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2014-12-04

2014-12-04 19:24:38 by Per Hedbor <ph@opera.com>

Removed pre 7.9 changes. Added some more changes.

312:    aren't enumerable, since these will generate random failures    if the code is read from a dump.    + o strlen() now only accepts strings    -  +    Removed features and modules   ----------------------------   
581:       Return the current 1, 5 and 15 minute system load averages as an array.    + o access() +  +  Check if a file exist and can also return if it is readable and or +  writeable for the current process. +    o glob()       The glob function has been extended to accept an array of globs as
897:   o Several OS/2 and windows compilation fixes       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > snip - > snip - > snip - > snip - > snip - > snip - > snip - > snip - > s - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + Lots of bug fixes + -----------------       - Changes since Pike 7.8.352 (third 7.8 release): - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + o Fixed symbol resolution with deep inherits and mixins    - Extensions and New Functions - ---------------------------- + o Fixed PNG 4bpl indexed mode with alpha    - o Added module Search. -  FIXME: Needs a couple of paragraphs of description. + o The _sprintf LFUN now works with %F    - o has_prefix now works on objects. + o A lot more, see the (more or less) full changelog for more info:    - o Standards.JSON -  -  New module for encoding and decoding JSON data. Implemented in C. -  - o Protocols.HTTP.Session will no longer override an existing -  content-type header in async_do_method_url. -  - o Protocols.HTTP -  -  Allow directly specifying the body of a POST request (needed for the -  Google Apps API). -  - o Updated timezone data to tzdata2010o. -  - o String.normalize_space -  -  New and efficient C implementation; sanitises whitespace, even in -  wide strings. -  - o String.trim_all_whites -  -  Extended to the entire range of Unicode white spaces. (And is -  faster.) -  - o Tools.PV and pike -x pv now work with GTK2 as well as GTK. -  - o Integer constants exported by modules can now be used in cpp expressions. -  - o Modules/programs that have the constant "dont_dump_program" will not -  be dumped on installation. This is used to prevent dumping of -  programs that check for external dependencies at compile time such -  as the MySQL module. -  - o Added Thread.Queue.peek_array. -  - o Fixed stack overrun bug in Nettle.CBC and Nettle.Proxy. This is not -  belived to have been a security issue. -  - o Added System.getloadavg() on platforms that support the getloadavg() call. -  - o SSL -  -  Added support for AES to SSL3, and fixed bug that prevented some -  handshake failure alerts to be sent to the client. -  - o SSL -  -  Implemented RFC 5746 "TLS Renegotiation Indication Extension". -  - o ADT.Heap->values and ->num_values can now be overloaded. -  -  - Optimizations - ------------- -  - o MIME should now use 1/3 less memory when decoding big messages. -  - o Improved performance of Process.run. -  - o Nettle.hash -  -  Avoid allowing threads during hashing of small strings (current threshold -  is 1 MB). This change improves ApacheBench numbers ~20% for a Roxen -  benchmark on a quad-core Core i5. -  -  - Deprecations - ------------ -  - o The libpq based old Postgres driver is now deprecated. The new pgsql -  driver is faster, better tested, more stable, maintained, has more -  features, does not depend on external libraries and is less filling. -  -  - Incompatible changes - -------------------- -  - o Signal handlers in GTK2 do no longer get their arguments in the -  form of an array. The prototype for a signal handler which was -  previously e.g. -  -  int query_tooltip(GTK2.Widget w, array(mixed) params, mixed callback_arg) -  -  now becomes -  -  int query_tooltip(GTK2.Widget w, int x, int y, int keyboard_tooltip, -  GTK2.GObject tooltip, mixed callback_arg) -  -  - Bug fixes - --------- -  - o Fixed backtraces when Protocols.HTTP.Query objects where garbage -  collected. [bug 5730] -  - o Fixed problem with Calendar.month_from_yday() when applied on week -  53. [bug 5303] -  - o Fixed leak in the PNG decoder for images with tRNS chunk. -  - o System.normalize_path no long fails for files with 8-bit chars in -  their names. -  - o Support undocumented OS behaviour on out-of-band data returning -  EOPNOTSUPP and ECONNRESET when a stream is half closed. -  The undocumented behaviour is found on (at least) 2.6.x Linux -  and FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x. -  - o Use nanosleep() when available instead of poll or select hacks for -  the Pike-level sleep() function. -  - o Fixed dangling cache reference in prepared statements when using CREATE -  statements via Sql.pgsql. -  - o Fixed broken (auto-re-) connect logic in Sql.pgsql. -  - o Improved widestring support for Parser.Tabular. -  - o Fixed segfault in combine_path_nt on windows when the first char -  of an appended path is wide. -  - o Fixed fatal error in the constant expression evaluator of the -  compiler for certain code. -  - o Fixed a problem in "pike -x module" that prevented auto tools from -  running in the correct directory. -  - o Fixed memory leak on out of memory in Mysql.fetch_json_result(). -  - o Fixed locking problem in Mysql. -  - o Fixed NULL-deref for compilation errors in range expressions. -  - o Fixed a segfault occuring if exit() is used from a thread when -  the Pike runtime has been compiled with cleanup-on-exit enabled. -  - o Fixed so than an existing content-type is not overriden in -  async_do_method_url. -  - o Fixed issue where GTK objects weren't destroyed properly. -  http://pike.ida.liu.se/docs/tutorial/hello/window.xml now -  works again. -  - o Fixed several issues related to lables on the X and Y axises -  and the calculation of xmaxvalue for the bars/line/linear case -  in Graphics.Graph. -  - o Fixed encoding/decoding bug in "pike -x httpserver" that prevented -  files with space in the name from being accessable. -  - o Fixed bug that prevented the literal zero from being considered a constant. -  -  - Building and installing - ----------------------- -  - o Fixed some library searchpath issues. -  - o Some potential fixes for --enable-pikelib mode on platforms had -  problems with the final linking. -  - o Some issues with the support for building modules needing -  a C++ compiler have been fixed. -  -  - Changes since Pike 7.8.316 (second 7.8 release): - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -  - General - ------- -  - o ADT.Heap -  The compat functions top() and size() are now marked as deprecated. -  -  - Extensions and New Functions - ---------------------------- -  - o Image.Image -  -  Added support for sending Color objects to the color() function. -  - o Sql.Sql -  -  Added support for fetching result sets as JSON-encoded strings. -  - o Calendar -  -  Updated timezone data to 2009j. -  - o Parser.XML.Tree -  -  Output from render_xml() is now on canonical form. -  - o Added "pike -x httpserver" that implements a minimal HTTP-server -  exporting the current directory. -  -  - Optimizations - ------------- -  - o Lowered startup time by extending encode_value() and MasterCodec so -  that master.pike can be precompiled. -  - o Lowered startup time by reducing the number of MEMSET() calls done -  on startup. -  - o Allow threads while calling SDL_GL_SwapBuffers. -  - o Added optimization of has_value() and search() for single-character strings. -  - o Added optimization when combining two arrays where the second array -  contains a single item. -  -  - Bug fixes - --------- -  - o Fixed casting of floats to strings to again work more like in Pike -  7.6 and earlier: The string will always contain either a "." or an -  "e" to signify that it is a float, and it will no longer display so -  many digits that the binary/decimal conversion errors become -  visible. -  - o Protocols.HTTP.Server.HeaderParser will now discard parts of a -  header value if the header value contains a newline (like "Host: -  google.com\n.hax.net\r\n") and headers without colon. -  - o file_open_socket() now attempts to set SO_REUSEPORT on the socket. -  Potentially fixes issues on FreeBSD 7.x where ports aren't reused. -  - o Calendar.TimeRanges now knows that `+() and `-() can get any number -  of arguments. -  - o The experimental extended ZFS support is disabled since it pulled in -  unwanted dependencies. -  - o Fixed propagation of changed module directories for joinnodes by -  zapping the joinnode cache. -  - o Fixed memory leak in Image.WBF. -  - o Fixed potential NULL-deref in Image.XWD. -  - o Fixed potential NULL-deref in Image.PNG. -  -  - Building and installing - ----------------------- -  - o Nettle 2.0 is now supported. -  -  - Changes since Pike 7.8.116 (initial 7.8 release): - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -  - General - ------- -  - o Sql.pgsql: -  - Substantial documentation improvements. -  - o Stdio.Fd_ref is deprecated and in the process of being eliminated. -  You have never used it before, so don't start using it now. -  -  - Bugfixes - -------- -  - o Fixed bug in AGGR_ARR_EPILOGUE() (aka END_AGGREGATE_ARRAY()) that -  caused the empty array to always be returned if there were no -  unaggregated elements on the stack at END_AGGREGATE_ARRAY. -  -  You are encouraged to upgrade just for this fix since the bug -  creates very rare but (seemingly) random occurances of empty arrays. -  - o Fixed multiset_delete_node to work with destructed indices. This -  fixes occasional bugs in various functions when there are destructed -  objects in indices. -  -  You are encouraged to upgrade just for this fix since the bug creates -  (seemingly) random crashes that are hard to reproduce and track down. -  - o Fixed overzealous filtering of the value returned from Stdio.File()->mode(). -  This bug caused Stdio.nb_sendfile to always run in blocking mode. -  -  You are encouraged to upgrade just for this fix since the bug can -  cause supposedly nonblocking actions to block and hang the script. -  - o Fixed bug in the Odbc module on WIN32 where it would fail for some -  field-types with the error "22003:Numeric value out of range". -  - o Sql.pgsql: -  - Various small fixes and performance improvements. -  - Fixed fully transparent UTF8/Unicode/wide string/character set support. -  - Fixed formatting errors in error(). -  - o Fixed bug when seeking backwards in Gz.File. -  - o Fixed bug in fd_stat on windows when used on a file system with a -  long name. -  - o Fixed off-by-one bug in Stdio.Readline that caused a space in the -  last column to disappear instead of being converted to a linefeed -  when word wrapping is used. -  - o Fix bug in FakeFile.read() -  Replaced the broken-in-multiple-ways implementation by something that -  actually works (hence the original enlightnening description: "fixed a bug", -  there is really no concise way to classify this level of brokenness). -  - o Image.TIFF: Fixed memory leak on OOM. -  - o Fixed crash bug in yyexplain_not_implements(). -  - o LysKOM.ProtocolTypes: Bugfix of LocalToGlobalBlock -  - o Protected Pike_fatal() against the risk of hanging on mutexes. -  - o Added 7.6 compat versions for RegGet{Value{,s},KeyNames}(). -  - o Fixed memory leak in Image.Colortable. -  - o Parser.SGML: Reinstated the class as Parser.SGML(). It inadvertedly -  became Parser.SGML()->SGML() in the move to a separate file. -  Parser.SGML.SGML is kept as a compatibility alias. -  - o Added Pike 7.6 and earlier compat for store_constant(UNDEFINED). -  - o Fixed race-condition causing "Lost track of child" on pikes compiled -  --without-threads. -  - o Regexp.PCRE: Do not match the empty string past the end of the input. -  - o Reduced the risk of throwing out-of-stack errors while formatting an -  out-of-stack backtrace. -  - o Fixed bug that would cause sprintf's %nH to refuse all strings as too -  long for some values of "n" on some architectures. -  - o Made Process.search_path() aware if Win32 and AmigaOS specifics. -  - o Fixed bug in Protocols.HTTP.Query that dropped the last byte of a -  request if the server did not provide a Content-Length header. -  - o Fixed bug in Protocols.HTTP.Query that dropped the first argument to -  the async_fetch() callbacks (ie the query object) in some circumstances. -  - o Fixed bug in Protocols.HTTP.AsyncClient that made all data decoding fail. -  - o Fixed fatal "Invalid formatting method: 'p' 0x70." in COM. -  - o low_get_function_line() now knows about prototypes. -  Fixes [bug 4855] ("Bad offset" when generating backtrace). -  - o Removed spurious call to the fail callback after a successful -  Protocols.HTTP.Query()->timed_async_fetch(). Fixes [bug 4773]. -  - o Fixed issue where symbols could be hidden by a later inherit of the -  same, but protected, symbol. -  - o Fixed NULL dereference on failure to resolve the function return -  type when functions are used as types. -  -  - Optimizations - ------------- -  - o Fixed Filesystem._Tar.ReadFile to not gobble the whole tar entries -  into memory at once. -  - o Improve performance of get_cpu_time() on OS X by avoiding a kernel -  trap to get the ID of the underlying system thread. -  - o Throttle calls to task_info() on OS X since they are quite -  expensive. This gives a significant performance boost (>10%) on -  CPU-intensive applications. -  -  - Extensions and New Functions - ---------------------------- -  - o Added support for specifying modifiers via a mapping to '*' in sprintf(). -  -  See the documentation for details. -  -  This support is detectable by checking for -  String.__HAVE_SPRINTF_STAR_MAPPING__ -  - o Added support for generating little-endian floats with %F in sprintf(). -  -  This support is detectable by checking for -  String.__HAVE_SPRINTF_NEGATIVE_F__ -  - o Sql.Sql now supports NULL values for %s-parameters. -  - o Timeout support in win32 threads. -  - o Made FakeFile() support getchar/gets/unread. -  - o Added option to chown and utime that makes it possible to change the -  symlink instead of the target of the link. -  - o function_name() now knows how to adjust the names of named lambdas. -  - o Changed handling of POLLHUP for poll devices, it is now signalled on -  all of the callbacks. -  - o Updated timezone data to tzdata2009c. -  - o Added some support for the TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL datatypes to -  Oracle module. -  -  - New modules / classes / methods added - ------------------------------------- -  - o Protocols.IPv6 -  -  Helpers for IPv6 related things. This currently only contains tools -  to parse and normalize addresses. (Not much more is necessary since -  the usual I/O interfaces support IPv6 as-is.) -  - o Added Filesystem._Tar.extract to be able to extract many/all files -  in a reasonably efficient way. -  - o Added Parser.Tabular -  It provides a flexible yet concise record-description language to parse -  character/column/delimiter-organised records. -  - o Calendar.YMD.http_time() that knows how to handle dates according to -  HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616). -  - o Added support for GTK2 get_window() and get_pixmap(). -  -  - Building and installing - ----------------------- -  - o Use the #-character as prefix and suffix for placeholders in -  master.pike.in instead of the currency sign, to avoid 8-bit character -  encoding issues. -  - o Improved support for version bumping via both Subversion and git. -  - o A recent stable Pike (7.8.116+) is now required to do a "make -  export". -  - o The win32 installer now removes the generated master.pike on uninstall. -  -  -  - Changes since Pike 7.6: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -  - This is a high level list of changes between Pike 7.6 and Pike 7.8. - General bug fixes, build fixes and optimizations are not mentioned - here. For a complete list of changes, please consult the CVS changelog - either directly or through Code Librarian. -  -  - New / improved language functionality - ------------------------------------- -  - o New syntax to index from the end in range operations. -  -  A "<" can be added before an index in the [..] operator to count -  from the end instead, beginning with 0 for the last element. This is -  convenient to e.g. chop off the last element in an array: a[..<1]. -  - o New `[..] operator function. -  -  Range operations have been separated from the `[] operator function -  and are now handled by the new `[..] which provides greater control -  for how the range bounds are specified. For compatibility, if there -  is no `[..] then `[] is still called for range operations. -  -  The `[..] callback will get four arguments, start value, start type, -  end value and end type. The type arguments is any of -  Pike.INDEX_FROM_BEG, Pike.INDEX_FROM_END or Pike.OPEN_BOUND. Here -  are a few examples of what input arguments different calls would -  generate. -  -  [..] 0 OPEN_BOUND 0 OPEN_BOUND -  [1..] 1 INDEX_FROM_BEG 0 OPEN_BOUND -  [..2] 0 OPEN_BOUND 2 INDEX_FROM_BEG -  [3..4] 3 INDEX_FROM_BEG 4 INDEX_FROM_BEG -  [<5..] 5 INDEX_FROM_END 0 OPEN_BOUND -  [6..<7] 6 INDEX_FROM_BEG 7 INDEX_FROM_END -  - o Generalized this and this_program. -  -  It is now possible to refer to inherits in objects. Example: -  -  class A { -  int a; -  void foo() { werror("A\n"); } -  } -  class B { -  inherit A; -  int b; -  void foo() { werror("B\n"); } -  A::this_program get_a() { return A::this; } -  } -  -  In the above B()->get_a() will return an object with two symbols, -  'a' and 'foo', but B()->get_a()->foo() will still write "B\n". -  - o Added support for getters and setters. -  -  It is now possible to simulate variables with functions. Example: -  -  class A { -  private int a; -  int `b() { return a; } // Getter for the symbol b. -  void `b=(int c) { a = c; } // Setter for the symbol b. -  int c() -  { -  return b; // Calls `b(). -  } -  } -  -  object a = A(); -  a->b = 17; // Calls `b=(17). -  werror("%d\n", a->b); // Calls `b(). -  - o Casting to derived types. -  -  It is now possible to call a value of type type to perform the -  corresponding value cast. eg: -  -  typedef string MyString; -  -  return MyString(17); // Casts 17 to "17". -  - o Unicode escapes. -  -  Pike now understands the common way to escape unicode chars, using -  \uxxxx and \Uxxxxxxxx escapes. These escapes works both in string -  and character literals and in the preprocessor. The latter means -  that unicode escapes can be used in identifiers, which is useful if -  they contain characters that can't be represented raw in the source -  code charset. -  - o Stricter type checker for function calls. -  -  The type checker for function calls is now based on the concept of -  currification. This should provide for error messages that are more -  easily understood. It also is much better att typechecking function -  calls utilizing the splice (@) operator. The mechanisms used by the -  typechecker are also made available as Pike.get_first_arg_type(), -  Pike.low_check_call() and Pike.get_return_type(). -  - o Stricter typing of strings. -  -  The string type may now have an optional value range. -  -  string(0..255) bytes; -  - o Support for having multiple different active backend implementations. -  -  In Pike 7.6 and earlier, there could only be one active backend -  implementation at a time, which was the one selected for best -  performance with lots of files (cf Pike.Backend below). This led -  to problems when Pike attempted to run poll-device based backends -  on older versions of operating systems where poll devices aren't -  available, and with extra overhead when the backend was only used -  with a very small set of files. -  -  Basic backend implementations: -  -  - Pike.PollDeviceBackend -  This is a backend that is implemented based on keeping the state in -  the operating system kernel and thus eliminating the need to send the -  state in every system call. This is however not available on all -  operating systems. Currently supported are /dev/poll (Solaris, etc), -  epoll(2) (Linux) and kqueue(2) (FreeBSD, MacOS X). -  -  - Pike.PollBackend -  This is a backend that is implemented based on the poll(2) system call. -  This is typically available on all System V or Linux based systems. -  -  - Pike.SelectBackend -  This is a backend that is implmented based on the BSD select(2) system -  call. This backend is available on all operating systems supported by -  Pike. -  -  Derived backend implementations: -  -  - Pike.Backend -  This is the backend selected among the basic backend implementations, -  which is likely to have the best performance when there are lots of -  files in the backend. -  -  - Pike.SmallBackend -  This is the backend selected among the basic backend implementations, -  which is likely to have the best performance when there are very few -  files in the backend. -  -  Note that there is also a default backend object: -  -  - Pike.DefaultBackend -  This is the Pike.Backend object that is used for file callbacks and -  call outs if no other backend object has been specified. -  - o cpp -  -  The preprocessor now supports macro expansion in the #include and #string -  directives. -  -  #include USER_SETTINGS -  - o Destruct reason passed to lfun::destroy. -  -  lfun::destroy now receives an integer flag that tells why the object -  is being destructed, e.g. if it was an explicit call to destroy(), -  running out of references, or reaped by the garbage collector. -  -  These integers are defined in the new Object module as -  DESTRUCT_EXPLICIT, DESTRUCT_NO_REFS, DESTRUCT_GC and -  DESTRUCT_CLEANUP. -  - o Improved support for mixin. -  -  The Pike compiler now supports mixin for symbols that have been -  declared protected. Mixin is the concept of overloading symbols -  via multiple inheritance. In previous versions of Pike the mixin -  paradigm was only supported for public symbols. For more information -  about mixin see eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixin . -  - o Implicit and explicit create(). -  -  The compiler now supports defining classes with both an implicit -  and an explicit create(). -  -  class A (int i) -  { -  protected string j; -  protected void create(string j) -  { -  A::j = reverse(j); -  } -  } -  - o Warnings for unused private symbols. -  -  The compiler now checks that all symbols that have been declared -  private actually are used. -  - o Warnings for unused local variables. -  -  The compiler now checks that all local variables are used. -  - o Unicode -  -  Case information and the Unicode module are updated to Unicode -  5.1.0. -  - o The keyword protected -  -  The modifier protected is now an alias for the modifier static. -  NOTE: In the next release static will be deprecated. -  - o extern declared variables -  -  Variables can now be declared as 'extern'. This means that -  inheriting classes must have them. They can be used like normal -  variables in the base class. -  -  Example: -  class A -  { -  extern int a; -  int dummy() { return ++a; } -  } -  - o __attribute__ and __deprecated__ -  -  It's now possible to set custom attributes on types, so that -  it is possible to make custom type checking. This is currently -  used to improve the argument checking for sprintf() and related -  functions, and for marking symbols as deprecated. -  eg: -  -  __deprecated__ mixed obsolete_function(); -  __deprecated__(mixed) obsolete_return_value(); -  mixed fun(__deprecated__(mixed) obsolete_arg); -  __deprecated__(mixed) obsolete_variable; -  -  The deprecated type flag using __deprecated__ is a convenience -  syntax to use instead of e.g. -  -  void f(void|__attribute__("deprecated",int) timeout) -  -  Other uses of __attribute__ in type declarations can be seen in e.g. -  the type for werror(): -  -  > typeof(werror); -  (1) Result: scope(0,function(string : int) | -  function(__attribute__("sprintf_format", string), -  __attribute__("sprintf_args", mixed) ... : int) | -  function(array(string), mixed ... : int)) -  - o __func__ -  -  The symbol __func__ now evaluates to the name of the current -  function. Note that this name currently can differ from the -  declared name in case of local functions (i.e. lambdas). Note -  also that __func__ behaves like a literal string, so implicit -  string concatenation is supported. eg: -  -  error("Error in " __func__ ".\n"); -  - o __DIR__ -  -  __DIR__ is a new preprocessor symbol that resolves to the directory -  that the current file is placed in. Similar to how __FILE__ points -  out the file the code is placed in. -  - o #pragma {no_,}deprecation_warnings -  -  Warnings for use of deprecated symbols can be turned off for a -  segment of code with -  -  #pragma no_deprecation_warnings -  -  and turned on again with -  -  #pragma deprecation_warnings -  - o Compatibility name spaces -  -  Older versions of a function can be reached through its version name -  space. For example the 7.4 version of the hash function can be -  called through 7.4::hash(). -  - o Iterator API -  -  The iterator API method Iterator->next() is no longer optional. -  - o IPv6 -  -  Support for IPv6 has been improved. -  -  - Extensions and New Functions - ---------------------------- -  - o exit() -  -  Exit now takes optional arguments to act as a werror in addition to -  exiting the process. -  -  exit(1, "Error while opening file %s: %s\n", path, strerror(errno())); -  - o getenv()/putenv() -  -  getenv() and putenv() are now accessing and modifying the real -  environment. -  - o get_dir() -  -  Calling get_dir() with no arguments will now return the directory -  listing for the current directory. -  - o undefinedp()/destructedp() -  -  undefinedp() and destructedp() have been added as more readable -  alternatives to zero_type(). -  - o limit() -  -  The new toplevel function limit(a, x, b) is a convenience function -  that works like min(max(a,x),b). -  - o listxattr(), getxattr(), setxattr(), removexattr() -  -  The new xattr functions listxattr(), getxattr(), setxattr and -  removexattr() allows extended file attributes to be modified from -  within Pike. -  - o sprintf() and sscanf() -  -  - sprintf() now attempts to lookup the name of the program when -  formatting types of objects and programs. -  -  - The new formatting directive %H can be used to format a string as -  a binary hollerith string. -  -  > sprintf("%2H", "Hello"); -  (1) Result: "\0\5Hello" -  -  - The new formatting directive %q can be used to format a atring as -  a quoted string, quoting all control character and non-8-bit -  characters as well as quote characters. Like %O but always on one -  line. -  -  > sprintf("%q", "abc \x00 \" \' \12345"); -  (1) Result: "\"abc \\0 \\\" ' \\u14e5\"" -  -  - Ranges in sscanf sets can now start with ^, even at the beginning -  of the set specifier. Example: %[^-^] matches a set with only ^ in -  it. To negate a set with - in it, the - character must now be the -  last character in the set specifier. -  - o encode/decode value and programs -  -  --with-portable-bytecode is now the default. Pike programs that have -  been dumped on one architecture now can be decoded on another. -  - o gethrtime, gethrvtime, gauge -  -  Added support for POSIX style timers using clock_gettime(3). Notably -  this fixes nice high resolution thread local cpu time and monotonic -  real time on reasonably modern Linux systems. -  -  There are new constants CPU_TIME_* and REAL_TIME_* in the System -  module to allow pike code to query various properties of the CPU and -  real time clocks in use. -  - o ADT.BitBuffer -  -  Added read() method that reads whole bytes from the buffer and -  returns as a string. -  - o ADT.Queue -  -  It is now possible to use sizeof() and values() on a Queue object to -  get the size of the queue and all elements in the queue as an array. -  - o ADT.Stack -  -  Stack objects can now be cast to arrays to get all elements on the -  stack. -  - o ADT.Struct -  -  - New Item class SByte, SWord and SLong represents a signed byte, -  word and longword respectively. -  -  - The Item classes int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64 -  and uint64 are aliases for already existing Item classes. -  -  - sizeof() now works for empty Struct objects. -  -  - sizeof() can be used on individual Item objects. -  -  - Struct objects can now be used as Items in other Structs. -  -  class Pair -  { -  inherit ADT.Struct; -  Item id = uint8(); -  Item val = uint64(); -  } -  -  class File -  { -  inherit ADT.Struct; -  Item magic = Chars(4); -  Item one = Pair(); -  Item two = Pair(); -  } -  - o Array -  -  - New function combinations() returns all combinations of a -  specified length with elements from a given array. -  -  - Added push(), pop(), shift() and unshift() functions for Perl -  weirdos. -  - o Calendar -  -  - Added new calendar Badi, used in the Baha'i religion. -  -  - Fixed bugs in discordian, where the year() was off by 1166 and -  now() was off 5 month per year. -  -  - Time objects now handle * and / with floats. A split() method has -  been added for more advanced splitting where the preferred time -  quanta can be given as an argument. -  -  - A new formatting method format_ext_time_short() has been added to -  Time objects. -  -  - Timezones are now read from /etc/localtime, if available. -  -  - Cleaned up year-day (yd) handling so that it never goes below 1. -  Instead be careful to use either year (y) or week-year (wy) -  depending on context. -  -  - Fixed inconsistent range handling in year() and years() that made -  them almost but not quite zero-based. Now they are one-based just -  like day()/days(), month()/months() etc. -  -  - Cleaned up conversion between weeks and years: E.g. if a week has -  days in two years then converting it to years will produce a range -  of both years. The attempt to always map a week to a single year -  is gone since it's inconsistent with how other overlapping time -  ranges are handled. If the user wants to convert a week to the -  year it "unambiguously" belongs to, (s)he can do -  Calendar.ISO.Year(week->year_no()). -  -  - Did away with the attempt to map leap days between February 24th -  and 29th before and after year 2000, since doing so breaks date -  arithmetic. -  -  - The last four changes above are not entirely compatible. -  Compatibility with 7.6 and older is retained with #pike 7.6. -  - o CompilerEnvironment & CompilerEnvironment()->PikeCompiler -  -  The Pike compiler has been refactored to be more object-oriented and -  more transparent. It is now possible to customize the compiler by -  overloading functions in the above two classes. The compiler object -  used by Pike internally is available through the global constant -  DefaultCompilerEnvironment. -  - o Debug -  -  The new function count_objects() will return the different kinds of -  objects existing within the Pike process. Useful when trying to -  pinpoint a leak of Pike objects. -  - o Error -  -  The new function mkerror() will normalize any thrown value into a -  proper error object (or 0). -  - o Filesystem -  -  Traversion has been extended with two new create arguments. The -  first one is a flag to supress errors and the other is a sorting -  function which will be applied to the entries in every directory. -  This callback can also be used to filter the directory entries. -  - o Float -  -  The function isnan() can be used to check if a float is Not a -  Number. -  -  > Float.isnan(Math.inf/Math.inf); -  (1) Result: 1 -  - o Gdbm -  -  Gdbm databases can be opened in synchronous mode or locking mode by -  adding "s" or "l" respectively in the mode parameter to the create -  method. -  - o Geography.Position -  -  It is now possible to encode Position objects with encode_value(). -  - o GLUE -  -  - The default event callback will now exit both on Exit and Escape -  events. -  -  - The texture, list and light id generators will now be created -  after we are sure that GL has been initialized, to prevent crashes -  on several systems. -  -  - BaseTexture and BaseDWIM now supports clamped textures. -  - o Gmp -  -  Many small changes to fix Gmp build issues on different platforms. -  The most visible being that the Gmp module now is statically linked -  to work around Mac OS X 10.5 linker issues. -  - o Gz -  -  - Added compress() and uncompress() functions as a simpler and more -  efficient but non-streaming interface. -  -  - Support for RLE And FIXED compression method, if supported by -  zlib. Give Gz.RLE or Gz.FIXED to the strategy argument of -  compress() or the deflate constructor. -  -  - Added support for configurable compression window size. This is -  the last argument to compress() and the constructor for -  inflate/deflate. -  - o Image.Colortable -  -  - The new method greyp() can be used to query if the color in the -  color object is grey. -  -  - Partial support for serializing color objects. Dithering type and -  lookup mode is not currently saved. -  - o Image.Dims -  -  Support for parsing out the dimensions of TIFF files has been added. -  - o Image.FreeType -  -  - Added support for handling monochrome (bitmap) fonts. -  - o Image.Image -  -  - Image object can now be serialized and deserialized with -  encode_value() and decode_value(). -  -  - It is possible to convert the colors in an image object to and -  from YUV (YCrCb) with the new rgb_to_yuv() and yuv_to_rgb() -  methods. -  - o Image.Layer -  -  - It is now possible to get the raw bitmap data of a layer by -  casting the layer object to a string. -  - o Image.PNG -  -  - Properly decode cHRM (chrome), sBIT (sbit), gAMA (gamma), pHYs -  (physical), oFFs (offset), tIME (time) chunks. -  -  - The compression level and strategy when compressing PNG images can -  be controlled by passing "zlevel" and "zstrategy" options to the -  encode() method. Available strategies are filtered, huffman, rle -  and fixed. -  -  Image.PNG.encode( img, ([ "zlevel":9, "zstrategy":Gz.RLE ]) ); -  - o Image.TIFF -  -  Added support for little endian TIFF files. -  - o Int -  -  Int.inf is an object that can be used as an infinitly large integer. -  - o Java -  -  - If possible, Pike now uses libffi instead of creating our own -  trampolines. Adding libffi as a bundle is supported. -  -  - Added built-in support for SPARC64 trampolines. -  -  - The method signature fuzzy-matcher now only considers Pike strings -  to match formal parameters of type String, Object, Comparable, -  CharSequence or java.io.Serializable. -  -  - When the fuzzy-matcher can not decide on a single method -  signature, all candidates are now listed in the error message. -  - o Locale.Charset -  -  - The character name normalizer now recognizes Unicode prefixes, -  e.g. "unicode-1-1-utf-7", though the Unicode version itself is -  ignored. -  -  - Added support for the following character sets -  -  GB18030/GBK (CP936) -  UTF-EBCDIC -  DIN-31624 (ISO-IR-38) -  ISO-5426:1980 (ISO-IR-53) -  ISO-6438:1996 (ISO-IR-39, ISO-IR-216) -  ISO-6937:2001 (ISO-IR-156) -  GSM 03.38 -  Mysql Latin 1 -  -  - Added typed encode and decode error objects, -  Locale.Charset.EncodeError and Locale.Charset.DecodeError, to make -  it possible to catch such errors in a better way. -  -  - ISO-IR non-spacers are now converted into combiners. -  - o Math -  -  - Matrix multiplication was bugged and gave B*A instead of A*B, -  which is now fixed. -  -  - Matrix objects now have xsize() and ysize() methods to query their -  dimensions. -  -  - To ease your logarithmic needs log2() and logn() have been added. -  - o MIME -  -  - Added remapping variants of the encode words functions with -  encode_word_text_remapped(), encode_word_quoted(), -  encode_words_quoted_remapped() and -  encode_words_quoted_labled_remapped(). -  -  - Added workaround for a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer where it -  forgets to properly quote backslashes in the Content-Disposition -  field. -  -  - Fixed a bug that could occur when casting MIME.Message objects to -  strings. -  - o Mysql -  -  - Two functions set_charset() and get_charset() have been added to -  set and query the connection charset. The create() function also -  takes a "charset" setting in the options mapping. -  -  - Improved Unicode support. The MySQL driver now supports -  (possibly wide) Unicode queries and text return values, handling -  the connection charset and all encoding/decoding internally. This -  is enabled by setting the charset to "unicode", or through the new -  functions set_unicode_encode_mode() and set_unicode_decode_mode(). -  See their documentation for further details. -  - o Odbc -  -  The Odbc module has been updated to support the UnixODBC library, and -  several issues with Unicode and FreeTDS handling have been fixed. -  - o Oracle -  -  - The module has been updated to work with Oracle 10. -  -  - An approximation of the number of rows in a result object can be -  queried from the new function num_rows(). -  - o Parser.HTML -  -  - Allow string and array as argument to _set_*_callback(). Those -  variants work just like a function only returning the string or -  array. -  - o Parser.Pike and Parser.C -  -  - Parser.Pike and Parser.C have been rewritten in C for increased -  performance. -  -  - The #string directives should be handled correctly now. -  - o Parser.RCS -  -  - The RCS parser has been rewritten to be more robust with regards -  to broken RCS data. -  - o Parser.XML.NSTree -  -  - Added add_child_before() and add_child_after() methods to the -  NSNode object. -  - o Parser.XML.Simple -  -  - The autoconvert() function, used to autodetect the character -  encoding of an XML file and decode it, has been moved from being a -  method of the Parser.XML.Simple object to being a function in the -  Parser.XML module. -  - o Parser.XML.SloppyDOM -  -  Yet another DOM-like module aimed at quickly and conveniently parse -  an xml snippet (or whole document) to access its parts. Nodes can be -  selected using a subset of XPath. -  -  Footnote: This module was previously part of Roxen WebServer. -  - o Parser.XML.Tree -  -  The module code has been refactored and a second "simple" interface -  has been added. The (new) SimpleNode interface implements a node tree -  interface similar to the (old) Node interface, with two major -  differences: -  -  - The SimpleNodes do not have parent pointers, this means that they -  do not generate cyclic data structures (and thus less garbage, and -  no need for zap_tree()), but also that it is no longer possible to -  find the root of a tree from any node in the tree. -  -  - Some methods in SimpleNode return different values than the -  corresponding method in Node; notably SimpleNode()->add_child(), -  which returns the current node rather than the argument. -  -  The refactoring also added individual classes for all of the XML node -  types (both for Nodes and for SimpleNodes). This allows for stricter -  typing of code involving XML tree manipulation. -  -  Several new functions added to manipulate and insert nodes in the -  XML tree. -  -  The module now also has a much better knowledge of DTDs and DOCTYPEs. -  - o Parser.XML.Validating -  -  - get_external_entity() now gets the callback info mapping as -  the third argument rather than a constant zero. -  -  - SYSTEM URIs are now normalized during parsing if possible. -  -  - parse() and parse_dtd() now accept getting the base URI for the -  parsed data as the second argument. -  -  - Improved error reporting. -  -  - Several issues with the parsing of DTDs have been fixed. -  - o Postgres -  -  - Extended the SQL query interface to include affected_rows() and -  streaming_query() as well as variable bindings. -  -  - Automatic binary or text transfer for queryarguments and resultrows. -  -  Note: A new native Postgres driver has also been added; see -  Sql.pgsql. -  - o Pike -  -  - A new function count_memory() has been added which can calculate -  the memory consumed by arbitrary data structures. Useful when -  implementing memory caches. -  -  - A new function get_runtime_info() has been added which returns -  information about current ABI, if automatic bignums are enabled, -  what bytecode method is used, the size of native floats and -  integers and the native byte order. -  -  - The constants INDEX_FROM_BEG, INDEX_FROM_END and OPEN_BOUND has -  been added for use with the `[..] operator API. -  -  - The functions low_check_call(), get_return_type() and -  get_first_arg_type() allows for inspection of attributes and -  return values of functions. -  - o Pike.Backend -  -  Besides the new multiple backend implementations described earlier, -  backends now support two new callbacks: before_callback and -  after_callback are two new variables in the backend objects. They -  can be set to functions that gets called just before and after a -  backend is waiting for events. -  - o Process -  -  - The new function spawn_pike() will spawn a Pike process similar to -  the current one, using the same binary file, master and module -  paths. -  -  - The new function run() is an easy interface that will run a -  process and return a mapping with all the outputs and exit code. -  -  - Process.popen is now able to run in nonblocking mode. If a second -  argument is provided a file object will be opened with that mode -  and return, enabling two way communication with the new process. -  -  - The system() function has been extended to be able to pass stdin, -  stdout and stderr arguments to the spawn() call it performs. -  - o Protocols.DNS -  -  - Added support for NAPTR (RFC 3403) and SPF (RFC 4408) records. -  -  - The gethostbyname() function now returns IPv6 addresses too, if -  available. -  -  - Fixed bugs in IPv6 record parsing. -  - o Protocols.Bittorrent -  -  - Support for gzipped and compact tracker responses. -  -  - Many performance and bug fixes, such as 30% faster hashing of -  files. -  - o Protocols.HTTP -  -  - Added support for httpu and httpmu requests. -  -  - Queries will now throw an exception in case of an errno condition. -  -  - A new function, do_async_method(), has been added to allow access -  to low level asynchronous HTTP calls. -  -  - The http_encode_string() function now knows how to encode UCS-2 -  characters. -  - o Protocols.HTTP.Server -  -  - If accept() fails on the open port, the Port object will continue -  trying, to support servers with high load. -  - o Protocols.HTTP.Query -  -  - Added unicode_data() method that will return the payload decoded -  according to the charset described in the Content-Type header. -  -  - Many fixes for bugs in asynchronous mode. -  -  - A query will not silently downgrade to http from https anymore if -  there is no crypto support. -  -  - Fixes for keep alive. -  -  - IPv6 fixes in DNS handling. -  - o Protocols.LDAP -  -  - Enabled support for paged queries. -  -  - Added more resilience to UTF-8 encode errors. -  Locale.Charset.DecodeError is thrown for UTF-8 decode exceptions. -  -  - Added a connection pool for connection reuse. It is used through -  get_connection() and return_connection(). -  -  - Added some schema handling and use it to fix the UTF-8 conversion -  to only affect attributes that actually are UTF-8 encoded. -  -  - Added client.read(), client.read_attr(), -  client.get_root_dse_attr(), client.get_basedn(), -  client.get_scope(), client.get_attr_type_descr(), -  get_constant_name(), and a bunch of constants for various object -  oids, attributes, well-known object guids and other things. -  -  - Rewrote the search filter parser to handle LDAPv3 extensible -  matches. It now also throw errors on all syntactic errors (using a -  new FilterError object), instead of sending a partial filter to -  the server. It is also possible to compile filters separately -  through make_filter(), and there is a very simple cache for -  compiled filters through get_cached_filter(). -  -  - Added ldap_encode_string(), ldap_decode_string(), -  encode_dn_value(), canonicalize_dn(), parse_ldap_url(), -  client.get_parsed_url(), and client.get_bound_dn(). -  -  - Added client.result.fetch_all(). -  -  - Added new flag field to client.search() to control various aspects -  of how results are returned: SEARCH_LOWER_ATTRS lowercases all -  attribute names. SEARCH_MULTIVAL_ARRAYS_ONLY uses arrays for -  attribute values only for attributes that might return more than -  one value. SEARCH_RETURN_DECODE_ERRORS may be used to avoid -  throwing exceptions on decode errors. -  -  - Added client.get_protocol_version(), -  client.get_supported_controls(), and the possibility to specify -  controls in client.search(). -  -  - Made the result iterator somewhat more convenient: next() now -  advances one step past the end so the next fetch() returns zero. -  -  - Added client.error_number(), client.error_string(), and -  client.server_error_string() to make it possible to query errors -  when no result object is returned. -  - o Protocols.SNMP -  -  The readmsg() method in the protocol object now takes an optional -  timout argument. -  - o Protocols.TELNET.Readline -  -  Several issues where callback functions could be lost have been fixed. -  - o Protocols.XMLRPC -  -  The new AsyncClient class implements an asynchronous XMLRPC client. -  - o Regexp.PCRE.Widestring -  -  - Replace matches in a string, with support for backreferences, now -  possible from replace_positional(). -  -  > Regexp.PCRE.Plain("my name is ([a-zA-Z]+)")-> -  >> replace_positional("hello, my name is john.", -  >> "%[0]s is my name"); -  (1) Result: "hello, john is my name." -  -  - Regexp.PCRE.Widestring is now reported in the basic feature list -  (pike --features). -  - o Sql -  -  - Bugfixes in listing Postgres fields. -  -  - If ENABLE_SPAWN_RSQLD is defined, rsqld will be spawned when -  needed to complete rsql queries. -  -  - Added streaming_query() method to Sql objects which enables larger -  result sets than available memory. -  -  - It is possible to iterate over the result object from big_query() -  queries directly in foreach. -  -  - Support UNDEFINED to designate NULL in emulated bindings. -  -  - Support for ODBC DSN files. -  -  Sql.Sql db = Sql.Sql("dsn://user:pass@host/database"); -  -  - Some native support for the TDS protocol, used by Sybase and -  Microsoft SQL server. -  -  Sql.Sql db = Sql.Sql("tds://user:pass@host/database"); -  -  - Support for the SQLite database added. A raw interface is -  available through the SQLite module. -  -  Sql.Sql db = Sql.Sql("sqlite://relative/path/to/file"); -  Sql.Sql db = Sql.Sql("sqlite:///absolute/path/to/file"); -  -  - Sql.pgsql. New driver for native PostgreSQL network protocol support. -  It implements a superset of the existing Postgres driver. -  Current features: no library dependencies (no libpq), native binding -  support, streaming support, NOTIFY/LISTEN support (fully eventdriven, -  no polling), binary support for integer, float and string datatypes -  through big_typed_query(), native support for 64-bit ints and doubles, -  COPY FROM/TO STDIN/STDOUT support, multiple simultaneous streaming -  queries on the same connection (i.e. multiple PostgreSQL-portal- -  support), automatic precompilation and caching of often-used -  long-compile-time-needing queries, extended columndescriptions, -  accurate error messages under all circumstances, SSL-support, -  SQL-injection protection since it will ignore everything after the -  first semicolon delimiting the first command in the query, integrated -  statistics, _reconnect callback for sessions that use temptables. -  -  Performance tuned, with the helperclass _PGsql.PGsql it currently -  is around 21% faster than the old libpq based Postgres driver -  for smaller queries; for large bytea blobs and large texts, it -  speeds up even more. -  -  This driver serves URLs of the form: -  pgsql:// (plain) and pgsqls:// (SSL). -  In case the old Postgres driver is disabled, this driver takes -  over postgres:// transparently as well. -  - o SSL -  -  It is now possible to set certificates to SSL connections. Example: -  -  SSL.sslfile ssl_connection(Stdio.File conn, string my_key, -  string my_certificate) -  { -  ctx->client_rsa = Standards.PKCS.RSA.parse_private_key(my_key); -  -  // client_certificates is an array holding arrays of certificate -  // chains. since we've got a self-signed cert, our cert array has -  // only 1 element. -  ctx->client_certificates += ({ ({ my_certificate }) }); -  -  return SSL.sslfile(conn, ctx, 1, 1); -  } -  - o Standards.IIM -  -  Some bugfixes in parsing Photoshop headers and DOS EPS Binary -  Headers. -  - o Standards.ISO639_2 -  -  Updated with the latest ISO639-2 languages. -  - o Standards.URI -  -  - Updated to conform to RFC 3986. -  -  - Added methods get_query_variables(), set_query_variables(), -  add_query_variable() and add_query_variables() to give a better -  API to to handle query variables. -  -  - The new method get_http_query() returns the query part and -  get_http_path_query() returns both the path and the query, both -  coded according to RFC 1738. -  - o Standards.UUID -  -  - Added support for UUID version 5; name based with SHA hash, which -  can be generated from the make_version5 function. -  -  - An UUID object can now be used as namespace in the second argument -  to make_version3 as well as the new make_version5. -  - o Standards.XML.Wix -  -  - Updated to support a more recent version of the Wix tool chain. -  -  - Improved generation of 8.3-style filenames. -  -  - Added support for Shortcut and IniFile-nodes. -  -  - Added support for overriding the language and installer version. -  -  - Improved support for TTF-files. -  - o Stdio -  -  - Stdio.cp can now work recursively in a directory tree. It will -  also keep the permissions of files it copies. -  -  - Added Stdio.recursive_mv which works on every OS and also when the -  destination isn't on the same filesystem as the source. -  -  - Added more symbolc default termcap/terminfo bindings to -  Stdio.Readline. -  -  - Improved support for Stdio.Terminfo on NetBSD. -  -  - read_file(), read_bytes(), write_file() and append_file() will may -  now throw exceptions on uncommon errors such as when write_file is -  unable to write all its data. -  -  - Stdio.File->openat(), statat() and unlinkat() opens, stats and -  removes a file or directory relative to an open directory. -  -  - Stdio.FILE->unread() allows pushing back binary strings into the -  input stream, as opposed to ungets() which pushes back lines. -  -  - Stdio.UDP has had enable_multicast(), set_multicast_ttl(), -  add_membership() and drop_membership() added to make real -  multicast use possible. -  - o String -  -  - The function int2size has been rewritten to fixpoint as well as -  using the more common abbreviation of "B" for byte. -  -  - String.secure marks a string as "secure" which currently only -  means that the memory is cleared before it is freed. -  - o System -  -  - resolvepath() is now enabled on more OSes and falls back to -  realpath(3C) if resolvepath(2) doesn't exists. -  -  - On systems that support it, setproctitle() can be used to set the -  title of the running application. -  -  - Added support for POSIX style timers using clock_gettime(3) to -  allow for high resolution thread local cpu time and monotonic real -  time on reasonable modern Linux systems for gethrvtime() and -  gauge(). Added CPU_TIME_RESOLUTION, CPU_TIME_IMPLEMENTATION, -  REAL_TIME_IS_MONOTONIC, REAL_TIME_RESOLUTION and -  REAL_TIME_IMPLEMENTATION constants to tell the system -  capabilities. -  - o Tools.Hilfe -  -  - Added support for tab-completion on modules, global and local -  symbols and operators. -  -  - Added support for file/directory completion within strings -  -  - Added doc command and F1 key to print documentation on an item if -  available (currently only works for modules and classes written in -  pike). -  - o Tools.Standalone -  -  - "pike -x cgrep" now tries to parse Java code. -  -  - "pike -x features" now tests for several more features. -  - o Web.Crawler -  -  - Bugfix to support robots.txt created on windows. -  -  - User Agent change to "Mozilla 4.0 (PikeCrawler)" -  - o Web.RDF -  -  - Added add_statement() method which allows new relations to be -  added to an RDF set. -  -  - New modules / classes / methods added - ------------------------------------- -  - o Fuse -  -  FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) provides a simple interface for -  userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux -  kernel (and some other OS:es). FUSE also aims to provide a secure -  method for non privileged users to create and mount their own -  filesystem implementations. -  -  This module implements the needed interfaces to make it possible to -  write a FUSE filesystem in Pike. -  - o ADT.List -  -  A simple doubly linked list of values. -  -  ADT.List l = ADT.List(1, 2, 3); -  l->insert(-1, 0); -  l->append(4, 5); -  foreach(l; int index; int value) { -  werror(" %d: value: %d\n", index, value); -  } -  - o ADT.Set -  -  ADT.Set implements a datatype for sets. These sets behave much -  like multisets, except that they are restricted to containing only -  one instance of each member value. -  -  From a performance viewpoint, it is probably more efficient for a -  Pike program to use mappings to serve as sets, rather than using an -  ADT.Set, so ADT.Set is mainly provided for the sake of completeness -  and code readability. -  - o Arg -  -  The new argument parser module allows for Getopt style argument -  parsing, but with a much simpler and object oriented API. -  -  class Parser -  { -  inherit Arg.Options; -  Opt verbose = NoOpt("-v")|NoOpt("--verbose")|Env("VERBOSE"); -  Opt name = HasOpt("-f")|HasOpt("--file")|Default("out"); -  Opt debug = MaybeOpt("-d")|MaybeOpt("--debug"); -  } -  -  void main(int argc, array(string) argv) -  { -  Parser p = Parser(argv); -  werror("name: %O, verbose: %O, debug: %O\n", -  p->name, p->verbose, p->debug); -  } -  -  A more simplistic interface is also available for smaller hacks and -  programs. -  -  void main(int argc, array(string) argv) -  { -  mapping opts = Arg.parse(argv); -  argv = opts[Arg.REST]; -  } -  - o GSSAPI -  -  Implements Pike access to GSS-API v2 as specified in RFC 2743. This -  API is used to authenticate users and servers, and optionally also -  to encrypt communication between them. The API is generic and can be -  used without any knowledge of the actual implementation of these -  security services, which is typically provided by the operating -  system. -  -  The most common implementation is Kerberos, which means that the -  main benefit of this API is to allow clients and servers to -  authenticate each other using Kerberos, thereby making single -  sign-on possible in a Kerberized environment. -  - o GTK2 -  -  Wrapper for the GTK2 library. Not yet 100% completed, but usable. -  - o Protocols.DNS_SD -  -  This module provides an interface to DNS Service Discovery. The -  functionality of DNS-SD is described at <http://www.dns-sd.org/>. -  -  Using the Proctocols.DNS_SD.Service class a Pike program can -  announce services, for example a web site or a database server, to -  computers on the local network. -  -  When registering a service you need to provide the service name. -  service type, domain and port number. You can also optionally -  specify a TXT record. The contents of the TXT record varies between -  different services; for example, a web server can announce a path -  to a web page, and a printer spooler is able to list printer -  features such as color support or two-sided printing. -  -  The service is registered on the network for as long as the instance -  of the Service class is valid. -  - o Bittorrent.Tracker -  -  Bittorrent tracker with support for scraping and UDP extension. -  - o Protocols.HTTP.Server.Proxy -  -  A simple HTTP proxy. -  - o Standards.TLD -  -  Country domains and other TLDs according to IANA. Useful when -  parsing log information or providing live information about clients -  connecting to your server. -  - o Tools.Shoot -  -  Several new tests have been added to benchmark and improve on -  various aspects of Pike. ReplaceParallel and ReplaceSerial measure -  the times it takes to replace multiple substrings of a string in a -  single call to replace and with subsequent calls. -  -  TagRemoveArraySscanf, TagRemoveDivide, TagRemoveLoop, -  TagRemoveParserHTML, TagRemovePCRE, TagRemoveSearch and -  TagRemoveSscanf measure different methods of completing the same -  task; to remove XML tags from a string. -  - o Web.CGI -  -  Provides a CGI interface on the callee side. Retrieves information -  from environment variables and populates the variables in the -  Request object. -  -  - Deprecations - ------------ -  - o The keyword nomask has been deprecated. It was functionally -  equivivalent with the keyword final. -  - o Stdio.File->set_peek_file_before_read_callback() is deprecated. -  -  - Incompatible changes - -------------------- -  -  These incompatible changes can be solved by adding #pike 7.6 to your -  source file or starting Pike with -V7.6 unless otherwise noted. -  - o main() environment -  -  The main() method will no longer be given the environment as a -  mapping as third argument. Use an explicit call to getenv() instead. -  - o Array.transpose_old -  -  This function has been removed. -  - o Calendar -  -  Changes made to fix inconsistensies has created som unavoidable -  incompatibilities. See the entry for Calendar in the functional -  changes section for details. -  - o _Charset -  -  The parts of this internal module that were written in Pike -  have moved to Locale.Charset. -  - o Crypto -  -  The old crypto functions from Pike 7.4 have been removed. These -  functions produced a warning when used in Pike 7.6. -  - o Debug.describe_program -  -  The API for this debug function has changed. -  - o Image.Image -  -  The functions select_colors(), map_closest(), map_fast() and -  map_fs() has been removed. Use Image.Colortable operations instead. -  - o Parser.XML -  -  The XML parsers are now stricter in verifying the correctness -  of the XML. The function compat_allow_errors can be called in the -  create method of the Parser.XML.Simple and Parser.XML.Validating -  (with "7.6" as argument for 7.6 compatibility). Parser.XML.Tree can -  be created with PARSE_COMPAT_ALLOW_ERRORS_7_6 as flag. -  - o Protocols.LDAP.client -  -  The "dn" field wasn't properly utf-8 decoded in 7.6 and earlier. If -  your application does it yourself, you need to use the compatibility -  version of this class. -  - o Protocols.TELNET -  -  The interface functions create() and setup() are now protected symbols. -  - o spider.XML -  -  The spider module no longer contains the XML parser. The functions -  isbasechar(), iscombiningchar(), isdigit(), isextender(), -  isfirstnamechar(), ishexchar(), isidiographic(), isletter(), -  isnamechar() and isspace() have also been moved to the Parser module. -  - o Sql.Sql -  -  Pike will no longer create a .column entry in SQL query responses if -  there is no table name. -  - o Standards.UUID -  -  Functions new() and new_string() have been removed. Use -  make_version1(-1)->encode() and make_version1(-1)->str() instead. -  - o Stdio -  -  The functions read_file(), read_bytes(), write_file() and -  append_file() now always throw errors on error conditions, -  to allow easier use as errno doesn't have to be checked. -  read_file() and read_bytes() still return 0 if the file -  does not exist. -  - o The modules Mird, Perl and Ssleay have been removed. -  -  Note that these modules are not available via the backwards -  compatibility layer. -  -  - C level module API - ------------------ -  - o Improved support for embedding. -  -  Several declarations and definitions (most notably the debug and -  runtime flags) have moved from main.h to pike_embed.h, in an attempt -  to add support for embedding. -  - o Major compiler API cleanups. -  -  The Pike compiler is now executing in a pike function context -  (rather than in an efun context), and it is possible to customize -  some of its behaviour via inherit (rather than via handler objects). -  As a consequence the compiler is now much closer to being thread-safe. -  - o The global variable next_timeout is no more. It has been replaced by -  a backend-specific variable. Added backend_lower_timeout() for accessing -  the new variable. This fixes issues GTK, GTK2 and sendfile had with the -  new backend implementation. -  -  NOTE! C-API incompatibility! -  NOTE! Changed the argument for backend callbacks! -  -  The argument is now a struct Backend_struct * when called -  at entry (was NULL). -  The argument is now NULL when called at exit (was 1). -  - o Pike_fp->context -  -  Pike_fp->context is now a pointer to the current struct inherit -  rather than a copy of it. This allows for easier access to -  inherited symbols in C-code. -  - o Inherit level argument added to several object handling functions. -  -  In order to implement subtyping of objects, an extra argument -  "inherit_level" has been added to many object indexing related -  functions. -  - o .cmod: -  -  Voidable pointer types are no longer promoted to mixed. -  - o Support for class symbols with storage in parent scope. -  Also added support for aliased symbols. -  - o Machine code backend for PPC64 -  -  - Machine code generation is now supported for PowerPC in -  64-bit ABI mode. -  - o Objectiv-C embedding framwork -  -  - Experimental support for interfacing with Objective-C code -  has been added. -  -  NOTE! This API is experimental and is subject to change -  NOTE! without notice. -  - o Added %c and %C to get_all_args to get char * without -  NUL characters (no 0 valued characters inside the string). -  -  %c: char * Only narrow (8 bit) strings without NUL. -  This is identical to %s. -  -  %C: char * or NULL Only narrow (8 bit) strings without NUL, or 0 -  -  - Building and installing - ----------------------- -  - o Dynamic modules now become DLLs on Windows. -  -  This means the homegrown module loader is no longer used, but it -  also means some DLL limitations: -  -  - PMOD_EXPORT is now required to allow access to an identifier in -  the pike core. -  -  - DLLs have to be recompiled too if pike.exe is recompiled. -  -  The primary motivation for this change is to work with the new -  library tracking (so-called "side-by-side assemblies") in Visual C++ -  2005 and later. -  - o Added ABI selection. -  -  It's now possible to select whether to compile in 32bit or 64bit -  mode at configure time by using the --with-abi option. -  - o MinGW builds. -  -  It's now possible to build Pike in MinGW on windows computers from -  source distributions. -  - o Cmod precompiler. -  -  - The cmod precompiler (pike -x precompile) now supports declaring -  all autogenerated identifiers as static. -  -  NOTE! C-API incompatibility! -  NOTE! As a side effect of this change, the DECLARATIONS statement -  NOTE! now required in cmod files. -  -  - New simplified method to write external C/C++ modules - ----------------------------------------------------- -  -  It's now suggested that you do not use the fairly complex 'pike -  internal' style of external modules (configure.in with -  AC_MODULE_INIT etc). -  -  It's also no longer required that you have a configure script to use -  pike -x module. -  -  Instead simply locate the includefiles using 'pike -x cflags', and -  convert .cmod to .c files using 'pike -x precompile'. -  -  An example rather minimal 'pike -x module' compatible Makefile, -  without a configure script, using .cmod format files for a simple -  local module: -  -  | CC=gcc -  | CFLAGS := -O9 -fweb -shared -Wall $(CFLAGS) $(shell $(PIKE) -x cflags) -g -  | LD=$(CC) -shared -lGL -  | -  | all: Spike.so -  | -  | install: Spike.so -  | cp $< $(MODULE_INSTALL_DIR) -  | -  | Spike.so: Spike.o -  | $(LD) -o Spike.so Spike.o $(LDFLAGS) -  | -  | Spike.o: Spike.c -  | -  | Spike.c: Spike.cmod -  | $(PIKE) -x precompile $< > $@ -  -  It's usually OK not to use pike -x module at all, but it will pass -  on a few extra variables to your make (and configure script): -  -  PIKE: How to start the pike interpreter used running pike -x module -  MODULE_INSTALL_DIR: Where modules goes -  LOCAL_MODULE_PATH: Alternative (user local) module location +  http://pike-librarian.lysator.liu.se/index.xml?m=pike.git&start=forever&branch=7.9&template=logonly.inc