Pike 7.6.94 alpha can be found at: http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/alpha/7.6.94/Pike-v7.6.94.tar.gz

Alpha because this will not be the release. There is text for one item in CHANGES missing and I need to fix a longstanding bug in the Unix installer.

Changes since Pike 7.6.86 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Changes in Pike:

o Added conversion from Gmp.mpz objects to Gmp.bignum when cast to int. o Added timeout to Image.PS. Now kills the ghostscript process if it hasn't returned after 30s. o Added GL 1.2 and 1.3 constants. o Added possibility to set offset and stride when creating textures from memory objects in GL. o Fixed CMYK calculation in Image.Image. o Added adjusted_cmyk to Image.Image and use it when decoding with Image.PS. o Now handles more eps images internally in Image.PS without spawning ghostscript. o Added Standards.IIM that handles IPTC IPTC Information Interchange Model data in JPEG or Postscript images created with PhotoShop. o Added support for little endian TIFFs. o Added support for TIFF to Image.Dims. o Changed HTTP.Query to close connections explicitly. o Improved Parser.XML.Validating. o More paranoid checks of image headers when using Image.AVS. o Fixes to make describe_value work as usual in the free pass of the gc, so that e.g. sprintf("%O",...) behave well when called from destroy(). o Fixed truncated field names in ODBC. o Fixed masking of file positions larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit. o Fixed low-level parsing of HTTP headers to not reorder the headers. o Fixed an inverted error test in Mysql.set_charset. o Added set_charset and get_charset proxy functions to Sql.Sql. o Changed Protocols.HTTP.Query async_close() to care about the value returned by ponder_answer(). Fixes requests to broken servers that don't send proper results. o Fixed bad free_string() in exit_bytecode(). o Fixed an off-by-one crash when drawing alpha boxes all the way to the bottom of the image. o FIXME_SPECIFY: "mast: Backported multiset fixes."

Other:

o Improved Valgrind support. o Now checks the return code from win32 VirtualProtect. This breaks assembler optimized builds on Windows. It never worked in the first place, but used to fail silently, so this is better. This has been fixed in 7.7 by using another heap manager, but it has not been decided if it should be be backported. o Adjusted array growth policy in array_insert to double the size instead of growing with approximately one eighth of the size. This to ensure O(1) time complexity and lessen fragmentation. (This affects ADT.Sequence._insert_element and ADT.CircularList._insert_element.) o Fixed support for UnixODBC. o Made IA32 machine code compatible with Darwin IA32 ABI. Enabled machine code for Darwin.

Build fixes:

o Support GNU Java (GCJ) o Did away with the use of the undocumented internal MS win32 CRT functions __loctotime_t and __dtoxmode. o Fixed typo that caused the configure script to search for lots of nonapplicable include dirs on windows. o Backported new INT_TYPE_{ADD,NEG}_OVERFLOW implementation from 7.7. The old one does not work with GCC 4.1. o Fixed problem where mysql_character_set_name exists in mysql.h but not in the lib for some old mysql clients.