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+              Apache Apache Commons Collections 4.2 RELEASE NOTES
+
+The Apache Commons Collections package contains types that extend and augment the Java Collections Framework.
+
+Update from Java 6 to Java 7, bug fixes, and small changes.
+
+Changes in this version include:
+
+New features:
+o COLLECTIONS-681:  Add test for MultiSetUtils Thanks to Stephan Fuhrmann. 
+o COLLECTIONS-658:  Add Automatic-Module-Name MANIFEST entry for Java 9 compatibility. 
+o COLLECTIONS-589:  Add null-safe MapUtils.size(Map<?, ?>) method. Thanks to Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-586:  PatriciaTrie prefixMap clear throws NullPointerException. Thanks to Shailender Bathula, Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-654:  Add class SortedProperties to sort keys. 
+o COLLECTIONS-668:  Add CollectionUtils containsAny method for primitive array: org.apache.commons.collections4.CollectionUtils.containsAny(Collection<?>, T...). Thanks to Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-575:  Synchronized queue wrapper in QueueUtils. Thanks to Guram Savinov, Grzegorz Rożniecki, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-670:  Add org.apache.commons.collections4.IteratorUtils.first(Iterator). Thanks to Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-671:  Add org.apache.commons.collections4.IterableUtils.first(Iterable). Thanks to Gary Gregory. 
+
+Fixed Bugs:
+o COLLECTIONS-599:  HashEntry array object naming data initialized with double the size during deserialization. Thanks to Tejas Patel, Saleem Akbar, Gary Gregory. 
+o COLLECTIONS-662:  Unit tests MapUtilsTest and ListIteratorWrapperTest no longer fail on Java 9. Thanks to Vamsi Kavuri. 
+o COLLECTIONS-661:  Intermittent test failures in Windows for HashSetValuedHashMap. 
+o COLLECTIONS-660:  Uncomment test in AbstractMapTest regarding LRUMap equals. 
+o COLLECTIONS-656:  Fix site build on Java 8. 
+o COLLECTIONS-653:  Update Javadoc to Build on Java 1.8. 
+o COLLECTIONS-606:  Build status, Coverage status and Maven central weren't in README.md Thanks to Vamsi Kavuri. 
+o COLLECTIONS-594:  Web site spelling error: MultiValuedMapeList. Thanks to Javen O'Neal. 
+o COLLECTIONS-597:  Correction of Javadoc for org.apache.commons.collections4.functors.CatchAndRethrowClosure. Thanks to Enrique. 
+o COLLECTIONS-678:  The verification of unsupported iterator methods is not complete. Thanks to Oscar Luis Vera Pérez. 
+o COLLECTIONS-673:  ListUtils.partition potential integer overflow. Thanks to John Mark, Stephan Fuhrmann. 
+
+Changes:
+o COLLECTIONS-602:  Improve efficiency of DefaultedMap.get. Thanks to John Mark. 
+o COLLECTIONS-603:  Small improvements for generics, conditional statements, and warnings suppressions. Thanks to Artem Konovalov. 
+o COLLECTIONS-655:  Update platform from Java 6 to Java 7. 
+o COLLECTIONS-666:  org.apache.commons.collections4.ListUtils.union(List, List) should pre-allocate result list. Thanks to BELUGA BEHR. 
+o COLLECTIONS-669:  Update org.apache.commons.collections4.CollectionUtils.addAll(Collection<C>, C[]) to addAll(Collection<C>, C...). Thanks to BELUGA BEHR, Gary Gregory. 
+
+ 
+For complete information on Apache Commons Collections, including instructions on how to submit bug reports,
+patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons Collections website:
+
+http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/
+
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               Apache Commons Collections
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