Public Release 1.4

This release fixes a lot of major bugs in terms of special characters and escape sequences.

Changelog:

• Changed Unique4j to transfer data in terms of bytes rather than as a string.
• Introduced data length identification.
• Fixed issues with special characters and escape sequences not being transferred properly.

Public Release 1.3

This release introduces sending of string Lists or Maps as alternatives to simple string messages.

Changelog:

• Introduced Unique4jList for sending List of strings
• Introduced Unique4jMap for sending Map of string key-value pairs
• Minor Bugfixes

Breaking Changes:

• Renamed class Unique to Unique4j to maintain consistency and make class name less generic

Public Release 1.2.1

+ Minor Bugfixes.
+ JavaDoc Updates.

Public Release 1.2

+ Introduced option to turn off auto exit for subsequent instances with overloaded constructor.
+ Introduced acquireLock() and freeLock() which return boolean value.
+ Introduced beforeExit() to perform long running tasks in subsequent instances before exiting.

− Deprecated lock() method in favour of acquireLock() method.
− Deprecated free() method in favour of freeLock() method.

Public Release 1.1

Fixed multiple client parallel access.
User facing methods are not synchronized.

Public Release 1.0

First public release