• The build is now fully byte-per-byte reproducible. If you use the same JDK on the same platform to compile, you'll get the same bytes out every time. This is a prerequisite for hash-based defenses against supply chain and MITM attacks.

• The release has been mostly automated. It's not quite a one-click deploy but it's close.

• Several bugs in XPath conformance detected by Claude Sonnet 4.6 were fixed:

  • The round() function returns negative zero for values between -0.5 and -0.0.
  • The number() function rejects some strings Java recognizes as a number but XPath does not.
  • anyMatchingNode() and evaluateAsBoolean() no longer throw NoSuchElementException when evaluating an XPath expression with multiple predicates and more nodes than predicates.
  • DefaultCommentNodeStep.getText() includes predicates. (This one's very unlikely to have any effect on XPath queries or evaluation.)

• The DOMNavigator can now search inside entity reference and document fragment nodes.

What's Changed

• punctuation and whitespace by @elharo in #157
• remove duplicated condition from PatternParser convertStep by @hduelme in #159
• Parameterize translate function.evaluate by @hduelme in #161
• update compiler plugin to 3.10.1 by @elharo in #165
• use StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer by @hduelme in #160
• Simplify assertions by @hduelme in #162
• maven-project-info-reports-plugin 3.4.2 by @elharo in #166
• maven-javadoc-plugin 3.5.0 by @elharo in #167
• deprecate own implementation of SingletonList by @hduelme in #169
• maven-source-plugin 3.2.1 by @elharo in #171
• clarify a few comments by @elharo in #175
• maven-compiler-plugin 3.11.0 by @elharo in #176
• update source and assembly plugins by @elharo in #177
• better test code namespaces by @elharo in #178
• quiet javadoc by @elharo in #179
• Remove defunct mailing list archives by @elharo in #183
• Update build plugins by @elharo in #184
• More plugin updates by @elharo in #185
• Update Maven plugins by @elharo in #187
• Remove maxPermSize by @elharo in #189
• add devcontainer by @elharo in #192
• Codespaces by @elharo in #193
• use more defaults by @elharo in #194
• Use https in pom.xml by @elharo in #196
• Update Java 1.3 javadoc references to current project requirements by @Copilot in #200
• Add explicit versions for Maven core lifecycle plugins by @Copilot in #198
• Add comprehensive GitHub Copilot instructions for Jaxen development workflow by @Copilot in #202
• Fix all javadoc to conform to Oracle Javadoc guidelines by @Copilot in #206
• Implement comprehensive API compatibility checking with Animal Sniffer and Japicmp plugins by @Copilot in #204
• Add SECURITY.md file with security reporting instructions by @Copilot in #208
• Add Maven wrapper to project by @Copilot in #210
• Remove optimize flag by @elharo in #215
• Remove @see references to Javadoc-excluded packages by @Copilot in #218
• Add GitHub Actions CI for Java 8 by @Copilot in #220
• 2.0 no longer beta by @elharo in #222
• Replace CircleCI with GitHub Actions CI (Java 8) by @Copilot in #221
• fix typos by @elharo in #223
• Add workflow to convert TODO/FIXME/XXX/HACK comments into GitHub issues by @Copilot in #217
• Upgrade JUnit 3.8.2 → 4.13.2 for VSCode/Codespaces test runner support by @Copilot in #226
• [WIP] Replace all links to jaxen.org with jaxen-xpath by @Copilot in #242
• Publish Maven site to GitHub Pages by @Copilot in #244
• Remove Netscape 4-only CSS files by @Copilot in #248
• Remove unused site stylesheets by @Copilot in #252
• Convert HTTP links to HTTPS in documentation and Javadoc by @Copilot in #250
• CI: compile with Java 8, run tests with Java 11 by @Copilot in #254
• Replace retired Apache Jakarta taglibs link with current Apache Tomcat taglibs URL by @Copilot in #256
• Remove stale XXX comment in JaxenHandlerTest by @Copilot in #258
• Enable XPath comparison test with node values on right-hand side of > by @Copilot in #257
• fix: auto-enable GitHub Pages via configure-pages enablement flag by @Copilot in #260
• ci: add Java 17, 21, and 25 to test matrix by @Copilot in #262
• Replace sequential equals chain in Axis.lookup(String) with a static HashMap by @Copilot in #264
• Switch from bundle to jar packaging; retain OSGi metadata via manifest goal by @Copilot in #266
• Remove obsolete XXX comment in Axis.java by @Copilot in #267
• Fix non-varargs call of varargs method warnings in NamespaceNode.java by @Copilot in #263
• Remove FIXME and Pattern dependency from NamespaceNode by @Copilot in #269
• Implement Maven reproducible builds by @Copilot in #203
• Automate release tagging and version management by @Copilot in #270
• Add tests for NamespaceNode userData and remove XXX comment by @Copilot in #273
• Resolve XXX comment in SimpleNamespaceContext by prebinding the xml prefix by @Copilot in #271
• Split DOM3 namespace equality assertions into distinct test cases by @Copilot in #274
• Remove stale hotspot marker in XPathReader.LT after perf check by @Copilot in #275
• Remove obsolete XXX null-handling comment in AncestorOrSelfAxisIterator by @Copilot in #276
• Add workflow to file XPath 1.0 spec compliance bugs on merge by @Copilot in #278
• Fix RoundFunction to return negative zero per XPath 1.0 spec by @Copilot in #288
• Fix NumberFunction to reject non-XPath number strings by @Copilot in #287
• Fix PredicateSet.anyMatchingNode() advancing predicate iterator inside wrong loop by @Copilot in #285
• Fix DefaultCommentNodeStep.getText() to include predicates by @Copilot in #286
• Fix NodeIterator to recurse into DocumentFragment and EntityReference children by @Copilot in #272
• Update Maven distribution URL to version 3.9.15 by @elharo in #289
• Clarify GPG key creation instructions in RELEASING.md by @Copilot in #291
• Migrate release process from OSSRH to Central Publishing Portal by @Copilot in #295
• Add hyperlinks to GitHub pages referenced in RELEASING.md by @Copilot in #298
• Change CI/CD integration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions by @elharo in #301
• docs: clarify release secrets are repository-scoped by @Copilot in #302
• doc: add GitHub PAT creation instructions to RELEASING.md by @Copilot in #304
• Move GPG private key export step to point of use in RELEASING.md by @Copilot in #305
• docs: fix GitHub fine-grained PAT setup instructions to match current UI by @Copilot in #307

New Contributors

• @hduelme made their first contribution in #159
• @Copilot made their first contribution in #200

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.1