FlatBuffers release 1.4.0

A summary of what is in this release since 1.3.0:

• Support for GRPC!
• C++ now has an object API: read & write to generated C++ objects.
• Mutation support in Go & JS.
• Many improvements in name space handling and general code generation.
• Libfuzzer based tests.
• Documentation for C in the main project.
• Many other fixes and improvements, 300 commits since 1.3

FlatBuffers release 1.3.0

A summary of what is in this release since 1.2.0:

• Support for PHP!
• Much improved documentation: a tutorial shared by all languages.
• API improvements for Python, C#, and others.
• C++ code can now be built with GCC as low as 4.4, and doesn't rely on exceptions anymore.
• JSON parser can now skip unknown fields.
• Benchmark code available in benchmark branch.
• Many other fixes and improvements, 140+ commits since 1.2

FlatBuffers release 1.2.0

A summary of what is in this release since 1.1.0:

• Support for JavaScript and Python!
• A much improved C# and Go API and implementation.
• Simple mutable FlatBuffers functionality (C++/Java/C#).
• New reflection functionality: binary schemas, and more dynamic read/mutate (C++, relflection.h).
• Much improved .proto parsing.
• Many other fixes and improvements, 200+ commits since 1.1

FlatBuffers release 1.1.0

A summary of what is in this release since 1.0.0:

• An extensive overhaul to the Java API.
• Out-of-the-box support for C# and Go.
• An optional verifier to make FlatBuffers practical in untrusted scenarios.
• .proto parsing for easier migration from Protocol Buffers.
• Optional manual assignment of field IDs.
• Dictionary functionality through binary search on a key field.
• Bug fixes and other improvements thanks to 200+ commits from 28 contributors.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.3

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• C# is now supported.
• flatc is able to convert .proto files to FlatBuffer schemas for easier migration from Protocol Buffers.
• Java FlatBuffers functionality is now more friendly, with better generated code for tables and vectors in particular.
• Support for required fields.
• C++ enums are now strongly typed.
• Option to generate dependent includes in C++
  ... and many smaller fixes.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.2

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• Schemas can now include other schemas directly.
• Schemas can refer to types from unrelated namespaces.
• JSON parsing & writing supports unicode escape codes (\u).
• Enum value prefixing in C++ is now an option.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.1

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• Initial support for the Go programming language.
• Verification functionality allows safe access of buffers from untrusted sources.
• File identification allows convenient magic-number sanity checks when a FlatBuffer is used as a file format.
• Ability to manually assign field id's in the schema.
• Improved enum parsing functionality in JSON.
• bit_flags for enums.
• Nested FlatBuffer support.
• Vector iterators.

FlatBuffers release 1.0.0

This is the initial release. See http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/ for more.