Version 3.0.0-RC.2

• 593 EmptyImportDeclaration and NonEmptyImportDeclaration have been removed
• 612 VariableDeclaratorId has been removed. It has been substituted by "SimpleName name"
• 614 617 the list of tokens has been linearized and simplified
• 615 support for arrays has once more been changed. See the issue
• 580 453 380 618 580 611 610 424 608 smaller improvements and fixes

Version 3.0.0-RC.1

• 499 601 renames many fields to be more consistent
• 596 605 602 604 smaller improvements and fixes

Version 3.0.0-alpha.11

• 547 595 Node.range is now using Optional instead of Range.UNKNOWN
• 584 588 548 585 bug fixes and improvements

Version 3.0.0-alpha.10

• 578 579 577 575 290 570 568 567 562 564 551 bug fixes and improvements

Version 3.0.0-alpha.9

• 403 358 549 Make all names nodes: either SimpleName or Name. This makes every name in the AST visitable. NameExpr is now a wrapper to use SimpleName in an expression.
• 516 536 use Optional<> for return values.
• 556 557 558 550 small improvements and fixes.
• 560 559 make nodes observable.

Version 3.0.0-alpha.8

• 344 529 turn DumpVisitor into an official PrettyPrinter
• 532 508 427 530 531 513 528 cleanups

Version 3.0.0-alpha.7

• 515 roll back attempt at using Optional
• 522 504 make NodeList not a Node (restores parent/children behaviour to before alpha.4)
• 527 526 rename getChildrenNodes to getChildNodes
• 525 495 520 bug fix

Version 3.0.0-alpha.6

• 503 modified ImportDeclaration hierarchy to have getters for static and "asterisk" again
• 506 bug fix

Version 3.0.0-alpha.5

• 451 null is no longer allowed in the AST. See last post in issue
• 501 421 420 316 use a special type of list for nodes: NodeList. See last post in issue

Version 3.0.0-alpha.4

• 463 471 nodes can now be removed easily
• 491 import handling changed. Instead of "ImportDeclaration", we now have the four types of import as described in the JLS. See issue
• 452 355 474 494 various improvements
• 493 492 485 Simplify the JavaParser interface

Version 3.0.0-alpha.3

• 112 237 466 465 461 460 458 457 fundamentally changes how we deal with arrays. It is explained in the last post here
• 472 456 makes the "data" field on every node more structured.
• 477 468 refactor TypeArguments. You will find that TypeArguments is no longer a type, it is just a list in some nodes.
• 482 adds the "nodeTypes" packages to the osgi export.
• 479 476 makes all setters on nodes return this so they become chainable.
• 473 437 clean up CloneVisitor.

Version 3.0.0-alpha.2

• 157 a new parser frontend, check https://github.com/javaparser/javaparser/pull/447 for explanations
• 435 more builder methods like 400 and 405
• 111 440 443 444 445 446 bugs & cleanups

Version 3.0.0-alpha.1

• 400 405 introduce many "builder" style methods for constructing code. Thanks DeepSnowNeeL!
• 409 remove ASTHelper (methods are now on specific Node subclasses)
• 414 JavaParser can now be instantiated and reused. InstanceJavaParser removed
• 418 417 411 408 bugs
• 367 420 407 402 various cleanups

Version 2.5.1

• 394 OSGi manifest added
• 391 fix ModifierVisitor NullPointerException bug
• 385 a few new parse methods
• 386 fix dumping an empty import (a single ; after the package declaration)

Version 2.5.0

API breaking changes:

• 191: moved TreeVisitor to visitor package

• 368, 162, 303, 302, 360: use correct type in some places.

• 371: code is now compiled with Java 8

• 342, 331: ModifierVisitorAdapter detects and removes broken nodes

• 328, 270: upgrade JavaCC (use TokenMgrException now) Other changes:

• 297: enable access to tokens.

• 341, 361: node positions are now OO

• 211, 373: escaping of \n \r for string literals

• 336, 276, 141: JavaDoc support now works

• 337, 281: reorganize the stream reading code

• 343, 309, 332, 57: take advantage of common interfaces

• 329, 326, 327: deal with platform issues

• 163, 236, 252, 296, 269, 339, 321, 322, 252, 253, 293, 295: various fixes

• 310, 311, 313, 301, 294: some code clean-ups

Version 2.4.0

• several fixes in DumpVisitor for bugs due to lazy initialization
• make TypeDeclaration implements DocumentableNode directly
• TypedNode interface introduced
• introduce MultiBoundType
• refactored IntersectionType and UnionType
• refactored CatchClause
• parsing annotations in throws declarations
• parse orphan semicolons in import statements
• added PackageDeclaration.getPackageName
• solved issue with newlines in string literals
• fixed handling of UnknownType in EqualsVisitor
• improvements to CommentsParser
• removing old grammar

Version 2.3.0

• ClassOrInterfaceType implements NamedNode
• DumpVisitor can now be extended
• Improved documentation
• AST: lists are now lazy initialized

Version 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT

• Features
  • #75 performance improvement for PositionUtils.sortByBeginPosition
  • #64 In getDeclarationAsString parameter names should be optional
• Bugfixes
  • #79 Fix NPE in ConstructorDeclaration.getDeclarationAsString
  • #86 Add missing functions to ModifierVisitorAdapter
  • #82 set LambdaExpr as parent of its child nodes
  • #87 implement setJavadoc and getJavadoc at various classes
  • #96 Fixed encoding issue in Javaparser.parse
  • #85 Casting a lambda expression causes a parsing failure
  • #88 MethodReferenceExpr and TypeExpr don't set themselves as parents
• Internal
  • #89 CommentsParser.State contains unused fields
  • Switched from drone.io to Travis
  • #105 Enforce compiling the library for a certain Java version

Code changes

Version 2.0.0

• support Java 8