James Mime4J 0.8.2 has been released.

This release includes the following changes:

• MIME4J-270: Using “alternative” as default subtype
• MIME4J-263: decoding encoded words with empty encoded-text
• MIME4J-279: Fixed JavaDoc errors to comply with Java8
• MIME4J-280: Improve exception handling
• MIME4J-283: DecoderUtil performance fix

The library is available as a maven artifact, for instance for mime4j core:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.james</groupId>
    <artifactId>apache-mime4j-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.3</version>
</dependency>

You can also download the release artifacts here.