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-oldlib...

Real Mac build comes when Bill has time to have a look at that.

Changes since Pike 8.0.498 (release 11) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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

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 ---------

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 -------------

o mktime/System.TM

Considerable speedup and a reduction in codesize.

Building & Tools ----------------

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,