Breaking change since 1.5.1 (Java 6), dropped Java 6 and Java 7 support, oldest supported version is Java 8. For Java 6/7, stick to 1.5.1.

Reverting to compile using Java 8 (1.8) for compatibility with older software.

This is the last version compatible with Java 6 and Java 7.

Version 1.5.1 - 7/4/2022

Going to try to catch up on some ancient PRs, mainly around security and cleanup. Starting with accepted PRs that
didn't get released yet. To be followed hopefully shortly with another release.

• Added convenience methods for JSONObject comparison using a custom JSONComparator (thanks jakob-o@!)
• Fix issue #105: Issue when comparing JSONArray if any value is null (thanks suraj1291993@!)
• Fixes security vulnerability associated with older version of junit

Version 1.5.0 - 3/19/2017

• JSONassert now supports user-supplied error messages (thanks yasin3061@!)
• Some refactoring / code health cleanup (thanks picimako@!)
• License headers on individual files
• Java 8 friendly javadocs

• Change the implementation for org.json to one with a more open license
• Fix null pointer exception (issue #48)
• Support wildcards in Customization.path

• Fix & improve ArrayValueMatcher JavaDoc (dmackinder)
• Fix final JavaDoc example and add new example showing how to verify every array element using a custom comparator
• Fix URL in pom.xml (aukevanleeuwen)
• Update JSONCompareResult.java adding 2 new lists for missing and unexpected fileds (riccorazza)
• Includes missing imports in test class (javierseixas)

• This edition brought to you by dmackinder (thanks!)
• Added array size comparator enhancements.
• Added ArrayValueMatcher to simplify verification of range of array elements.
• Improve diagnostics from RegularExpressionValueMatcher.
• Deprecated former Customization.matches() signature

• Added support for JSONString

• Remove commons-collection dependency
• Updated Customization class to allow path-matching, and matching of expected and actual values with user-provided EqualityComparator.
• Added AssertNotEquals