• Refactored the implementation of the VoidAwareAssigner which would otherwise cause unexpected behavior in its
  default state.
• Added a missing boxing instruction to the InvocationHandlerAdapter.

• Extended Instrumentation.Context to support field accessors.
• Added the TypePool abstraction and added a default implementation.
• Refactored annotations to have an intermediate form as AnnotationDescription which does not need to represent loaded values.
• Refactored several built-in Instrumentation, among others, all implementations now support TypeDescription in addition to loaded Class as their arguments
• Added several annotations that apply to the MethodDelegation.

• Added support for optionally specifying a ProtectionDomain for the built-in ClassLoadingStrategy implementations.
• Fixed a bug in the resolution of resources of the ByteArrayClassLoader and its child-first implementation.

• Added basic support for Java 7 types MethodHandle and MethodType which are available from Java 7 for injection.
• Added support for type redefinition and type rebasing.
• Added support for accessing a JVM's HotSwap features and a Java agent.
• Added latent a child-first ClassLoadingStrategy and manifest versions of the WRAPPER and CHILD_FIRST default class loading strategies.

• Added proper support for defining class initializers. Added support for field caching from method instrumentations, mainly for allowing the reuse of Method instances for the @Origin annotation and the InvocationHandlerAdapter.

Added several bug fixes for existing features. Beyond that the following features were added or changed:

• Changed the semantics of the @SuperCall to be only bindable, if a super method can be invoked. Before, an exception was thrown if only a non-existent or abstract super method was found.
• Added features for the interaction with Java 8 default methods. Refactored method lookup to extract invokable default methods.
• Refactored the invocation of super methods to be created by an Instrumentation.Target. For a future release, this hopefully allows for class redefinitions using today's API for creating subclasses.
• Upgraded to ASM 5.0.3.

• First general release.