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2013-11-15

2013-11-15 19:06:29 by Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) <grubba@grubba.org>

CHANGES: Added a few recent changes.

Also adjusted the formatting to be more consistent through out.

113:    not work before.      o "Safe" index +     Copied from a popular extension to other C-like languages.       X[?ind] is equivalent to ((auto _ = X),(_ && _[ind]))
136:    This is especially useful then A is not actually 0, but an object    that evaluates to false, or UNDEFINED.    +    New preprocessor features   -------------------------      o Support for the ", ##__VA_ARGS__" cpp feature. -  +     This makes the ‘##’ token paste operator have a special meaning    when placed between a comma and a variable argument. If you write   
151:    token preceding ‘##’ is anything other than a comma.      o The preprocessor can now be run with a cpp prefix feature. +     This is currently used by the precompiler to avoid two levels of    preprocessing, one using "#cmod_" as the prefix and the other "#".      o Dynamic macros -  +     You can now add programatic macros. There is currently no syntax    that can be used to define these while compiling code, but you can    add them from one program before compiling plug-ins/modules.
210:   -------------      o New significantly faster block allocator +     The free in the old one was O(n^2), which means that as an example    creating a lot of objects and then free:ing them mainly used CPU in    the block allocator.
262:    faster.      o Several other optimizations to execution speed has been done +     + object indexing (cache, generic speedups) -  +     + lower_apply, changes to apply in general    Taken together these individually small optimizations speeds up at    least pike -x benchmark more than 5%. -  +     + A lot of opcodes implemented in machine-code for x86-64    This speed up the loop benchmarks close to a factor of 3. But then    again, most real code is nothing like that benchmark. -  +     + Several new opcodes added    As an example an observation was that most branch_if_zero is    followed by an is_eq, is_lt or is_gt or similar. Those opcodes
278:    pop_stack etc.      o Faster hash-function for strings +     + Also siphash24 was added and is used in case the string hash table    becomes inefficient    -  +    Deprecated features and modules   -------------------------------      o Tools.PEM and Tools.X409 deprecated -  +     Use the corresponding modules in Standards.      o The built in sandbox is now deprecated -  +     Unless somebody wants to take ownership of the feature and keep it    up to date the security system will be removed in the next stable    release.    -  +    Removed features and modules   ----------------------------      o Removed facets -  +     The optional (and not enabled by default) support for facet classes    has been removed, since it was only partially done and not really    used.      o It is no longer possible to compile pike without libgmp. -  +     Bignums are now a required language feature      o The old low-level 'files' module has been renamed to _Stdio
308:   o 'GTK' is now GTK2, not GTK1 unless the system has no GTK2 support.      o Locale.Charset +     The charset module is now available on the top level as 'Charset'    -  + o The compiler now warns about switch statements where the cases +  aren't enumerable, since these will generate random failures +  if the code is read from a dump. +  +    New modules   -----------      o Pike.Watchdog -  +     A Watchdog that ensures that the process is not hung for an extended    period of time. The definition of 'hung' is: Has not used the    default backend.
330:    was called.      o Crypto.Password +     A module that can be used to verify and create passwd/ldap style    password hashes.       It tries to support most common password hashing schemes.      o Debug.Profiling -  +     Tools useful for collecting and format for output the profiling    information generated when pike is compiled --with-profiling.      o NetUtils -  +     This module contains a lot of functions useful for the storage and    processing of network addresses, it supports IPv4 and IPv6.      o Added ADT.CritBit module -  +     Mapping-like key-sorted data structures for string, int and    float-keys (ADT.CritBit.Tree, ADT.CritBit.IntTree,    ADT.CritBit.FloatTree). Implemented in C.      o Standards.BSON -  +     A new module for working with BSON serialized data.    See http://bsonspec.org/      o Geography.GeoIP -  +     Does geolocation of IPv4-numbers using databases from maxmind.com    or software77.net      o Protocols.WebSocket -  +     An implementation of the WebSocket (RFC 6455) standard, both server    and client      o Image.WebP -  +     Encoder and decoder for the WEBP image format.    More information about the format can be found on    https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/      o Serializer -  +     APIs useful to simplify serialization and deserialization of    objects Mainly it allows you to easily iterate over the object    variables, including the private ones.
375:    using encode_value.      o Filesystem.Monitor and the low level System.Inotify + System.FSEvents +     Basic filesystem monitoring.       This module is intended to be used for incremental scanning of a
385:    polling approach.      o Mysql.SqlTable +     This class provides some abstractions on top of an SQL table.       At the core it is generic for any SQL database, but the current
397:    between SQL and pike data types      o Parser.CSV +     This is a parser for line oriented data that is either comma,    semi-colon or tab separated. It extends the functionality    of the Parser.Tabular with some specific functionality related    to a header and record oriented parsing of huge datasets.      o ZXID -  +     ZXID is a library that implements SAML 2.0, Liberty ID-WSF 2.0    and XACML 2.0.   
410:    to the C one, but using generally accepted Pike syntax.      o Git +     A module for interacting with the Git distributed version control    system.      o Val -  +     This module contains special values used by various modules, e.g.    a Val.null value used both by Sql and Standards.JSON.   
425:    base classes defined here provide required functionality directly.      o __builtin +     The __builtin module is now a directory module, so that it can provide    a suitable namespace for code written in Pike intended for being    inherited from modules written in C (cf precompile).       -  +    Extensions and new functions   ----------------------------   o Bz2.File added -  +     It implements a Stdio.File like API, including support for the same    iterator API that Stdio.File has, allowing for convenient line    iterations over BZ2 compressed files. -  +     | foreach( Bz2.File("log.bz2")->line_iterator(); int n; string line )      o Image.JPEG -  +     + decode now supports basic CMYK/YCCK support -  +     + exif_decode is a new function that will rotate the image    according to exif information      o String.Buffer -  +     String.Buffer can now add the storage from a different String.Buffer    object with the add() method.   
456:    position.      o SDL.Music added to SDL. +     Allows the playback of audio/music files.    Requires the SDL_mixed library.      o System.TM -  +     Low-level wrapper for struct tm.       This can be used to do (very) simple calendar operations. It is,
468:    and localtime() and friends, but in a (perhaps) easier to use API.      o decode_value now throws the error object Error.DecodeError. +     Useful to catch format errors in the decode string.      o Process.daemon -  +     The daemon() function is for programs wishing to detach themselves    from the controlling terminal and run in the background as system    daemons.      o Debug.pp_object_usage() -  +     Pretty-print debug information, useful to get debug information    about object counts and memory usage in pike applications.   
483:    for RAM-usage in C-objects that allocate their own memory.      o Mysql +     + Added support more modern client libraries (incl. MariaDB) -  +     + Mysql.mysql now has methods to query the id or SQLSTATE of the    last error.      o Protocols.DNS -  +     + Prevent endless loops in maliciously crafted domain names. -  +     + Add QTYPE T_ANY to DNS enum EntryType in DNS.pmod. -  +     + Handle truncated labels -  +     + TCP client and server support      o Thread no longer inherits Thread.Thread (aka thread_create)
498:   o Thread.Farm now might work      o Cmod precompiler. +     + inherit "identifier"    -- inherit the program returned by calling master()->resolve() on    the specified identifier. Useful to inherit code written in pike.      o String.levenshtein_distance() -  +     The function calculates the Levenshtein distance between two    strings. The Levenshtein distance describes the minimum number of    edit operations (insert, delete or substitute a character) to get
513:    differences is expected.      o System.sync() +     Synchronizes the filesystem on systems where this is possible    (currently windows and UNIX-like systems).      o System.getloadavg() -  +     Return the current 1, 5 and 15 minute system load averages as an array.      o glob() -  +     The glob function has been extended to accept an array of globs as    the first (glob pattern) argument.   
528:    entries that match any glob in the first array.      o Stdio.UDP(): +     + added IPv6 multicast support -  +     + added set_buffer      o Stdio.File(): -  +     + send_fd and receive_fd    These functions can be used to send and receive an open    file-descriptor over another file-descriptor. The functions are
545:       _fd is still available for compatibility, but internally it is gone.    +  + Fixed grantpt() on Solaris failing with EPERM. +    o Unicode databases updated to 6.3.0 from 5.1.0 -  +     This is the latest released Unicode database from unicode.org.      o The Search search engine module has seen several fixes -  +     + Added support for padded blobs. This improves performance when    incrementally growing blobs. This feature is only enabled if    Search.Process.Compactor says this is OK, see the documentation
564:    ('foo and bar and foo')      o pike -x benchmark +     + Output format changed -  +     + Also added support for JSON output. -  +     + The results should be more consistent. -  +     + Added options to allow comparison with a previous run.      o New stand-alone tools added to make it possible to build    documentation without the pike build tree -  +     + autodoc_to_html    AutoDoc XML to HTML converter. -  +     + autodoc_to_split_html    AutoDoc XML to splitted HTML converter. -  +     + git_export_autodoc    Exports a stream of autodoc.xml suitable for git-fast-import.    Used on pike-librarian.      o Readline tries to set the charset to the terminal charset -  +     This makes it possible to write non-7bit characters on a terminal    if the terminal supports it.      o Fixed units in pike --help=kladdkaka      o Several changes has been done to the GTK2 module -  +     + GTK2.DrawingArea no longer crash in draw_text if you pass odd parameters. -  +     + draw_pixbuf can now be passed width and height -1, which makes it    take the size from the passed image. -  +     + GDKEvent no longer crash when you extract strings from them -  +     + accelerators now work -  +     + Fixed RadioToolButton -  +     + signal_connect can now connect a signal in front of the list -  +     + Several fixes to Tree related objects -  +     + GTK2.SourceView added -  +     + GTK2.Spinner added      o A few issues were fixed that were found by Coverity -  +     + Fixed memory leak in Math.Transform -  +     + Fixed two compares that were written as assignments (errno    checks for EINTR for sockets)      o System.get_home + System.get_user -  +     (mostly) Cross-platform ways to get the user name and home directory.      o System.AllocConsole, System.FreeConsole and System.AttachConsole for NT -  +     These are useful to create or close the console window that is    shown for pike programs.      o Process - forkd -  +     Forkd can be used to more cheaply create new processes on UNIX like    systems.   
622:    created.      o MacOSX CoreFoundation support in the backend +     This makes it somewhat more likely that native libraries can work    with pike.      o Better IPv6 support. -  +     This includes detection of IPV6 mapped IPV4 addresses    (::FFFF:i.p.v.4) and full support for IPv6 in the UDP    code.
633:   o Asynchronous Protocols.SNMP client      o Fixes to Process.run, Process.spawn_pike and friends. +     + Support OS/2 path conventions -  +     + Fixed multiple issues with search_path()/locate_binary()    - locate_binary() is now more reliable on Windows    - Now invalidates the cached path is PATH is changed    - Uses locate_binary to scan the path    - spawn_pike() now uses search_path() -  +     + You can now optionally have System.spawn_pike pass predefines,    program and include path to the spawned pike, in addition to the    module path.      o Lots of autodoc fixes -  +     A lot more of the previously existing, but broken, documentation is    now readable.      o predef::types -  +     This is equivalent to values and indices, but instead gives the    types for each value.       Basically only useful for objects.      o Builtin._get_setter -  +     This function returns a setter for a variable in an object.    The setter, when called, will set the variable value to the passed    argument.      o Parser.XML.Tree fixes -  +     + Several namespace improvement and handling fixes      o New charsets -  +     A lot of ISO-IR charsets added:    9-1, 9-2, 31, 232, 234, 231 (aka ANSI/NISO Z39.46, aka ANSEL) 230    (aka TDS 565) 225 (SR 14111:1998), 197/209 (sami) 208 (IS 434:1997)
672:    9566-97). Fixed CSA_Z242.4      o Several fixes to Protocols.HTTP +     + Improved Protocols.HTTP.Query.PseudoFile    (significantly better Stdio.Stream simulation) -  +     + Do not use hard coded Linux errno:s -  +     + Case insensitive handling of header overrides in do_method -  +     + Fixed broken check for URL passwords when querying -  +     + Add more descriptive HTTP responses along with a mostly complete    list of codes -  +     + Handle non-standards compliant relative redirects -  +     + Cleaner handling of async DNS failures -  +     + Handle chunked transfer encoding correctly when doing async    queries -  +     + Fixes for the proxy client support -  +     + Several keep-alive handling fixes -  +     + Server:    - More forgiving MIME parsing for MSIE    - Fixed range header handling
696:    - Ignore errors in close when destroying the object      o dtrace support (on MacOSX) +     Pike now supports dtrace events on function enter and leaving (and    when stack frames are notionally popped, for functions doing    tailrecursion).    -  + o sizeof() now supports ADT.struct. +  +    Crypto and SSL   --------------      o SNI client extension support for SSL (Server Name Indicator)      o Standards.PEM -  +     + Added some support for encrypted PEM files      o Nettle refactored      o AES support added to the SSL module -  +     This adds support for the following cipher suites:    TLS_rsa_with_aes_128_cbc_sha    TLS_dhe_dss_with_aes_128_cbc_sha
747:    TLS_dhe_dss_with_camellia_256_cbc_sha    TLS_dhe_rsa_with_camellia_256_cbc_sha    + o Crypto.SALSA20 and Crypto.SALSA20R12    -  +  The 128/256 bit cipher SALSA20 is now available as a stream cipher +  in Crypto. SALSA20R12 is SALSA20 reduced to just 12 rounds. +  + o Crypto.SHA3_224, Crypto.SHA3_256, Crypto.SHA3_384 and Crypto.SHA3_512 +  +  The SHA-3 secure hash algorithm has been added in multiple variants. +  +    Building and installing   -----------------------      o -fvisibility=hidden is now the default -  +     This means that PMOD_EXPORT is now actually needed on systems like    Linux and MacOSX. It also means that the binary is slightly smaller    and faster.      o clang compilation fixes (bignum overflow checks, misc) -  +     It is now possible to compile pike using a modern clang compiler.      o Removed bundles -  +     Pike no longer comes with copies of some libraries, and the support    for that in the makefile has been removed.   
874:   Bug fixes   ---------    + o Fixed symbol resolution with deep inherits and mixins. +    o Fixed backtraces when Protocols.HTTP.Query objects where garbage    collected. [bug 5730]