The Pike developers are proud to present Pike 7.8.316, a new stable
release.
Download from
http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike/latest-stable/Changes since Pike 7.8.316 (second 7.8 release):
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General
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o ADT.Heap
The compat functions top() and size() are now marked as deprecated.
Extensions and New Functions
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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
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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
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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
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o Nettle 2.0 is now supported.
