As is tradition a release has been prepared at the new years party
with Champagne in one hand and keyboard in the other waiting for the
clock to hit 24:00.
Pike 8.0.528 release candidate:
https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.528/Pike-v8.0.528.tar.gz
Other builds:
https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.528/Pike-v8.0.528-Darwin-15.4…https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.528/Pike-v8.0.528-win32-oldli…
Real Mac build comes when Bill has time to have a look at that.
Changes since Pike 8.0.498 (release 11)
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New Features
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o Sql.pgsql
- Added support for PostgreSQL 10's stronger password authentication
(SCRAM-SHA-256).
- Slightly reduced overhead.
- Support IEEE binary float database-wireformat.
- Prevent new queries from starting in the local_backend.
o Crypto.Hash.SCRAM
New class to support SCRAM authentication.
o Thread.ResourceCount
New module to allow threadsafe race-condition-free counting of resources.
o SSL.File
Support query_fd() and set_buffer_mode() methods.
o Toole.Standalone.check_http
- Allow redirect responses.
- Support --expect option.
Bug fixes
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o Compiler
Improved variant robustness.
o Calendar
Updated tzdata to 2017c.
o Crypto.CCM
Fixed initialization of the iv.
o Filesystem.Monitor
- Fixed issue with next_poll being set to zero causing polling
every second.
- Fixed indexing the NULL value error when InotifyMonitor was used in
combination with a filter_file() that doesn't accept everything.
o HTTPLoop:
Fixed some potential race conditions.
o Image.Image
- Improved argument checking in apply_curve().
Non-integer array values lead to use of uninitialized curve values.
o Image.PVR
Fixed size check for twiddled images.
o MIME
Support trailing newline in MIME part epilogues.
o Protocols.HTTP
Fixed incoming chunked transfers (timed async works now, chunk
options are properly 'parsed').
o Protocols.LDAP
Fixed race condition on initializing LDAPS.
o Search.Utils
Updated debug string format.
o Sql.pgsql
- Suppress spurious 'File not open' blurts on stderr when the
connection is still pending and we inspect the connection object.
- Signal EOF early before closing the SQL result portal and thoroughly
cleanup bufcon/stashcount to prevent occasional deadlocks
on asynchronous object destructions.
- Suppress rare "access in destructed object" messages.
- Rip out fundamentally flawed reconnect logic, made failures consistent.
- Repair SSL connect logic.
- Update documentation.
- Repair fetch_row_array().
o mktime/System.TM
Make timezone management consistent (especially UTC handling).
o Standards.IIM
Disabled debug output for unknown segment markers.
o Stdio.send_file
Improved support for TLS/SSL; wait for TLS handshake to complete
before calling the sendfile done callback when sending an empty
string. This fixes the issue where the connection got closed
before TLS handshaking was completed, confusing the other side.
o Image
Creating images with mode "grey" now works as documented,
e.g. Image.Image(10,10,"grey",123);
Optimizations
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o mktime/System.TM
Considerable speedup and a reduction in codesize.
Building & Tools
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o Image.SVG
Fall back to using the unprefixed pkg-config if the arch-prefixed
doesn't exist.
o Mysql
Support MariaDB 10.2 headerfiles.
o precompile
Support precompilation with Pike 8.1 again.
o smartlink
Fixed multiple issues on Darwin & NetBSD.
o Whitefish
Use the standard VPATH.
o Yp
Support using libtirpc. Glibc 2.26 has removed the Sun RPC implementation...
Regards,
--
Peter Bortas
