FlatBuffers release 1.1.0

A summary of what is in this release since 1.0.0:

• An extensive overhaul to the Java API.
• Out-of-the-box support for C# and Go.
• An optional verifier to make FlatBuffers practical in untrusted scenarios.
• .proto parsing for easier migration from Protocol Buffers.
• Optional manual assignment of field IDs.
• Dictionary functionality through binary search on a key field.
• Bug fixes and other improvements thanks to 200+ commits from 28 contributors.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.3

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• C# is now supported.
• flatc is able to convert .proto files to FlatBuffer schemas for easier migration from Protocol Buffers.
• Java FlatBuffers functionality is now more friendly, with better generated code for tables and vectors in particular.
• Support for required fields.
• C++ enums are now strongly typed.
• Option to generate dependent includes in C++
  ... and many smaller fixes.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.2

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• Schemas can now include other schemas directly.
• Schemas can refer to types from unrelated namespaces.
• JSON parsing & writing supports unicode escape codes (\u).
• Enum value prefixing in C++ is now an option.

FlatBuffers interim release 1.0.1

This is an interim release before 1.1.0, with important bug fixes and a few new features:

• Initial support for the Go programming language.
• Verification functionality allows safe access of buffers from untrusted sources.
• File identification allows convenient magic-number sanity checks when a FlatBuffer is used as a file format.
• Ability to manually assign field id's in the schema.
• Improved enum parsing functionality in JSON.
• bit_flags for enums.
• Nested FlatBuffer support.
• Vector iterators.

FlatBuffers release 1.0.0

This is the initial release. See http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/ for more.