| ffd9ed | 2002-12-05 | Martin Nilsson | | Changes since Pike 7.4:
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| 6bf19a | 2002-09-15 | Peter Bortas | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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| cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | |
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| bf7e8e | 2002-09-26 | Martin Nilsson | | New/improved functionality:
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| cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | |
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| ffd9ed | 2002-12-05 | Martin Nilsson | | o rsif
rsif can now work recursively in a file structure if given the
flag -r or --recursive. Example:
pike -x rsif -r 7.4 7.6
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| 8a6b14 | 2002-11-29 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| 670abd | 2003-01-12 | Martin Stjernholm | | o The automatic garbage collection strategy is configurable
The garbage collector can be configured to take both the amount of
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| 60a394 | 2003-04-28 | Martin Stjernholm | | garbage and the cpu time spent in the gc into account. Automatic
gc runs can also be disabled in critical regions. See the function
Pike.gc_parameters.
o sort() is stable
Unlike previous releases, sort() will keep the original order
between elements that are equal. This was not implemented as a
separate function since it could be done with virtually no extra
overhead.
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| 670abd | 2003-01-12 | Martin Stjernholm | |
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| a594a1 | 2003-07-23 | Martin Nilsson | | o sort() is portable
Sort is now locale and platform independent. In other words,
strings are now compared only according to the unicode value of
every character.
o Reworked codec
The codec for serialization of Pike data types has been updated
and has a significally improved successrate at encoding modules.
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Less magic hacks
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| a6a1f1 | 2003-09-30 | Johan Sundström | | Several Pike modules have been cleaned up from old hacks and
workarounds for problems which now have proper solutions. This
should improve size, performance, dumpability and readability
of the affected code. In addition lots of internal types in Pike
have been tightened up and several more files now use the pragma
strict_types, which has resulted in some additional bugfixes.
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | |
o INT64
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| 0876ef | 2004-02-19 | Martin Nilsson | | On 64 bit architechtures Pike will now use full 64 bits integer
before resorting to Gmp.mpz objects for large numbers.
o IPv6
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| 29147c | 2002-10-31 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | Build baluns:
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bundles
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| bf7e8e | 2002-09-26 | Martin Nilsson | | Language additions:
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| 6bf19a | 2002-09-15 | Peter Bortas | |
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| cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | |
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| 8a6b14 | 2002-11-29 | Martin Nilsson | | New modules / classes / methods added:
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| cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | |
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| 0876ef | 2004-02-19 | Martin Nilsson | | o trace() can trace all threads
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| 6b6b1d | 2003-01-09 | Martin Stjernholm | | The configure option --without-thread-trace has been removed, but
instead the trace() function has been extended to make it possible
to set the trace level in all threads simultaneously.
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Regexp.PCRE added to give libpcre support.
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| 0876ef | 2004-02-19 | Martin Nilsson | | Are you a closet-perlet? For those who missed the richer flora of
regexp syntax that Perl supports, the Perl Compatible Regular
Expression module is the answer. If you compile libpcre with UTF-8
support you will also get transparent wide string support. Several
convenience functions are also added to the Regexp module to
enable easier access to regular expressions.
o Crypto/Nettle
The crypto module has been almost completely rewritten and now
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| 412eb1 | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | uses libnettle as backend instead of the built in crypto
algorithms that Pike had before. This way Pike will benefit from
the more active development and optimization work in the Nettle
project. The most common hash and cipher methods are already
written in assembler for several platforms. As an example SHA1 is
about 40% faster than before on Intel platforms.
With the new nettle support comes support for two new cipher
algorithms, Blowfish and Serpent, and the new NIST hash algorithm
SHA256. Note that the new Crypto module has renamed its
identifiers to be consistent with the rest of Pike, and in some
cases to clarify or correct bad names. The old names still work,
but produce a warning unless Pike is run in compatibility mode.
Compatibility outside compatibility mode will be removed in the
future.
The interfaces for the hash and cipher algorithms has been
improved and they no longer only conform to predefined interfaces,
but actually inherits Hash/HashState and Cipher/CipherState. Every
algorithm is in itself a module in the Crypto module, and inherits
the Hash/Cipher class. This module contains instance non-specific
methods such as digest_size or key_size. By calling the `() method
in the module a HashState/CipherState object is returned, which is
a hash/cipher instance which can be used for streaming operations.
Examples:
Crypto.MD5.hash("Hash this string");
Crypto.MD5()->update("Hash this ")->update("string")->digest();
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | The confusing and hard to use Crypto.randomness has been obsoleted
by the Nettle implementation of the Yarrow random generator. The
Nettle implementation of Yarrow uses AES and SHA256. The
Crypto.Random module acts as a frontend before system crypto
sources and ensure that no matter how bad your OS is, you will
still get cryptographically strong random data.
o Crypto.PGP
The start of a PGP/GPG toolkit. It still cannot handle all types
of signatures nor generate any, but it is useful to verify
selfsigned code and data.
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o ADT.Struct
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | This module makes it possible to work with binary formats of the
packed-struct-type. Simply create a class and specify the members
in order, create an object with a file object as argument and then
read the decoded values from the object as ordinary variables.
class ID3 {
inherit ADT.Struct;
Item head = Chars(3);
Item title = Chars(30);
Item artist = Chars(30);
Item album = Chars(30);
Item year = Chars(4);
Item comment = Chars(30);
Item genre = Byte();
}
Stdio.File f = Stdio.File("foo.mp3");
f->seek(-128);
ADT.Struct tag = ID3(f);
if(tag->head=="TAG") {
write("Title: %s\n", tag->title);
tag->title = "A new title" + "\0"*19;
f->seek(-128);
f->write( (string)tag );
}
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | o ADT.BitBuffer
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | When operating on data formats that are defined on bit level, the
ADT.BitBuffer presents a convenient interface. It operates as a
FIFO buffer on bit level, which allows you to read and write bits
and bytes.
> ADT.BitBuffer b=ADT.BitBuffer();
> b->put1(2);
(1) Result: ADT.BitBuffer(11)
> b->put0(15);
(2) Result: ADT.BitBuffer("À\0"0)
> b->drain();
(3) Result: "À\0"
> sizeof(b);
(4) Result: 1
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Debug.Wrapper
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | A simple litte wrapper that can be placed around another object to
get printouts about what is happening to it. Only a few LFUNs are
currently supported.
> object x=Debug.Wrapper(Crypto.MD5());
Debug.Wrapper is proxying ___Nettle.MD5_State()
> x->name();
___Nettle.MD5_State()->name
(1) Result: "md5"
> !x;
!___Nettle.MD5_State()
(2) Result: 0
o Image.NEO
Support for one of the major image formats on Atari ST/STE,
including decoding of color cycling. The C bitmap and palette
handler can be used to implement other atari image formats.
o _ADT
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Geography RT38
o Int
o Pike.Security
o Protocols.HTTP.Session
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| 0876ef | 2004-02-19 | Martin Nilsson | | o Tools.Shoot/Standalone.benchmark
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Standalone.cgrep
o Standalone.dump
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | o Standalone.extract_locale
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| 8d23b0 | 2003-09-30 | Martin Nilsson | | o Image.NEO
o Bz2
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| 820ec7 | 2004-02-03 | Martin Nilsson | | o Process.Process
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | o Error
o Float
o GLUE
o Protocols.Bittorrent
o Protocols.LMTP
o Web.RDF/RDFS/OWL/RSS
o Parser.RCS
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| 638b8d | 2002-09-22 | Martin Stjernholm | |
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| cd683a | 2001-07-27 | Johan Sundström | | Optimizations:
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| 38a674 | 2002-12-31 | Per Hedbor | | o Instantiation and destruction of pike-classes is now significantly faster.
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| 770a0b | 2003-07-23 | Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) | |
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| 60a394 | 2003-04-28 | Martin Stjernholm | | o Handling of bignums has been optimized, especially conversion
to/from normal integers.
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| 38a674 | 2002-12-31 | Per Hedbor | |
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | o String case conversion is now five times faster than before on
average.
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| 412eb1 | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| 6bf19a | 2002-09-15 | Peter Bortas | |
Compatibility changes:
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| e2a738 | 2002-11-24 | Peter Bortas | | Compatibility changes without backward compatibility:
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | o Module ABI changed
The pike_frame struct has a new member, which makes modules compiled
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| 6f68f4 | 2004-04-21 | Martin Nilsson | | with earlier versions of Pike incompatible.
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| fc7f8d | 2002-11-24 | Martin Stjernholm | |
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| bf7e8e | 2002-09-26 | Martin Nilsson | | C level/development changes:
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| deeeee | 2004-04-20 | Martin Nilsson | | o The security.h include file is renamed to pike_security.h
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| 6bf19a | 2002-09-15 | Peter Bortas | | Bugs fixed:
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| bf7e8e | 2002-09-26 | Martin Nilsson | |
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| e2a738 | 2002-11-24 | Peter Bortas | | Uncategorized misc changes:
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