)
• Add std::forward_list, std::priority_queue, std::unordered_map, and std::unordered_set to the list of "basic/containers" in InfoMap
• Work around linux-armhf not being properly detected with OpenJDK (issue #105)
• Fix Parser not accepting namespace aliases with :: tokens in them (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#265)
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.maxphysicalbytes" system property to force calls to System.gc() based on Pointer.physicalBytes()
• Allow strings ending with "t", "g", "m", etc to specify the number of bytes in system properties (issue #125)
• Add Info.linePatterns to limit the lines from header files that the Parser has to process
• Introduce "platform.compiler.hardfpu" option inside android-arm.properties to target armeabi-v7a-hard
• Add UniquePtrAdapter and corresponding @UniquePtr annotation to support unique_ptr containers (pull bytedeco/javacpp-presets#266)
• Fix Parser not expecting friend class declarations that start with :: (pull #122)
• Synchronize memory allocation in Pointer to avoid OutOfMemoryError when low on memory
• Make it clear that Indexable.createIndexer() can throw a NullPointerException (issue bytedeco/javacv#437)
• Escape quotes when parsing default value for the nullValue of @ByRef or @ByVal (pull #119)
• Let Parser accept identifiers in addition to integer literals for bit fields (issue #118)
• Fix Loader.load() not renaming a library when previously loaded under a different name

August 1, 2016 version 1.2.3

• Add support for data member pointers as pseudo-FunctionPointer (issue #114)
• Change the packaging type to jar since maven-plugin causes issues with sbt and Ivy (issue #113)
• Include new platform.compiler.debug options inside the default properties file (pull #90)
• Always use the platform.compiler.default options unless @Platform(compiler="!default", ...) is specified
• Move optimization options from platform.compiler.output to platform.compiler.default, allowing users to override
• Create all missing directories in the path to the target file of Parser
• Parse properly custom enum types, found after the ':' token in C++11
• Output compiled libraries to user specified class path by default for input classes inside JAR files, etc
• Add HalfIndexer to access short arrays as half-precision floating point numbers

July 8, 2016 version 1.2.2

• Prevent creating unnecessary garbage when using Indexer on simple arrays with a stride of 1 (issue deeplearning4j/nd4j#1063)
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.maxretries" system property, the number times to call System.gc() before giving up (defaults to 10)
• Deallocate native memory in a dedicated thread to reduce lock contention (issue #103)
• Fix Javadoc links for externally referenced classes
• Prevent Android system libraries from getting copied or extracted
• Insert in Indexer an indexable field optionally set by the user for convenience
• Fix potential ParserException on comments found after annotations before function declarations
• Fix IndexerTest potentially failing with OutOfMemoryError (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#234)
• Preload libraries to work around some cases when they refuse to load once renamed (issue deeplearning4j/libnd4j#235)
• Fix compilation error on some linux-ppc64le platforms (issue deeplearning4j/libnd4j#232)
• Make sure Generator defines JavaCPP_getStringBytes() to handle exception messages when using callbacks

May 26, 2016 version 1.2.1

• Fix Loader crashing on Android (issue bytedeco/javacv#412)
• Fix NullPointerException on "generic" platforms
• Throw OutOfMemoryError on allocateArray() for Pointer of primitive types with size > 0 && address == 0 (issue deeplearning4j/nd4j#960)
• Add the ability the specify, after a # character, the output filename of libraries extracted by Loader.load()
• Consider FunctionPointer annotated with empty @Namespace as non-member function pointers (issue #99)

May 15, 2016 version 1.2

• Fix NullPointerException in Builder on invalid java.home system property or inaccessible directories
• Add parameters to Loader.load() offering more flexibility over the platform properties and library paths
• Treat all String with Charset.defaultCharset() (or define MODIFIED_UTF8_STRING for old behavior) (issue #70)
• Fix NullPointerException in Parser on variadic templates (issue #81)
• Fix Loader.load() error when called right after Builder.build() within the same process
• Lower Maven prerequisite in the pom.xml file to 3.0 (issue #93)
• Use Info.cppTypes for all Parser type substitutions, in addition to macros and templates (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#192)
• Make Parser take into account Java keywords not reserved in C++, casting issues with int64_t, and const value types in basic containers
• Let users define NATIVE_ALLOCATOR and NATIVE_DEALLOCATOR macros to overload global new and delete operators
• Map jint to int and jlong to long long on Windows as well as all platforms with GCC (or Clang)
• Fix corner cases when checking for the platform in Generator and Parser
• Link libraries with "-z noexecstack" on Linux as recommended by HotSpot (pull #90)
• Set the internal DT_SONAME field in libraries created for Android (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#188)
• Add "org.bytedeco.javacpp.maxbytes" system property, forcing a call to System.gc() when this amount of memory tracked with deallocators is reached
• Let Parser pick up Info.annotations in the case of function pointers as well
• Add @Convention(extern=...) value to have Generator produce FunctionPointer with other language linkage than "C"
• Enhance the indexer package with long indexing, initially via the sun.misc.Unsafe, for now
• Lengthen the position, limit, and capacity fields of Pointer using long
• Prevent creating text relocations for shared libraries on Android, which are rejected by recent versions of the SDK
• Use the outputDirectory as the compiler's working directory (pull #89)
• Comment with first dimension of multidimensional array inside @Cast (pull #87)
• Remove throws Exception from Pointer.close() since destructors do not typically throw exceptions (pull #86)
• Add -nodelete flag to keep generated C++ files after compilation (pull #85)
• Annotate functions originating from cinclude with @NoException (pull #84)
• Call JNI_ABORT on release of const arrays (pull #83)
• Add support for C++11 default and delete on function declarations (issue #80)
• Add support for C++11 typed enum, with or without enumerator list (issue #78)
• Add missing space for const types when normalizing template arguments in Parser (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#165)
• Make Builder fail on ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError instead of logging warnings
• Allow Builder to generate native libraries with empty @Platform annotation even without user defined native methods
• Enhance Parser to support a bit better && tokens and C++11 rvalue references (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#160)
• Add properties for the linux-armhf, linux-ppc64, and linux-ppc64le platforms, and pick up macosx when os.name is darwin
• Fix NullPointerException in Parser on unexpected forms of function pointers (issue #70)
• Make sure Generator produces calls to sizeof() and offsetof() for all Pointer classes with allocators
• Let Parser use adapters in the case of FunctionPointer as well (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#145)
• Prepend "javacpp." to all properties associated with Maven in BuildMojo to avoid name clashes
• Let users define the GENERIC_EXCEPTION_CLASS macro (default of std::exception) to indicate the base exception thrown by native methods
• Split type names at :: delimiters before mapping them against templates in Parser
• Fix swallowed InterruptedException (issue bytedeco/javacv#315)
• Adjust a few things in Generator preventing @Virtual from working properly in some cases (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#143)
• Fix TokenIndexer inserting an invalid token while expanding macros ending with a backslash (issue #63)
• Make Parser take Info.skip into account for enum declarations as well
• Improve the performance of BytePointer.getString() by using strlen()
• Prevent Generator from initializing classes when preloading them, which can cause problems (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#126)
• Add Info.flatten to duplicate class declarations into their subclasses, useful when a subclass pointer cannot be used for the base class as well
• Prevent Loader from extracting libraries more than once, which can cause problems (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#126)
• Make Indexer implements AutoCloseable to let us try-with-resources
• Add missing calls to close() for InputStream and OutputStream in Loader (issue #53)
• Remove Piper class no longer needed with Java SE 7
• Let Parser place appropriate Info.javaText() provided by users in the case of destructors as well
• Fix the Parser skipping over some declarations by mistake and producing invalid comments for macros
• To let users specify ... varargs as Info.pointerTypes(), have the Parser replace them with array [] when not found on the last parameter
• Enhance basic support for containers of the style std::vector<std::pair< ... > > with user-friendly array-based setter methods
• Fix Generator not passing function objects even when annotating FunctionPointer parameters with @ByVal or @ByRef
• Map bool* to boolean[] tentatively in Parser since sizeof(bool) == sizeof(jboolean) on most platforms
• Allow Parser to generate @Cast() annotations and overloaded put() methods in basic containers too
• Move list of basic containers and types to Info.cppTypes of the "basic/containers" and "basic/types" InfoMap entries, letting users change them at build time
• Fix some Parser issues with typedef and forward declarations inside class definitions
• Insure Parser maps 64-bit values in C++ enum to long variables (issue #48)
• Fix Generator trying to cast improperly objects on return from @Virtual functions
• Make Parser take constexpr, nullptr, and namespace aliases into account, and fix a couple of preprocessing issues with TokenIndexer
• Fix primitive arrays and NIO buffers not getting updated on return when used as arguments with adapters (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#109)
• Enhance a bit the conversion from Doxygen-style documentation comments to Javadoc-style
• Remove class check in allocators, which prevented peer classes from being extended in Java, instead relying on super((Pointer)null) in child peer classes, and remove confusing and now unnecessary empty constructors

October 25, 2015 version 1.1

• Make Generator use actual C++ operators for commonly overloaded ones instead of calling operator??() functions, for better portability
• Fix potential race condition when deallocating Pointer objects from multiple threads
• Add logging to Loader.loadLibrary() to help diagnose loading problems (issue #41)
• Provide new @Platform(pragma=...) value to have Generator output #pragma directives
• Upgrade all Maven dependencies and plugins to latest versions, thus bumping minimum requirements to Maven 3.0
• Add new "org.bytedeco.javacpp.cachedir" system property to specify where to extract and leave native libraries to share across multiple JVM instances
• Provide @Virtual(true) to specify pure virtual functions and prevent Generator from making undefined calls
• Update properties for Android to detect undefined symbols at compile time, instead of getting errors only at runtime
• Log when Pointer.deallocator gets registered, garbage collected, or deallocated manually, if Logger.isDebugEnabled() (redirectable to SLF4J)
• Make Pointer implements AutoCloseable to let us try-with-resources, thus bumping minimum requirements to Java SE 7 and Android 4.0
• Introduce the concept of "owner address" to integrate Pointer transparently with std::shared_ptr, etc (Thanks to Cyprien Noel for the idea!)
• Add new "cpp11" option for the @Platform(compiler=...) value to build against the C++11 standard
• Fix Parser support for the interface keyword of the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
• Let Parser pick up names from Info.pointerTypes in the case of function pointers as well
• Add new "org.bytedeco.javacpp.nopointergc" system property to prevent Pointer from registering deallocators with the garbage collector
• Add @Properties(names=...) value to specify a list of default platform names that can be inherited by other classes
• Fix a couple of Parser issues on complex template types (issue #37)
• Take into account Buffer.arrayOffset() when creating a Pointer from a buffer backed by an array (issue bytedeco/javacv#190)
• Fix some incorrectly translated comments in Parser (issue #32)
• Add Parser support for the std::bitset "container", and a bug involving simple types and skipped identifiers
• Properly parse overloaded new and delete operators, friend declarations, and default constructors with an explicit void parameter (issue #31)
• Fix a couple of potential NullPointerException in Parser (issue #30)
• Have the Parser wrap the iterator of some standard C++ containers when useful
• Use Clang as the default compiler for Mac OS X and iOS (via RoboVM)
• Adjust BytePointer, CharPointer, IntPointer, and StringAdapter to work with data strings that are not null-terminated (issue #24)
• Forbid Parser from producing abstract classes, preventing C++ factory methods and such from working properly (issue #25)
• Fix crash when trying to create objects from abstract classes, to let the exception be thrown on return (issue #26)
• Switch to GCC 4.9 by default on Android, probably dropping support for Android 2.2, because GCC 4.6 has been dropped from the NDK since r10e
• Insure Generator casts properly to jweak when calling DeleteWeakGlobalRef() (issue #23)

July 11, 2015 version 1.0

• Add -undefined dynamic_lookup option to Mac OS X compiler, making its native linker behave a bit better, plus search for libraries suffixed with ".so" too
• Add missing @Platform(frameworkpath=...) value and corresponding property to set custom framework paths for the linker
• Add Parser support for the interface keyword of the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler
• Fix Generator performance issue on classes with a lot of methods (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#36)
• Offer the Apache License, Version 2.0, as a new choice of license, in addition to the GPLv2 with Classpath exception
• Fix NullPointerException when trying to process an interface class
• Fix Parser errors on unnamed namespace blocks, preprocessor directives with comments, and empty macros
• Introduce a nullValue to @ByRef and @ByVal annotations to let us specify what to do when passed null
• Add properties for android-arm64, android-x86_64, and linux-arm64 platforms
• Add slow but generic Indexer.putDouble() to complement existing Indexer.getDouble() (useful for testing)
• Fix and enhance in various ways the support of Parser and Generator for function pointers, virtual functions, and abstract classes
• Improve Parser check for const references and pointers required to output appropriate @Const annotation
• Add Info.purify to force the Parser in producing abstract classes
• Let StringAdapter (via the @StdString annotation) support std::string*, that is to say, pointers to strings
• Fix Tokenizer failing on some character and string literals
• Fix Parser errors caused by constructors in typedef struct constructs, included nested ones, and skip over pointer names too (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#62)
• Generalize Info.virtualize to let non-pure virtual functions get annotated with @Virtual native
• Make VectorAdapter work even with elements that have no default constructor
• Add Parser support for std::pair as a sort of zero-dimensional container type
• Fix Parser crash on empty comments (issue #14)

April 4, 2015 version 0.11

• Clarify with documentation comments various constructors produced by the Parser
• Add SharedPtrAdapter and corresponding @SharedPtr annotation to support shared_ptr containers
• Fix a few small issues and work around a few additional corner cases with the Parser and the Generator
• Provide UByteIndexer and UShortIndexer, treating array and buffer data as unsigned integers, for ease of use
• Clean up Windows java.io.tmpdir even when program messes with java.class.path (issue #12)
• In addition to direct NIO buffers, also accept as function arguments non-direct ones backed by arrays (issue bytedeco/javacpp-presets#36)
• Fix @Virtual callback functions defined inside a @Namespace
• Adjust TokenIndexer and Parser to handle #if, #ifdef, #ifndef, #elif, #else, and #endif preprocessor directives more appropriately, even when placed in the middle of declarations
• Append @Documented to annotation types to have them picked up by Javadoc
• Fix friend functions not getting skipped by the Parser
• Add Info for __int8, __int16, __int32, and __int64 to InfoMap.defaults

December 23, 2014 version 0.10

• Fix multiple "platform.preload" or "platform.preloadpath" properties not getting considered by the Loader
• Fix some Parser exceptions on valid declarations with template arguments, macro expansions, or overloaded cast operators, and make Info.javaName usable in the case of enum
• Disable DocLint, which prevents the build from succeeding on Java 8 (issue #5)
• Add new indexer package containing a set of Indexer for easy and efficient multidimensional access of arrays and buffers (issue javacv:317)
• Use Long.decode() inside the Tokenizer to test more precisely when integer values are larger than 32 bits
• Have the Parser produce @Name("operator=") ... put(... ) methods for standard C++ containers, avoiding mistaken calls to Pointer.put(Pointer) (issue bytedeco/javacv#34)
• Let the Parser apply Info.skip in the case of macros as well
• Remove warning log messages when using the @Raw annotation
• Let @Virtual @MemberGetter annotated methods return member function pointers of functions defined with @Virtual, useful for frameworks like Cocos2d-x
• Fix NullPointerException when leaving the includePath, linkPath, or preloadPath Mojo parameter empty
• Add Info.virtualize to have the Parser generate @Virtual abstract for pure virtual functions in the given classes
• Add @Virtual annotation and update Generator to support callback by overriding such annotated native or abstract methods
• Add hack for typedef void* definitions and parameters with a double indirection to them

July 27, 2014 version 0.9

• Fix Generator.checkPlatform() not checking super classes
• Add includePath, linkPath, and preloadPath parameters to BuildMojo to let Maven users append paths to the properties easily
• In consequence, remove too arbitrary "local" paths from the default platform properties (issue #43)
• Fix a few other more or less minor issues in the Parser with the long double, ptrdiff_t, intptr_t, uintptr_t, off_t types, floating-point numbers, macro redefinitions, access specifiers, casting of const values by reference, optional parentheses, const data types in templates, declarator names equal to a type name, friend functions, inline constructors, typedef void declarations within namespaces, pointers to function pointers
• Allow users to instruct the Parser to skip the expansion of specific macro invocations
• Let Parser concatenate tokens when expanding macros containing the ## operator
• Add some documentation for Info, InfoMap, InfoMapper, and Parser
• Fix the Parser not filtering and expanding properly some preprocessor directives, as well as producing wrong code for typedef struct *
• Skip Java path search when building for Android to prevent including some random jni.h file (issue #3)
• Fix the Parser losing some keywords like static on methods annotated with an @Adapter (issue #2)
• Fix Loader.load() not properly force loading all inherited target classes (issue #1)

April 28, 2014 version 0.8

• Move from Google Code to GitHub as main source code repository
• Place build-time classes in the org.bytedeco.javacpp.tools package and bring out static nested classes, in an effort to avoid conflicts and ease development
• Rename the com.googlecode.javacpp package to org.bytedeco.javacpp
• Added public long Pointer.address() getter method, useful when one needs to subtract two pointers
• Removed old NetBeans project files that cause a conflict when trying to open as a Maven project (issue javacv:210)
• Fixed compilation error on FunctionPointer classes containing no native callback methods
• Added a platform.library.path property, such as "lib/armeabi/" in the case of the "android-arm" platform, to be used instead of "package/platform" (issue javacv:427)
• Generalized references to the path of the Android NDK
• Improved a few small things in the set of Pointer classes
• Introduced a simple Logger class and unified the logging output calls around it
• Unified the property names with the @Properties and @Platform annotations into a consistent naming scheme
• Continued to clean up the Parser and improve the support of, for the most part, comments, enumerations, functions pointers, anonymous struct or union, templates, overloaded operators, namespaces, standard containers, default parameter arguments, multiple inheritance, custom names of wrapped declarators, and helper classes written in Java
• Annotations such as @Adapter or @ByVal are no longer ignored on parameters of getters or setters annotated with @Index
• Fixed some other corner cases in Generator and a few potential issues with the hacks in Loader
• Added for convenience to PointerPointer a generic parameter <P extends Pointer> and the associated get(Class<P> ...) getters, as well as String getters and setters
• Passing a Class object as first argument to a native method that returns a Pointer now determines the runtime type of that returned object
• Generalized somewhat more the compiler options used inside linux-arm.properties (issue javacv:418)
• Unified the function pointer type of native deallocators to void (*)(void*)
• Removed dependency on (efficient) AllocObject() and CallNonvirtualVoidMethodA() JNI functions, which are not supported by Avian
• Cleaned up and optimized Generator a bit, also fixing a crash that could occur when FindClass() returns NULL

January 6, 2014 version 0.7

• Tweaked a few things to support RoboVM and target iOS, but JNI_OnLoad() does not appear to get called...
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r9c
• Made Loader.load() work, within reason, even when all annotations and resources have been removed, for example, by ProGuard
• Fixed compile error when using a FunctionPointer as parameter from outside its top-level enclosing class
• Added new Pointer.deallocate(false) call to disable garbage collection on a per object basis, allowing users to deal with memory leaks in other ways
• Changed the default compiler option -mfpu=vfpv for ARM to -mfpu=vfpv3-d16, because the former is not supported by Tegra 2 (issue javacv:366)
• Removed call to Arrays.copyOf() in Loader.findLibrary(), which would prevent it from working on Android 2.2 (issue #39)
• Fixed invalid code generated for FunctionPointer parameters annotated with @Const @ByRef
• Fixed NullPointerException in Loader.load() when no @Platform annotation is provided (issue #38)
• Parsing for anonymous struct or union and for typedef void (mapped to @Opaque Pointer) now outputs something
• The Parser now expands preprocessor macros, filters tokens appropriately, and outputs all unprocessed directives as comments
• Improved the C++ support of the Parser for namespaces, derived classes, access specifiers, custom constructors, vector types, macros, templates, overloaded operators, etc
• Fixed typedef of function pointers and a few code formatting issues with Parser
• Supplied checks to prevent Loader.load() from throwing java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite cause

September 15, 2013 version 0.6

• Added new very preliminary Parser to produce Java interface files almost automatically from C/C++ header files; please refer to the new JavaCPP Presets subproject for details
• When catching a C++ exception, the first class declared after throws now gets thrown (issue #36) instead of RuntimeException, which is still used by default
• Fixed Java resource leak after catching a C++ exception
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r9
• Added new Builder option "-copylibs" that copies into the build directory any dependent shared libraries listed in the @Platform(link={...}, preload={...}) annotation
• Loader.getPlatformName() can now be overridden by setting the com.googlecode.javacpp.platform.name system property
• Refactored the loading code for @Properties() into a neat Loader.ClassProperties class, among a few other small changes in Loader, Builder, Generator, and the properties
• Included often used directories such as /usr/local/include/ and /usr/local/lib/ to compiler.includepath and compiler.linkpath default properties
• New @Properties(inherit={Class}) value lets users specify properties in common on a similarly annotated shared config class of sorts
• Fixed callbacks when used with custom class loaders such as with Web containers or frameworks like Tomcat and Play
• Fixed using @StdString (or other @Adapter with @Cast annotations) on callbacks (issue #34), incidentally allowing them to return a String
• By default, Builder now links to the jvm library only when required, when using the -header command line option (issue #33)
• Incorporated missing explicit cast on return values when using the @Cast annotation
• Fixed duplicate code getting generated when both specifying the output filename with -o <name> and using wildcards on packages containing nested classes
• Let Buffer or arrays of primitive values be valid return and callback arguments, mostly useful when used along with the @StdVector annotation, or some other custom adapter

April 7, 2013 version 0.5

• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r8e
• Arguments of Pointer type now get handled as char* in cases when the position can be used for arithmetic
• Worked around bug of InputStream.available() always returning 0 with the http protocol in Loader.extractResource(URL)

March 3, 2013 version 0.4

• Fixed potential problem with methods of FunctionPointer annotated with @Cast("const...")
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r8d
• Fixed callbacks not working on Android anymore (issue #30)
• Added some Javadoc to most of the code
• To help diagnose UnsatisfiedLinkError thrown by Loader.load(), they have been augmented with a potential cause originating from the "preloading" of libraries, whose premature deletion has also been fixed
• Provided new @Platform(library="...") annotation value to let users specify the name of the native library used by both Builder and Loader, where different classes with the same name get built together, which also works on nested classes (issue #29)
• Added the ability to change the name of the class of function objects created when defining a FunctionPointer with the @Name annotation
• Builder would go on a compile spree when all classes specified on the command line could not be loaded
• Exported Loader.isLoadLibraries(), which always returns true, except when the Builder loads the classes
• Made it possible to specify a nested class (with a '$' character in the name) on the command line
• When Pointer.limit == 0, the methods put(), zero(), and asBuffer() now assume a size of 1
• Fixed compiler error on 32-bit Mac OS X

November 4, 2012 version 0.3

• Added Pointer.withDeallocator(Pointer) method to attach easily a custom Deallocator created out of a static void deallocate(Pointer) method in the subclass, including native ones such as @Namespace @Name("delete") static native void deallocate(Pointer)
• A name starting with "::", for example @Name("::std::string") or @Namespace("::std"), now drops the remaining enclosing scope
• Removed confusing cast value of @Adapter instead relying on new String[] value of @Cast to order multiple casts
• Renamed various variables in Generator to make the generated code more readable
• Fixed memory corruption when using an adapter or @ByRef on a function that returns by value an std::vector<> or std::string (issue #26)
• Added Pointer.zero() method that calls memset(0) on the range
• For easier memory management, more than one Pointer now allowed to share the deallocator when "casting" them
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r8b
• Fixed JavaCPP_log() not printing correctly (issue #27)
• Added functionality to access easily FunctionPointer callbacks by their names from C/C++: We can annotate them with @Name and build with the new -header option to get their declarations in a header file, while the Builder links with the jvm library by default
• Loader now displays an informative error message when trying to use an undefined compiler.options with @Platform(options="") (issue #24)
• Pointer.deallocator() would needlessly enqueue Deallocator objects pointing to the native NULL address
• Added support for C++ "functors" based on the operator(), which gets used when annotating a FunctionPointer method parameter with @ByRef or @ByVal
• For convenience in Scala, added apply() as an acceptable caller method name within a FunctionPointer, in addition to call()
• Fixed @Cast not working along parameters with an @Adapter or when attempting to return the argument
• Generator would ignore Pointer.position() in the case of @ByPtrPtr and @ByPtrRef parameters
• Replaced hack to create a Pointer from a Buffer object with something more standard
• Fixed Loader.sizeof(Pointer.class) to return the sizeof(void*)
• In addition to methods and parameters, we may now apply @Adapter to annotation types as well, allowing us to shorten expressions like @Adapter("VectorAdapter<int>") int[] to just @StdVector int[], for std::vector<int> support, and similarly for @StdString and std::string
• Fixed callback parameter casting of primitive and String types
• An empty @Namespace can now be used to let Generator know of entities that are not part of any scope, such as macros and operators
• Turned FunctionPointer into an abstract class with protected constructors, but if users still try to use it as function parameters, Generator now logs a warning indicating that a subclass should be used (issue #23)
• Removed the out value of the @Adapter annotation: All adapters are now "out" by default, unless @Const also appears on the same element
• Fixed Pointer.equals(null) throwing NullPointerException (issue #22)
• @NoOffset would erroneously prevent sizeof() operations from getting generated

July 21, 2012 version 0.2

• Fixed problems when trying to map java.lang.String to other native types than char*, such as unsigned char*
• JavaCPP now uses the new (std::nothrow) operator for allocation, which guarantees that allocation of primitive native arrays won't throw exceptions, making it possible to build C++ exception free JNI libraries
• Added new Pointer.limit property, mainly useful to get the size of an output parameter, as returned by an adapter specified with the @Adapter annotation
• Renamed the capacity field of an adapter to size as it now maps to both Pointer.limit and Pointer.capacity (the latter only for new allocations)
• Added Pointer.put(Pointer) method, the counterpart of Buffer.put(Buffer), to call the native memcpy() function on two Pointer objects
• New @NoException annotation to reduce the size of generated code and optimize runtime performance of functions that are guaranteed not to throw exceptions, or for cases when we do not mind that the JVM may crash and burn
• Trying to generate code for non-static native methods inside a class not extending Pointer now generates proper warning (issue #19)
• Fixed regression where the @Adapter notation generates incorrect code for types other than Pointer (issue #20)

May 27, 2012 version 0.1

• Started using version numbers, friendly to tools like Maven, and placing packages in a sort of Maven repository (issue #10)
• Before loading a JNI library, the Loader now also tries to extract and load libraries listed in the @Platform(link={...}, preload={...}) annotation values, and to support library names with version numbers, each value has to follow the format "libname@version" (or "libname@@version" to have Builder use it for the compiler as well), where "version" is the version number found in the filename as required by the native dynamic linker, usually a short sequence of digits and dots, but it can be anything (e.g.: "mylib@.4.2" would map to "libmylib.so.4.2", "libmylib.4.2.dylib", and "mylib.4.2.dll" under Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows respectively)
• All files now get extracted into a temporary subdirectory, and with the appropriate platform-dependent linker options, or with libraries patched up after the fact with tools such as install_name_tool of Mac OS X, most native dynamic linkers can load dependent libraries from there
• Stopped using java.net.URL as hash key in Loader (very bad idea)
• Changed the default value of the @Index annotation from 0 to 1, and fixed the Generator when it is used with member getters and setters
• Renamed mingw-*.properties to windows-*-mingw.properties for consistency
• Made the Generator allocate native heap memory for callback arguments passed @ByVal (in addition to FunctionPointer), rendering their behavior consistent with return @ByVal in the case of function calls (issue #16)
• Generator now uses std::runtime_error(std::string&) instead of assuming that some nonstandard std::exception(std::string&) constructor exists (issue #17)
• Fixed Generator producing incorrect code when applying invalid annotations such as @ByVal on a method that returns something else than a Pointer object (issue #18)

May 12, 2012

• Added pom.xml file and BuildMojo plugin class for Maven support and changed the directory structure of the source code to match Maven's standard directory layout (issue #10) Many thanks to Adam Waldenberg and Arnaud Nauwynck for their ongoing support with that!
• Moved the source code repository to Git
• Created a new @Raw annotation to use Java object as raw jobject in C++, also passing JNIEnv and the enclosing jclass or the jobject corresponding to this, as the first two arguments of the function, when the Generator encounters any @Raw(withEnv=true) (issue #13)
• The Builder now handles more cases when some prefix or suffix property starts or ends with a space (issue #14)
• Fixed syntax error in VectorAdapter, which GCC and Visual C++ would still happily compile
• Added new source.suffix property to have the names of generated source files end with something else than .cpp and support frameworks like CUDA that require filenames with a .cu extension to compile properly, such as used by the new *-cuda.properties, and also changed the "-cpp" command line option to "-nocompile"
• New Loader.loadLibrary() method similar to System.loadLibrary(), but before searching the library path, it tries to extract and load the library from Java resources
• Generator now accepts @Const on FunctionPointer class declarations
• Added new @Adapter.cast() value to cast explicitly the output of a C++ adapter object
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r8
• Included new command line option "-Xcompiler" to pass options such as "-Wl,-static" directly to the compiler
• Made other various minor changes and enhancements

March 29, 2012

• Added new compiler.framework property and corresponding @Platform.framework() value to allow easier binding with Mac OS X frameworks
• Changed most Builder errors into warnings, letting the building process complete successfully more often
• We may now use the @NoDeallocator annotation on a class to disable deallocation for all allocation methods

March 03, 2012

• Added new @NoDeallocator annotation to prevent allocate() and allocateArray() methods from registering a native deallocator to Pointer objects (issue #1)
• Generator now properly skips as unsupported array parameters that do not have a primitive component type, and logs a warning (issue #7)
• Generator and Builder would append the same include files, libraries, or options multiple times when not required: Fixed in Loader.appendProperty() (issue #8)
• Moved the placement of the class-level @Index annotation to the getter and setter methods themselves
• To process all classes in a package, we may now specify as argument to the Builder its name followed by ".*", in a similar fashion to the import statement of the Java language, or by ".**" to process recursively all packages, while omitting to specify any class or package results in JavaCPP processing all classes found under the directories or JAR files specified with the "-classpath" option (issue #12)
• Equipped the *Pointer classes with new bulk get() and put() methods taking an array as argument, to compensate for direct NIO buffers lacking in performance on Android (issue #11)

February 18, 2012

• Cleaned up a few minor Exception blocks
• New Pointer.deallocateReferences() static method to force immediate deallocation of all native memory allocated by Pointer objects that since have been garbage collected
• Updated android-arm.properties to reflect the fact that, starting from Android NDK r7, libstdc++.a has been surreptitiously renamed to libgnustl_static.a, such that JavaCPP was instead linking to a new bogus libstdc++.so library, causing runtime linking errors
• Included new android-x86.properties to compile binaries for that platform as well
• Added new compiler.sysroot.prefix and compiler.sysroot platform properties to pass options such as --sysroot to satisfy new rituals of the Android NDK starting from r7b
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r7b

January 8, 2012

• Added new compiler.linkpath.prefix2 platform property to pass options such as -Wl,-rpath, to linkers that support them
• Fixed Loader.load() on Android 4.0, where SecurityManager.getClassContext() returns null
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r7

October 29, 2011

• Changed the following to make MinGW work: Generator now maps jlong to the more standard long long instead of __int64 type and also includes stdint.h, and added -D_JNI_IMPLEMENTATION_ -Wl,--kill-at to the compiler options, as recommended by MinGW's documentation for building DLLs compatible with JNI
• Added hack for AttachCurrentThread(), whose signature differs under Android, and DetachCurrentThread() now gets called as appropriate after returning from a callback function, to prevent memory leaks (and also crashes on platforms such as Android) (issue #3)
• Generator now generates correct code for the annotation pairs @Const @ByRef and @Const @ByVal (issue #4)
• Worked around callback functions crashing on Android, which is unable to load user classes from native threads (issue #5)
• Fixed a few potential pitfalls inside Generator and Loader
• Removed compiler warnings due to the type of the capacity member variable of VectorAdapter
• Callback FunctionPointer objects may now return @ByVal or @ByRef
• On Android, changed the output of runtime error messages from stderr (equivalent to /dev/null on Android) to the log

October 1, 2011

• Changed default option flag "/MT" to "/MD" (and a few others that Visual Studio uses by default) inside windows-x86.properties and windows-x86_64.properties because std::vector, VectorAdapter and C++ memory allocation in general does not work well with static runtime libraries across DLLs under Windows Vista and Windows 7 for some reason, and because Microsoft fixed the manifest file insanity starting with Visual C++ 2010
• Builder now searches for jni.h and jni_md.h inside /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers/ if not found inside java.home, as with Mac OS X Lion (issue #2)
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r6b
• Fixed a few potential pitfalls inside Generator
• Added hack to let *Pointer classes with a corresponding *Buffer class have constructors for them

July 5, 2011

• Generator now lets get()/put() (or the ValueGetter/ValueSetter annotated) methods use non-integer indices for the Index annotation
• Removed calls to Arrays.copyOf() inside getString*() methods so they may work on Android as well
• Fixed race condition that could occur in the deallocation code of Pointer due to incorrect synchronization
• platform.root now defaults to the current directory

June 10, 2011

• New Adapter annotation that uses C++ classes such as VectorAdapter, which can let us use Java arrays or Pointer objects in place of C++ vector objects by mapping types such as vector<int> to @Adapter("VectorAdapter<int>") int[] or @Adapter("VectorAdapter<int>") IntPointer
• Added new Pointer.capacity field to keep track of allocated size for arrays, needed by the Adapter annotation
• Removed the capacity parameter from the Pointer.asByteBuffer() and Pointer.asBuffer() methods, which now rely instead on the value of the new capacity field
• ValueGetter and ValueSetter, defaulting to the get() and put() methods, now accept indices as arguments, and *Pointer classes have been updated accordingly
• New Index annotation to indicate that a C++ class, such as vector<T> implements the operator[] that can be mapped to the ValueGetter and ValueSetter as well as to arbitrary function calls, taking the first n arguments as indices, where n is the value placed in the annotation
• The Name annotation now accepts as value a String array to indicate names before and after these indices
• New Const annotation for convenience
• Fixed scoping of static members inside namespaces and classes
• Added new BoolPointer class
• Improved support of function pointers to generate more standard C++ and to make it work with things like member function pointers
• Inserted hack to call std::string.c_str() when returned as @ByRef java.lang.String
• Multiplied checks for invalid NULL pointers
• Upgraded references of the Android NDK to version r5c, which now also works on Android 2.1 or older (android issue #16008)
• Loader.load() no longer requires a JVM that supports annotations to function properly

April 22, 2011

• Generator now outputs #include <stdio.h>, the lack of which prevents Android NDK under Windows from compiling

April 7, 2011

• Replaced arrays from constructors with variable-length argument lists for convenience
• Fixed a few small potential pitfalls previously overlooked

March 1, 2011

• Fixed directory search for jni_md.h, which did not search deep enough in some cases
• Added new path.separator property to set the path separator of the target platform, regardless of the build platform
• Added hack to make sure the temporarily extracted library files get properly deleted under Windows
• Now loads classes more lazily
• Changed the paths for libstdc++ inside android-arm.properties to the non "v7a" versions
• Added new platform.root property to let users specify the path to their toolchains more easily

February 18, 2011

Initial release

Acknowledgments

This project was conceived at the Okutomi & Tanaka Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, where I was supported for my doctoral research program by a generous scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese Government. I extend my gratitude further to all who have reported bugs, donated code, or made suggestions for improvements (details above)!