Thrift now a TLP - INFRA-3116
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+Release Notes for Thrift 20080411
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+.equals and .hashCode() for Java scturcts (developed by dreiss).
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+Improvments to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil).
+
+PHP (de)serialization extension (developed by dweatherford).
+
+Add fb303 to contrib (developed by Facebook).
+
+TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java (contributed by Chad Walters of Powerset).
+
+Support for "make check" and better tests (contributed by Nitay).
+
+Smalltalk support (contributed by Patrick Collison).
+
+Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com>
+Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server (contributed by
+Dave Simpson of Powerset).
+
+Perl HttpClient (contributed by Igor Afanasyev of Evernote).
+
+C# support (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
+
+MinGW port of the compiler (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem).
+
+Tons of small improvements and bug fixes.
+
+
+Release Notes for Thrift 20070917
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+TBinaryProtocol now includes a protocol version number in messaged.
+This is a non-backwards-compatible change. Please see the
+TBinaryProtocol constructor for strictRead_ and strictWrite_.
+
+Add binary type to support non-text "strings" in Java.
+
+TSocketPool for C++ (developed by jsobel).
+
+Syntax highlighting for vim and emacs (developed by hzhao and martin).
+
+Perl support (contributed by Jake Luciani).
+
+Erlang support (developed by cpiro).
+
+Ruby API overhaul (contributed by Kevin Clark of Powerset).
+
+IPv6 support in C++ and Python (contributed by Paul Saab of Powerset).
+
+Read/Write locks (developed by boz).
+
+OCaml support (developed by iproctor).
+
+Human-readable strings from Thrift structures in C++ (developed by dreiss).
+
+Haskell support (developed by iproctor).
+
+Support for optional fields in C++ (contributed by Andy Lutomirsky).
+
+Support for operator== for Thrift structures (contributed by Andy Lutomirsky).
+
+Python/C module for fast (de)serialization (contributed by Ben Maurer).
+
+Limited reflection for C++ services (developed by dreiss).
+
+Python library installation defaults to /usr, override with PY_PREFIX.
+
+Support for Javabean-style Java classes (contributed by Dave Engberg).
+
+TDenseProtocol for C++ (experimental way to shrink structures)
+(developed by dreiss).
+
+Cocoa/Objective C support (contributed by Andrew McGeachie).
+
+Thrift now builds without libevent.
+
+TZlibTransport for C++ (compress serialized structures) (developed by dreiss).
+
+Tons of small improvements and bug fixes.