20171018

Pull Request	Description
#362	Fixes XML Unescaping
#360	Creating a JSONObject from a string that contains a duplicate key (any level) throws a JSONException that includes location
#357	Update javadoc according to issue #356
#354	Updates for populateMap based on discussion in #279 and #264
#352	Error message position fixes
#348	Capacity improvements for internal structures
#347	A comment added to explain the use of HashMap
#345	Adds JSONException for write value errors
#341	Optimize loops
#337	Optimizes opt* functions
#336	Numeric enhancements, Refactoring, Fix spelling

20170516

Pull Request	Description
#324	Allow user to invoke query and optQuery ,with a JSONPointer
#317	make sure locale independent data is not upper/lowercased incorrectly
#304	Update README
#292	Provides "#" string evaluation support for JSON Pointer
#288	Bug fixes for XML Encoding and Decoding
#274	Fix for number output bug.
#271	Update enum support to be more fully featured.

20160810

Pull request	Description
#261	Revert "reduces the use of unnecessary exceptions"

20160807

Pull Request	Description
#253	Optional type conversion for XML reading
#249	Reduce the use of unnecessary exceptions
#246	Add License file
#242	Update readme
#236	Make nextString throw a JSONException instead of a NumberFormatException
#234	JSONPointer fix
#226	fix to compile with 1.6.0_45
#222	JSON Pointer implementation
#219	Added CSV change to CDL.java
#203	Adds JSONArray toList method and JSONObject toMap method

Java 1.6 compatibility

Extending backwards compatibility to Java 1.6. The unit tests [https://github.com/stleary/JSON-Java-unit-test] still require Java 1.8. Includes the following commits:

Pull Request	Description
#195	Java 1.6 compatibility
#188	Fix negative zero
#186	Update README with number information
#185	change to public: write(writer, indentfactor, indent)
#180	Remove executable bit
#179	Update JavaDoc for JSONObject Constructors

JSONObject and JSONArray initialization with generics

Support initializing a JSONObject with Map<?,?> and JSONArray with Collection<?>.
Includes the following commits:

Pull request	Description
#168	Update Readme for Maven release
#160	Fixe possible NullPointerException
#159	Properly override Exception class
#153	JSONObject and JSONArray initialization

Update Maven central repository with recent code changes

Code changes since the most recent Maven release (20141113):

Existing feature enhancements	Pull request
New methods for Enum type	#140
BigDecimal and BigInteger methods	#135
Iterable JSONArray	#132
Remove compiler cast warnings	#122
JavaDoc fix in CDL	#120
Fix for JSONML.toString()	#118
Fix for JSONArray.toString()	(direct commit) d6ba318