About XStream version numbers...

# Stable Version: 1.3.1

- Binary distribution
- Source distribution
- XStream Core only
- XStream Benchmark module

# Latest Snapshot

Below are builds of the latest version of XStream from the repository.

- Complete distributions
- XStream Core only
- XStream Benchmark module

# Previous Releases

Previous releases of XStream are also available. However, use of the latest stable version is recommended.

- Previous releases (>= 1.2)
- Previous releases (<= 1.2)

# Optional Dependencies

- Supported XML parsers and packages:
  - Xpp3, an XML pull parser (recommended, to improve performance).
  - DOM4J, easy XML representation and manipulation framework.
  - JDOM, easy XML representation and manipulation.
  - StaX, the reference implementation of the Streaming API for XML.
  - Woodstox, an alternate open source StaX implementation.
  - XOM, another alternative XML API.
- Other optional 3rd party dependencies:
  - Joda Time for optional ISO8601 date/time formats.
  - CGLIB for optional support of some proxies generated with the CGLIB Enhancer.
  - Jettison for serialization and deserialization support with JSON.