Legend:
* Changes of existing features or bugfixes
+ New features
This file only contains the most significant changes.
ObjFW 1.1 -> ObjFW 1.1.1, 2024-04-14
* Fixes missing ${DESTDIR} in some Makefiles.
ObjFW 1.0.12 -> ObjFW 1.1, 2024-04-14
* ObjFW is now licensed under LGPLv3.0-only.
+ Adds a new framework for writing tests called ObjFWTest.
* All tests were migrated to ObjFWTest.
+ The runtime now supports associated objects.
+ OFDNSResolver now caches responses.
+ OFDNSResolver now supports URI and LOC DNS resource records.
+ Adds methods to handle path extension to OFIRI.
+ Adds support for Mbed TLS.
+ Adds more methods to OFSystemInfo to check for CPU features.
* OFSystemInfo now only indicates CPU features as supported if the OS also
supports them.
+ OFLHAArchive now supports extracting and creating files > 4 GB.
+ OFLHAArchive now supports header level 3.
+ OFLHAArchive now supports extracting -lhx-, -lz4- and -pm0- files.
* OFLHAArchive no longer defaults to ISO 8859-1.
+ New class OFZooArchive for extracting and creating Zoo files.
* The schemes for archive IRI handlers have been renamed.
* The schemes for archive IRI handlers now look for the rightmost `!`,
which allows for chaining with less quoting.
* Fixes -[OFMutableArray replaceObjectIdenticalTo:withObject:] being
inconsistent with -[OFMutableArray replaceObject:withObject:].
* Fixes getting non-existent xattrs in OFFileManager.
* Objects on Windows, MS-DOS and 32 bit Solaris now get properly aligned so
that SIMD can be used on ivars.
* Fixes parsing of signed numbers in MessagePack.
* Fixes a memory leak in OFTarArchive.
+ Adds support for typed extended file attributes (only on Haiku).
+ Adds support for extended file attributes on Haiku, NetBSD and FreeBSD.
+ OFStdIOStream now supports cursor movement and colors on MS-DOS.
* All headers are now compatible with -masm=intel.
+ OFMatrix4x4 can now transform multiple vectors at once.
+ OFMatrix4x4 has a 3DNow! implementation for multiplication and vector
transformations now.
+ OFMatrix4x4 has an SSE implementation for vector transformations now.
* Updates Unicode support to 15.1.
* Fixes compatibility with LibreSSL.
* Fixes two linker warnings on macOS.
* Fixes compiling on QNX.
* OFLocale now supports automatic initialization.
+ ofarc now supports extracting and creating Zoo archives.
+ ofarc now has an --iri option to directly work on local and remote IRIs.
+ ofarc now prints the archive comment with -lv.
+ ofarc can now add an archive comment with --archive-comment=.
+ ofarc now propagates the quarantine xattr on macOS when extracting an
archive.
ObjFW 1.0.11 -> ObjFW 1.0.12, 2024-03-11
* Fixes a regression in OFZIPArchive that was introduced in 1.0.11 that
resulted in failing to extract archives and creating broken archives.
* Fixes a rare condition where OFInflateStream could end up in an endless
loop.
* Fixes OFTarArchiveEntry not having a default date, which could result in
messaging nil on a FP return, which yielded invalid results on 32-bit x86
with GCC.
ObjFW 1.0.10 -> ObjFW 1.0.11, 2024-03-09
* Fixes -[OFHTTPClientResponse isAtEndOfStream] and
-[OFGZIPStream isAtEndOfStream].
* Fixes how OFZIPArchive handles disk 0 vs. disk 1.
* OFLHAArchive and OFZIPArchive create more compatible archives now.
* OFLHAArchive ignores padding in level 2 headers now.
* ofarc correctly sets modification dates of directories now by delaying
setting those until after all files have been extracted.
* Fixes a linker warning on macOS/iOS.
* Several minor documentation fixes.
* OFFileIRIHandler correctly transforms exceptions now so that they use an IRI
and not a path.
ObjFW 1.0.9 -> ObjFW 1.0.10, 2024-02-24
* Fixes objc_getClassList() not releasing the global runtime mutex.
* Improves OFLHAArchive's compatibility with non-standard archives.
+ Adds endbr32 / endbr64 / bti instructions for compatibility with Control
Flow Integrity.
ObjFW 1.0.8 -> ObjFW 1.0.9, 2024-02-18
* Fixes OFGZIPStream reading the size and CRC32 incorrectly when either spans
multiple reads.
* Fixes a type mismatch in OFMapTable that could cause problems on big endian
systems when uint32_t and unsigned long have a different size.
* Fixes the default implementation of -[initWithKeys:arguments:] for custom
dictionaries.
* Improves detection of mutation during enumeration in
-[enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:].
* Minor documentation fixes.
ObjFW 1.0.7 -> ObjFW 1.0.8, 2024-01-21
* Fixes compilation on NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana etc. which was broken by
1.0.7.
ObjFW 1.0.6 -> ObjFW 1.0.7, 2024-01-21
* Fixes inheriting the environment in OFSubprocess.
* Fixes dealloc in OFSubprocess when -[closeForWriting] was called.
+ Adds tests for OFSubprocess.
* Changes the key for +[OFSystemInfo networkInterfaces] to the adapter name
on Windows XP and newer to avoid a possible collission on the adapter index.
* Fixes compilation with old MinGW versions.
* Fixes the documentation for OFSRVDNSResourceRecord.
ObjFW 1.0.5 -> ObjFW 1.0.6, 2024-01-15
* Fixes compatibility with autoconf 2.72.
* Fixes OFDNSResolver's handling of types, classes and lengths > 255.
ObjFW 1.0.4 -> ObjFW 1.0.5, 2023-11-05
* Fixes the calculation of the extra alignment in OFAllocObject()
* Fixes +[OFSystemInfo networkInterfaces] on OpenBSD and Windows 98
* Fixes OFSocketAddressString() for AppleTalk addresses
* Uses GetModuleHandle() instead of LoadLibrary() where possible on Windows
* Disables tests for global blocks on Win64 due to broken compilers
* Adds PGP keys to verify tarballs and commits in the code repository
ObjFW 1.0.3 -> ObjFW 1.0.4, 2023-10-08
* Fixes OFFile closing fd 0 when initialization fails
* Fixes -[stringByAppendingPathComponent:] on empty strings
* Fixes +[OFSystemInfo operatingSystemName] and
+[OFSystemInfo operatingSystemVersion] returning nil on some systems
* Adds a license for localizations
ObjFW 1.0.2 -> ObjFW 1.0.3, 2023-09-14
* Fixes -[OFConcreteData initWithItemSize:] not setting freeWhenDone to true,
which resulted in a memory leak
* Fixes -[OFData initWithContentsOfIRI:] freeing the buffer in @catch instead
of @finally, which resulted in a memory leak
ObjFW 1.0.1 -> ObjFW 1.0.2, 2023-09-11
* The build system has been updated to fix building .frameworks and to build
them differently for macOS and iOS
ObjFW 1.0 -> ObjFW 1.0.1, 2023-09-10
* Hanging connections with OFTLSStream have been fixed when using OpenSSL
* The same fix as for OpenSSL has been applied to GnuTLS and SecureTransport
out of caution, even though there have been no hangs in practice
* The build system has been updated to fix building .frameworks among other
minor changes
* Some headers have been changed to fix compatibility with ObjC++
* Warnings about empty .o files on x86_64 Darwin have been fixed
* The OFDate documentation has been improved to list supported formats
ObjFW 0.90.2 -> ObjFW 1.0, 2023-08-29
+ First stable release with stable API and ABI
* Too many changes to list, as it has been almost 6 years since the last
release. See commits in the repository for details.
ObjFW 0.90.1 -> ObjFW 0.90.2, 2017-10-23
* Fix shadowed variables which caused many bugs (e.g. using the wrong object)
* Many, many nullability fixes
* OFTCPSocket: Fix exception not being retained for async connect
* OFThread: Fix setting the name on the wrong thread
* OFMutableSet: Fix missing override for -[copy]
* configure: Fix posix_spawnp check
* Xcode project: Set the correct version for the bridge
* Better check for iOS
* tests: Fix testing the wrong OFKernelEventObserver
ObjFW 0.90 -> ObjFW 0.90.1, 2017-08-20
* OFData: Fix -[description]
* OFFileManager: Set errno to 0 before readdir()
* OFDate: Add -[localMinute]
* OFTarArchiveEntry: Fix prefix handling for ustar
* OFZIPArchive: Fix uncompressed + data descriptor
* OFArray: Fix MessagePack encoding
* of_asprintf: Don't require set up OFLocalization
* OFGZIPStream: Add missing documentation
* Fix a linker warning on OpenBSD/SPARC64
* Remove the OFFile b modes from MorphOS
(they were already removed for all other OSes)
ObjFW 0.8.1 -> ObjFW 0.90, 2017-08-01
+ New classes: OFFileManager, OFGZIPStream, OFTarArchive, OFTarArchiveEntry
OFHMAC, OFSandbox, OFHTTPCookie, OFHTTPCookieManager,
OFLocalization
+ New platforms: Nintendo 3DS, MorphOS
+ New lookup assembly for platforms: SPARC64/ELF, ARM64/ELF
+ New forwarding for: ARM64/ELF
+ New tools: objfw-new (to create boilerplate code)
+ New options: --disable-unicode-tables
* Required GCC version increased to 4.6
* OFDataArray was split into OFData and OFMutableData
* OFURL was split into OFURL and OFMutableURL
* Most properties are now nonatomic
(this changes from returned retained + autoreleased to +0 retained)
* Correct handling of encoding on Win32 console
(stream is read and written in UTF-8 and translated to UTF-16 on the fly)
* Runtime is now built as a separate library
+ More encodings for strings
* Reworked OFOptionsParser API
* Refactored OFKernelEventObserver
* Better randomization of HTTP header order
* Allow overriding all HTTP headers
* Definition of thread priorities changed
+ Key Value Coding
+ Exceptions in ObjC++
* OFHash was renamed to OFCryptoHash
+ PBKDF2
+ scrypt
+ Xcode project to build for iOS
+ String decomposition to NFD
* OFFile modes simplified ('b' removed)
ObjFW 0.8 -> ObjFW 0.8.1, 2015-10-04
* Adjust to __nullable / __nonnull being changed to _Nullable / _Nonnull in
Clang 3.7 (this fixes compilation with Clang 3.7)
* Blocks: Proper handling when called from a byref handler
* Fix compilation on Solaris
* Fix compilation for Wii, PSP and Nintendo DS
* OFProcess: Send SIGTERM on close instead of SIGKILL
* OFZIPArchive: Throw invalid format exception on failed seeks
* Make sure of_hash_seed is never initialized to 0
* Special cases for the Wii's weird network stack (fixes the tests)
* Better length checks for write / send calls
* Don't use -pedantic on platforms where it's broken by the system headers
* Documentation fixes
ObjFW 0.7.1 -> ObjFW 0.8, 2015-08-14
+ An insanely huge amount of new APIs
+ New classes: OFHTTPServer, OFINICategory, OFINIFile, OFInflate64Stream,
OFInflateStream, OFMapTable, OFRIPEMD160Hash, OFSHA224Hash, OFSHA256Hash,
OFSHA384Hash, OFSHA512Hash, OFSettings, OFStdIOStream, OFSystemInfo,
OFUDPSocket, OFZIPArchive, OFZIPArchiveEntry
+ New utils: ofzip, ofhash, ofhttp
+ Support for -[forwardingTargetForSelector:] on a lot of platforms
(see PLATFORMS.md)
* OFHTTPRequest: Split into OFHTTPRequest and OFHTTPClient
* Rename OFHTTPRequestReply to OFHTTPResponse
* OFDictionary now uses OFMapTable internally
+ Highly randomized, DoS-resistant hashtables (different seed per hashtable,
additionally rotated by a random number of bits)
* Reworked exceptions API that explicitly passes errno around
+ OFHTTPClient: Keep-alive and Basic Authorization support
+ Support for (and use of) ObjC generics, nullability and kindof
+ Fast path for resolving classes when using GCC (Clang doesn't need the fast
path, as it directly references classes)
* OFStreamObserver: Refactored and renamed to OFKernelEventObserver (as it is
no longer limited to streams)
+ Support for SjLj and SEH exceptions
+ Support for DOS/DJGPP, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable
+ Support for bare metal (in other words: running without any OS; tested on
ARM)
+ Full support for ARM64 on iOS
+ Full MessagePack implementation (the new MessagePack version that supports
strings)
+ Backtraces for uncaught exceptions
+ Bridge to Cocoa now part of ObjFW
* Default depth limit for XML and JSON parser
+ Optional support for outputting JSON5 (default is JSON)
* 16 bit selector UIDs are now the default
* BOOL replaced with bool everywhere (except where required by the ABI)
* Fix for a nasty bug in -[replaceCharactersInRange:withString:]
* Fix for a nasty bug in atomic ops
* OFTLSKey replaced with +[OFThread threadDictionary]
* Documentation improvements (for example, imports should now be shown
correctly everywhere and many APIs have been documented in more detail)
+ Property introspection
* OFProcess: Use posix_spawnp if available
* OFProcess improvements for Win32
+ epoll support for OFKernelEventObserver
* Rewritten OFMD5Hash and OFSHA1Hash
* Reworked OFTLSSocket API (easier verification)
* Unicode support updated to Unicode 8.0
* OFURL: Proper escaping and unescaping
ObjFW 0.7 -> ObjFW 0.7.1, 2012-11-12
+ Support for Haiku
* Autorelease pools now work properly without __thread
* Incorrect framework version in Xcode project fixed
* Documentation fixes and improvements
* Blocks now only use 16 bits for the reference count in order to avoid
problems with newer Clang versions
* More use of OF_SENTINEL
ObjFW 0.6 -> ObjFW 0.7, 2012-10-27
Again, the differences are more than in any release before, thus listing them
all would be too much. The major differences are:
+ ObjFW now comes with its own runtime, which greatly increases performance
compared to the GNU runtime and is even faster than the Apple runtime
(using Clang >= 3.2 is recommended, but not necessary)
* Support for the GNU runtime has been dropped
+ New, much faster autorelease pool implementation (now inside the runtime)
+ Support for Automatic Reference Counting (requires Clang >= 3.2)
+ Forwarding has been implemented
+ Asynchronous stream handling
+ New classes: OFThreadPool, OFRecursiveMutex, OFSortedList, OFTimer, OFRunLoop
+ New protocols: OFLocking, OFTLSSocket
* Lots of API changes to make APIs more future-proof
+ Support for the new Objective-C literals
* OFHTTPRequest now implements HTTP/1.1
* OFObject's memory handling has been improved, leading to better performance
* Strings are allocated faster now
+ Support for JSON5
* All private methods use the prefix OF_ now instead of _, making it possible
to use the _ prefix in applications
* Most ObjC compiler feature checks are not part of configure anymore, making
it possible to use the same installation with different compilers
ObjFW 0.5.4 -> ObjFW 0.6, 2012-02-27
The differences between 0.5.4 and 0.6 are too big to list them all. However,
the major new features are:
* OFString, OFArray, OFDictionary, OFSet and OFCountedSet are now class
clusters
+ Serialization and deserialization of objects into/from XML and JSON
+ New class OFIntrospection for introspecting classes
+ New class OFProcess for working with and controlling child processes
* Lots of OFXMLParser and OFXMLElement improvements
+ OFHTTPRequests can have a delegate now for status updates and processing
data as soon as it arrives
+ There are several backends for OFStreamObserver now, including kqueue, poll
and select
+ SOCKS5 support for OFTCPSockets (client only)
* Several API changes
ObjFW 0.5.3 -> ObjFW 0.5.4, 2011-08-30
* The blocks runtime is now working correctly
* Documentation fixes
* -framework works with objfw-compile now
+ Support for QNX
* Various small fixes
ObjFW 0.5.2 -> ObjFW 0.5.3, 2011-07-01
* Lots of bugfixes, see Git log for details
ObjFW 0.5.1 -> ObjFW 0.5.2, 2011-04-25
* Fix double-retain in OFList
* Don't ignore the timeout in OFStreamObserver when using select()
* Do -[OFURL copy] in a try block to prevent a leak when an exception occurs
* Fix too big buffer in -[OFMutableString _applyTable:withSize:]
* Call madvise() on the correct length variable so it covers the whole string
* Fix a warning when sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long long)
* Skip possible BOMs when appending strings
ObjFW 0.5 -> ObjFW 0.5.1, 2011-04-21
* Work around a wrong warning produced by Apple GCC 4.0.1 which would cause
the build to fail due to -Werror
* Call objc_thread_{add,remove} when using the GNU runtime to make sure the
runtime knows about our thread
* Detach a thread before restarting if it was never joined
* Release the old return value when restarting a thread
ObjFW 0.4-alpha1 -> 0.5, 2011-04-09
+ %@ is now allowed in format strings
+ Added of_log for easy logging
* Exceptions have one header per exception now
* Lots of exception improvements
* Huge improvements in XML handling
* Improvements in socket handling, including improved API
* OFStreamObserver is now thread-safe and stops the current observe call when
the set of streams to observe is modified
+ New class OFURL
+ New class OFHTTPRequest
+ New class OFCondition
* Improvements in objfw-compile
+ Blocks can be used together with Cocoa now
+ When linking ObjFW and Cocoa, OFAutoreleasePools are used by both now
+ Support for Base64
+ Use a real Xcode project instead of just calling make
+ Add Haiku to the list of supported platforms
* Lots of small bugfixes and countless small changes. Read the commits!
ObjFW 0.3.1 -> 0.4-alpha1, 2011-01-03
* ObjFW is now available under the terms of the QPL, GPLv2 and GPLv3
+ Support for blocks was added, including a blocks runtime
+ Added support for the new GNU runtime, introduced in GCC 4.6
* Objects returned from collections are no longer retained and autoreleased
+ Added new classes OFXMLParser, OFXMLElement, OFXMLAttribute and
OFXMLElementBuilder
+ Added new class OFStreamObserver to observe streams
+ Added new class OFDate for storing dates
+ Many new methods in almost all classes
* OFAutoreleasePool was optimized
* Handling of ASCII strings was optimized
* OFSocket was renamed to OFStreamSocket
* OFConstString was renamed to OFConstantString
* objfw-compile now has a new syntax
+ objfw-compile can now compile libraries and plugins
* Many small changes and new features that would be too much to list here
The diff between 0.3.1 and 0.4-alpha1 has almost 24000 lines!
ObjFW 0.3 -> 0.3.1, 2010-06-19
* Fix a typo in OFMutableDictionary that prevented termination in case
the last bucket is already used when the dictionary is resized
* The mutations pointer is now correctly initialized in enumerators for
immutable collections
* The objc_sync test was still using the old threads API and was
updated to use the new one now
* PLATFORMS has been updated to be more specific
ObjFW 0.2.1 -> 0.3, 2010-05-09
+ Many new methods were added to different classes
+ A huge amount of methods was added to OFStream, allowing easy binary
stream handling and even mixing string-based and binary operations
+ An optional write buffer was added to OFStream
+ OFSeekableStream was added for streams that allow seeking, for example
OFFiles
* OFNumber was completely reworked and got many new features now
* Large parts of OFDictionary were rewritten for better readability, better
memory usage and to fix a bug with removing objects
* OFThread has been greatly improved
* Many small optimizations
* Many documentation improvements
* Method replacing was reworked and the methods renamed
+ Tests for OFStream were added
* A bug with building ObjFW as a Universal Binary Framework was fixed
+ Support for ObjFW-RT, the ObjFW Objective C runtime, was added
* Sockets are now properly closed before an exception is thrown
* Error handling with sockets was improved
* OFFile now uses open(), read() and write(), thus allowing -[readLine] to be
used on of_stdin and fixing many other annoyances
* A few misc methods were renamed
+ OFApplication was added
* All tests and the table generator are now using OFApplication
+ It is now possible to get the remote address of an OFTCPSocket
+ OFString can now build paths in the OS-native format
+ It is now possible to create a string with the contents of a file
+ Many new file operations were added to OFFile
* The existing file operations in OFFile were improved
* Almost all functions that returned self before now return void
+ OFHash was added as a superclass for OFMD5Hash and OFSHA1Hash and OFHashes
renamed to OFHash
+ objfw-compile was added for easy compilation of ObjFW projects, which
includes dependency checking for headers etc.
* The instance variable naming convention was changed so that properties work
+ Properties were added to the interfaces and are used if they are supported
by the compiler
+ The library version is now included in the resulting dylib and libobjc is
reexported now. Additionally, objfw-config offers --reexport now to produce
libraries that link against ObjFW and reexport it
ObjFW 0.2 -> 0.2.1, 2010-03-14
* Fix for OFNumbers not doing calculations
* Improved -[hash] for OFNumbers with floats and doubles
+ Tests for OFNumber
* Small optimization for OFArray's -[componentsJoinedByString:]
* Documentation improvements
* Updated copyright
ObjFW 0.1.2 -> 0.2, 2010-02-01
+ Support for ObjC 2 Fast Enumerations on every platform which has
compiler support for fast enumerations
+ Support for ObjC 2 properties on every platform with compiler support
+ Fast Enumeration through arrays and dictionaries
* OFIterator has been removed
+ OFEnumerator was added to replace OFIterator, which is more general
and works with arrays and dictionaries
+ Portable implementation for atomic operations
+ Portable implementation for spinlocks. They use atomic operations if
available, if not they fall back to pthread spinlocks. If both are
unavailable, mutexes are used as a last fallback
* -[retain] and -[release] are now atomic. If no atomic operations are
available, spinlocks are used (which can fall back to mutexes, see
above)
* -[readLine] now handles \r\n without having the \r included in the
returned line
+ OFThread now has -[tryLock]
* Mutation methods have been removed from immutable interfaces, thus
already giving an error at compilation instead of at runtime
* Dependencies between headers have been reduced, leading to faster
compile times
* The interfaces of OFSocket and OFStream were cleaned up and some
methods were moved to OFTCPSocket, as they make sense only there
* File methods unavailable on Windows don't throw an exception at
runtime anymore, but instead are not even in the interface on
Windows. This way, it is a compile time error instead of a runtime
error
ObjFW 0.1.1 -> 0.1.2, 2010-01-15
* Fix a bug in OFMutableArray's -[removeObject:] and
-[removeObjectIdenticalTo:] that could lead to not removing all
occurrences of the object from the array and to out of bounds reads
* Change the URL in the framework plist to the homepage
ObjFW 0.1 -> 0.1.1, 2010-01-04
* Fix a missing out of range check for -[removeNItems:atIndex:] that
allowed the programmer to specify too big ranges so it would crash
instead of throwing an exception
* Fix missing calls to -[retain] and -[autorelease] when getting
objects from an OFArray or OFDictionary
* Safer and more fault-tolerant way to remove objects from an
OFMutableArray
* Calling +[dealloc] throws an exception now. If someone really calls
[SomeClass dealloc], this should be punished and not ignored, as
this is a serious programmer error
* -[readLineWithEncoding:] is more fault-tolerant now and does not
lose data when it stumbles upon invalid encoding. Instead, it allows
recalling with the correct encoding now
ObjFW 0.1, 2009-12-24
+ Initial release