v1.1.6

Add

• Compile UTF-8 Source Code
  • The latest version of cobj is now able to accept UTF-8 encoded COBOL and generate UTF-8 encoded Java.
  • See documentation to install the UTF-8 compatible compiler.

v1.1.5

Add

• String literals containing SJIS characters are remained as they are, not being converted into byte arrays.
  • The older versions convert string literals containing SJIS characters into byte arrays with hexdecimal integers.
    • Older versions convert "日本語" into CobolUtil.toBytes((byte)0x93, (byte)0xfa, (byte)0x96, (byte)0x7b, (byte)0x8c, (byte)0xea).
    • Latest version converts "日本語" into CobolUtil.stringToBytes("日本語").

Fix

• Fix comparisons of COMP data.
  • With older versions, comparisons of COMP data are invalid in some cases.

v1.1.4

Fixed

• Process Japanese identifiers in COBOL correctly.
  • The older versions convert some Japanese characters in COBOL identifiers to another characters in Java.
• Fix the conditions PERFORM UNTIL.
  • If COBOL source code contains divisions in conditions of PERFORM UNTIL, the older versions emit compile errors.
• Fix SEARCH statements with data specified OCCURS and DEPENDING.
  • The older versions emit compile errors when SEARCH statements with data specified OCCURS and DEPENDING
• Fix ADD statements and SUBTRACT statements.
  • In some case, the result of SUBTRACT was previously incorrect when the operands contais PIC S9(n) negative values.
  • In some case, the result of ADD was -0 instead of +0 previously.
• Fix the process of checking signs of PIC 9(n) containing spaces.
• Fix INSPECT statements.
  • The older versions change signs of some values accidentally because of the bug of INSPECT statements.

v1.1.3

Added

• Add a new option -variable
  • With -variable, cobj allows 73 or more characters for each lines
• Add documentations that describe the structure of libcobj and generated Java files
• Add Visual Studio Code Dev Container of opensource COBOL 4J

Fixed

• Fix a build error of opensource COBOL 4J on Windows 10
• Fix a build error of opensource COBOL 4J on Docker
• Fix cobj-api
  • cobj-api previously generated invalid constructors in record classses
• Fix typos of cobj-idx command
• Fix a command line option -fserial-variable

Miscellaneous

• Improve the readability of variable names containing multi-byte characters
• Convert some EVALUATE statements to switch statements

v1.1.2

Added

• Add a new command line option -Wtruncate.
  • When -Wtruncate is enabled, cobj warns data truncations of MOVE statements.

Fix

• Fix CALL (an integer) BY CONTENT.
• Change -m option so that generated jar files contains only class files. Now -m becomes an alias of -jar.
• Show an error message when SCREEN SECTION is found.

Miscellaneous

• Improve code generated by cobj-api.

v1.1.1

Added

• Release API refenrence of the runtime library libcobj.jar
• opensource COBOL 4J on Windows passed COBOL85 test suites

Miscellaneous

• Upgrade dependencies of libcobj.jar to the latest versions

v1.1.0

New! opensource COBOL 4J supports Windows!

Added

• Add a command line option -Wimplicit-define option

Fix

• Fix READ PREVIOUS statement after START statement with <= operator
• Fix Java code generated by cobj-api
  • "-" in Java variables are converted to "_"

Miscellaneous

• Refactor libcobj/
• Support Ubuntu 24.04

v1.0.22

Added

• Add cobj-api command (#370)
  • With cobj-api, you can easily generate an Spring boot Java file that calls the program generated by cobj.
  • See https://github.com/opensourcecobol/opensourcecobol4j?tab=readme-ov-file#cobj-api
• Implement a -Wstrict-typing (#369)

Miscellaneous

• Simplify generated Java code based on SonarQube analysis (#366)
• Improve the error message for record keys with duplicates (#368)

v1.0.21

Added

• Implement a new option -info-json-dir
  • With this option, cobj generates JSON files containing information of COBOL programs
• Fix DISPLAY/ACCEPT for environment variables
• Implement a new option -ext
• Implement a new option -Wcall-params

Miscellaneous

• Improve the maintainability of generate Java files
  • This modification resolves issues reported by SonarQube's security review

v1.0.20

Added

• Add command line options
  • -conf: Specify the configuration file
  • -std: Specify the dialect
  • -Wconstant: Warn inconsistent constant
  • -Warchaic: Warn if archaic features are used
  • -Wobsolete: Warn if obsolete features are used
• Add intrinsic functions
  • LOCALE-DATE
  • LOCALE-TIME
  • LOCALE-TIME-FROM-SECONDS

Fixed

• Fix runtime checkings
• Detect invalid indexed record keys
• Accept field names which contain Japanese characters