RELEASE-NOTES.md

v4.16.3

• Support AGP 7.4
• Fix issue #422 end-of-stream caused by multiple collector

v4.14.2

• Fix issue #422 end-of-stream caused by multiple collector

v4.14.1

• Sync from 4.16.2
• Exclude AGP 7.3 and Kotlin API version 1.5.0 upgrading

v4.16.2

• Fix Project.getJarTaskProviders(BaseVariant?) with projects do not have android extension
• Add extension BaseVariant.localAndroidResources
• Fix AndroidSdk.findPlatform(): Ignore Android SDK extension

v4.16.1

• Fix issue #406 : incremental build with jar removal
• Fix issue #407 : Apple M1 chipset support for cwebp

v4.15.0

• Fix issue #381

• Fix issue #387

• Upgrade Kotlin API version to 1.5.0

• Support AGP 7.3

• Fix integration tests

• CHA improvement

v4.13.0

• Fix incompatibility issue of ShadowScheduledThreadPoolExecutor on Android 5.1.1 and below
• Fix issue #364 booster transform cannot be registered successfully
• Fix issue #368 by removing JAR signature related files to prevent JAR signature verification
• Fix issue #370 by improving the compatibility of AGP 7.2.0+
• Improve booster-aapt2 compatibility

v4.12.0

• Enable class set cache for static analysis to reduce memory footprint
• Support Gradle configuration cache #248
• Loading and initializing variant processor earlier

v4.11.0

• Grouping tasks into group booster
• Dependency acquisition enhancement
• Fix transform timing issue
• Add booster-cha-asm to support ASM based CHA
• Improvement for booster-task-analyser
• Load all classes of a composite class set before accessing
• Fix bug of resolving project dependencies

v4.10.0

• Improve ClassSet to avoid memory leaks
• Improve ClassSet to support loading classes from AAR
• Fix transform output conflicts
• Add execute(...) for Command
• Add class reference analysis for booster-task-analyser
• Splitting booster-graph into booster-graph, booster-graph-dot and booster-graph-json
• AGP 7.1 & 7.2 compatibility support

v4.9.0

• Fix [CVE-2020-15250] In JUnit4 from version 4.7 and before 4.13.1, the test rule TemporaryFolder contains a local information disclosure vulnerability
• Fix variant artifacts acquiring
• Fix integration tests
• Refactoring booster-graph to support grouping and render options

v4.8.0

• Fix issue #311
• Add api mergeNativeLibsTaskProvider
• Add booster-graph to generate graph with dot
• Using deferred task instead of creating task directly
• Reverse the edge direction of the task graph

v4.7.0

• Add DotGraph.visualize() for graph visualization
• Add booster-task-graph for task graph visualization
• Fix improper task dependencies
• Fix issue #304: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor transform bug

v4.6.0

• Add extension property BaseVariant.mergedNativeLibs: Collection<File>
• Add extension function BaseVariant..getReport(String, String): File
• Fix Jacoco coverage report issue

v4.5.3

• Fix mergeResources task

v4.5.2

• Fix issue #284

v4.5.1

• Fix issue #287

v4.5.0

• Fix issue #280

v4.4.0

• Support force update inputs for incremental build

v4.3.0

• Support running local unit test with transformer
• Add collector API for multi-round transform

v4.2.0

• Add Android stub APIs
• Fix bug of the classpath of class pool
• Add runtime instrumentation support

v4.1.0

• Fix issue #258
• Fix bug when install in android-R machine: no compress arsc file.

v4.0.0

• Support AGP 7.0, no longer supported AGP 3.2 and lower versions

v3.5.0

• Fix booster-transform-r-inline 支持 constraintlayout v2.0
• Add booster-transform-service-loader for ServiceLoader performance optimization

v3.4.0

• Refactor booster-cha，to support bytecode manipulation framework independent ClassParser
• Update auto-service version to 1.0
• Update common-compression version to 1.21

v3.3.1

• Fix issue #222
• Fix issue #224 : Context.getFilesDir() returns null
• Fix issue #231

v3.3.0

• Fix issue #187
• Fix issue #226
• Add property val dependencies: Collection<String> to TransformContext

v3.2.0

• Support AGP 4.2
• Fix AGP version comparison
• Support disabling variant transformation by setting property booster.transform.${variantName}.enabled to false
• Support generating transform diff by setting property booster.transform.diff to true
• Refactor ClassTransformer API
  • Add property name
  • Add method getReport(TransformContext, String): File
  • Add method getReportDir(TransformContext): File

v3.1.0

• Support property booster.task.compression.pngquant.ignores to ignore resources by wildcard
• Support property booster.task.compression.cwebp.ignores to ignore resources by wildcard
• Sanitize exception stack trace caught by ActivityThreadCallback

v3.0.0

• Rebuild AGP compatibility
• Support the latest AGP version 4.1.0
• AGP integration tests improvement

v2.4.0

• Fix #192
• Android Gradle plugin API compatibility improvement

v2.3.3

• fix issue #194

v2.3.2

• fix issue #194
• JetPack support for shared preferences optimization

v2.3.1

• fix empty thread name

v2.3.0

• Add transform outputs verification
• Improves booster-transform-thread
• Improves threads management for booster-transform-shared-preferences
• Fix API compatibility issue of booster-transform-webview

v2.2.0

• Improves booster-transform-thread
• Improves booster-transform-shared-preferences

v2.1.0

• fix bug of booster-transform-activity-thread

v2.0.0

• Fix compatibility issues on AGP 3.5
• Improves Android gradle plugin compatibility (AGP 4.0 is supported)
• Refactor Transformer & VariantProcessor service provider loading

v1.7.2

• Refactor Transformer dynamic discovery and loading

v1.7.1

• fix: image compression with build cache

v1.7.0

• Fix booster-cha dependencie
• Refactor booster-transfrom-util to improve unit test
• Refactor SPI loading
• Add dokka doc comments to generate API reference
• AGP API compatibility improvement

v1.5.2

v1.6.0

• fix #154
• fix #157
• Catch transform exception caused by broken cla
• Extract CHA from booster-task-analyser as a standalone module

v1.5.1

• Fix: #151 Build failed caused by empty transformer
• Fix dex merging error when transform scope is empty

v1.5.0

1. 修复 AGP 3.6.0 兼容性问题 [#145](#145)

2. 修复 Transform 增量编译的问题

3. 优化 booster-transform-activity-thread，支持自定义堆栈包名白名单过滤

4. 增加 booster-task-analyser 用于替代原来的 booster-transform-lint ，不仅在特性上更加丰富，性能表现也是更胜一筹：

   • 全新的类继承分析 CHA (Class Hierarchy Analysis) ，分析结果更精准
   • 新增 AnalyserTask ，移除 LintTransformer ，通过运行单独的 Task 进行静态分析，详见：README.md
   • 支持 XML layout 分析，检测 layout 中不存在的 class，避免线上崩溃
   • 支持 @UiThread 和 @MainThread
   • 支持 EventBus @Subscribe
   • 支持自定义黑名单和白名单

5. 新增 booster-api 模块，便于 feature 开发和单元测试

v1.4.0

• Improves booster-task-compression-cwebp to support build cache
• Improves booster-task-compression-pngquant to support build cache
• Improves transform to support build cache
• Improves booster-command installation to support build cache

v1.3.2

• Fix issue #138
• Improve BR inlining
• Upgrade auto-service version to 1.0-rc6
• Upgrade gradle version to 6.2
• Remove uploadArchives task

v1.3.1

1. Rethrow exception with file path when booster-task-compression-cwebp detect image transparency failed
2. Handle rejected execution from parallel scatter zip creator

v1.3.0

1. Add booster-command to support run external prebuilt command
2. Refactor resource compression to support booster-task-compression-cwebp & booster-task-compression-pngquant work togethor
3. Improve transform performance

v1.2.1

• Prevent res/raw resources from compression
• Refactor transformers to make them more unit test friendly

v1.2.0

• Fix R class files removal issue #124
• Add booster-transform-br-inline to support BR inline for data binding
• Add booster-transform-verifier to support verify bytecode
• Add @Priority to support ordering transformer
• Refactor transform process to improve build performance
• Support CPU time statistics for transformer
• Remove booster-task-all and booster-transform-all

v1.1.1

• Fix bug of transform-task-compression-pngquant

v1.1.0

• Refactor & optimize resource compression
• Refactor transform SPI

v1.0.0

• Improves transform performance 50%+
• Improves booster-task-compression performance
• booster-transform-thread supports enable/disable thread pool optimization
• Fix bugs of booster-transform-shared-preferences

v0.28.0

• Fix issue #119

v0.27.0

• Supporting dynamic feature module #109
• SharedPreferences optimization improvement

v0.26.1

• Fix compatibility of booster-transform-r-inline
• Fix #103

v0.26.0

• Fix issue #102, #103

v0.25.0

• Fix issue
  • #77
  • #100

v0.24.0

• Fix issue #99

v0.23.0

• Deprecates constant field removal

v0.22.0

• Fix duplicated entry caused by incremental build

v0.21.3

• Fix issue: Process "command cacls" finished with non-zero exit value 87. #29, #70, #80

v0.21.2

• Fix issue #80

v0.21.1

• Fix issue #78

v0.21.0

• Fix compatibility of AAPT2 especially for Android gradle plugin 3.1.x

v0.20.0

• Add booster-task-list-shared-library

v0.19.0

• Fix bug of ActivityThreadTransformer

v0.18.0

• Fix bug of ActivityThreadCallback

v0.17.0

• Add module booster-transform-javassist to support bytecode manipulation using Javassist

v0.16.0

• Fix issue #66

v0.15.0

• Fix issue #67

v0.14.0

• Fix issue: shrinking without replace retained symbol

v0.13.0

• Add module booster-transform-activity-thread for ActivityThread hooking
• Add module booster-android-instrument-activity-thread for ActivityThread instrumenting

v0.12.0

• Add module booster-transform-logcat for logcat intercepting
• Add module booster-android-instrument-logcat for log API instrumenting

v0.11.0

• Fix compatibility issues with Android gradle plugin 3.1.x and 3.4+: #45

v0.10.0

• Add booster-transform-finalizer-watchdog-daemon to avoid crash by TimeoutException

v0.9.0

• Add booster-transform-res-check for resource & assets checking

v0.8.0

• Optimization for AsyncTask
• Improvement for booster-transform-shrink

v0.7.0

• Add Webview preloading

v0.6.0

• Fix bug of dex builder in incremental build

v0.5.0

• Fix issue #33, #34
• Optimization for MediaPlayer

v0.4.5

• Fix issue #32

v0.4.4

• Fix issue #29
• Ignores WebP compression of launcher icon

v0.4.3

• Fix #28

v0.4.2

• Fix issue #27

v0.4.1

• Fix bugs #23
• Update Lint graph layout #22

v0.4.0

• Supports WebP compression

  Since v0.4.0, Booster provides built-in libwebp binaries for resources compression, so, you don't have to install the cwebp executable manually, about the usage, please see booster-task-compression.

v0.3.3

• Fix compression report
• Add more INFO logs for class transforming

v0.3.2

• Fix issue #17, #19
• Resources & assets compression improvement
• Redundant resources reduction

v0.3.1

• Fix issue #18
• Supports compressing by pngquant
• Improves assets and resources compression

v0.3.0

• Add booster-task-compression for resources compression

v0.2.1

• Fix issue #3
• Fix issue #5

v0.2.0

• Fix issue #5
• Additional options for booster-transform-shrink #8
• Additional options for booster-transform-lint
• Thread renaming
• Multithreading optimization
• Shared preferences optimization
• Build report

v0.1.6

v0.1.5

• Fix issue #10
• Fix issue #13
• Optimization for shared preferences editor

v0.1.4

• Fix kotlin API compatibility #6, #9
• Retaining resource ids references by layout

v0.1.3

• Fix issue #4: WARNING: API 'variant.getJavaCompiler()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getJavaCompileProvider()'

v0.1.2

• Fix issue #3

v0.1.1

• Fix generated REVISION
• Fix compatibility issues with Android gradle 3.3+ #2

v0.1.0

• Performance linting
• Constants shrinking
• Crash fixing (Caused by Toast on Android 7.1.1)
• Miscellaneou
  • Tasks for artifacts displaying
  • Tasks for Android permissions displaying
  • Tasks for dependencies displaying
  • Transformer for API usage displaying