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): ----------------------------------------------------------------------

General -------

o ADT.Heap The compat functions top() and size() are now marked as deprecated.

Extensions and New Functions ----------------------------

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

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 ---------

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

o Nettle 2.0 is now supported.