The commons-codec team is pleased to announce the Codec 1.3.1 release! 

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/

The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats 
such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and 
decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding 
utilities. 

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o 
  Fixed bugs:

o Using US_ENGLISH in Soundex causes an NPE.  Issue addressed and
  test case added to SoundexTest.
  Issue: 37894. Thanks to Reggie Riser. 

  Changes:

o 

Have fun!
-The commons-codec team