Pkgsrc changes:
o Adapt to changes in installed files, and a new perl script.
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ cleanups in packfile and freeze/thaw handling
+ Hash optimizations that improve HLL startup and run time
+ As always, many bug fixes and other optimizations
- Runtime
+ some runtime library cleanups
- Testing
+ added more tests to improve coverage
+ new codingstd test for documentation in .pmc files
- Documentation
+ added documentation to .pmc files (some still missing but headers in place)
+ general documentation improvements and bringing up-to-date
- NQP-rx
+ Updated version included from http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx includes
speed improvements
Contributed by Peter Bex via IRC.
Changes in 4.6.0
- the licenses used in all components of the core system have
been collected in the LICENSE file (Thanks to Peter Bex)
- Added new compiler option `-no-module-registration' which
omits generation of module registration code, even when
generation of import libraries has not been enabled
- running `chicken' without arguments now hints at the
existence of `csi' and `csc'
- `caar', `cdar' and `cddr' generate faster code
- calls to `list', `vector' and the internal structure
allocation primitive that take 1 to 8 arguments generate
faster code
- `chicken-install' now checks the version of the setup
configuration file `setup.defaults'
- added option `-exact' to `chicken-status' and `chicken-uninstall',
which treats the pattern argument as the literal name of the
extension to be listed/deinstalled
- `assert' shows line-number information, if available
(suggested by Alejandro Forero Cuervo)
- interpreted code records the lexical-environment at call-
sites, which can in case of an error be inspected with the
new `,c', `,f' and `,g' csi toplevel commands
- the evaluation-result history in `csi' can be inspected and
cleared (to reduce memory load) with the toplevel commands
`,h' and `,ch'
- unit `data-structures': deprecated `left-section' and
`right-section'
- fixed bug that caused the static syntax-environment of
syntax exported by a module to be incomplete
- module `setup-api': Documented the `version>=?' and
`extension-name-and-version' proceedures
- unit `posix': `utc-time->seconds' is considerably
faster on Mac OS X (thanks to Jim Ursetto);
added new procedure `file-type'
- the `time' macro now shows the correct number of minor
garbage collections
- the immediate-object check inside the marking procedure
of the garbage collector has been manually inlined which
results in a significant GC speedup, depending on memory
load
- unit `srfi-18' and `scheduler': various bugfixes (thanks
to Joerg Wittenberger)
- unit `srfi-4': bugfix in 8-bit vector allocation routines
(thanks to Kon Lovett)
- added `-:H' runtime option to dump heap state on exit
- fixed missing change in Makefile.cygwin (thanks to John Cowan)
- fixed bug in `let-optionals' macro that caused problems when the
rest-variable was actually named `rest' (thanks to Alejandro
Forero Cuervo)
- when Scheme files are translated to C++ or Objective-C, `csc'
will register the feature-identifiers `chicken-scheme-to-c++'/
`chicken-scheme-to-objc' ar compile-time
- fixed bug in expansion of `#!key' parameters in lambda-lists
- debug-output for forcing finalizers on exit goes to stderr now
(thanks to Joerg Wittenberger)
- the installation routines for extensions automatically add
version-number information if none is given in the extension
property list (suggested by Alejandro Forero Cuervo)
- `standard-extension' accepts `#f' now for the version number
and will use the version that has been obtained via
`chicken-install'
- `fifo?', `symbolic-link?', `directory?', `regular-file?', `socket?',
`character-device?' and `block-device?' now accepts file-descriptors
or filenames
- `find-files' takes keyword arguments, now (including the options
to process dotfiles and ignore symbolic links); the old argument
signature is still supported but deprecated
- removed dependency on `symbol-append' in some macros used in
srfi-4.scm to be able to compile the system with older chickens
- fixed bug in script that generates development snapshot
- added build-variable `TARGET_FEATURES', which can be used to pass
extra options enabling or disabling fetures for a system configured
for cross-compilation
- added compiler and interpreter option `-no-feature FEATURENAME' that
disables predefined feature identifiers
- code compiled with interrupts disabled will not emit inline files
for global inlining since they may execute in a context where
interrupts are enabled
- the `setup.defaults' file that holds download sources for
`chicken-install' now allows aliases for locations
- CHICKEN systems build from cross-compilation now by default
transparently build and install extensions for both the host
and target parts of the cross-compilation setup; the options
`-host' and `-target' can now be used to selectively build
an extensions for the host- and the target system, respectively
- also added `-host' and `-target' options to `chicken-status' and
`chicken-uninstall'
- `chicken-install' now respects the `http_proxy' environment variable
(contributed by Stephen Eilert)
- the `srfi-4' library unit has been heavily cleaned up and optimized
- optimization-level 3 now enables global inlining
- fixed the case that declarations listing global identifiers did not
correctly rename them
- deprecated `-N' option shortcut for `-no-usual-integrations' option in
`csc'
- `csi' now offers a toplevel command `,e' for invoking an external
editor (suggested by Oivind Binde)
- the `describe' command in `csi' now detects many circular lists
(contributed by Christian Kellermann)
- `csi' doesn't depend on the `srfi-69' library unit anymore
- when a closing sequence delimiter is missing or incorrect, the
reader also reports the starting line of the sequence
- the reader signals an error when a file contains certain characters
that indicate that it is a binary file
- procedure-information shown by the printer for procedures is now
corrected for some library procedures that where missing the correct
information; `getter-with-setter' copies procedure-information objects
into the newly created accessor procedure, if available
- calls to some known pure standard- or extended procedures are removed, if
the procedures are called with side-effect free arguments and the
result is not used (this can also by enabled for user procedures with
the `constant' declaration)
- fixed some build-system bugs related to installation
- fixed a problem in the C runtime code that prevented it to be compileable
without a configuration header-file
- the makefile-target to build a bootstrapping `chicken' executable
performs multi-stage build now
- changed error message when required extension is out of date (thanks to
Mario Goulart)
- documented library units loaded by default in `csi' (thanks to Moritz
Heidkamp)
- added `boot-chicken' makefile target to simplify bootstrapping
the system from sources and documented this in the README
(suggested by Jim Ursetto)
- CHICKEN can now be built on haiku (contributed by Chris Roberts)
- on Solaris, the system can be compiled with the SunPro C compiler
(thanks to Semih Cemiloglu)
- removed the `-disable-warnings' compiler option and `disable-warnings'
declaration specifier
- `fx/' and `fxmod' generate now faster code in safe mode
- cleaned up manual pages
- slightly optimized variable- and procedure-access
- in the compiler `-debug-level 2' implies `-scrutinize'
- internal compiler-transformation for `for-each' and `map'
apply now with any expression as the procedure argument
- the compiler warns about non-intrinsic exported toplevel variables
which are declared to be safe
- `csc' didn't handle the `-verbose' option (thanks to Mario Goulart)
- the `,d' command in `csi' now detects circular lists (thanks to
Christian Kellermann)
- strings passed to C runtime functions and which are converted to
0-terminated C strings are now checked for not containing embedded
`\0' characters (thanks to Peter Bex)
- errors in user-defined record printers are caught and shown in the
output instead of throwing an error to avoid endless recursion when
an error message is printed
- a feature identifier named `chicken-MAJOR.MINOR' is now defined
to simplify conditionalization of code on the CHICKEN version
- `getter-with-setter' copies the lambda-information (if available) from
the getter to the generated procedure
- `time' uses a somewhat more concise output format and outputs timing
information to stderr instead of stdout
- added a new chapter on cross-development to the manual
- added the `safe-globals' declaration specifier
- split up manual chapter `Modules and macros' into two chapters
(named `Modules' and `Macros', respectively - suggested by
Mario Goulart)
- the last 5 non-precompiled regular expressions are now internally
cached in compiled form, which speeds up repeated matching of
the same uncompiled regular expression dramatically
- added the new procedure `yes-or-no?' to the `utils' library unit
- added a `bench' makefile target that runs some non-trivial
benchmark programs
- added `install-target' and `install-dev' makefile target for
installing only target system libraries in cross-mode and
development files (static libraries and headers)
- added `[-]no-procedure-checks-for-toplevel-bindings' compiler
option and declaration
- usage of unimported syntax in modules gives more usable
error messages; in particular, used but unimported FFI forms are
now detected
- invalid syntactic forms (mostly `()') encountered by the compiler
or interpreter show the contextual form containing the expression,
or, if indicated by the context warns about missing imports
- simplified manual pages of all core tools - they now refer to
the output shown by invoking `<tool> -help'
- added new option `-feature FEATURE' to `chicken-install' tool
to pass feature-identifiers to invocations of `csc'
- removed deprecated `-host-extension' option from `chicken-install'
- `chicken-status' in a system built for cross-compilation now
lists extensions installed in the target prefix, unless the
new `-host' option is given on the command line
- `chicken-uninstall' in a system built for cross-compilation now
removes extensions installed in the target prefix, unless the
new `-host' option is given on the command line
- added missing entry for `finite?' to the `chicken' module
exports
- added new procedure `port-closed?' to the `library' unit
(contributed by Peter Bex)
- added new procedure `symbol-append' to the library unit
- the compiler-option `-optimize-level 0' is equivalent to
`-no-compiler-syntax -no-usual-integrations`
- internal rewritings of `map' and `for-each' ensure correct
evaluation order of the arguments and does a better job
at detecting non-list arguments (thanks to Jim Ursetto)
- `void' now takes arbitrary arguments and ignores them
- deprecated `noop' (from the `data-structures' unit) which
is now replaced by `void'
- the `time' macro now performs a major garbage collection
before executing the contained expressions and writes
the timings in a more compact format to the port given
by `(current-error-port)' instead of the standard output
port
- definitions of the form `(define define ...)' and
`(define-syntax define-syntax ...)' now trigger an error,
as required by R5RS (thanks to Jeronimo Pellegrini and Alex
Shinn)
- deprecated `random-seed' from the `extras' unit, since it
is identical to `randomize'
- added new procedure `create-temporary-directory' to the
`files' unit
- deprecated the optional path separator argument to
`make-pathname'
- slightly improved the performance of keyword argument
processing
- removed the deprecated `canonical-path' and `current-environment'
procedures from the `posix' unit
- warnings that mostly refer to programming style issues are
now coined `notes' and are only shown in the interpreter
or when debug-mode is enabled or when scrutiny is enabled
when compiling
ruby18-base-1.8.7.302
ruby19-base-1.9.2pl0
* Now patches of ruby-gdm, ruby-curses, ruby-readline and ruby-tk
are gathered to lang/ruby18-base and lang/ruby19-base.
Ruby's patchlevel N reflect as "plN" instead of ".N" from Ruby 1.9.
ruby18-base-1.8.7.302
ruby19-base-1.9.2pl0
Still Ruby 1.9.2pl0 support is disabled.
* Introduce RUBY_API_VERSION.
* RUBY_BUILD_RDOC and RUBY_BUILD_RI controls build of rdoc/ri. But,
currently ruby18-base and ruby19-base according to PKG_OPTION.
* Define rubygem supporting macros.
* RUBY_HAS_ARCHLIB is deprecated.
* Many directory macros are changed to relative path against PREFIX and
some of them are their name.
* Many directory macro, such as GEM_DOCDIR and GEM_LIBDIR are changed
to relative path against PREFIX.
* RUBYGEM_OPTIONS could be set from pkgsrc's Makefile.
* RUBY_BUILD_RDOC and RUBY_BUILD_RI controls build of rdoc/ri. But,
currently ruby18-base and ruby19-base according to PKG_OPTION.
* Assume name of commands gem18/rake18 or gem19/rake19.
* GEM_BUILD's default has changed from rake to gemspec. Most of rubygem
based pacakges would be installed via gem command.
* USE_RAKE controls the needs of the rake command.
* MASTER_SITES now use http://rubygems.org/downloads/ first.
* Check existence of GEM_DOCDIR before execute find(1).
* Deprecate RUBYGEM_PKGPREFIX which was defined the same as RUBY_PKGPREFIX
in long term.
* PRIVILEGED_STAGES isn't set "clean" any more.
misc/rubygems/rubygem.mk will be removed later.
Upstream changes:
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.1.
If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.
Core Enhancements
Other than the bug fixes listed below, there should be no
user-visible changes to the core language in this release.
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules and Pragmata
This release does not introduce any new modules or pragmata.
Pragmata Changes
In the previous release, no VERSION; statements triggered a bug
which could cause feature bundles to be loaded and strict mode
to be enabled unintentionally.
Updated Modules
Carp
Upgraded from version 1.16 to 1.17.
Carp now detects incomplete caller() overrides and avoids using bogus
@DB::args. To provide backtraces, Carp relies on particular behaviour
of the caller built-in. Carp now detects if other code has overridden
this with an incomplete implementation, and modifies its backtrace
accordingly. Previously incomplete overrides would cause incorrect
values in backtraces (best case), or obscure fatal errors (worst case)
This fixes certain cases of Bizarre copy of ARRAY caused by modules
overriding caller() incorrectly.
CPANPLUS
A patch to cpanp-run-perl has been backported from CPANPLUS 0.9004.
This resolves [perl #55964] and [perl #57106], both of which related
to failures to install distributions that use Module::Install::DSL.
File::Glob
A regression which caused a failure to find CORE::GLOBAL::glob after
loading File::Glob to crash has been fixed. Now, it correctly falls
back to external globbing via pp_glob.
File::Copy
File::Copy::copy(FILE, DIR) is now documented.
File::Spec
Upgraded from version 3.31 to 3.31_01.
Several portability fixes were made in File::Spec::VMS: a colon is now
recognized as a delimiter in native filespecs; caret-escaped
delimiters are recognized for better handling of extended filespecs;
catpath() returns an empty directory rather than the current
directory if the input directory name is empty; abs2rel() properly
handles Unix-style input.
Utility Changes
* perlbug now always gives the reporter a chance to change the email
address it guesses for them.
* perlbug should no longer warn about uninitialized values when using
the -d and -v options.
Changes to Existing Documentation
* The existing policy on backward-compatibility and deprecation has
been added to perlpolicy, along with definitions of terms like
deprecation.
* "srand" in perlfunc's usage has been clarified.
* The entry for "die" in perlfunc was reorganized to emphasize its role
in the exception mechanism.
* Perl's INSTALL file has been clarified to explicitly state that Perl
requires a C89 compliant ANSI C Compiler.
* IO::Socket's getsockopt() and setsockopt() have been documented.
* alarm()'s inability to interrupt blocking IO on Windows has been
documented.
* Math::TrulyRandom hasn't been updated since 1996 and has been removed
as a recommended solution for random number generation.
* perlrun has been updated to clarify the behaviour of octal flags to
perl.
* To ease user confusion, $# and $*, two special variables that were
removed in earlier versions of Perl have been documented.
* The version of perlfaq shipped with the Perl core has been updated
from the official FAQ version, which is now maintained in the
briandfoy/perlfaq branch of the Perl repository at
git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git.
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Configuration improvements
* The d_u32align configuration probe on ARM has been fixed.
Compilation improvements
* An "incompatible operand types" error in ternary expressions when
building with clang has been fixed.
* Perl now skips setuid File::Copy tests on partitions it detects to
be mounted as nosuid.
Selected Bug Fixes
* A possible segfault in the T_PRTOBJ default typemap has been fixed.
* A possible memory leak when using caller() to set @DB::args has been
fixed.
* Several memory leaks when loading XS modules were fixed.
* unpack() now handles scalar context correctly for %32H and %32u,
fixing a potential crash. split() would crash because the third item
on the stack wasn't the regular expression it expected.
unpack("%2H", ...) would return both the unpacked result and the
checksum on the stack, as would unpack("%2u", ...). [perl #73814]
* Perl now avoids using memory after calling free() in pp_require when
there are CODEREFs in @INC.
* A bug that could cause "Unknown error" messages when
"call_sv(code, G_EVAL)" is called from an XS destructor has been fixed.
* The implementation of the open $fh, '>' \$buffer feature now supports
get/set magic and thus tied buffers correctly.
* The pp_getc, pp_tell, and pp_eof opcodes now make room on the stack
for their return values in cases where no argument was passed in.
* When matching unicode strings under some conditions inappropriate
backtracking would result in a Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal)
error. This should no longer occur. See [perl #75680]
Platform Specific Notes
AIX
* README.aix has been updated with information about the XL C/C++ V11
compiler suite.
Windows
* When building Perl with the mingw64 x64 cross-compiler incpath,
libpth, ldflags, lddlflags and ldflags_nolargefiles values in
Config.pm and Config_heavy.pl were not previously not being set
correctly because, with that compiler, the include and lib
directories are not immediately below $(CCHOME).
VMS
* git_version.h is now installed on VMS. This was an oversight in
v5.12.0 which caused some extensions to fail to build.
* Several memory leaks in stat() have been fixed.
* A memory leak in Perl_rename() due to a double allocation has been
fixed.
* A memory leak in vms_fid_to_name() (used by realpath() and
realname()) has been fixed.
Pkgsrc changes:
o Adapt to new content being installed (PLIST) and new perl script
which needs tweaking.
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ Plug some memory leaks
+ As always, bug fixes and some optimizations
- Runtime
+ added (experimental) URI::Escape
- Testing
+ Improved test coverage of core parrot
- Documentation
+ Updated the Squaak tutorial to use modern NQP-rx and PCT
- Platforms
+ The Fedora package 'parrot-devel' install the files for syntax-highlighting
and automatic indenting for the vim editor
- NQP-rx
+ Updated version included from http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx includes
new or improved: regex backtracking, named assertions, interactive mode,
and setting (a minimal but useful runtime library)
What's New in Python 2.6.6?
===========================
*Release date: 2010-08-24*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
Library
-------
What's New in Python 2.6.6 rc 2?
================================
*Release date: 2010-08-16*
Library
-------
- Issue #9600: Don't use relative import for _multiprocessing on Windows.
- Issue #8688: Revert regression introduced in 2.6.6rc1 (making Distutils
recalculate MANIFEST every time).
- Issue #5798: Handle select.poll flag oddities properly on OS X.
This fixes test_asynchat and test_smtplib failures on OS X.
- Issue #9543: Fix regression in socket.py introduced in Python 2.6.6 rc 1
in r83624.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #7567: Don't call `setupterm' twice.
Tests
-----
- Issue #9568: Fix test_urllib2_localnet on OS X 10.3.
- Issue #9145: Fix test_coercion failure in refleak runs.
- Issue #8433: Fix test_curses failure caused by newer versions of
ncurses returning ERR from getmouse() when there are no mouse
events available.
What's New in Python 2.6.6 rc 1?
================================
*Release date: 2010-08-03*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #6213: Implement getstate() and setstate() methods of utf-8-sig and
utf-16 incremental encoders.
- Issue #8271: during the decoding of an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence, only the
start byte and the continuation byte(s) are now considered invalid, instead
of the number of bytes specified by the start byte.
E.g.: '\xf1\x80AB'.decode('utf-8', 'replace') now returns u'\ufffdAB' and
replaces with U+FFFD only the start byte ('\xf1') and the continuation byte
('\x80') even if '\xf1' is the start byte of a 4-bytes sequence.
Previous versions returned a single u'\ufffd'.
- Issue #9058: Remove assertions about INT_MAX in UnicodeDecodeError.
- Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
(higher than 0x10000).
- Issue #8627: Remove bogus "Overriding __cmp__ blocks inheritance of
__hash__ in 3.x" warning. Also fix "XXX undetected error" that
arises from the "Overriding __eq__ blocks inheritance ..." warning
when turned into an exception: in this case the exception simply
gets ignored.
- Issue #4108: In urllib.robotparser, if there are multiple 'User-agent: *'
entries, consider the first one.
- Issue #9354: Provide getsockopt() in asyncore's file_wrapper.
- In the unicode/str.format(), raise a ValueError when indexes to arguments are
too large.
- Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding
and error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
implicit relative import semantics.
- Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
it from another thread. Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.
- Issue #1533: fix inconsistency in range function argument
processing: any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to
an integer (if possible) using its __int__ method. Previously, only
small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
__int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize
is passed to bytearray.
- Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
changed.
- Raise a TypeError when trying to delete a T_STRING_INPLACE struct member.
- Issue #1583863: An unicode subclass can now override the __unicode__ method.
- Issue #7507: Quote "!" in pipes.quote(); it is special to some shells.
- Issue #7544: Preallocate thread memory before creating the thread to avoid
a fatal error in low memory condition.
- Issue #7820: The parser tokenizer restores all bytes in the right if
the BOM check fails.
- Issue #7072: isspace(0xa0) is true on Mac OS X
C-API
-----
- Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
sys.path. This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
Library
-------
- Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
the interpreter executable. This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
on OS X.
- Issue #7092: Fix the DeprecationWarnings emitted by the standard library
when using the -3 flag. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7395: Fix tracebacks in pstats interactive browser.
- Issue #1713: Fix os.path.ismount(), which returned true for symbolic links
across devices.
- Issue #8826: Properly load old-style "expires" attribute in http.cookies.
- Issue #1690103: Fix initial namespace for code run with trace.main().
- Issue #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb's "continue" command when called
in the top-level debugged frame.
- Issue #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb
in doctests.
- Issue #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery
if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
- Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
been reassigned.
- Issue #8015: In pdb, do not crash when an empty line is entered as
a breakpoint command.
- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
http.cookiejar.MozillaCookieJar.
- Issue #8198: In pydoc, output all help text to the correct stream
when sys.stdout is reassigned.
- Issue #1019882: Fix IndexError when loading certain hotshot stats.
- Issue #8471: In doctest, properly reset the output stream to an empty
string when Unicode was previously output.
- Issue #8397: Raise an error when attempting to mix iteration and regular
reads on a BZ2File object, rather than returning incorrect results.
- Issue #8620: when a Cmd is fed input that reaches EOF without a final
newline, it no longer truncates the last character of the last command line.
- Issue #7066: archive_util.make_archive now restores the cwd if an error is
raised. Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
- Issue #5006: Better handling of unicode byte-order marks (BOM) in the io
library. This means, for example, that opening an UTF-16 text file in append
mode doesn't add a BOM at the end of the file if the file isn't empty.
- Issue #3704: cookielib was not properly handling URLs with a / in the
parameters.
- Issue #4629: getopt raises an error if an argument ends with = whereas getopt
doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
options).
- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
- Issue #5395: array.fromfile() would raise a spurious EOFError when an
I/O error occurred. Now an IOError is raised instead. Patch by chuck
(Jan Hosang).
- Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.
- Issue #9164: Ensure sysconfig handles dupblice archs while building on OSX
- Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.
- Issue #9136: Fix 'dictionary changed size during iteration'
RuntimeError produced when profiling the decimal module. This was
due to a dangerous iteration over 'locals()' in Context.__init__.
- Fix extreme speed issue in Decimal.pow when the base is an exact
power of 10 and the exponent is tiny (for example,
Decimal(10) ** Decimal('1e-999999999')).
- Issue #9130: Fix validation of relative imports in parser module.
- Issue #9128: Fix validation of class decorators in parser module.
- Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop
module, ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size
- Issue #6589: cleanup asyncore.socket_map in case smtpd.SMTPServer constructor
raises an exception.
- Issue #9125: Add recognition of 'except ... as ...' syntax to parser module.
- Issue #9085: email package version number bumped to its correct
value of 4.0.2 (same as it was in 2.5).
- Issue #9075: In the ssl module, remove the setting of a ``debug`` flag
on an OpenSSL structure.
- Issue #5610: feedparser no longer eats extra characters at the end of
a body part if the body part ends with a \r\n.
- Issue #8924: logging: Improved error handling for Unicode in exception text.
- Fix codecs.escape_encode to return the correct consumed size.
- Issue #6470: Drop UNC prefix in FixTk.
- Issue #8833: tarfile created hard link entries with a size field != 0 by
mistake.
- Issue #1368247: set_charset (and therefore MIMEText) now automatically
encodes a unicode _payload to the output_charset.
- Issue #7150: Raise OverflowError if the result of adding or subtracting
timedelta from date or datetime falls outside of the MINYEAR:MAXYEAR range.
- Issue #6662: Fix parsing of malformatted charref (&#bad;), patch written by
Fredrik Håård
- Issue #1628205: Socket file objects returned by socket.socket.makefile() now
properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.
- Issue #3924: Ignore cookies with invalid "version" field in cookielib.
- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read or write the BOM
twice after seek(0). Fix also reset() method of codecs, UTF-16, UTF-32 and
StreamWriter classes.
- Issue #5640: Fix Shift-JIS incremental encoder for error handlers different
than strict
- Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
of files without one.
- Issue #8729: Return NotImplemented from collections.Mapping.__eq__ when
comparing to a non-mapping.
- Issue #5918: Fix a crash in the parser module.
- Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
- Issue #7640: In the new `io` module, fix relative seek() for buffered
readable streams when the internal buffer isn't empty. Patch by Pascal
Chambon.
- Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen.__del__ no longer references global objects,
leading to issues during interpreter shutdown.
- Issue #8681: Make the zlib module's error messages more informative when
the zlib itself doesn't give any detailed explanation.
- Issue #8674: Fixed a number of incorrect or undefined-behaviour-inducing
overflow checks in the audioop module.
- Issue #8571: Fix an internal error when compressing or decompressing a
chunk larger than 1GB with the zlib module's compressor and decompressor
objects.
- Issue #8573: asyncore _strerror() function might throw ValueError.
- Issue #8483: asyncore.dispatcher's __getattr__ method produced confusing
error messages when accessing undefined class attributes because of the cheap
inheritance with the underlying socket object.
- Issue #4265: shutil.copyfile() was leaking file descriptors when disk fills.
Patch by Tres Seaver.
- Issue #8621: uuid.uuid4() returned the same sequence of values in the
parent and any children created using ``os.fork`` on MacOS X 10.6.
- Issue #8313: traceback.format_exception_only() encodes unicode message to
ASCII with backslashreplace error handler if str(value) failed
- Issue #8567: Fix precedence of signals in Decimal module: when a
Decimal operation raises multiple signals and more than one of those
signals is trapped, the specification determines the order in which
the signals should be handled. In many cases this order wasn't
being followed, leading to the wrong Python exception being raised.
- Issue #7865: The close() method of :mod:`io` objects should not swallow
exceptions raised by the implicit flush(). Also ensure that calling
close() several times is supported. Initial patch by Pascal Chambon.
- Issue #8581: logging: removed errors raised when closing handlers twice.
- Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
gc.DEBUG_STATS.
- Issue #8354: The siginterrupt setting is now preserved for all signals,
not just SIGCHLD.
- Issue #8577: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc() now makes a difference
between the build dir and the source dir when looking for "python.h" or
"Include".
- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
when mode="w|" is used.
- Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
of the Linux kernel. Patch by Yaniv Aknin.
- Issue #6312: Fixed http HEAD request when the transfer encoding is chunked.
It should correctly return an empty response now.
- Issue #8086: In :func:`ssl.DER_cert_to_PEM_cert()`, fix missing newline
before the certificate footer. Patch by Kyle VanderBeek.
- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX. Patch by
Sridhar Ratnakumar.
- Issue #2302: Fix a race condition in SocketServer.BaseServer.shutdown,
where the method could block indefinitely if called just before the
event loop started running. This also fixes the occasional freezes
witnessed in test_httpservers.
- Issue #5103: SSL handshake would ignore the socket timeout and block
indefinitely if the other end didn't respond.
- The do_handshake() method of SSL objects now adjusts the blocking mode of
the SSL structure if necessary (as other methods already do).
- Issue #5238: Calling makefile() on an SSL object would prevent the
underlying socket from being closed until all objects get truely destroyed.
- Issue #7943: Fix circular reference created when instantiating an SSL
socket. Initial patch by Péter Szabó.
- Issue #8108: Fix the unwrap() method of SSL objects when the socket has
a non-infinite timeout. Also make that method friendlier with applications
wanting to continue using the socket in clear-text mode, by disabling
OpenSSL's internal readahead. Thanks to Darryl Miles for guidance.
- Issue #8484: Load all ciphers and digest algorithms when initializing
the _ssl extension, such that verification of some SSL certificates
doesn't fail because of an "unknown algorithm".
- Issue #4814: timeout parameter is now applied also for connections resulting
from PORT/EPRT commands.
- Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.
- Issue #5277: Fix quote counting when parsing RFC 2231 encoded parameters.
- Issue #8179: Fix macpath.realpath() on a non-existing path.
- Issue #8310: Allow dis to examine new style classes.
- Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.
- Issue #7624: Fix isinstance(foo(), collections.Callable) for old-style
classes.
- Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem
didn't support chflags() (for example ZFS under FreeBSD). The error is
now silenced.
- Issue #3890, #8222: Fix recv() and recv_into() on non-blocking SSL sockets.
Also, enable the SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY flag on SSL sockets, so that blocking
reads and writes are always retried by OpenSSL itself.
- Issue #6544: fix a reference leak in the kqueue implementation's error
handling.
- Issue #7774: Set sys.executable to an empty string if argv[0] has been
set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name
- Issue #6906: Tk should not set Unicode environment variables on Windows.
- Issue #1054943: Fix unicodedata.normalize('NFC', text) for the Public Review
Issue #29
- Issue #7494: fix a crash in _lsprof (cProfile) after clearing the profiler,
reset also the pointer to the current pointer context.
- Issue #4961: Inconsistent/wrong result of askyesno function in tkMessageBox
with Tcl/Tk-8.5.
- Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
the locale.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Fix memory leak in ssl._ssl._test_decode_cert.
- Issue #9422: Fix memory leak when re-initializing a struct.Struct object.
- Issue #7900: The getgroups(2) system call on MacOSX behaves rather oddly
compared to other unix systems. In particular, os.getgroups() does
not reflect any changes made using os.setgroups() but basicly always
returns the same information as the id command.
os.getgroups() can now return more than 16 groups on MacOSX.
- Issue #9277: Fix bug in struct.pack for bools in standard mode
(e.g., struct.pack('>?')): if conversion to bool raised an exception
then that exception wasn't properly propagated on machines where
char is unsigned.
- Issue #7384: If the system readline library is linked against
ncurses, do not link the readline module against ncursesw. The
additional restriction of linking the readline and curses modules
against the same curses library is currently not enabled.
- Issue #2810: Fix cases where the Windows registry API returns
ERROR_MORE_DATA, requiring a re-try in order to get the complete result.
Build
-----
- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
- Issue #3928: os.mknod() now available in Solaris, also.
- Issue #8175: --with-universal-archs=all works correctly on OSX 10.5
- Issue #6716: Quote -x arguments of compileall in MSI installer.
- Issue #1628484: The Makefile doesn't ignore the CFLAGS environment
variable anymore. It also forwards the LDFLAGS settings to the linker
when building a shared library.
Tests
-----
- Issue #7849: Now the utility ``check_warnings`` verifies if the warnings are
effectively raised. A new private utility ``_check_py3k_warnings`` has been
backported to help silencing py3k warnings.
- Issue #8672: Add a zlib test ensuring that an incomplete stream can be
handled by a decompressor object without errors (it returns incomplete
uncompressed data).
- Issue #8629: Disable some test_ssl tests, since they give different
results with OpenSSL 1.0.0 and higher.
- Issue #8576: Remove use of find_unused_port() in test_smtplib and
test_multiprocessing. Patch by Paul Moore.
- Issue #7027: regrtest.py keeps a reference to the encodings.ascii module as a
workaround to #7140 bug
- Issue #3864: Skip three test_signal tests on freebsd6 because they fail
if any thread was previously started, most likely due to a platform bug.
- Issue #8193: Fix test_zlib failure with zlib 1.2.4.
Documentation
-------------
- Issue #9255: Document that the 'test' package is for internal Python use
only.
- Issue #8909: Added the size of the bitmap used in the installer created by
distutils' bdist_wininst. Patch by Anatoly Techtonik.
INSTALL_PROGRAM and INSTALL_SCRIPT.
They reflect to Ruby's Config::CONFIG constant which contains
various configuration parametes which would be used when installing
extention modules including ruby gems.
Setting INSTALL explicitly reset the line in mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk.
CONFIGURE_ENV+= ac_given_INSTALL=${INSTALL:Q}\ -c\ -o\ ${BINOWN}\ -g\ ${BINGRP}
Should be fix PR pkg/43684 and pkg/43687.
Bump PKGREVISION.
We intentionally wire down the 'libswanted' list in the package Makefile, so
don't let the hints file add new libraries that may be found outside Pkgsrc
control.
Fixes build on Gentoo and SuSE systems, and possibly other Linux systems too
that might have stray -lgdbm_compat libraries lying around.
changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
* build changes
** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
* optimization: The default implementation of
COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
* enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
* enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
* bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
* bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
* bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
(lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
* bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
(lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
* support packages from other than default channels
* replace deprecated function usage in pear_plist.php
* generate filelist from installed registry, to support "install as" files.
tested with all pear pacakgs in pkgsrc.
pkgsrc changes:
- preparing for databases/p5-gdbm (using Makefile.common)
- supporting external access to perl install dirs (dirs.mk)
- fixing some errors/warnings from pkglint
- adding conflict to packages of CPAN modules which are in Perl5 code
on the one hand and are broken with perl-5.10+
Bumping PKGREVISION (dependencies changed, rebuild highly recommended).
Recursive rebuild is not required.
pkgsrc changes,
* Update base pear packages:Archive_Tar-1.3.7 (recommented)
* Remove ${FILESDIR}/pear.sh, same as bundled one.
* set LICENSE=2-clause-bsd
* add user-destdir support
Upstream Changelog:
* svntag improvements, tag package files passed into the command and better
directory checks [dufuz]
* rely on Structures_Graph minimum version instead of recommended version
[saltybeagle]
* Fix Bug #12613: running go-pear.phar from C:\ fails [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #14841: Installing pear into directory with space fails [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #16644: pear.bat returns syntax error when parenthesis are in install
path. [dufuz] [patch by bwaters (Bryan Waters)]
* Fix Bug #16767: Use of Depreciated HTML Attributes in the Exception class
[dufuz] [patch by fuhrysteve (Stephen J. Fuhry)]
* Fix Bug #16864: "pear list-upgrades -i" issues E_WARNINGS [dufuz] [patch by
rquadling (Richard Quadling)]
* Fix Bug #17220: command `pear help` outputs to stderr instead of stdout
[dufuz]
* Fix Bug #17234: channel-discover adds port to HTTP Host header [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #17292: Code Coverage in PEAR_RunTest does not work with namespaces
[sebastian]
* Fix Bug #17359: loadExtension() fails over missing dl() when used in
multithread env [dufuz]
* Fix Bug #17378: pear info $package fails if directory with that name exists
[dufuz]
0.90.5
======
* Byte compiler bugfix in docstring loss [Teika Kazura]
Practical effect: Previously, if a user byte-compile files, then
the docstring is lost in sawfish-config. This is fixed.
Details: Loss of docstring happened only if (1) byte compiler is
not given `--write-docs', so only byte-compilation by user (2)
defvar is invoked within macro definition, including `defcustom' in
Sawfish. Plain defvar was not affected by this bug. It was
because in 'trans-defvar' in lisp/rep/vm/compiler/rep.jl, the
docstring is stored in a wrong property `variable-documentation'.
It is corrected to `documentation'.
Symbol `variable-documentation' is not used elsewhere, including
Sawfish and emacs' sawfish-mode.
* Our own implementation of dlmalloc is disabled since 2002, as it
breaks librep on several architectures. From this version on, we
don't ship it. [Kim B. Heino]
* Our own implementation of alloca/memcmp is not needed, rely on
libcs instead. [Kim B. Heino]
* Majorly improved the debian and rpm packaging scripts [Christopher
Bratusek] [Kim B. Heino]
* Install headers to $includedir/rep/ instead of $includedir/
[Christopher Bratusek]
* Autotools improvements (Makefile, autogen.sh & Co.) [Christopher
Bratusek]
* Added `file-gid-p' function for getting the gid of a file
[Christopher Bratusek]
* Added `file-uid-p' function for getting the uid of a file
[Christopher Bratusek]
0.90.4
======
* Library version bumped to 9.4.1
* Use $prefix/lib instead of $prefix/libexec
* Fixups for OpenBSD [Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse]
* Don't hardcode /usr in manpage installation path
0.90.3
======
* Added `file-executable-p' function
* Improved spec-file [Kim B. Heino]
* Improved ebuild [Fuchur, Christopher Bratusek]
* Fallback check for ffi, if there's no libffi.pc [Vincent Untz]
* Removed rep-config script (use librep.pc instead)
* Added man-pages for `rep', `repdoc', `rep-remote' and
`rep-xgettext' [Debian]
* Added debian packaging scripts based on the official ones
0.90.2
======
* Fixed a major defunct with prin1 + utf8 [Timo Korvola]
* Fixed descriptions of formats %s and %S in streams.c
0.90.1
======
* Properly terminate the rep interpreter [Jürgen Hötzel]
* Use readline history in interactive mode [Jürgen Hötzel]
* Tar file-handler does now support XZ compressed tarballs
* Tar file-handler does now support LZMA compressed tarballs
* Improved regex for parsing tar output in the file-handler [Alexey
I. Froloff]
* We do now correctly check for libffi
* Improved libffi-binding [Alexey I. Froloff]
* Updated librep.sym for missing entries [Alexey I. Froloff]
* Fixed an incomplete definition
* Added -L$prefix to libs section of the .pc file
* No C++ style comments in C code
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.10.1 -> 5.12.1.
The list of packages is computed by finding all packages which end
up having either of PERL5_USE_PACKLIST, BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.perl,
or PERL5_PACKLIST defined in their make setup (tested via
"make show-vars VARNAMES=..."), minus the packages updated after
the perl package update.
sno@ was right after all, obache@ kindly asked and he@ led the
way. Thanks!
Pkgsrc changes:
o Adapt PLIST and Makefile to what's in the package source and what
is now being installed.
Upstream changes:
* Core
o Added ByteBuffer PMC to allow direct byte manipulation
o Modified some PMC vtable functions to reduce complexity,
simplifying coverage.
o Modified PAST to generate symbolic PASM constants in PIR output.
o General STRING API cleanups
o Increased test coverage of core PMCs
o Fixed up 'exit' opcode, added CONTROL_EXIT exception type.
o Experimental 'unroll' opcode renamed to 'finalize'
* NQP-rx
o Added proper support for multisubs and multimethods
o Fixed sigspace handling ** quantifier in regexes
o Added \e strings
o Added use of inversion lists for charclass lists in regexes
* Platforms
o EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) packages for
RHEL6.beta are available
* Begin moving towards Lorito, the ops refactor to enable pervasive
self-hosting and JIT compilation.
o All ops are now built with the self-hosted opsc compiler.
o For more Information about Lorito see:
+ http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Lorito
+ http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/LoritoRoadmap
Pkgsrc changes:
- Adjust some patches
- Remove patches integrated upstream
- Use Perl's "Policy.sh" framework (along the way remove some patches)
- Link in an enterprise friendly way on HPUX
- in buildlink3.mk bump minimum required pkgsrc Perl version to
5.12.0
- placate some pkglint warnings
Upstream changes:
- From version 5.12.1 announce
This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core
modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully
backward compatible with Perl 5.12.0.
- From version 5.12.0 announce:
Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since
version 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over
3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers.
[...]
Notable changes in Perl 5.12 include:
* Perl now conforms much more closely to the Unicode standard.
Additionally, this release includes an upgrade to version
5.2 of the standard.
* New experimental APIs allow developers to extend Perl with
"pluggable" keywords and syntax.
* Perl now has a better sense of time and will be able to keep
accurate time well past the "Y2038" barrier.
* New syntax allows developers to specify package version numbers
directly in "package" statements
* Perl now warns the user about the use of deprecated features
by default.
- For a complete list of changes see included perl5120delta(1) and
perl5121delta(1) or http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5120delta.html and
http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5121delta.html
Some of the highlights in release 3.12 are:
* Polymorphic recursion is supported, using explicit type
declarations on the recursively-defined identifiers.
* First-class modules: module expressions can be embedded as
values of the core language, then manipulated like any other
first-class value, then projected back to the module level.
* New operator to modify a signature a posteriori: S with type
t := tau denotes signature S where the t type component is
removed and substituted by the type tau elsewhere.
* New notations for record expressions and record patterns:
{ lbl } as shorthand for { lbl = lbl }, and { ...; _ } marks
record patterns where some labels were intentionally omitted.
* Local open let open ... in ... now supported by popular demand.
* Type variables can be bound as type parameters to functions;
such types are treated like abstract types within the
function body, and like type variables (possibly generalized)
outside.
* The module type of construct enables to recover the module
type of a given module.
* Explicit method override using the method! keyword, with
associated warnings and errors.
Changes in 5.11.4:
* ADDED: library coinduction.pl, after discussion with Gopal Gupta.
* CLEANUP: Share more of the Makefiles between Windows and the rest
* FIXED: destruction of a queue if a thread is waiting to write
* FIXED: error by current_blob/2.
* MODIFIED: incorrect handling of (^)/2 in setof/3 and bagof/3.
The new version should now fully comply to ISO. As of now,
- The predicate ^/2 no longer exists
- ^ is only handled by bagof/setof if it appears
directly at the toplevel of the 2nd argument.
E.g., the following is NOT allowed:
setof(X, (foo(X); Y^foo(Y)), L).
Code must be rewritten. At runtime, problems are signalled
by ^/2 being undefined. compile-time analysis can be achieved using
gxref/0 (or check/0 for quick-and-dirty).
* FIXED: GC error when nesting (if->then/*no-else*/) inside \+.
Thanks to test-case by Keri Harris.
* FIXED: retractall(x(X,X)). Roberto Tiella.
Changes in 5.11.3:
* FIXED: Top level now performs expand_goal/2 *after* correcting the
goal.
* MODIFIED: PL_CUTTED -> PL_PRUNED. Kept PL_CUTTED as a #define for
compatibility.
* FIXED: Correctly read RDF/XML that is in UTF-8 on Windows.
* ENHANCED: Faster enumeration of subjects for writing small RDF gaphs
* ENHANCED: Better sizing of the hash-tables.
* CLEANUP: Use size_t in many places for RDF-DB
* ADDED: RDF-DB index on +,+,+. This provides a significant speedup in
loading databases with multiple objects on the same SP.
* ADDED: Syntax closer to ISO with set_prolog_flag(iso,true).
See Prolog flag iso for a detailed description.
* MAINT: Fix compilation under -DO_DEBUG. Andy Valencia.
* FIXED: Syntax: proper bracketing of arguments
* MODIFIED: Simpler syntax within { }.
According to 6.3.6 the term within curly brackets is read with
priority 1201, so no extra parentheses are needed.
Changes in 5.11.2:
* ADDED: lang_equal/2 to RDF library to test language equality. Jacco
van Ossenbruggen
* FIXED: Error from http_absolute_location/3 if an alias is not
defined.
* FIXED: Avoid error in edit/1 hook if an HTTP path-alias is undefined.
* ADDED: Just-in-time creation of thread-pools for the HTTP server
using the new hook
http:create_pool/1. Cleanup of the code for faster spawning of
worker-threads.
* MODIFIED: Threaded server defaults: keep-alive-timeout is now 2
seconds (was 5)
and the worker-count is now 5 (was 2). Worker-count is increased
because many
servers need it as since version 5.9.x there is hardly a price for
more workers.
* ADDED: option hide_children(Bool) to make prefix handlers hide their
children
and allow http_delete_handler to delete a handler-by-id.
* PORT: Realise set_end_of_file in Windows version
* ENHANCED: Implement safe-locking of the RDF persistent database
* ADDED: set_end_of_stream/1.
* PORT: Fix for MS VS2010 compilation. Degski.
* ADDED: lang_matches/2 to library(rdf_db)
* FIXED: url_to_filename/2 in rdf_persistency was broken due to
steadfastness
fix in DCG (commit 1a1a5699). Jacco van Ossenbruggen.
* FIXED: list_settings/0. Li Li.
* FIXED: handling of = and contains in xpath. Carsten van Weelden.
* ADDED: library(semweb/sparql_client) providing a SPARQL client API.
* ENHANCED: Layout for listing where the body resides in another
module.
* ENHANCED: Provide style pldoc(Id) with each PlDoc handler
* ADDED: reply_html_page/3: re-stylable HTML pages
* FIXED: Possible crash in cleanup handlers.
See comment above discardChoicesAfter() for more details.
* ENHANCED: Make it possible to give syntax-warnings with exact
positions.
* ADDED: Warnings for missing quotes for , and |
* MODIFIED: Stricter list syntax. E.g. [a,b|c,d] or [a|b|c] are now
illegal.
In the unlikely case this was intended, the term after the bar (|)
must be
enclosed in brackets. I.e. [a,b|(c,d)] or [a|(b|c)].
* FIXED: Syntax: proper quoting of | and ,
* PORT: Improve behavioral consistency between 32-bit and 64-bit
allocation
* FIXED: Memory leak for threads allocating chunks of 512 bytes. Matt
Lilley.
* ADDED: computing SHA incrementally. Ivan Shmakov
* INSTALL: Item#567: make check of xpce loading user's .plrc
* FIXED: steadfastness in DCG translation. Item#379
* FIXED: Item#559: hanging system in GC. Only affects 32-bit platforms
when doing GC on large stacks that have >8Mb chunks of continuous
garbage. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* DOC: errors for atom_length/2. Ulrich Neumerkel.
* ADDED: Library(http/js_write) to embed JavaScript calls into HTML
pages
* FIXED: Processing of stack-limit options in thread_create/3. Jacco.
* FIXED: Avoid direct access to private predicates of module error.
* ADDED: rdf_reachable/5, providing a distance limit and returning the
distance.
* ADDED: rdf_is_resource/1 and rdf_is_literal/1 for completeness.
* FIXED: Thread-creation if ulimit -s == infinite.
* FIXED: Do not skip character after . in turtle parser. Lourens van
der Meij.
* PORT: Windows snprintf --> _snprintf
* MODIFIED: On systems that provide getrlimit(), the default
C-stack-size of
created threads is the same as that of the main thread. This was
already
the default on Linux, but not on e.g. MacOS.
* ADDED: statistics(c_stack, StackSize) to query the system (C-)stack
limit.
For consistency, thread_create now also accepts c_stack as parameter.
This patch also cleans some type-issues with regard to stack-size
specification and removes 2Gb limit for Win64 due to the use of long.
* ADDED: Skos prefix
* ADDED: http_server_property/2. This patch also does some cleanup to
the meta-predicate declarations for the multi-threaded HTTP server.
* FIXED: Check for integer overflows in numeric-arguments for
format-specifiers
* FIXED: Possible buffer overflow on format('~200f', [1]). Mike
Elston.
* ADDED: library(http/http_openid), supporting OpenID consumers and a
server.
* ADDED: library(http/http_host) to obtain the public hostname of our
HTTP service
* CLEANUP: Stricter type-checking in load_files/2. Discussion on
comp.lang.prolog.
* FIXED: Old naming conventions. Julian Zubek.
* FIXED: Atom-GC for blobs that do not have PL_BLOB_UNIQUE. Samer
Abdallah.
* ADDED: Allow for selective importing of operators in use_module/2.
After discussion with Vitor.
* PORT: Do not use chrpath if the kernel is not a shared object
* PORT: Some type-issues in socket libs (nonblockio.c)
I do not think any of these could have been fatal. They just produce
alarming messages from the compiler.
Changes in 5.11.1:
* PORT: Windows: make fake EWOULDBLOCK error compatible with new def in
VS2010
* PORT: Fix download of Windows prerequisites for Windows 7. Degski.
* ADDED: Support for "406 Not Acceptable" responses in the HTTP server.
* INSTALL: make prepare check all checked-out modules, regardless of
-a.
* FIXED: Cleanup after uncaught stack-overflow exceptions. Paul
Singleton.
* DOC: Fixed code for skeleton client. Mike Elston.
* FIXED: ?= for cases where the arguments do not unify. Marco Montali.
* FIXED: Possible crash on stack-shift in cleanup handler. Jochem
Liem.
* FIXED: Possibly wrong association of $and in frozen/2. Samer
Abdallah.
* FIXED: Handling option register_namespaces(true) in rdf_load/2.
Vangelis Vassiliadis.
* MODIDIED: rdf_assert/4 now discards *complete* duplicates (incl
source).
* PORT: Avoid including termios.h into pl-os.h to localise the
dependencies
and (hopefully) make the system compile on Solaris.
* PORT: Get prototype for posix_openpt(), avoiding warning
* PORT: Move time-dependencies where they are needed; use POSIX
clock_gettime() if it is provided.
* DOC: Enhance comments of rb_insert/4 and rb_insert_new/4.
* MODIFIED: Make rdf_meta/1 module-aware. This means that calls are
only expanded if they resolve to the exact predicate that is declared
using rdf_meta. This might break code relying on the old behaviour
that expansion took place regardless of the module.
It is possible to get a warning on calls that used to be expanded
and are now not using this call before *loading* the program:
?- debug(rdf_meta).
The new code also expands NS:Local appearing literally in the head
of rdf_meta-declared clauses.
Pkgsrc changes:
o Now pass the --optimize flag to configure
o Pull in devel/gmp/buildlink3.mk so that multi-precision arithmetic
is enabled (and gets testing)
o Adapt PLIST and Makefile to what's present and being installed
Upstream changes:
- Core
+ Various long-standing bugs in IMCC were fixed
+ STRINGs are now immutable.
+ use STRINGNULL instead of NULL when working with strings
+ Fixed storage of methods in the NameSpace PMC
+ Added :nsentry flag to force method to be stored in the NameSpace
+ Added StringBuilder and PackfileDebug PMCs
+ Added experimental opcodes find_codepoint and unroll
- Compilers
+ Fixed reporting of line numbers in IMCC
+ Removed deprecated NQP compiler, replaced with new NQP-RX
+ Removed NCIGen compiler
- Deprecations
+ Tools to distribute on CPAN were removed
+ Deprecated dynpmcs have been removed to external repositories
+ Removed RetContinuation PMC
+ Removed CGoto, CGP, and Switch runcores
- Tests
+ Many tests for the extend/embed interface were added
+ done_testing() is now implemented in Test::More
- Tools
+ The fakexecutable tapir is renamed parrot-prove
+ Performance fixes to the pbc_to_exe tool
+ Fix data_json to work outside of trunk
+ The dynpmc GzipHandle (zlib wrapper) was added
+ The library Archive/Tar.pir was added.
+ The library Archive/Zip.pir was added.
+ The libraries LWP.pir, HTTP/Message.pir & URI.pir were added.
- Miscellaneous
+ Six Parrot-related projects accepted to GSoC
+ Improve use of const and other compiler hints
executable of a Python script, from Helge Muehlmeier per pkgsrc-wip
This pkg abuses Python distutils in a non-portable way, so I've
added a hack which relinks the startup code behind setuptools'
back. This is easier than patching the setup.py script into doing trt.
