Pike 8.0.438 beta/release candidate:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.438/Pike-v8.0.438.tar.gz

Other builds:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.438/Pike-v8.0.438-Darwin-15.4.... https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.438/Pike-v8.0.438-win32-oldlib...

Changes since Pike 8.0.404 (release 8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

New Features ------------

o Calendar

Updated Calendar to use timezonedata from tzdata2017a.

o GL & GLUT

Prefer Quartz implementation on systems that have it (OS X).

o GTK2

- Add -x objective-c for Darwin.

- Support linking against other implementations than X11.

o Protocols.HTTP

Connecting to HTTP proxies over HTTPS is now supported.

o Web.decode_jwk()

Support decoding of symmetric (ie HMAC) keys.

o Web.encode_jws() and Web.decode_jws()

Added simplified API for dealing with JSON Web Signature values.

Bug fixes ---------

o Runtime

- Variant dispatcher

Improved string range checking.

Fixes mismatches due to te lazy string range (ed string(8bit)) exceeding the typed string range (eg string(7bit)) for narrow strings.

o mkpackage

Support multiple sub-packages with the same name.

Gnu-tar doesn't like being asked to extract the same file multiple times from the same tar-file. It claims that the second file doesn't exist in the archive.

This can happen when a sub-package has been replaced with a fixed version.

o smartlink

Don't override MACOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET if it's been specified.

This should prevent "compiled against version x but linking against version y" warnings.

o Arg & ADT.Struct

Survive use by old (ie 8.0.232) pike binaries.

Roxen 6.0.130 uses a Pike 8.0.232 binary with current modules.

o Backend.PollDeviceBackend

Make set_signal_event_callback() optional.

This fixes the warning "An expression of type function({ Backend = object(implements _static_modules.Builtin()->defaultBackendClass) } : void) cannot be assigned to a variable of type function({ Backend = object(implements _static_modules.Builtin()->Backend) } : void).".

o bool

Make sure that 0 is part of the range for the bool type.

o Charset

Fixed encoding errors for two characters in the GSM-03.38 charset.

o Debug

Fixed typo in mask in check_callback_chain().

Fixes infinite loop in circularity detection.

o Gdbm

Support building with gdbc 1.13.

Fixes obscure compilation error when building with gdbm 1.13 due to a symbol clash with the symbol "fatal" used as an argument in the macro definition of gdbm_set_errno().

o Mapping

Removed extraneous and conflicting prototype.

Fixes linking issues on NT.

o Protocols.HTTP

- Fixed do_async_proxied_method() losing the timeout during TLS negotiation.

- Now fails immediately if Query is unable to open a socket, instead of waiting 120 seconds for a time out.

- Allow connection reuse also when the server is a hostname.

o Thread.Mutex

- Perform a thread yield on mutex onlock in an attempt to reduce thread starvation.

o Sql.pgsql

- Added an extra synchronisation condition, and increased parallelisation to resolve all detected race conditions (which in rare circumstances (many parallel queries on a single filedescriptor) could have resulted in a deadlock).