• Add constant for openslide.barcode property

• Fix backward compatibility of JARs built with Java > 22

Breaking changes

• Require Java ≥ 22
• Require OpenSlide ≥ 4.0.0
• Switch from JNI to FFM, making OpenSlide Java builds platform-independent
• Build with Maven
• Remove Autotools+Ant and Meson build systems
• Stop shipping source tarball, in favor of GitHub source archive
• Rename JAR to openslide-java-$version.jar

New features

• Support OpenSlide cache management API
• Support reading ICC color profiles from slides and associated images
• Add OpenSlide.readRegion() method returning a BufferedImage
• Add OpenSlide.PROPERTY_NAME_ICC_SIZE
• Automatically close unreferenced OpenSlide and OpenSlideCache objects
• Add one-argument OpenSlideDisposedException constructor
• Ship JAR as release artifact

Deprecations

• Deprecate OpenSlide.dispose() in favor of OpenSlide.close()
• Deprecate zero-argument OpenSlideDisposedException constructor

• Allow opening the synthetic test slide
• Add Meson build option to configure embedding of JNI path in JAR
• Fix meson dist failure when packaged as subproject

• Add Meson build system and deprecate Autotools+Ant one
• Change build target to Java 8 from 6, fixing build on newer JDK
• Convert README and changelog to Markdown
• Consolidate license files

• Change build target to Java 6 from 5, fixing build on JDK 9
• Properly detect JNI include paths on Mac OS X

• Bundle Classpath JNI headers for Windows cross builds

• Require OpenSlide 3.4.0
• Replace OpenSlide.fileIsValid() with OpenSlide.detectVendor()
• Fix NullPointerException opening slides without a quickhash1

• Require OpenSlide 3.3.0
• Rename "layer" to "level" throughout API
• Add OpenSlide.getLibraryVersion()
• Set package Implementation-Version to OpenSlide Java version
• Drop getComment()
• Properly handle openslide_open() errors on OpenSlide 3.3.0
• Many build fixes for Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin

• Change package namespace to org.openslide
• Add wrapper class for associated images
• Have OpenSlide implement Closeable
• Convert top-level build system to Autotools
• Rename JAR and JNI library (thanks, Mathieu Malaterre)
• Embed JNI library path in JAR on Linux
• Fix translation by large offsets in GUI (thanks, Jan Harkes)
• Fix IllegalArgumentException in associated image error cases
• Add build instructions