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Author: plamentotev

README.md

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 ```
 mvn -Preporting verify site site:stage scm-publish:publish-scm
 ```
+
+## Release Notes
+
+You can find details about the different releases in the
+[Release Notes](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md).
+
+ * [Release 3.0.1](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md#plexus-io-301).
+ * [Release 3.0.0](https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md#plexus-io-300).

ReleaseNotes.md

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+Plexus-IO Release Notes
+========================================================================
+
+Plexus IO 3.0.1
+---------------
+
+Plexus IO 3.0.1 requires Java 7.
+
+### Tasks
+
+ * [Issue #9][issue-9], [Issue #10][issue-10] - Updated dependencies:
+ `plexus-utils` to 3.1.0 and `commons-io` to 2.6
+
+Plexus IO 3.0.0
+---------------
+
+Plexus IO 3.0.0 requires Java 7 and introduces backward incompatible changes:
+
+ * `Java7FileAttributes` is renamed to `FileAttributes`, replacing
+   the old `FileAttributes` implementation
+ * `Java7AttributeUtils` is renamed to `AttributeUtils`
+ * `PlexusIoResourceAttributeUtils#getFileAttributesByPath( File, boolean, boolean )`
+   is deleted
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * [Pull Request #5][pr-5] - The required Java version is upgraded to 7.
+   Classes that use native tools like `ls` are removed and the pure Java
+   implementations are used instead.
+
+### Tasks
+
+ * [Issue #8][issue-8] - Update of `plexus-utils` to 3.0.24 and
+   `commons-io` to 2.5
+
+Plexus IO 2.7.1
+---------------
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * [Pull Request #3][pr-3] - Introduce new constant to indicate uknown
+   octal mode for resources - `PlexusIoResourceAttributes.UNKNOWN_OCTAL_MODE`
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * [Issue #2][issue-2] - JAR entry not found when JAR is updated inline and
+   cached by URLConnection
+
+Plexus IO 2.7
+---------------
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * Added TIME_STYLE=long-iso to ls screen scrape
+ * [Pull Request #1][pr-1] - Add concurrent access flag
+   to the PlexusIoProxyResourceCollection -
+   `PlexusIoResourceCollection#isConcurrentAccessSupported()`
+
+Plexus IO 2.6.1
+---------------
+
+### Improvement
+
+ * Performance improvement affecting mac/linux users
+   with lots of small files in large archives.
+
+Plexus IO 2.5
+-------------
+
+ * Proper support for closeable on zip archives.
+ * Removed zip supporting PlexusIoZipFileResourceCollection; which now exists in plexus-archiver. (Drop in replacement,
+   just change/add jar file).
+
+Plexus IO 2.4.1
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-279 - PlexusIoProxyResourceCollection does not provide Closeable iterator
+ * Fixed PLXCOMP-280 - SimpleResourceAttributes has incorrect value for
+   default file mode
+
+Plexus IO 2.4
+-------------
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * PLXCOMP-274 - Simplify use of proxies
+ * PLXCOMP-275 - Avoid leaky abstractions
+ * PLXCOMP-276 - Reduce number of ways to create a PlexusIoResource
+
+Plexus IO 2.3.5
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-278 - Symlink attribute was not preserved through merged/overridden attributes
+
+Plexus IO 2.3.4
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-270 - Escaping algoritghm leaks through to system classloader
+ * PLXCOMP-272 - Overriding dirmode/filemode breaks symlinks
+
+Plexus IO 2.3.3
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-267 - StreamTransformers are consistently applied to all collections
+
+Plexus IO 2.3.2
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-265 - Locale in shell influences "ls" parsing for screenscraper
+
+Plexus IO 2.3.1
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-264 - Thread safety issue in streamconsumer
+
+Plexus IO 2.3
+-------------
+
+### New Features
+
+ * PLXCOMP-261 - Make plexus io collections support on-the-fly filtering
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * PLXCOMP-260 - Make plexus io collections iterable
+
+Plexus IO 2.2
+-------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-251 - Date parsing in "ls" screenscraping has locale dependencies
+ * PLXCOMP-254 - Fix File.separatorChar normalization when prefixes are used
+
+Plexus IO 2.1.4
+---------------
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * PLXCOMP-250 - Upgrade maven-enforcer-plugin to 1.3.1
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-107 - Fail to unzip archive, which contains file with name
+   'How_can_I_annotate_a_part_in_the_AAM%3F.Help'
+
+Plexus IO 2.1.3
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-247 - Bug with windows AND java5
+
+Plexus IO 2.1.2
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-244 - Don't try to set attributes of symbolic links
+ * PLXCOMP-245 - Archives created on windows get zero permissions,
+   creates malformed permissions on linux
+
+Plexus IO 2.1.1
+---------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-243 - Restore JDK1.5 compatibility
+
+Plexus IO 2.1
+-------------
+
+### Improvements
+
+ * PLXCOMP-64 - add symlink support to tar unarchiver
+ * PLXCOMP-117 - add symbolic links managment
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-113 - zip unarchiver doesn't support symlinks (and trivial to fix)
+ * PLXCOMP-241 - ResourcesTest.compare test failure
+ * PLXCOMP-248 - Use java7 setAttributes and ignore useJvmChmod flag when applicable
+
+Plexus IO 2.0.12
+----------------
+
+### Bugs
+
+ * PLXCOMP-249 - Add support for java7 chmod
+
+[issue-2]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/issues/2
+[issue-8]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/issues/8
+[issue-9]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/issues/9
+[issue-10]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/issues/10
+[pr-1]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/pull/1
+[pr-3]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/pull/3
+[pr-5]: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-io/pull/5