Legend: * Changes of existing features or bugfixes. + New features. ObjFW 0.6 -> ObjFW 0.7, 27.10.2012 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, 27.02.2012 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, 30.08.2011 * 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, 01.07.2011 * Lots of bugfixes, see Git log for details. ObjFW 0.5.1 -> ObjFW 0.5.2, 25.04.2011 * 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, 21.04.2011 * 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, 09.04.2011 + %@ 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, 03.01.2011 * 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, 19.06.2010 * 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, 09.05.2010 + 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, 14.03.2010 * 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, 01.02.2010 + 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, 15.01.2010 * 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, 04.01.2010 * 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, 24.12.2009 + Initial release