# Release Notes
## 0.8.13
* Fix ambiguous overload in Java 9 [#415](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/415)
* Make MessagePackParser accept a string as a byte array field [#420](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/420)
* Support MessagePackGenerator#writeNumber(String) [#422](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/422)
## 0.8.12
* Fix warnings in build.sbt [#402](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/402)
* Add ExtensionTypeCustomDeserializers and MessagePackFactory#setExtTypeCustomDesers [#408](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/408)
* Avoid a CharsetEncoder bug of Android 4.x at MessagePacker#packString [#409](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/409)
## 0.8.11
* Fixed NPE when write(add)Payload are used at the beginning [#392](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/392)
## 0.8.10
* Fixed a bug of unpackString [#387](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/387) at the buffer boundary
## 0.8.9
* Add DirectByteBuffer support
* Add Flushable interface to MessagePacker
## 0.8.8
* [Fix Unexpected UTF-8 encoder state](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/issues/371)
* Make MessageUnpacker.hasNext extensible
* Added skipValue(n)
* [msgpack-jackson] Ignoring uknown propertiers when deserializing msgpack data in array format
## 0.8.7
* Fixed a problem when reading malformed UTF-8 characters in packString. This problem happens only if you are using an older version of Java (e.g., Java 6 or 7)
* Support complex-type keys in msgpack-jackson
## 0.8.6
* Fixed a bug that causes IndexOutOfBoundsException when reading a variable length code at the buffer boundary.
## 0.8.5
* Add PackerConfig.withStr8FormatSupport (default: true) for backward compatibility with earier versions of msgpack v0.6, which doesn't have STR8 type.
* msgpack-jackson now supports `@JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.ARRAY)` to serialize POJOs in an array format. See also https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/tree/develop/msgpack-jackson#serialization-format
* Small performance optimization of packString when the String size is larger than 512 bytes.
## 0.8.4
* Embed bundle paramters for OSGi
## 0.8.3
* Fix a bug (#348), which wrongly overwrites the buffer before reading numeric data at the buffer boundary
## 0.8.2
* Add some missing asXXX methods in Value
* ValueFactory.MapBuilder now preserves the original element order (by using LinkedHashMap)
* Fix ExtensionType property
## 0.8.1
* MessagePack.Packer/UnpackerConfig are now immuable and configurable with withXXX methods.
* Add bufferSize configuration parameter
* Allow setting null to ArrayBufferInput for advanced applications that require dedicated memory management.
* Fix MessageBufferPacker.toXXX to properly flush the output
* Modify ValueFactory methods to produce a copy of the input data. To omit the copy, use `omitCopy` flag.
* Improve the performance of MessagePackParser by unpacking data without using org.msgpack.value.Value.
## 0.8.0
* Split MessagePack.Config into MessagePack.Packer/UnpackerConfig
* Changed MessageBuffer API
* It allows releasing the previously allocated buffers upon MessageBufferInput.next() call.
* MessageBufferOutput now can read data from external byte arrays
* MessagePacker supports addPayload(byte[]) to feed the data from an external data source
* This saves the cost of copying large data to the internal message buffer
* Performance improvement of packString
* Add MessageBufferPacker for efficiently generating byte array(s) of message packed data
## 0.7.1
* Fix ImmutableLongValueImpl#asShort [#287](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/287)
## 0.7.0
* Support non-string key in jackson-dataformat-msgpack
* Update the version of jackson-databind to 2.6.3
* Several bug fixes
## 0.7.0-M6
* Add a prototype of Value implementation
* Apply strict coding style
* Several bug fixes
## 0.7.0-p9
* Fix [#217](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/issues/217) when reading from SockectInputStream
## 0.7.0-p8
* Support Extension type (defined in MessagePack) in msgpack-jackson
* Support BigDecimal type (defined in Jackson) in msgpack-jackson
* Fix MessageUnpacker#unpackString [#215](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/215), [#216](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/216)
## 0.7.0-p7
* Google App Engine (GAE) support
## 0.7.0-p6
* Add MessagePacker.getTotalWrittenBytes()
## 0.7.0-p5
* Fix skipValue [#185](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/pull/185)
## 0.7.0-p4
* Supporting some java6 platform and Android