This release is the last one before a major redesign of ECL,
which will affect issues like Unicode streams and handling of
interrupts.
Most notable changes since 0.9l include:
- new versioning scheme, based on <year>.<month>.<patchlevel>;
- compiler error, warning, notes and messages handling;
- float point number exceptions handling;
- signals handling;
- improvements to help file;
- improvements to operating system interface;
- CLX 0.7.3;
- many bug fixes.
* lots of bugfixes
* add/correct semantic checks
* more/improved warnings
* internal cleanups (introduce entity_t types)
* support more GCC extensions
* improved error recovery
* support more switches for GCC compatibility
* support for libc builtins
* add a manpage
was there because guile was built against gmp etc. from /usr/pkg, not
present to let programs find -lguile. Therefore, add in rpath for
$(libdir) when we add in -L for libdir.
This looks ok to me, but I will be away AFK most of the day, so feel
free to remove the line in distinfo and re-commit if this turns out to
be bad.
merging to the new guile-config code, and it turns out not to be
necessary since there is some other mechanism to add rpath. Arguably
it should still be added, as the later rpath might only be there for
dependencies. (Plus, depending programs should use pkg-config
instead.)
Delete patch-aa as the whole lt_preloaded_symbols bit is gone upstream.
Changes in 1.8.6 (since 1.8.5)
* New features (see the manual for details)
** New convenience function `scm_c_symbol_length ()'
** Single stepping through code from Emacs
When you use GDS to evaluate Scheme code from Emacs, you can now use
`C-u' to indicate that you want to single step through that code. See
`Evaluating Scheme Code' in the manual for more details.
** New "guile(1)" man page!
* Changes to the distribution
** Automake's `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' is no longer used
Thus, the `--enable-maintainer-mode' configure option is no longer
available: Guile is now always configured in "maintainer mode".
** `ChangeLog' files are no longer updated
Instead, changes are detailed in the version control system's logs. See
the top-level `ChangeLog' files for details.
* Bugs fixed
** `symbol->string' now returns a read-only string, as per R5RS
** Fix incorrect handling of the FLAGS argument of `fold-matches'
** `guile-config link' now prints `-L$libdir' before `-lguile'
** Fix memory corruption involving GOOPS' `class-redefinition'
** Fix possible deadlock in `mutex-lock'
** Fix build issue on Tru64 and ia64-hp-hpux11.23 (`SCM_UNPACK' macro)
** Fix build issue on mips, mipsel, powerpc and ia64 (stack direction)
** Fix build issue on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 (`dirent64' and `readdir64_r')
** Fix build issue on i386-unknown-freebsd7.0 ("break strict-aliasing rules")
** Fix misleading output from `(help rationalize)'
** Fix build failure on Debian hppa architecture (bad stack growth detection)
** Fix `gcd' when called with a single, negative argument.
** Fix `Stack overflow' errors seen when building on some platforms
** Fix bug when `scm_with_guile ()' was called several times from the
same thread
** The handler of SRFI-34 `with-exception-handler' is now invoked in the
dynamic environment of the call to `raise'
** Fix potential deadlock in `make-struct'
** Fix compilation problem with libltdl from Libtool 2.2.x
** Fix sloppy bound checking in `string-{ref,set!}' with the empty string
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7:
Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371)
Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658).
Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659).
Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666.
Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660)
Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829)
Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.7 include:
Fixed several memory leaks inside the readline and sqlite extensions
A number of corrections relating to date parsing inside the date extension
Fixed bugs relating to data retrieval in the PDO extension
A series of crashes in various areas of code were resolved
Several corrections were made to the strip_tags() function in terms of < and <?XML handling
A number of bugs were fixed in extract() function when EXTR_REFS flag is being used
Added the ability to log PHP errors to the SAPI (Ex. Apache log) logging facility
Over 170 bug fixes.
5.2.8
Reverted bug fix Fixed bug #42718 that broke magic_quotes_gpc (Scott)
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.7:
Upgraded PCRE to version 7.8 (Fixes CVE-2008-2371)
Fixed missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid), reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
Fixed incorrect php_value order for Apache configuration, reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658).
Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659).
Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666.
Fixed bug #45151 (Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots)).(Fixes CVE-2008-3660)
Fixed bug #42862 (IMAP toolkit crash: rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow). (Fixes CVE-2008-2829)
Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.7 include:
Fixed several memory leaks inside the readline and sqlite extensions
A number of corrections relating to date parsing inside the date extension
Fixed bugs relating to data retrieval in the PDO extension
A series of crashes in various areas of code were resolved
Several corrections were made to the strip_tags() function in terms of < and <?XML handling
A number of bugs were fixed in extract() function when EXTR_REFS flag is being used
Added the ability to log PHP errors to the SAPI (Ex. Apache log) logging facility
Over 170 bug fixes.
Cparser is a recursive descent C99 parser written in C99. It contains
a lexer, a parser, and the appropriate constructs; it does AST and
semantic analysis. It is currently used as a frontend to the
libFirm intermediate representation. However, it can be used
independently, and also is able to bootstrap itself. Currently, cparser
uses an external preprocessor.
Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features
are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed.
This release addresses a number of cases interpreter might have
crashed in certain boundary conditions.
What's New in Python 2.3.7?
===========================
*Release date: 11-Mar-2008*
What's New in Python 2.3.7c1?
===========================
*Release date: 02-Mar-2008*
Core and builtins
-----------------
- Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
can't be triggered from Python code.
What's New in Python 2.3.6?
===========================
*Release date: 01-NOV-2006*
What's New in Python 2.3.6c1?
=============================
*Release date: 25-OCT-2006*
Core and builtins
-----------------
- Patch #1541585: fix buffer overrun when performing repr() on
a unicode string in a build with wide unicode (UCS-4) support.
This is the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001.
Extension modules
-----------------
- Apply fix for potential heap overflow in PCRE code (CAN-2005-2491).
Library
-------
- The email package has improved RFC 2231 support, specifically for
recognizing the difference between encoded (name*0*=<blah>) and non-encoded
(name*0=<blah>) parameter continuations. This may change the types of
values returned from email.message.Message.get_param() and friends.
Specifically in some cases where non-encoded continuations were used,
get_param() used to return a 3-tuple of (None, None, string) whereas now it
will just return the string (since non-encoded continuations don't have
charset and language parts).
Also, whereas % values were decoded in all parameter continuations, they are
now only decoded in encoded parameter parts.
* New module DBUS interfaces to the D-Bus message bus system.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dbus.html> for details.
* New function EXT:PROBE-PATHNAME can figure out whether the existing
pathname refers to a file or a directory.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/files.html#probe-path> for details.
* New function EXT:CANONICALIZE lets you easily canonicalize a value
before processing it.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/macros3.html#canonicalize> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*REOPEN-OPEN-FILE* controls CLISP behavior
when opening an already open file.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/open.html#reopen> for details.
* New SETFable function OS:FILE-SIZE extends FILE-LENGTH to pathname
designators and lets you change file size.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#file-size> for details.
New function OS:USER-SHELLS returns the list of legal user shells.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#user-shells> for details.
New SETFable functions OS:HOSTID and OS:DOMAINNAME.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#hostid> for details.
* Module readline has been upgraded to readline 5.2
(older versions 5.0 and 5.1 are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/readline-mod.html> for details.
* LOAD now uses DIRECTORY only for wild *LOAD-PATHS* components, thus
speeding up the most common cases and preventing the denial-of-service
attack whereas CLISP would not start if a file with a name
incompatible with *PATHNAME-ENCODING* is present in USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME.
* ROOM now prints some GC statistics and returns the same values as GC.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/environment-enq.html#room> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*HTTP-LOG-STREAM* controls EXT:OPEN-HTTP logging.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/macros3.html#http-log-stream> for details.
* Bug fixes:
+ Comparison of floats and rationals never underflows. [ 2014262 ]
+ When failing to convert a huge LONG-FLOAT to a RATIONAL, signal an
ARITHMETIC-ERROR instead of blowing the stack. [ 2015118 ]
+ Restored TYPECODES g++ compilation [ 2015118 ], which allowed fixing
a few GC-safety bugs.
+ Fixed a segfault when signaling some UNBOUND-VARIABLE errors in some
interpreted code on MacOS X (introduced in 2.46). [ 2020784 ]
Thanks to Vladimir Tzankov <vtzankov@gmail.com>.
+ Fixed input after switching a :DOS stream to binary. [ 2022362 ]
+ Support circular objects in EQUAL and EQUALP hash-tables. [ 2029069 ]
+ Avoid C namespace pollution. [ 2146126 ]
+ Fix timeout precision in NEW-CLX. [ 2188102 ]
* ANSI compliance:
+ The sets of declaration and type names are disjoint.
+ FLET, LABELS and MACROLET respect declarations.
Embryo implements a C like scripting language used in various parts of
the Enlightenment project, namely Edje. Embryo allows scripting
capabilities in places that otherwise wouldn't support basic
programming structures such as in Edje EDCs.
