Google Inc. is announcing that Guava with version number 18 / 19.0-rc1 is already available to download.

What is Guava ?

Guava is A very large collection of Java libraries from Google, regularly used in their projects, covering basic functionality and features . The Guava cover a lot of basic points when it comes to Java programming, but not enough to be called a proper Java framework.Dealing with low-level functionality, string, and data processing, the Guava collection can be used whenever needing to do basic processing work and looking for a good tool to rely on.Since most open source projects tend to be active just for some periods of time, choosing Guava over other libraries should be a no-brainer, since Google values the Java language quite much, using it for many of its projects and always keeping enough developers around to help maintain, expand, and upgrade the code to any Java update.Libraries for working with:CachingCollectionsCommon annotationsConcurrencyEventBusFunctional IdiomsHashingI/OMathNetworkingPrimitivesRangesReflectionStrings This is changelog for Guava version 18 / 19.0-rc1 :

• Fixed:
• Replace Enums.valueOfFunction() with a bidirectional Converter
• Provide custom exception handling in EventBus
• Truncate a String at a maximum length

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: github.com