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+## BETA15
+
+- BREAKING: All JRuleWhen has to be change to corresponding JRuleWhenItemChanged (as an example, look at JRule Examples
+  documentation)
+- JRule When refactoring by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/61
+- Thing Channel triggers by [seime](https://github.com/seime) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/62
+- Generate Actions by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/63
+- Add option to get groupMembers as Items by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/65
+- Memberof Trigger by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/66
+- Fix buffer being read twice and breaking classloading by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/67
+- Fix missing precondition support for timer rules by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/68
+- Fix timer trigger by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/70
+- Initial tests for JRuleWhenItemChange triggers by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/73
+- Threadlocal logging - some improvements by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/79
+- Junit test for duplicate rule invocations by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/75
+- Add docker integration test by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/77
+- Include old thing status in event by [seime](https://github.com/seime) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/80
+- Use thread safe list instead of arraylist by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/81
+- Defer to parent classloader if file not found by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/83
+- Fix inheritance in actions by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/87
+- Fix mqtt for tests by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/91
+- Fix ConcurrentModificationException in test by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  PR https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/92
+- Added typing for thing channel triggers, ie `JRuleWhen(channel = binding_thing.triggerChannel)` instead of typing the
+  channel id string
+
+## BETA14
+
+- Thing support in rules by [seime](https://github.com/seime) pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/59
+    - BREAKING: jrule-items.jar has been renamed to jrule-generated.jar
+- Added missing sendCommand for StopMove commands by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/57
+- Fixed parsing of double value for Quantity type by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/56
+- Added generic action handler by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/55 see exampe #34
+- Refactoring of event for channel plus cleanup by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/52
+- Refactoring of persistance functions and item handling with exceptions
+  by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/51
+- Added item id and fixes for generated items by [LumnitzF](https://github.com/LumnitzF)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/50
+- Added MDC Logging tags to be used with elastic search (logstash,kibana and similar)
+  by [querdenker2k](https://github.com/querdenker2k) pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/49
+- Fixed parsing of double values in rule conditions by [seime](https://github.com/seime)
+  pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/48
+- Fixed parsing of UNDEF by [seime](https://github.com/seime) pr https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/45
+
+## BETA13
+
+- Fixed a bug with naming of JRuleItems.java
+- Fixed issues with post and sendCommand to groups
+
+## BETA12
+
+- Major refactoring by seime https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/42
+    - Replaces the templating mechanism with Freemarker, mainly to allow more advanced constructs such as loops -
+      and to avoid all the repetitive code in the template files
+    - Generates a new file Items.java which looks a bit like
+      public class Items {
+      public static MySwitchItem SwitchItem = JRuleItemRegistry.get("MySwitchItem", MySwitchItem.class);
+      public static MyStringItem StringItem = JRuleItemRegistry.get("MyStringItem", MyStringItem.class);
+      }
+    - Adds a skeleton support for LocationItem (which was missing)
+    - Adds a new field LABEL (item label)
+    - Adds a few convenience methods such as getLabel() and getName()
+    - Adds more typing of Group items
+
+## BETA11
+
+- Wrap TransformationException in JRuleExecutionException by seime https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/39
+- Add equivalent postUpdate logging as sendCommand by seime https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/38
+- Fix group sendCommand for UpDown by seime https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/36
+- Added eq and neq to channel event by gerrieg https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/35
+- Added support for ZonedDateTime in DateTimeItem by gerrieg https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/34
+- Fixed issued with undef item for state
+- Added mocked eventbus for testing rules with junit
+
+## BETA10
+
+- Optimized items by gerrieg https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/33
+- Syntax change: event.getValue(), event.getValuesAsDouble() etc replaced with event.getState().getValue() and
+  event.getState().getValueAsDouble()
+- Syntax change JRuleSwitchItem.sendCommand(myItem, ON) replaced with JRuleSwitchItem.forName(myItem).sendCommand(ON)
+
+## BETA9
+
+- Fixed bug with item generation and forName overloading
+
+## BETA8
+
+- Added forName for items see example
+  27 https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/commit/0952ae497d998c5728a85df407bfbf3f1909f8e9
+- Added itemName and OldState by gerrieg https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/31
+
+## BETA7
+
+- Fixed item for Number:Quantity, you can now send a quantity type in the command see example 26
+- Added precondition see example 24 and 25 by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/30
+- Added possibility to use subdirs and packages for rules by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/30
+
+## BETA6
+
+- Added seprate thread executors supplied by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/23
+- Added Windows Support by LumnitzF https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/24
+- Added cancellation of repeating timers by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/26
+- Null check on timers with futures by seime https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/29
+- Update to Openhab 3.3.0
+- Fixed rescheduling of timers by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/28
+- Added check for repeating timers by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/27
+- Fixed repeated timer executing directly by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/25
+- Added transformation sevice example 23 by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/20
+- Improved compiler error logging by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/12
+- Added UP/Down support for group items by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/13
+- Quantity Type support by seime: https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/14
+- Configurable item-prefix by weberjn https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/16
+- Improve exception handling by No3x https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/19
+- Made thread executors configurable, default disabled
+- Possible to build jrule standalone https://github.com/seaside1/jrule/pull/24 or together with Openhab-addons
+- Cleaned up repostiory from binary files. Remove and old clones of jrule and clone a fresh repo
+
+## BETA5
+
+- Addes support for adding rules in jar-files, as an alternative.
+
+## BETA4
+
+- Added config for character to be used when generating items files
+
+## BETA3
+
+- Major refactoring of logging
+
+## BETA2
+
+- Fixed color item
+- Added annotation for setting logger on a rule see example 21 and 22
+- Optional to override getLogName on class
+- Contact item update
+- Rollershutter item support added
+- UpDown, Increase Decrease support added to various items
+- OnOff and Percent commands added to ColorItem
+
+## BETA1
+
+- Added color item see example 20
+- Moved org.openhab.automation.jrule.rules.JRuleOnOffvalue, JRulePlayPause etc to
+  org.openhab.automation.jrule.rules.value
+
+## ALPHA12
+
+- Fix some language typos, some refactor of java classes, improved initialization of singletons due to concurrency
+  aspects
+
+## ALPHA11
+
+- Added check for working dir via system properties
+
+## ALPHA10
+
+- Added LatUpdate via JRulePersistenceExtentions see example 19
+
+## ALPHA9
+
+- Added cron expressions for rules see example 18
+- Bug fix by @roth for reloading channel triggers
+
+## ALPHA8
+
+- Channel triggers provided by @roth see example 17
+
+## ALPHA7
+
+- Fixed bug with group member value was null for non StringType types
+
+## ALPHA6
+
+- Added group functionality getMember will return who triggered a change for a group
+
+## ALPHA5
+
+- Removed dependencies on slf4japi and eclipse annotations
+- Added logInfo logDebug (to wrap slf4j and remove dep)
+- Fixed compilation of rules to be more robust with internal dependencies
+
+## ALPHA4
+
+- Refactored completable futures
+- Added 5 seconds of delay for initialization of the rule engine to avoid multiple reloads
+- Added support for play & pause for player item
+- Added commandLineExecute
+
+## ALPHA3
+
+- Fixed issue when reloading rules if they are changed with monitored items
+- Fixed classpath issue when executing rules using 3rd party libraries
+
+## ALPHA2
+
+- Added possibility to include 3rd party libraries when developing rules
+
+## ALPHA1
+
+- Refactored internal jar dependencies and jar-generation
+- Added eq comparator for number triggers in rules