CHANGELOG.md

[v5.10] not yet released

[v5.9.4] published on 2024-02-11

Added

• Alternative Chinese number systems [#985]
• Simple dummy parser when parsing is unused [#986]

Changed

• No leap second on 2024-06-30 [#984]
• Number system code "u-nu-hans" slightly changed printing behaviour [#985]
• Update polish translations of duration in days [#987]
• Make russian translations of short duration formats more consistent [#981]

[v5.9.3] published on 2023-05-09

Fixed

• Bug in parsing moment intervals with incomplete parts [#979]
• More documentation of the use of altitude in solar calculations [#977]

[v5.9.2] published on 2023-02-19

Changed

• Enhancement of validity range of HijriCalendar.VARIANT_DIYANET [#976]
• No leap second on 2023-06-30 [#974]

[v5.9.1] published on 2022-06-20

Changed

• Reduce calendar class loading [#968]
• No leap second on 2022-06-30 [#967]

Fixed

• ZonalOffset atLongitude() does not work for Auckland [#966]
• Force release flag of maven-compiler-plugin [#964]
• Test fails during build with microsecond resolution [#961]

[v5.9] published on 2021-12-15

Added

• Numeral support for Gurmukhi, Korean and Lao [#959]
• Enable PrettyTime with non-decimal numerals [#958]
• Support for Chinese numerals [#955]

Changed

• Windows zones with better version info [#954]
• Update to CLDR v39 [#945]
• No leap second on 2021-12-31 [#951]
• Updated naming of Danish eras [#944]

Deprecated

• PrettyTime.withZeroDigit(NumberSystem) [#958]

Fixed

• Documentation link of Ethiopian calendar broken [#952]
• Build problem: Remove doctags-dependency [#960]

[v5.8] published on 2021-03-28

Added

• General static conversion from ChronoLocalDate to CalendarDate [#885]
• Specific leap month queries in East Asian calendars [#913]
• New methods for solar terms in East Asian calendars creating lists and operators [#928]
• Style-based formatters should give an pattern info [#941]
• Support unicode extension hc [#933]

Changed

• Simplify calendar type identifiers for frenchrev, bahai, hindu [#942]

Deprecated

• Replace DisplayStyle and DisplayMode by FormatStyle [#938]

Fixed

• Crash in OldApiTimezone when Saturday is hit [#939]
• Include digit 9 while parsing ISO8601 recurrence [#934]
• Documentation of solar term handling in East Asian calendars improved [#928]
• New Japanese nengo defined in system property not correctly checked [#929]
• Imprecise translations for relative days in Dutch [#922]

[v5.7] published on 2020-09-13

Added

• Modern Hindu calendar (algorithmic) [#851]
• Stems and branches of month and day in Chinese calendar [#910]
• Getting time of day when shadow length is known [#890]

Fixed

• Invalid combination of stems and branches not documented [#912]
• United Kingdom date format [#908]
• Package net.time4j.calendar.hindu not exported for jigsaw [#906]

[v5.6] published on 2020-05-31

Added

• Old Hindu calendar [#892]
• Local variant data for Hijri calendar [#888]
• Getter for observer zone id in SolarTime and LunarTime [#904]
• Support for Duration.in(Collection<? extends Unit>) [#899]
• Support for Swiss German (Schwyzerdütsch) [#895]
• Let TimeSource deliver current Instant [#884]
• Make PatternType.CLDR_DATE being applicable on PlainDate [#889]

Deprecated

• HijriCalendar.VARIANT_ICU4J scheduled for future removal [#905]

Fixed

• NPE in deserializing of SolarTime and LunarTime [#901]
• Build problem: More tolerant double comparisons in astro tests [#886]
• Incorrect sign in last term of calculation of mean lunar anomaly [#891]
• Documentation example in SolarTime outdated [#902]

[v5.5] published on 2019-11-04

Added

• Reversible time metric [#881]
• Coptic calendar for JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#882]

Deprecated

• Rename the terms "standard offset" and "daylight-saving-offset" in related methods [#874]

Fixed

• Document that Hebrew calendar starting at 18:00 is an approximation for sunset [#873]

[v5.4] published on 2019-05-25

Added

• Localized stream of weekdays [#871]
• Current calendar week with generic parameters [#870]
• Anomalistic month (apogee/perigee of moon) [#859]
• FULL_DAY-instance in ClockInterval [#867]
• Support for Kurdish (ku) and Somali (so) languages [#866]
• More translations for Badi calendar [#862]
• More translations for new Japanese era REIWA [#860]

Changed

• Update to CLDR v35.1 [#863]

Fixed

• Improved approximated normalization of durations [#869]
• Zero clock hour not tolerable in smart parsing [#868]
• Plural rules for Marathi and Nepali are wrong [#865]
• Smart parsing of protected space char [#864]
• Printing of weekdays in Bahai calendar broken [#861]

[v5.3] published on 2019-04-16

Added

• Badi calendar (Bahai) [#798]
• Documentation of calendar view customization in JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#857]

Changed

• New Japanese Nengo "Reiwa" [#840]
• More flexible dynamic patterns [#854]

[v5.2] published on 2018-12-21

Added

• Easier truncation of durations with any arbitrary units [#850]
• Easier calculation of Chinese holidays [#844]
• Ethiopian calendar for JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#843]
• New static factory method for astronomical seasons based on a moment [#841]
• Custom duration separators in PrettyTime [#839]

Fixed

• Handle Sindhi and Uyghur as right-to-left [#847]
• AstronomicalSeason fails for years like 999_999_999 [#842]

[v5.1] published on 2018-11-20

Added

• Support for languages Assamese, Sindhi and Tongan [#834]
• Generic calendar formatting with regional calendar preference [#833]
• Localized representation of ISO calendar week [#832]
• Formatting relative times like "last Monday" or "next Friday" [#733]

Changed

• Make parsing month names slightly more tolerant in smart mode [#837]
• Update to CLDR 34 [#831]

[v5.0] published on 2018-10-23

Added

• Time arithmetic in class GeneralTimestamp [#810]
• Support tzdb-time-switches out of range T00:00/T24:00 [#825]
• New random()-methods in IsoInterval-subclasses [#827]
• New methods Temporal.isBeforeOrEqual() and Temporal.isAfterOrEqual() [#826]
• New interval class for calendar years, quarters, months or weeks [#822]
• Formatted representation of Years, Quarters, Months and weeks [#824]
• Make enums Month, Weekday and Quarter to operators for PlainDate [#819]
• Enhance duration comparators [#816]
• Partitioned streams in TimestampInterval [#814]
• Easy summing up a stream of durations [#812]
• Simplify bridge chronology accessors in basic types [#811]
• Platform-Timezone now delegates to ZoneId.systemDefault() [#805]
• Text elements formattable by help of string converter [#799]
• Extend formattability of extreme integer element values [#797]
• Resolve locale no-NO-NY to nynorsk [#788]

Changed

• Simplify/Rename some interval factory methods [#821]
• Remove confusing method ZonalClock.currentMoment() [#817]
• Improved handling of negative DST-offsets [#742]
• Simplify generic formatter API [#813]
• Remove all deprecated stuff [#524]
• Improve conversion of Windows zones to IANA [#785]
• Move class AnnualDate to main package [#787]
• Move class MachineTime to main package [#609]
• Replace ResourceBundle in module environment [#786]
• Automatic module names (for Java-9) [#784]
• New modular structure [#525]
• StartOfDay now uses CalendarDate in abstract method [#655]
• Interface ChronoPrinter without checked exceptions [#526]
• Renaming of abstract method in DayPartitionRule [#815]

Fixed

• Ensure that big year numbers with 10 digits can be printed [#792]
• SimpleInterval.Factory is wrong about open or closed interval boundaries [#823]
• CalendarWeek.of(GregorianMath.MAX_YEAR, 52) aborts [#820]
• Mismatch between getMinimumSinceUTC and transform for some historic calendars [#808]
• Fix for narrow era names which had been incomplete [#809]
• Fix for changing JapaneseCalendar.MONTH_AS_ORDINAL [#807]
• NPE-Fix for loading time zone based on system time zone identifier [#803]
• NPE-Fix for premature assignment of system time zone [#802]
• Wrong day-of-year in HebrewCalendar [#800]
• Rethrow undocumented ArithmeticException as IllegalArgumentException [#791]
• Wrong days-since-UTC after transform in Hijri adjustment [#789]

[v4.38] published on 2018-05-18

Added

• Support Kabyle language [#782]
• Show tomorrow and yesterday words in PrettyTime [#781]

Fixed

• Arithmetic overflow of int-results in JulianCalendar.Unit.between(...) [#775]
• Incorrect translation of "M" pattern in JulianCalendar formatter [#776]
• Same exit and arrival of sun/moon in sign of Scorpius [#778]

[v4.37] published on 2018-05-11

Added

• Zodiac constellations and signs [#765]
• Empty date intervals [#771]
• Allow more temporal types for use with Duration.toTemporalAmount() [#769]
• New interface describing equatorial coordinates [#764]
• Static validation method for calendar weeks [#766]

Changed

• Update some resources to CLDR 33 [#774]

Deprecated

• Replace/Remove SolarTime.Calculator.declination(double) [#772]

Fixed

• Right ascension of moon position should be in range 0-360 [#770]
• Use automatic fallback to worldwide locale in WindowsZone [#763]

[v4.36] published on 2018-03-24

Added

• Reverse engineering of windows zone names [#756]
• Normalization of timezone identifiers [#756]
• Support Asturian language (ISO-639: ast) [#757]
• Convenience week elements for Hebrew calendar [#758]
• Support of Hebrew calendar in JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#759]
• Support of Julian calendar in JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#760]

Fixed

• Make astronomical calculations possible with leap seconds disabled [#761]

[v4.35] published on 2018-03-07

Added

• Traditional Chinese calendar [#396]
• Dangi calendar (Korean) [#722]
• Vietnamese lunar calendar [#641]
• Cyclic year used in East Asian calendars [#638]
• Juche calendar (North Korea) [#748]
• Stream-methods in MomentInterval [#743]
• Shadow length of objects with specified height [#754]
• Increase displayed precision of moon illumination [#747]
• Convenience constants for calendar-specific week elements [#753]
• Bounded calendar-week-elements in CommonElements [#738]
• Optimize chronological extensions during parsing [#749]
• Improved localization for French Rev. calendar [#741]

Fixed

• Weekmodel.ISO.boundedWeekOfMonth().atFloor() not working as expected [#750]

[v4.34] published on 2018-01-15

Added

• Extra features for StdSolarCalculator.CC [#731]
• Search for moon phase at or after a moment [#730]
• Traditional Chinese now recognizes hant-script in locale [#728]

Changed

• Allow negative DST-offsets [#735]
• Update leap second expiry date [#734]

Fixed

• date.getMaximum() can crash near end of timeline [#732]

[v4.33] published on 2017-12-18

Added

• Moon rise/set [#704]
• Calculation for azimuth/elevation of Sun and Moon [#723]
• Positions of Sun and Moon in terms of right ascension and declination [#716]
• Make right ascension of sun accessible [#715]
• Determine min/max-range of possible lunations [#720]
• Convenience combination of operators atFloor() and newValue() [#721]

Changed/Deprecated

• HebrewMonth.Order.BIBILICAL contains a typo [#714]
• Four methods in SolarTime loose the day information [#724]

Fixed

• StdSolarCalculator.CC has integer-division-error [#725]
• Class SolarTime normally expects LMT-dates not zoned dates [#719]
• JulianDay misses definition of serialVersionUID [#727]

[v4.32] published on 2017-11-26

Added

• Hebrew calendar [#528]
• Hebrew time [#708]
• Hebrew birthdays and yahrzeit [#707]
• Constants of solar time for Jerusalem and Mecca [#711]
• Support unicode extensions fw and rg [#712]
• Add Odia (Oriya) language [#709]
• More flexible numberings of enums in formatting [#706]
• Update to CLDR v32 [#690]
• Conversions to/from old java.util.Calendar + java.util.TimeZone [#705]

Changed

• Optimize ZoneNameProviderSPI [#713]

[v4.31] published on 2017-10-20

Added

• Moon phases [#676]
• Illumination of moon [#702]
• Historic calendar [#698]
• New SolarTime.Calculator based on Dershowitz/Reingold [#701]
• Static factory ChronoHistory.from(variantString) [#697]
• Extended support for always-intervals [#695]
• Generic calendar intervals [#675]
• TimeLine-enhancement [#675]
• Julian centuries with J2000-epoch [#693]
• Document which unicode-ca-extensions are supported [#699]

Changed

• German names of French Republican calendar months [#692]
• Prevent calling some SolarTime.Builder-methods twice [#691]
• Refine altitude-dependent calculation of solar time [#689]

Fixed

• Unicode-ca-support not available for HijriCalendar [#700]
• ChronoHistory.month()-annotation is incomplete [#696]

Deprecated

• Constants in SolarTime.Calculator marked for removal [#701]
• Make surrounding()-method in MomentInterval consistently using APIs [#694]

[v4.30] published on 2017-09-25

Added

• New hemisphere-related methods in astronomical classes [#688]
• Unit simulating Joda-behaviour for month-based durations [#687]

Changed

• Parsing of "AM" or "PM" for all locales [#684]
• Changes to CalendarUnit.keepingEndOfMonth() and atEndOfMonth() [#679]
• Clarify meaning of IntervalCollection [#677]
• Empty intervals should not be added to interval collection [#678]

Fixed

• Zone name parsing should use string-prefix-matching [#686]
• Duration parser tolerates trailing chars [#682]
• Conversion of Time4J-Duration to temporal amount sometimes broken [#680]

Deprecated

• Rename PlainTime.ISO_HOUR to HOUR_FROM_0_TO_24 [#685]

[v4.29] published on 2017-09-10

Added

• Support for sunrise / sunset - calculations [#663]
• Static validation methods for calendars [#666]
• Twilight definition [#667]
• Sunset as start-of-day (for islamic calendar etc) [#668]
• Simplified version of JulianDay [#670]
• Easy conversions from general intervals to ISO-intervals [#671]
• Intervals surrounding any moment [#672]

Changed

• Improve calculation of equation of time [#665]

Fixed

• Conversion of Duration to Java-8 broken if fractional seconds occur [#669]
• French revolutionary calendar not serializable [#664]

[v4.28] published on 2017-07-28

Added

• French Revolutionary Calendar [#615]
• New formatter method 'getPattern()' [#662]
• Support for or-logic during printing [#661]
• Prevent escaping of Z-literal in format patterns [#658]
• Easy conversion between MachineTime and JSR-310 [#660]
• Conversion methods for Weekday and Month [#657]
• Direct parse-methods for Weekday, Quarter and Month [#656]
• Weekday-in-month in non-iso-calendars [#653]
• Alternative calculations for PersianCalendar [#634]
• Calculation of astronomical seasons [#628]
• Support for apparent solar time [#633]
• Support for Julian Day Number [#527]
• Implement timescales TT and UT1 [#93]

Changed

• Redefine value space and epoch of TAI [#652]

Deprecated

• Make PatternType-API fit for more calendars [#659]
• Prepare StartOfDay-change for next major release [#655]

[v4.27.2] published on 2017-04-29

Fixed

• Setting the number system via nu-extension in locale broken [#650]

[v4.27] published on 2017-04-28

Added

• Japanese imperial calendar [#560]
• Indian national calendar (Saka) [#642]
• Custom day adjustments on HijriCalendar [#649]
• Make pivot-year for two-digit-years calendar-specific [#643]
• Support for Japanese numbers [#639]
• Improve text resource handling [#626]
• Method nowInSystemTime() for AnnualDate and EthiopianTime [#646]
• Enable calendar lookup by names [#614]
• Make transformation between calendar dates easier [#648]

Fixed

• DAY_OF_WEEK-element in some calendars inconsistent [#644]
• Clarify usage of Ethiopian eras [#636]
• TransitionHistory.getPreviousTransition() has improper description [#637]
• Roundtrip of print/parse during zone offset overlap fails [#635]
• Converting geo longitude to ZonalOffset crashes [#632]

[v4.26] published on 2017-03-27

Added

• Add ALWAYS-constant to DateInterval [#630]
• Assignment of values to intervals [#629]
• Make zone offset calculation for geo-longitude more precise [#622]
• Enable text-lookup for non-enum elements in formatting [#618]
• Support for Ewe language [#625]

Fixed

• NPE in IntervalTree containing interval with infinite end [#627]
• ZonalDateTime.toString() should not contain UTC-literal [#623]

[v4.25] published on 2017-02-22

Added

• More convenient access to platform timezone data [#616]

Fixed

• Improve and fix parsing of decimal elements [#617]

[v4.24] published on 2017-02-06

Added

• Stream support for fixed calendar intervals [#613]
• New HolidayModel-interface [#487]
• New streaming method for DateInterval with exclusion [#610]
• Support unicode-nu-extension in formatting and parsing [#611]
• Static from(GregorianDate)-factories for partial calendar classes [#600]
• New stream- and counting methods for class LeapSeconds [#608]
• Support different time-scales in formatting and parsing moments [#607]
• Duration conversion to clock units including days [#605]
• Make parsing of ambivalent zone informations easier [#603]

Changed

• Adjust leap second expiry date [#601]

Fixed

• Invalid CalendarWeek throws wrong exception [#612]
• equals-contract for ChronoFormatter including zone elements broken [#604]

[v4.23] published on 2017-01-08

Added

• Support for Breton (br), Faroese (fo), Western Frisian (fy), Scottish Gaelic (gd), Luxembourgish (lb) [#599]
• Support for generic timezone names [#491]
• Reduce buffer allocation when printing numbers [#598]

Fixed

• ChronoFormatter.formatToBuffer() should be optimized [#597]

[v4.22] published on 2017-01-03

Added

• Add formatting/parsing to class MachineTime [#593]
• Enable or-logic when parsing durations [#592]
• Ensure 4 digit-years in date style patterns [#591]
• Dozenal numbering system [#596]
• Document how to handle wrong platform tz-data on Android [#589]
• Make styled formatters sensible for change of locale [#586]

Fixed

• Max-calculation for week-of-year sometimes broken [#595]
• RFC-1123-formatter must support northamerican zones [#594]
• MultiFormatParser tolerates trailing characters [#590]
• BridgeChronology: Some format patterns are not runnable [#588]
• BridgeChronology: Some formatters cannot be built [#587]

[v4.21] published on 2016-12-03

Added

• Interval search tree [#575]
• Generic interval type for arbitrary foreign types [#578]
• Enable open start of intervals [#584]

Changed

• Simplify parsing of trailing characters [#576]

Fixed

• Fix for pattern sanity check [#583]
• Regression: Misleading error message [#581]
• Clarify documentation of AdjustableElement.atFloor() and .atCeiling() [#580]
• Ambivalence parsing check sometimes faulty [#577]
• Unicode-BIDI-chars should not be parsed in context of ISO [#574]

[v4.20] published on 2016-11-01

Added

• JavaFX-CalendarPicker [#561]
• Open ChronoFormatter for external types [#556]
• Add some convenient methods around day partition rules [#563]
• Week calculations for non-ISO calendars [#562]
• Add convenient methods to PrettyTime [#559]
• New method nowInSystemTime() also for CalendarXYZ-types [#557]
• Splitting of interval-collections [#571]
• New method isDisjunct() in class IntervalCollection [#572]
• New PatternType.DYNAMIC [#567]
• Support span of weekdays [#568]
• Bridge chronologies for AnnualDate, CalendarYear and CalendarMonth [#566]

Fixed

• Years in far future should not require a positive sign [#569]
• Document pattern order in case of or-logic applied [#558]

Changed

• Add simple sanity checks for cldr-format patterns [#565]
• Update resources to CLDR v30.0.2 [#570]

Deprecated

• Specialized threeten-methods outdated due to a more general approach [#556]

[v4.19] published on 2016-09-18

Added

• Add historic centuries [#507]
• Add rounding support for MachineTime.dividedBy(long) [#546]
• Simple way needed to add MachineTime to a moment [#547]
• Add some alternative numbering systems [#550]
• Add active filter to DayPartitionBuilder [#552]
• Add convenient methods to determine current system time [#553]

Fixed

• PUSH-FORWARD-strategy is not suitable for intervals [#545]
• NPE in Timezone.getDisplayName(...) [#548]
• Improved literal parsing in localized tz-offset [#549]
• Byte-order-marks in UTF8-resources not recognized [#551]

Deprecated

• One division method in MachineTime without rounding parameter [#546]

[v4.18] published on 2016-08-28

Added

• Stream support for ISO-intervals [#537]
• Recurrent intervals as defined in ISO-8601 [#488]
• Add localized display names for ChronoElement [#515]
• Support for annual dates [#514]
• Improved documentation of HijriCalendar [#518]
• Add general parse methods for dates in ISO-8601-format [#520]
• Iso8601Format....WALL_TIME now understands T17:45 [#521]
• Embedded formatter should know outer format attributes and defaults [#522]
• 4 new methods findXYZTransiton(...) to TransitionHistory [#523]
• ChronoFormatter.Builder should define default values and global attributes [#531]
• Add convenient methods to ChronoPrinter and ChronoParser [#532]
• Make printing of ISO-formats configurable [#533]
• New date-interval-method to convert to a moment interval [#534]
• Implement reduced ISO-formats for intervals [#535]
• Improve formatting of infinite intervals [#536]
• New interval boundary manipulations based on operators [#538]
• Determine first moment for given calendar date in time zone [#539]
• Add method to determine intersection interval [#542]
• Enable parsing of literals with leading digits after numerical elements [#544]

Fixed

• Prescan phase of iso interval parser sometimes incorrect [#530]
• AM/PM-element not sensible for output context [#529]
• Inconsistent TimeSpan-behaviour of negative MachineTime [#540]
• Inconsistent exception handling of with()-methods [#541]
• Optimization of day-of-week-queries and date arithmetic in PlainDate [#543]

Changed

• New leap second at end of year 2016 [#517]
• Make fractional second parser more tolerant [#519]

Deprecated

• 1 method in TextProvider deprecated due to missing output context [#529]
• 1 methods in TransitionHistory deprecated and replaced by new better named method [#523]
• 1 method in ChronoPrinter deprecated and replaced by new methods [#532]
• 1 parse method in each of four iso-interval classes replaced by new one without ParseLog-parameter [#535]
• 1 print method in IsoInterval (replaced by a new one with extra infinity style arg) [#536]

[v4.17] published on 2016-06-20

Added

• Add conversion of net.time4j.Duration to TemporalAmount [#511]
• Enhance Temporal-interface by more comparison methods [#510]
• Introduce class for year-week-combination [#508]
• Introduce class for year-month-combination [#503]
• Introduce class for year-quarter-combination [#504]
• Model calendar year as date interval [#505]
• Add timespan classes Years, Quarters, Months and Weeks [#506]
• Better support for week-based durations and units [#509]

Fixed

• Duration measured in millis only is broken [#513]
• Zone offset without sign - should be parseable in lax mode [#502]

[v4.16] published on 2016-05-07

Added

• Related gregorian year for non-gregorian calendars [#370]
• Make MachineTime comparable [#489]
• Modern-coverage of languages defined in CLDR [#367]
• Support for Uyghur [#496]
• Support for Malayalam [#493]
• Support for Basque, Galician and Welsh [#494]
• Support for Esperanto [#495]

Fixed

• Make alias zone identifiers always parseable [#500]
• Improve performance of parsing timezone names [#499]
• Clarify format behaviour if zoneless types are combined with zone names [#490]

Changed

• Split ZoneProvider into ZoneModelProvider and ZoneNameProvider [#498]
• Update to CLDR version 29 [#492]

[v4.15] published on 2016-04-18

Added

• Add convenient abuts-method to IsoInterval [#486]
• Add boolean query to determine if two intervals intersect [#485]
• Add Thai solar calendar (Suriyakati) [#478]
• Fine-tuning of historization [#479]
• Clarify that PlainDate is historizable [#448]

Fixed

• OR-operator logic in ChronoFormatter sometimes broken [#482]
• Fix and improve documentation of era manipulations [#481]

Deprecated

• Deprecate usage of CalendarEra.getValue() [#480]

[v4.14] published on 2016-03-23

Added

• Enable unparseable characters to be skipped when parsing [#476]
• Add ChronoFormatter.withDefaultSupplier(...) [#470]
• Move SQL-support to core-module [#471]
• Add SQL-support for type TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE [#472]
• Historic year definition (example Easter style in France) [#473]
• More detailed error message when parsing ZonalDateTime [#467]
• Support for Kirghiz [#474]

Fixed

• Make resolving zone names more robust [#469]
• Calculus Pisanus does not work in parsing [#466]

[v4.13] published on 2016-03-06

Added

• Make ZonalDateTime easier for creation and comparison [#462]
• Calculation of Easter (Computus) [#460]
• Support for Telugu language [#459]
• Add element support for historic day-of-year [#456]

Fixed

• TimezoneRepositoryProviderSPI throws NPE [#464]
• Refine localized calendar history in Europe [#461]
• PlainTime.toString() does not display fraction of second as per spec [#465]
• Make Timezone.ofSystem() more robust against weird zone ids. [#463]
• Don't permit negative years for any historic era [#458]
• Clarify/correct exception behaviour of new year strategies [#457]
• Reduce array allocation during parsing [#455]

[v4.12] published on 2016-02-14

Added

• Proleptic Julian calendar [#444]
• Add Roman numerals [#443]

Fixed

• Unit-between-arithmetic broken for Persian, Coptic and Ethiopian calendar [#453]
• Improve overall performance [#450]
• Text resources for am-pm are mismatched (in non-iso-calendars) [#452]
• Add equals/hashCode-support for platform formatter [#451]
• Prohibit use of Ethiopian hour with PlainTime [#449]
• Code example in documentation of MultiFormatParser is incomplete [#446]

[v4.11] published on 2016-01-22

Added

• Two new approximation normalizers based on max unit only [#442]
• Add pattern-based factory method to ChronoFormatter for any chronology [#441]
• Introduce or-operator in formatting via builder and pattern [#437}
• Add other historic eras [#436]
• Support for various historical New Year events [#434]
• Define convenient methods for creating intervals using JSR-310-types [#433]
• Date arithmetic on HijriCalendar [#429]
• New methods withVariant(...) on CalendarVariant [#428]
• Dual parsing of embedded or standalone formats [#427]
• Dedicated MultiFormatParser [#426]
• Support for Indian languages gu, kn, mr, pa, ta [#439]
• Support for Burmese (my - Myanmar) [#438]

Fixed

• Unable to print java.time.chrono.MinguoDate with Time4J [#440]
• Setting proleptic julian history on formatter is ignored [#435]
• Semantic of changing historic era in ChronoHistory unclear [#430]

Changed

• Update leap second expiry date to 2016-12-28 [#431]

[v4.10] published on 2015-12-31

Added

• Fixed and flexible day periods with appropriate translations [#369]
• Minguo calendar (Taiwan) [#390]
• Enable localized digits in timezone offsets [#411]
• New getters for day-of-week and day-of-year in PlainDate [#416]
• Query parsed raw data for any registered elements [#415]
• New method CalendarText.getIsoInstance(Locale) [#410]
• New methods CalendarText.patternForXYZ(...) [#410]
• Support for Nepali [#422]
• Support for Mongolian [#421]
• Support for Afrikaans and Zulu [#420]
• Support for the languages Khmer and Lao [#419]

Fixed

• PersianCalendar in Farsi language should be with arabext numbers [#425]
• Bidi literals (LRM, RLM, ALM) should be ignored in parsing [#418]
• Formatting Ethiopian time with AM/PM-marker is not in western style [#413]
• Parsing of Ethiopic tabot names broken if not at end of text [#412]

Deprecated

• EthiopianCalendar.getYearOfEra() deprecated and renamed to getYear() [#417]
• CalendarText.getGMTPrefix [#410]
• CalendarText.getFormatPatterns() [#410]
• CalendarText.getTimestampPattern [#410]

[v4.9] published on 2015-11-30

Added

• Support for Bengali [#409]
• Ethiopian time should support element PlainTime.COMPONENT [#408]

Fixed

• HijriAlgorithm calendar variant broken [#407]
• Broken javadoc links to some serial forms [#406]
• British date format should be in order DMY [#403]

Removed

• Tidy deprecated elements [#404]

[v4.8] published on 2015-11-22

Added

• Support for Sinhalese [#402]
• Print relative times for java.time.Instant [#392]
• Add Ethiopian calendar and time [#389]
• Enable formatting/parsing moments using another calendar [#399]
• GeneralTimestamp should implement ChronoDisplay [#401]
• Add Coptic calendar [#388]
• Support for triennal julian leap years [#393]

Fixed

• Ensure that parsing raw data does not resolve anything [#400]
• Compile problem with text elements in ChronoFormatter.Builder [#398]
• plus/minus(CalendarDays) does not document any exception [#397]
• Arithmetic overflow in ChronoHistory [#391]

Changed (updated/removed/deprecated)

• New method ChronoMerger.getDefaultStartOfDay() [#399]
• Refactor handling of two exotic format attributes [#395]
• Hide internal format attributes of ChronoHistory [#394]

[v4.7] published on 2015-10-22

Added

• New style-based factory methods for ChronoFormatter [#376], [#377]
• Repository for localized date-time-patterns [#100]
• Support for Amharic (am) [#387]
• Support for Swahili (sw) [#386]
• Support for Uzbek (uz), Turkmen (tk) and Kazakh (kk) [#385]
• Support for Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az) and Georgian (ka) [#384]
• Support for Filipino (Tagalog - fil or tl) [#380]
• Support for Icelandic (is) and Malta language (mt) [#375]

Fixed

• Improved parsing of MSK timezone name [#381]
• Negative duration in Arabic sometimes without minus sign [#379]
• ChronoFormatter.format()-methods lack type safety [#378]

Changed

• Better translations for various countries (mainly arabic and french) [#383]
• Better translations for Spanish locales in Latin America [#368]
• Simplify interface ChronoMerger by using Java-8 default methods [#382]
• Two ChronoFormatter.format()-methods renamed [#378]
• Low-level interface ChronoMerger with new method [#377]
• Review plural rules [#366]
• Update i18n-data to CLDR-28 [#374]
• Change ISO-8601-fallback-mechanism to CLDR standard [#373]
• FormatPatternProvider.getDateTimePattern() with 3 args [#100]

Removed

• FormatPatternProvider.DEFAULT [#100]

[v4.6] published on 2015-10-01

Added

• Formatting/parsing of intervals based on custom interval patterns [#359]
• Canonicalization of interval boundaries [#365]
• New Persian calendar [#357]
• Support for Pashto language [#358]
• Support for Turkish islamic calendar (Diyanet) [#355]

Fixed

• Non-overridden format attributes should be preserved [#364]
• Enable parsing of timestamps with 24:00 even in strict mode [#363]
• 2015-10-25T02:00+01:00[Europe/Berlin] cannot be parsed [#361]
• Wrong between-calculation with overflow units [#360]
• Pattern letter "L" causes exception for non-iso-dates [#354]

Changed

• Behaviour of interval formatting/parsing changed [#359]
• Make serialization of HijriCalendar versionable [#356]

Removed

• Interface ExtZoneProvider (no usage) [#371]

[v4.5] published on 2015-09-15

Added

• Support for Malay language [#353]
• Unify CalendarVariant and Calendrical by new interface CalendarDate [#350]
• New XOR-operator for interval collections [#347]
• Make PatternType.CLDR useable for non-iso-dates [#348]
• New calendar-related class GeneralTimestamp [#340]
• New intersect-operator for interval collections [#345]
• New method IntervalCollection.getRange() [#344]
• PrettyTime.printRelativeOrDate() using PlainDate [#343]
• Moment-class with a new precision element [#342]
• Add plus/minus-operators for IntervalCollection [#339]

Fixed

• Disable parsing of ambivalent text forms [#351]

Changed

• Rename unit pattern resource file names [#352]
• CalendarVariant and Calendrical changed Temporal-signature [#350]
• Two specialized now()-methods in ZonalClock changed the return type [#340]
• IntervalCollection.union() should create a merged collection [#338]

[v4.4] published on 2015-08-31

Added

• Support for algorithmic variants of islamic calendar [#334]
• Create direct option to determine length of Hijri month or year [#337]
• Add toDate() and toTime() in PlainTimestamp [#336]
• New method(s) for printing durations with 1 parameter only [#333]
• Create option to either print relative time or normal date-time [#328]
• Print relative times with abbreviations [#327]
• I18n-support for "yesterday", "today", "tomorrow" [#310]

Fixed

• Printing relative time near a leap second incorrect [#332]
• Behaviour of timezone-offset-parser inconsistent with spec [#330]
• Time-axis-element not fully supported [#329]

Changed

• ISO-formatters need to be strict by default [#331]

[v4.3] published on 2015-08-12

Added

• Umalqura calendar for Saudi-Arabia (experimental) [#313]
• Start-of-day-feature, relevant for current date in islamic calendar [#323]
• New pattern type for generic date chronologies [#324]
• New pattern type CLDR_24 with support for ISO-hour in range 0-24 [#314]
• Convenient method printRelativeInStdTimezone(moment) for PrettyTime [#311]
• New transformation methods for calendrical objects [#318]
• Introduce calendar families with day calculations [#315]

Fixed

• Remove unnecessary warning message in ChronoFormatter [#312]

Deprecated

• Interface ExtZoneProvider no longer used

Changed

• Narrow value-type of BasicElement to Comparable [#321]

[v4.2] published on 2015-06-26

Added

• Generic clock-based creation of any ChronoEntity [#303]
• Add clock-methods inPlatformView() [#304]
• Register PlainTime.PRECISION in PlainTimestamp [#306]
• Improve adjacent digit parsing of 4-digit-years [#307]
• Language support for Irish (ga) [#309]

Fixed

• Merger-factories for clock-based objects of basic types too lenient [#302]
• Don't cache system timezone in SystemClock.inLocalView() [#305]
• Threeten-pattern uu does not work [#308]

[v4.1] published on 2015-06-11

Added

• Monotonic clocks (main new feature) [#295]
• Add generic ordinal weekday-in-month [#297]
• Queries for dst+raw-offsets in Timezone [#288]
• Language support for Belorusian (be), Hebrew (he, iw), Bosnian (bs) [#290, #292, #294]

Fixed

• LeapSeconds.enhance(unixTime) does not follow spec [#296]
• Version-compatibility-bug in tzdata-1.2-2015d [#298]

[v4.0] published on 2015-05-25

• First release of version line v4.x, represents a fork of Time4J for the sake of interoperability with Java-8.