Grubba fixed a string bug that looks pretty nasty for some special edge cases, so despite not being the first Tuesday of the month, here's a beta.

Pike 8.0.384 beta/release candidate:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.384/Pike-v8.0.384.tar.gz

Other builds:

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.384/Pike-v8.0.384-Darwin-15.4.... https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.384/Pike-v8.0.384-win32-oldlib...

Changes since Pike 8.0.370 (release 6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes ---------

o String character range

Fixed a bug where a string could incorrectly have it's character range start point set to 0 when added with an empty string. This in turn would incorrectly block the string from being used by functions that require strings without null characters as argument or incorrectly take optimization paths.

o VCDiff

Fixed type of decode_chunk().

o Parser.XML

UTF-8 encoded documents with initial BOM was not decoded correctly.

Serializing Parser.XML.Tree objects will now entity escape characters that can not be encoded in the selected output charset.

Regards,