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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
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+<document>
+ <properties>
+  <title>Release notes for v4.4</title>
+  <author email="dev@commons.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author>
+ </properties>
+<body>
+
+<section name="Release notes for version 4.4">
+<hr />
+<p>
+Apache Commons Collections is a project to develop and maintain collection
+classes based on and inspired by the JDK collection framework.
+</p>
+<p>
+This 4.4 release is a minor and requires Java 8.
+This release fixes several bugs present in previous releases of the 4.x branch.
+</p>
+<p>
+All users are strongly encouraged to updated to this release.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Compatibility</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>Java 8 or later is now required (version 4.2 required Java 7)</li>
+ <li>This release is source and binary compatible with the 4.0 release
+     of Commons Collections with the exception that some classes in the functor
+     package do not implement the Serializable interface anymore (see COLLECTIONS-580)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<center><h3>Major changes since 4.2</h3></center>
+<ul>
+<li>Updates the platform requirement from Java 7 to 8</li>
+<li>Add Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for Java 9 compatibility</li>
+<li>Added a few new APIs.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Security Changes</h3>
+<p>
+None.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For a full list of changes in this release, refer to the <a href="changes-report.html#a4.4">Change report</a>.
+</p>
+</section>
+
+</body>
+</document>
+
