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      2 Welcome to the C# port of Google Protocol Buffers, written by Jon Skeet
      3 (skeet (a] pobox.com) based on the work of many talented people.
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      6 RELEASE NOTES - Code imported into Google's main protobuf repository
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      9 Everything below note this represents history of protobuf-csharp-port project
     10 before the code was merged into csharp/ subtree of GitHub google/protobuf
     11 repository.
     12 Frozen legacy version of the original project is available in
     13 https://github.com/jskeet/protobuf-csharp-port.
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     16 RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.555
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     19 Changes:
     20 - Upgrade solution format to Visual Studio 2012.
     21 - Add the ability to print a builder (not just a message)
     22 - TextGenerator introduces a new overload of PrintTo
     23 - Munge protoc's error format into a VS-C#-compatible output format.
     24 - Work to make ProtoGen clone that acts as a protoc.exe plugin.
     25 - Added the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute
     26 - Optimized enum parsing.
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     28 Fixes:
     29 - Fix for bug in limited input stream's Position, Introduced Position on 
     30   output stream
     31 - Fix for writing a character to a JSON output overflows allocated buffer
     32 - Optimize FromBase64String to return Empty when presented with empty string.
     33 - Use string.Concat instead of operator to avoid potential import problems
     34 - Issue 81: quoting for NUnit parameters.
     35 - Issue 56: NuGet package is noisy
     36 - Issue 70: Portable library project has some invalid Nunit-based code.
     37 - Issue 71: CodedInputStream.ReadBytes go to slow path unnecessarily
     38 - Issue 84: warning CS0219: The variable `size' is assigned but never used
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     41 RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.521
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     44 Changes:
     45 - Add generated_code_attributes option, defaulted to false
     46 - Added support for Portable library
     47 - Added 'Unsafe' static type in ByteString to allow direct buffer access
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     49 Fixes:
     50 - Issue 50: The XML serializer will fail to deserialize a message with empty 
     51   child message
     52 - Issue 45: Use of 'item' as a field name causes AmbiguousMatchException
     53 - Issue 49: Generated nested static Types class should be partial
     54 - Issue 38: Disable CLSCompliant warnings (3021)
     55 - Issue 40: proto_path does not work for command-line file names
     56 - Issue 54: should retire all bytes in buffer (bufferSize)
     57 - Issue 43: Fix to correct identical 'umbrella_classname' options from trying 
     58   to write to the same filename.
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     61 RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.473
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     64 Features:
     65 - Added option service_generator_type to control service generation with
     66   NONE, GENERIC, INTERFACE, or IRPCDISPATCH
     67 - Added interfaces IRpcDispatch and IRpcServerStub to provide for blocking
     68   services and implementations.
     69 - Added ProtoGen.exe command-line argument "--protoc_dir=" to specify the 
     70   location of protoc.exe.
     71 - Extracted interfaces for ICodedInputStream and ICodedOutputStream to allow
     72   custom implementation of writers with both speed and size optimizations.
     73 - Addition of the "Google.ProtoBuffers.Serialization" assembly to support
     74   reading and writing messages to/from XML, JSON, IDictionary<,> and others.
     75 - Several performance related fixes and tweeks
     76 - Issue 3:	Add option to mark generated code with attribute
     77 - Issue 20:	Support for decorating classes [Serializable]
     78 - Issue 21:	Decorate fields with [deprecated=true] as [System.Obsolete]
     79 - Issue 22:	Reusable Builder classes
     80 - Issue 24:	Support for using Json/Xml formats with ICodedInputStream
     81 - Issue 25: Added support for NuGet packages
     82 - Issue 31: Upgraded protoc.exe and descriptor to 2.4.1
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     84 Fixes:
     85 - Issue 13:	Message with Field same name as message causes uncompilable .cs
     86 - Issue 16:	Does not integrate well with other tooling
     87 - Issue 19:	Support for negative enum values
     88 - Issue 26:	AddRange in GeneratedBuilder iterates twice.
     89 - Issue 27:	Remove XML documentation output from test projects to clear 
     90   warnings/errors.
     91 - Issue 28: Circular message dependencies result in null default values for 
     92   Message fields.
     93 - Issue 29: Message classes generated have a public default constructor.  You
     94   can disable private ctor generation with the option generate_private_ctor.
     95 - Issue 35: Fixed a bug in ProtoGen handling of arguments with trailing \
     96 - Big-endian support for float, and double on Silverlight
     97 - Packed and Unpacked parsing allow for all repeated, as per version 2.3
     98 - Fix for leaving Builder a public ctor on internal classes for use with
     99   generic "where T: new()" constraints.
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    101 Other:
    102 - Changed the code signing key to a privately held key
    103 - Reformatted all code and line-endings to C# defaults
    104 - Reworking of performance benchmarks to produce reliable results, option /v2
    105 - Issue 34: Silverlight assemblies are now unit tested
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    108 RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.3.0.277
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    111 Features:
    112 - Added cls_compliance option to generate attributes indicating 
    113   non-CLS-compliance.
    114 - Added file_extension option to control the generated output file's extension.
    115 - Added umbrella_namespace option to place the umbrella class into a nested
    116   namespace to address issues with proto files having the same name as a 
    117   message it contains.
    118 - Added output_directory option to set the output path for the source file(s).
    119 - Added ignore_google_protobuf option to avoid generating code for includes 
    120   from the google.protobuf package.
    121 - Added the LITE framework (Google.ProtoBuffersLite.dll) and the ability to
    122   generate code with "option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME;".
    123 - Added ability to invoke protoc.exe from within ProtoGen.exe.
    124 - Upgraded to protoc.exe (2.3) compiler.
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    126 Fixes:
    127 - Issue 9:	Class cannot be static and sealed error
    128 - Issue 12:	default value for enumerate fields must be filled out
    129 
    130 Other:
    131 - Rewrite of build using MSbuild instead of NAnt
    132 - Moved to NUnit Version 2.2.8.0
    133 - Changed to using secure .snk for releases
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    136 RELEASE NOTES - Version 0.9.1
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    139 Fixes:
    140 - issue 10:	Incorrect encoding of packed fields when serialized
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    143 RELEASE NOTES - Version 0.9.0
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    146 - Initial release
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