Release Notes for Version 0.9 #25

This version contains some game changers and API breaks. The most significant are:

Circular Reference Detection

When a circular reference is detected (e.g. A > B > C > A), only the first occurrence of an instance along a property path will be scanned for changes. Subsequent occurrences of the same instance will return nodes marked as circular. These cases should have resulted in infinite loops before, but I rather point it out, so everyone is aware of this rather subtile change.

Property Path Builder API

There were many ways to construct a PropertyPath. This provided a lot of room to create invalid paths. In order to guarantee validity of every PropertyPath instance, construction is now exclusively handled by the PropertyPathBuilder, which has been converted to a guiding fluent API. This requires some adjustments in the client code.

Additional Changes

https://github.com/SQiShER/java-object-diff/issues?milestone=2&page=1&state=closed