Pike 8.0 rel 5 is now out.

This release is dedicated to Per Hedbor, who we sadly lost at the end of the summer. He was a programming genius, a large contributor to many parts of Pike, and probably the most prolific producer of Pike application code in the world. But above all we will remember him as a great friend.

Source:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/all/8.0.358/Pike-v8.0.358.tar.gz

Binary builds:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/all/8.0.358/Pike-v8.0.358-Darwin-15.4.0... https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/all/8.0.358/Pike-v8.0.358-win32-oldlibs...

Changes since Pike 8.0.276 (release 4) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

New features ------------

o Calendar

Updated Calendar to use timezonedata from tzdata2016i.

o Crypto.ECC

Zero-pad short signature integers.

o Protocols.HTTP.Server.HeaderParser

It is now possible to enable non-normalization on the entire object, and not just on a per call basis. It is also possible to disable support for folded headers, as per IETFs latest specification.

o CompilerEnvironment()->lock()

This is a class that exposes the compiler internal lock.

o Gz.deflate()->clone()

This allows for testing compression.

o gdb_backtraces()

gdb_backtraces() is now available even --without-debug.

o ADT.Heap()->low_pop()

This function is analogous to low_peek().

o Protocols.WebSocket

Parse query variables in WebSocket Requests.

Bug fixes ---------

o cpp

Fixed stringify operator on strings containing escaped double quotes.

o mkpackage

Support $EXTRA_PLATFORM_TEST.

o Threads.Condition

Fixed double free at cleanup on exit.

o Fixed multiple issues with cleanup on exit.

o Whitefish

Fixed wrong signedness.

o Standards.EXIF

Improved robustness of the EXIF parser.

o Protocols.HTTP.Session

Ignore malformed expiry dates in cookies.

o Protocols.WebSocket

Fixed handling of truncated frames.

o _Roxen

Backported multiple fixes from Pike 8.1.

o Compiler

Fixed broken range optimization.

Removed optimization that considered the hostname() constant.

Don't reference count direct cyclic references via mixed variables.

o MasterObject

Protect against the same file being compiled concurrently in multiple threads.

Cast to program and cast to object should now be thread-safe.

Survive RESOLV_DEBUG being enabled.

o Stdio.FakeFile

Improved sendfile compatibility.

o Process.create_process

Improved behavior under high signal pressure.

o Sql.pgsql

Improved robustness against stray destructs and exceptions.

o Standards.BSON

Fixed circular dependency.

o Mappings

Multiple optimizations in m_delete() and friends.

Added flag MAPPING_FLAG_NO_SHRINK.

o Calendar

Updated timezone data to tzdata2016h.

Building --------

o Nettle

Since there are distributions that have removed nettle_secp_192r1 and nettlesecp_224r1 from the nettle library, these curved are now disabled by default. Enable them by compiling with --with-weak-curves.

The 8.0.358 build is almost equivalent to the 8.0.352 release candidate. The difference is fixes the the testsuite to fix some broken tests. For exact details, see http://pike-librarian.lysator.liu.se/index.xml?m=pike.git&starttag=&...

Regards,