v4.4.0

4.4.0 (2026-07-28)

Features

• add header validation support to NamedCsvRecordHandler (#151) (e50ad43)
• deprecate allowExtraCharsAfterClosingQuote (4523745), closes #170
• propagate CsvParseException from readers unwrapped (1f4fa3e)

Bug Fixes

• align IndexedCsvReader header capture exception wrapping with page reads (1923e7e)
• clear stale CR flag on data chars in StrictCsvParser (d598c2c)
• close file stream when building a reader from a Path fails (53b2311)
• make IndexedCsvReader page reads with named records order-independent (00193db)
• make writer construction from a Path safe (849373e)
• prevent leading empty line from being captured as header (9d4b178)
• reject prebuilt CsvIndex with mismatched pageSize (9878618)
• restore missing space before link in SourceExample component (36e45ee)
• restrict IndexedCsvReader to UTF-8 and single-byte charsets (695e090)

Performance Improvements

• avoid String allocation for empty fields (6ada9d4)
• bulk-copy scan loops in RelaxedCsvParser (e623a6e)
• defer validation message formatting in parsers (2f23a35)
• skip unescape pass for quoted fields without escaped quotes (09a256b)