FunctionalJava 4.8 released

[Jean-Baptiste Giraudeau]

Hi everyone,

The long awaited version 4.8 has just been released.

See list of enhancements and fixes:

https://github.com/functionaljava/functionaljava/blob/master/ChangeLog.md

Many thanks to the contributors:

    18  Gábor Lipták
     6  Jean-Baptiste Giraudeau
     5  Ryan Johnson
     3  l1cache
     2  Iaroslav Zeigerman
     1  Sidney Quitorio
     1  janbols

(git shortlog --summary --numbered --no-merges v4.7..v4.8)

From now on the master branch will only support Java 8+ (dropping 1.7 support).

Some items I'd like to tackle for next major release (5.0) :

 - fix deprecated usage so that FJ compile with Java 10.

 - remove deprecated methods and methods rendered obsolete by lambda syntax.

 - avoid any ambiguities arising from usage of method reference by moving static methods into companion class (eg. Lists for List).

 - remove unsafe APIs (unless necessary for stack safety).

Cheers