Old News

August 27, 2023

Version 0.12.1 released. This release includes a few bug fixes. Please see the changelog for details.

February 4, 2023

Version 0.12.0 released. This release updates to Java 1.8 and a few other things. Please see the changelog for details.

September 11, 2021

Version 0.11.3 released. This release fixes a locale-specific issue related to number formatting and updates a dependency. Please see the changelog for details.

November 8, 2020

Version 0.11.2 released. This release fixes a locale-specific issue related to number formatting. Please see the changelog for details.

October 24, 2020

Version 0.11.1 released. This release fixes a vCard compatibility issue and updates ez-vcard's dependencies. Please see the changelog for details.

July 24, 2020

Version 0.11.0 released. This release adds some small improvements and updates ez-vcard's dependencies. Please see the changelog for details.

March 16, 2020

Version 0.10.6 released. This release adds a couple small improvements and updates ez-vcard's dependencies. Please see the changelog for details.

December 23, 2018

Version 0.10.5 released. This release adds a bug fix and updates ez-vcard's dependencies. Please see the Changelog for details.

April 7, 2018

Version 0.10.4 released. This release adds a few improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

August 12, 2017

Version 0.10.3 released. This release adds a few improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

February 19, 2017

Version 0.10.2 released. This release adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

December 31, 2016

Version 0.10.1 released. This release adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

October 8, 2016

Version 0.10.0 released. This release contains mostly refactorings to support a newly integrated library. Please see the Changelog for details.

August 28, 2016

Version 0.9.11 released. This release adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

May 17, 2016

Version 0.9.10 released. This release adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

February 6, 2016

Version 0.9.9 released. This release adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

November 14, 2015

Version 0.9.8 released. This release fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the Changelog for details.

September 13, 2015

Version 0.9.7 released. This release fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the Changelog for details.

March 21, 2015

Due to the impending shutdown of Google Code, ez-vcard has moved to Github! Please bear with me as I work out the kinks. :)

October 13, 2014

Version 0.9.6 released. This release fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the Changelog for details.

August 17, 2014

Do you use ez-vcard with Android? The ez-vcard-android project makes it easier to use ez-vcard with Android!

July 26, 2014

Version 0.9.5 released. This release fixes a few miscellaneous bugs. Please see the Changelog for details.

May 31, 2014

Version 0.9.4 released. This release adds xCard streaming support, and fixes a handful of bugs. Please see the Changelog for details.

April 1, 2014

Version 0.9.3 released. This release fixes a bug related to the decoding of invalid quoted-printable values. Please see the Changelog for details.

February 4, 2014

Version 0.9.2 released. This release includes a number of bug fixes. Please see the Changelog for details.

December 24, 2013

Happy Holidays from the ez-vcard team!

Version 0.9.1 is released. This release adds OSGi support, internationalized warnings, and bug fixes. See the Changelog for more details.

We are looking for people to translate ez-vcard's parser and validation warnings into other languages. If you are interested, please contact me at mike(dot)angstadt(at)gmail(dot)com, or submit an issue. The message file can be found here: https://code.google.com/p/ez-vcard/source/browse/trunk/src/main/resources/ezvcard/messages.properties

October 25, 2013

Version 0.9.0 released. This release adds a revamped marshalling framework and includes a significant reorganization of the API.

Existing code that uses older versions of ez-vcard will most likely break, due to the fact that many packages and classes have been renamed. Please see the Changelog for a list of these changes.

October 1, 2013

Version 0.8.5 released. This release fixes a bug dealing with "quoted-printable" property values not being folded correctly.

See the Changelog for more details.

September 19, 2013

Version 0.8.4 released. This release adds a validation framework, better UTF-8 support, and a large number of other, relatively minor, changes.

See the Changelog for a complete list of changes.

August 4, 2013

Version 0.8.3 released. This release adds updated jCard support and includes a host of bug fixes and other changes.

See the Changelog for a complete list of changes.

June 17, 2013

Version 0.8.2 released. This release fixes an issue with Android systems where an older version of "commons-codec" would be used instead of the version that ez-vcard requires.

See the Changelog for a complete list of changes.

May 21, 2013

Version 0.8.1 released. This release includes a number of miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

See the Changelog for a complete list of changes.

April 17, 2013

Version 0.8.0 released. This release adds support for jCard (JSON-encoded vCards).

See the Changelog for a complete list of changes.

March 29, 2013

Version 0.7.3 released. This release fixes an issue that prevented the GEO property from marshalling correctly under certain locales.

See the Changelog for details.

February 24, 2013

Version 0.7.2 released. This release includes:

• Support for circumflex accent encoding (RFC 6868)
• Support for KIND:device (RFC 6869)
• Bug fixes

See the Changelog for details.

January 17, 2013

Released Version 0.7.1 to fix a critical bug in how xCard are written. See the Changelog for details.

January 13, 2013

Version 0.7.0 is the Usability Update!

Many changes were made to the API to make it easier to use. Notably, a method chaining interface was added for parsing and writing vCards (see code samples further down the page). Convenience methods were also added to the VCard class and other classes to make it easier to work with the API. There were some bug fixes also.

See the Changelog for a complete list of the changes in this version.

December 12, 2012

Version 0.6.0 released. The most notable addition in this version is support for the hCard microformat (HTML-encoded vCards).

See the Changelog for a complete list of the changes.

November 8, 2012

Version 0.5.0 released. Notable changes include:

• Marshalling classes no longer throw a checked VCardException.
• The XML element name of extended types can now be specified.

See the Changelog for the other changes.

Oct 2 2012

ez-vcard has been released to Maven Central!! Scroll down for dependency information.

Sept 24 2012

Version 0.4.0 released. Notably, added support for the following specifications:

• RFC 6473(KIND:application)
• RFC 6474(BIRTHPLACE, DEATHPLACE, DEATHDATE)
• RFC 6715(Open Mobile Alliance Converged Address Book extensions)

See the Changelog for the rest of the changes.

Sept 8 2012

Version 0.3.0 released. Notable changes in this version include:

** Support for the xCard standard (an XML representation for vCards). ** Removal of the "guava" and "commons-io" dependencies. ez-vcard now only requires one dependency (commons-codec).

See the Changelog for the rest of the changes.

August 11 2012

Version 0.2.0 released. Notably, this version adds support for vCard version 4.0. See the Changelog for more details.

July 28 2012

Version 0.1.1 released. See the Changelog for details.

July 23 2012

Version 0.1 released. It supports vCard versions 2.1 and 3.0.