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# 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.

# Software

- About XStream
- News
- Change History
- About Versioning

# Evaluating XStream

- Two Minute Tutorial
- Object references
- Tweaking the Output
- License
- Download
- References
- Statistics

# Using XStream

- Architecture Overview
- Converters
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Users' Mailing List
- JavaDoc Core
- JavaDoc Benchmark
- Reporting Issues

# Tutorials

- Two Minute Tutorial
- Alias Tutorial
- Annotations Tutorial
- Converter Tutorial
- Object Streams Tutorial
- Persistence API Tutorial
- JSON Tutorial

# Developing XStream

- How to Contribute
- Developers' Mailing List
- Development Team
- Source Repository
- Continuous Integration