2009-01-20  Version 2.4

	This release was the shortest (about 2 months) release cycle ever
	for Gendarme. Nevertheless it contains a lot of enhancements for
	rules builders (e.g. logging support, makefile helpers) provided
	by Jesse Jones.

	This release also includes 12 new rules (195 rules total):

	Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice
	* PreferEmptyInstanceOverNullRule [Cedric Vivier]

	Gendarme.Rules.Correctness
	* DoNotRecurseInEqualityRule [Jesse Jones]
	* EnsureLocalDisposalRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* ProvideCorrectRegexPatternRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* ReviewInconsistentIdentityRule [Jesse Jones]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design.Generic
	* DoNotExposeNestedGenericSignaturesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Exceptions
	* DoNotThrowInUnexpectedLocationRule [Jesse Jones]

	Gendarme.Rules.Maintainability
	* AvoidAlwaysNullFieldRule [Jesse Jones]

	Gendarme.Rules.Naming
	* AvoidTypeInterfaceInconsistencyRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Performance
	* PreferCharOverloadRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Security
	* DoNotShortCircuitCertificateChecksRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Smells
	* AvoidSwitchStatementsRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Contributors for this release are:
	Andres G. Aragoneses, Cedric Vivier, JB Evain, Jesse Jones, 
	Nestor Salceda, Sebastien Pouliot.
	
2008-11-10  Version 2.2

	This release includes the development results of the last four 
	months, including some major events like the Novell Hack Week 3
	and the second half of GSoC 2008 work done by Nestor Salceda.

	Major highlights includes:

	* improvement to the framework by the addition of engines that
	can build extra information to extend the model Cecil gives us
	to work with.

	* New [FxCopCompatibility] attribute to match between Gendarme
	and FxCop rules. This will be used to support [SuppressMessage]
	inside assemblies in a future release.

	* New TearDown capability on rules and runners allow rules to
	defer the reporting of defects until the analysis is completed.

	* New "Audit" severity. This is used to denotate defects that,
	too often, can't be fixed (i.e. will always be reported) but 
	needs to be audited (e.g. security items).

	* By default the console runner now reports only when both
	  Severity > Low
		i.e. skipping Low and Audit severity defects
	  Confidence > Low
		i.e. skipping Low confidence defects

	This is to help reduce false positives and get smaller reports 
	with the most important defects. You can override both option, 
	with lower or higher values, with new command switches. E.g.

		gendarme --severity=audit,critical ...
		gendarme --confidence=all ...

	* The wizard runner is now, by default, limited to 1000 defects
	on the visible API and will, like the console runner, report 
	only defects when both Severity > Low and Confidence > Low. A 
	new step in the	wizard allow users to change those settings 
	before the analysis (defaults can be modified and saved).

	* You can now save your rule selection as the new default in 
	the wizard. The same set will be enable next time you restart
	the wizard. 
		* Known issue: does not work under Mono, bug #439943

	and a lot of new rules including:

	Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice
	* AvoidAssemblyVersionMismatchRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* DoNotUseGetInterfaceToCheckAssignabilityRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Concurrency
	* DoNotUseMethodImplOptionsSynchronizedRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewLockUsedOnlyForOperationsOnVariablesRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* ProtectCallToEventDelegatesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Correctness
	* AttributeStringLiteralsShouldParseCorrectlyRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* CheckParametersNullityInVisibleMethodsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ProvideCorrectArgumentsToFormattingMethodsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* ReviewCastOnIntegerDivisionRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewCastOnIntegerMultiplicationRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design
	* AvoidSmallNamespaceRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ConsiderAddingInterfaceRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* DeclareEventHandlersCorrectlyRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* DoNotDeclareVirtualMethodsInSealedTypeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* InternalNamespacesShouldNotExposeTypesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MarkAssemblyWithAssemblyVersionRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MarkAssemblyWithCLSCompliantRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MarkAssemblyWithComVisibleRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design.Generic
	* AvoidMethodWithUnusedGenericTypeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* UseGenericEventHandlerRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* PreferGenericsOverRefObjectRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design.Linq
	* AvoidExtensionMethodOnSystemObjectRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Exceptions
	* InstantiateArgumentExceptionCorrectlyRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Gendarme.Rules.Interoperability
	* MarshalBooleansInPInvokeDeclarationsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Naming
	* AvoidDeepNamespaceHierarchyRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidRedundancyInMethodNameRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* AvoidRedundancyInTypeNameRule [Cedric Vivier]

	Gendarme.Rules.Performance
	* AvoidUnneededFieldInitializationRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* PreferLiteralOverInitOnlyFieldsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Security.Cas
	* ReviewSuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityUsageRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Serialization
	* MarkEnumerationsAsSerializableRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Smells
	* AvoidMessageChainsRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Lots of rules have been updated and, in a few cases, renamed or
	moved, to provide extended functionalities.

	Move/merge changes:
	* CAS-related Security rules were moved into Security.Cas
	* DisposableFieldsShouldBeDisposedRule was moved from Design 
	into Correctness
	* EnumNotEndsWithEnumOrFlagsSuffixRule was merged with 
	UseCorrectSuffixRule (Naming)
	* FinalizersShouldCallBaseClassFinalizerRule was moved from 
	Design into Correctness
	* ImplementGenericCollectionInterfacesRule was moved from 
	Design into Design.Generic

	Contributors for this release are:
	Peter Johanson, Nestor Salceda, Cedric Vivier, Jesse Jones, 
	Alan McGovern, Sebastien Pouliot.

2008-07-14  Version 0.2.0.0

	This release includes the development results of the last six 
	months, including some major events like the Novell Hack Week 
	(Winter 2008 edition), which changed much of the Gendarme 
	framework, the first "Gendarme Rule Day" and the first part of
	GSoC 2008 work by Nestor Salceda.

	General highlights:

	* Performance enhancements, memory usage reduction (mostly 
	inside Cecil but the gains are very visible in Gendarme)
	* MDB/PDB support: source files and line numbers are now 
	provided with defects [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* New Windows installer: You can now easily enjoy Gendarme, and 
	it's wizard, from Windows computers [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* .desktop file for the Wizard runner [Daniel Nauck]
	* Console runner now uses color when displaying on the console
	[Cedric Vivier]
	* Albeit a bit invisible to end users, we started using the new
	unit test helpers made during GHOP [Daniel Abramov]
	* Bug fixes: works continue, like previous releases, to remove
	false positives from existing rules;
	
	and a lot of new rules including:

	Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice
	* AvoidCallingProblematicMethodsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidVisibleConstantFieldRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* DoNotForgetNotImplementedMethodsRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* DisableDebuggingCodeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ObsoleteMessagesShouldNotBeEmptyRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReplaceIncompleteOddnessCheckRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Concurrency
	* DoNotLockOnThisOrTypesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* DoNotLockOnWeakIdentityObjectsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* DoNotUseLockedRegionOutsideMethodRule [Andres G. Aragoneses]

	Gendarme.Rules.Correctness
	* DoNotRoundIntegersRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewDoubleAssignmentRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewSelfAssignmentRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewUselessControlFlow [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewUseOfInt64BitsToDoubleRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ReviewUseOfModuloOneOnIntegersRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design
	* AvoidMultidimensionalIndexerRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidRefAndOutParametersRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidVisibleNestedTypesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ConsiderConvertingFieldToNullableRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* ConsiderUsingStaticTypeRule.cs [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ImplementGenericCollectionInterfacesRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* ImplementIComparableCorreclyRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* PreferIntegerOrStringForIndexersRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Exception
	* AvoidArgumentExceptionDefaultConstructorRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidThrowingBasicExceptionsRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* DoNotThrowReservedExceptionRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ExceptionShouldBeVisibleRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MissingExceptionConstructorsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Interoperability
	* DoNotCastIntPtrToInt32Rule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Maintainability (new)
	* AvoidComplexMethodsRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* AvoidDeepInheritanceTreeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidLackOfCohesionOfMethodRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* ConsiderUsingStopwatchRule [Cedric Vivier]
	* PreferStringIsNullOrEmptyRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Naming
	* DoNotPrefixEventsWithAfterOrBeforeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Performance
	* AvoidLargeNumberOfLocalVariablesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidLargeStructureRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidRepetitiveCastsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidTypeGetTypeWhenPossibleRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidUnusedPrivateFieldsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidUnneededUnboxingRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidUnsealedUninheritedInternalClassesRule [Scott Peterson]
	* ImplementEqualsTypeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* OverrideValueTypeDefaultsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* RemoveUnusedLocalVariablesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* UseIsOperatorRule [Seo Sanghyeon]
	* UseTypeEmptyTypesRule [JB Evain]

	Gendarme.Rules.Portability
	* DoNotHardcodePathsRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Serialization (new)
	* CallBaseMethodsOnISerializableTypesRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* DeserializeOptionalFieldRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* ImplementISerializableCorrectlyRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* MarkAllNonSerializableFieldsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* MissingSerializableAttributeOnISerializableTypeRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MissingSerializationConstructorRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* UseCorrectSignatureForSerializationMethodsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Contributors for this release are:
	Andres G. Aragoneses, Cedric Vivier, Daniel Abramov, JB Evain,
	Nestor Salceda, Scott Peterson, Sebastien Pouliot, Seo Sanghyeon.

2008-01-31  Version 0.0.5

	This time Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) was the main 
	source of new rules for Gendarme (Daniel Abramov, Andreas Noever,
	Adrian Tsai) and even a Gendarme logo (Steve P). 
	Many thanks to all of them and to Google!

	Other news includes:

	* More rules: while GHOP added 40 rules, other contributors added
	7 more rules.
	* Gendarme.Framework.Rocks: A new namespace, inside gendarme's
	framework, introduce several extensions methods to ease rule 
	creation and avoid code duplication.
	* Updated rules to be more friendly toward C# 3 code (e.g. 
	auto-implemented properties)
	* Enhancements to existing rules to reduce false-positives. Even
	with all the new rules the number of false-positives is lower
	than before and Gendarme's self-test looks even better!

	New rules by alphabetical order:

	Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice
	* CheckNewExceptionWithoutThrowingRule [Andreas Noever]
	* CheckNewThreadWithoutStartRule [Andreas Noever]
	* ConstructorShouldNotCallVirtualMethodsRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* GetEntryAssemblyMayReturnNullRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Concurrency
	* NonConstantStaticFieldsShouldNotBeVisible [Andreas Noever]

	Gendarme.Rules.Correctness
	* DontCompareWithNaNRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design
	* AbstractTypesShouldNotHavePublicConstructorsRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AttributeArgumentsShouldHaveAccessors [Daniel Abramov]
	* AvoidEmptyInterfaceRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidPropertiesWithoutGetAccessorRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* AvoidPublicInstanceFieldsRule [Adrian Tsai]
	* ConsiderConvertingMethodToPropertyRule [Adrian Tsai]
	* DisposableFieldsShouldBeDisposedRule [Andreas Noever]
	* DisposableTypesShouldHaveFinalizerRule [Andreas Noever]
	* EnsureSymmetryForOverloadedOperatorsRule [Andreas Noever]
	* EnumsShouldDefineAZeroValueRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* FinalizersShouldBeProtectedRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* FinalizersShouldCallBaseClassFinalizerRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* FlagsShouldNotDefineAZeroValueRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* MainShouldNotBePublicRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* MissingAttributeUsageOnCustomAttributeRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* OperatorEqualsShouldBeOverloadedRule [Andreas Noever]
	* OverrideEqualsMethodRule [Andreas Noever]
	* ProvideAlternativeNamesForOperatorOverloadsRule [Andreas Noever]
	* TypesShouldBeInsideNamespacesRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* TypesWithDisposableFieldsShouldBeDisposableRule [Andreas Noever]
	* TypesWithNativeFieldsShouldBeDisposableRule [Andreas Noever]

	Gendarme.Rules.Interoperability (new)
	* GetLastErrorMustBeCalledRightAfterPInvokeRule [Andreas Noever]
	* MarshalStringsInPInvokeDeclarationsRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* PInvokeShouldNotBeVisibleRule [Andreas Noever]
	* UseManagedAlternativesToPInvokeRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Naming
	* DoNotPrefixValuesWithEnumNameRule [Andreas Noever]
	* DoNotUseReservedInEnumValueNamesRule [Andreas Noever]
	* ParameterNamesShouldMatchOverridenMethodRule [Andreas Noever]
	* UseCorrectCasing [Daniel Abramov]
	* UseCorrectPrefixRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* UseCorrectSuffixRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* UsePreferredTermsRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Performance
	* AvoidReturningArraysOnPropertiesRule [Adrian Tsai]
	* AvoidUnsealedConcreteAttributesRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Portability
	* ExitCodeIsLimitedOnUnixRule [Daniel Abramov]
	* FeatureRequiresRootPrivilegeOnUnixRule [Andreas Noever]
	* MonoCompatibilityReviewRule [Andreas Noever]

	Gendarme.Rules.Security
	* ArrayFieldsShouldNotBeReadOnlyRule [Andreas Noever]
	* NativeFieldsShouldNotBeVisibleRule [Andreas Noever]
	* StaticConstructorsShouldBePrivateRule [Daniel Abramov]

	Gendarme.Rules.Ui
	* UseSTAThreadAttributeOnSWFEntryPointsRule [Daniel Abramov]

2007-12-20  Version 0.0.4

	After a long time, many fixes, useful features (e.g. inclusion and 
	exclusion) and hours trimming down false positives, we're proud to
	announce Gendarme 0.0.4!

	Many of the new rules were contributed during the Google Summer
	of Code 2007.

	Gendarme.Rules.BadPractice
	* CloneMethodShouldNotReturnNullRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* EqualShouldHandleNullArgRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* ImplementingEqualsButNotGetHashCodeAndViceVersaRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* ToStringReturnsNullRule [Nidhi Rawal]

	Gendarme.Rules.Concurrency
	* WriteStaticFieldFromInstanceMethodRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	Gendarme.Rules.Correcness
	* AvoidConstructorsInStaticTypesRule [Lukasz Knop]
	* CallingEqualsWithNullArgRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* FloatComparisonRule [Lukasz Knop]
	* MethodCanBeMadeStaticRule [JB Evain]
	* UseValueInPropertySetterRule [Lukasz Knop]

	Gendarme.Rules.Design (new)
	* DontDeclareProtectedFieldsInSealedClassRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* UsingCloneWithoutImplementingICloneableRule [Nidhi Rawal]

	Gendarme.Rules.Exceptions
	* DontSwallowErrorsCatchingNonspecificExceptionRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Gendarme.Rules.Naming (new)
	* AttributesEndsWithAttributeSuffixRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* DetectNonAlphaNumericsInTypeNamesRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* EnumsNotEndsWIthEnumOrFlagsSuffixRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* UsePluralNameInEnumFlagsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* UseSingularNameInEnumsUnlessAreFlagsRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Gendarme.Rules.Performance
	* AvoidToStringOnStringRule [Lukasz Knop]
	* AvoidUncalledPrivateCodeRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* AvoidUninstantiatedInternalClassesRule [Nidhi Rawal]
	* AvoidUnusedParametersRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* DontIgnoreMethodResultRule [Lukasz Knop]

	Gendarme.Rules.Smells (new)
	* AvoidCodeDuplicatedInSameClassRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidCodeDuplicatedInSiblingClassesRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidLargeClassRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidLongMethodsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidLongParameterListsRule [Nestor Salceda]
	* AvoidSpeculativeGeneralityRule [Nestor Salceda]

	Gendarme.Rules.Ui (new)
	* GtkSharpExecutableTargetRule [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* SystemWindowsFormsExecutableTargetRule [Sebastien Pouliot]

	A special thanks to Nestor Salceda for his continuing dedication 
	to the project including a lot of "not so fun" (but so important)
	tasks, like merging, rule documentation & bug hunting. You rock!

2006-10-16  Version 0.0.3

	* New rule for String.Empty [Sebastien Pouliot]
	* New XML and HTML (via XSL transform) output [Christian Birkl, 
	Sebastien Pouliot]
	* Updated to latest Cecil API [JBEvain]

2006-06-19  Version 0.0.2

	* Aaron Tomb added new rules for Concurrency and Correctness (based 
	on his works in Google's Summer of Code 2005) and updated the 
	framework;
	* Russell Morris added new rules for exceptions management.

2005-11-03  Version 0.0.1

	* Initial version. Expect everything to change before 0.0.2 ;-)
