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Release

Description

2.2.1

Patch Release

-          Goal Timeframe: September 2018

-          Remove Java 8 (only) restriction - enable Java 9, Java 10

2.3.0

Interoperability

-          Goal Timeframe: Nov 2018

-          BLOB support (DAFFODIL-1735) - enables large image file formats

-          Implements features needed to demonstrate high degree of interoperability of the two primary DFDL implementations which are IBM's and Daffodil.

-          A large number of JIRA tickets associated with this.

Usability, Community Growth

-          Goal Timeframe: Year End 2018, and beyond

-          Debug/Trace improvements

-          Schema compilation speed/space improvements

-          Improved developer documentation of Daffodil's internals.

-          Tutorials on authoring DFDL schemas

-          Schematron validation rules executed by Daffodil.

-          Unparsing of hidden choices (finishing features for computed elements)

-          ... and your needed features here!

Advanced Performance

-         Goal Timeframe: before end Q3 2019

-         Improved SAX-event-style streaming behavior for runtime (parsing and unparsing)

... more things to be added here