Changelog

1.4.0 (2026-04-05)

New features

LocalDate support — java.time.LocalDate is now a first-class field type handled automatically by ByTypeFormatter. No custom formatter needed. Configure the date pattern with @FixedFormatPattern (default: yyyyMMdd).
```
@Field(offset = 1, length = 8)
@FixedFormatPattern("yyyyMMdd")
public LocalDate getEventDate() { return eventDate; }
```
String "20260405" parses to LocalDate.of(2026, 4, 5); exporting writes "20260405" back.

Breaking changes

Java 11 minimum — Java 8 is no longer supported. The minimum required runtime is Java 11.
Logging: SLF4J replaces Commons Logging — The library no longer depends on Apache Commons Logging. Logging is now done via SLF4J. If your project relied on the transitive commons-logging dependency, you will need to add an SLF4J binding instead (e.g. logback-classic or slf4j-simple). See Get It for details.

Documentation

Added Quick Start guide, Examples page, and an enriched Annotations reference.