From fa6339ae9bc12ad35a55588442957c764c0f3901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: H William Welliver <william@welliver.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 21:19:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] CHANGES: updates in preparation for release
---
CHANGES | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 111 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7c18ac41b5..99d7365574 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ Changes since Pike 8.0.702 (release 13)
New Features
------------
+o Core
+
+ - Added "->?" as the safe indexing variant of "->".
+
+ - Added int(7,8,16bit).
+
o ADT.History
Support encode/decode_value().
@@ -11,6 +17,11 @@ o Pike.FakeObject
This is used as a placeholder used in place of other objects in backtraces.
+o Pike.DestructImmediate
+
+ An empty class that can be inherited to get the PROGRAM_DESTRUCT_IMMEDIATE
+ flag set.
+
o Image.Dims.exif_get and Image.exif_decode
New convenience functions to get the functionality of
@@ -25,6 +36,9 @@ o Concurrent
- Rewrite timeout() to reduce the memory footprint of a future in the
common case.
+ - Added query_{success,failure}_callbacks() and try_get() to
+ Concurrent.Future.
+
o Process.Process
- On NT it is now possible to specify the preferred console handler
@@ -42,6 +56,14 @@ o Standards.X509
Standards.X509 now allows the user to select acceptable signature
algorithms to be used in the verification of certificates.
+o Stdio.Buffer
+
+ Added truncate() and the ability to search for substrings.
+
+o Stdio.File
+
+ Support openat() with a single argument().
+
o Stdio.PROP_TTY
Stdio.File()->pipe() can now be used to create tty-capable
@@ -50,6 +72,10 @@ o Stdio.PROP_TTY
Bug fixes
---------
+o ADT.CritBit.FloatTree
+
+ Fix FloatTree when using 128bit floats.
+
o ADT.CritBit.IntTree
Fixed the signature of ADT.CritBit.IntTree()->_values().
@@ -92,15 +118,33 @@ o describe_backtrace()
- Fix clipped/canclip propagation.
+o mktime()
+
+ Fix zone handling when localtime is in daylight savings time.
+
+o strftime()
+
+ Remove non-standard conversions %k and %l.
+
o types()
Fixed reference leak.
+o crypt()
+
+ Do not throw errorss on validation failure. Primarily ocurrs on
+ RHEL 8, return a failure code instead, consistent with historical
+ use.
+
+o Backend.PollBackend
+
+ Signal read events on POLLHUP.
+
o Calendar
- Fixed typo in the Catalan word for the month December.
- - Updated tzdata to 2018g.
+ - Updated tzdata to 2019c.
o Compiler
@@ -125,6 +169,9 @@ o Concurrent.Promise
- Convert errors thrown by the executor passed to Concurrent.Promise()
on create into promise rejection.
+ - Fixes for some recursive mutex lock errors.
+
+
o Crypto.ECC
Now works against Nettle 3.5.
@@ -141,6 +188,10 @@ o Filesystem.Tar
and then chmod(), restoring the historical order for chown() and
chmod().
+o Gettext
+
+ Prevent argument of textdomain from being empty.
+
o Image.Dims
- Fixed the inconsistency that Image.Dims.get_JPEG (and thus
@@ -148,6 +199,10 @@ o Image.Dims
orientation information, even though Image.JPEG.decode does not
actually perform the rotations.
+o Inotify
+
+ Improved handling of invalid event callbacks. [bug 8042]
+
o Odbc
The module's configure script now respects ABI suffixes when searching
@@ -158,6 +213,10 @@ o Parser.HTML
Fixed a Pike stack overflow occuring with certain inputs to the HTML
parser.
+o Pike.count_memory
+
+ Prevents a loop with ADT.List objects.
+
o Process.run
- Don't error if stdin modifier is supplied as the empty string.
@@ -169,6 +228,12 @@ o Protoocls.HTTP
headers unless credentials were given to the proxy or the protocol
to be used was HTTPS.
+ - Add Host header to proxied requests.
+
+o Protocols.HTTP.Server
+
+ Fixed bug in Request()->update_mime_var(). [bug 10033]
+
o Protocols.HTTP.Session
- Fix race-condition when multiple threads call give_me_connection()
@@ -182,6 +247,12 @@ o Protocols.HTTP.Session
This should alleviate issues with stuff being left around from
previous queries.
+o Protocols.DNS
+
+ Improved error handling when calling async callbacks.
+
+ Survive Stdio.UDP()->bind() failing with EACCES.
+
o Protocols.HTTP.Query
On Solaris 11 Stdio.File()->connect() often fails with EADDRINUSE.
@@ -193,9 +264,18 @@ o Protocols.Websocket
o Runtime
- Certain operations on arrays of only objects could have triggered a type
- confusion under some circumstances, causing integers to be freed as
- objects, and thus a NULL derefence (SIGSEGV).
+ - Certain operations on arrays of only objects could have triggered a type
+ confusion under some circumstances, causing integers to be freed as
+ objects, and thus a NULL derefence (SIGSEGV).
+
+ - Fix some gratuitous rounding to double with long-double-precision.
+
+ - Improved Fix some gratuitous rounding to double with
+ long-double-precision.
+
+o Search.Filter.HTML
+
+ Fix title always being set to "". [bug 10020]
o Sql.pgsql
@@ -222,6 +302,8 @@ o Sql.pgsql
- resync() is synchronous now, and prevents race conditions
if followed back-to-back with new queries.
+ - disregard pending statements on connection destruction.
+
o SSL
- When verifying the hostname against the certificate, only accept *
@@ -252,12 +334,23 @@ o SSL.File
o Standards.JSON
- encode() now allows other threads to run every now and then.
+ - encode() now allows other threads to run every now and then.
+
+ - Fix floating point literals with long-double-precision
+
o Standards.EXIF
Improved detection of EXIF section in get_properties().
+o Standards.URI
+
+ Updated list of unsafe characters to RFC 3986. [bug 8004]
+
+o Standards.X509
+
+ Use old syntax for compatibility.
+
o sybase
The module's configure script now respects ABI suffixes when searching
@@ -270,6 +363,10 @@ o System
passed to openlog. The reference will be released after a subsequent
call to openlog() or closelog().
+o Thread.MutexKey
+
+ When simulated, mark for immediate destruction.
+
o Thread.Queue
Attempt to work around glibc bugs.
@@ -317,6 +414,15 @@ o Improved pkg-config search path detection on Solaris.
a SIGSEGV in ffi_closure_unix64_inner() due to the differing sizes
of ffi_closure in 32-bit and 64-bit abi.
+o Check for actual availability of YP functions, not just headers.
+
+o Attempt to use paxctl to alter the PaX flags for the pike binary to
+ allow for generation of machine code on NetBSD.
+
+o Silence GL deprecation warning and fix a missing definition error on
+ Darwin for newer versions of MacOS.
+
+o Fix check for my_bool and compilation errors related to MySQL 8.
Changes since Pike 8.0.610 (release 12)
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