- performance improvements in CSV and fixed width handling
- untyped expression evaluation is now based on the value’s type, instead of the field’s declared type
- BUGFIX: now handles untyped expressions between primitive and object values
- float expressions are now upgraded to doubles during evaluation
- all non doubles and floats numbers are now upgraded to longs during evaluation
- expressions can now reference Java beans, not just primitive values
- method call expression now finds the most appropriate method based on the runtime argument types (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch)
- improved handling for collections and arrays in DataException properties
- Apache PoiProvider can now distinguish between date, time, and datetimes fields in Excel