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* Changes of existing features or bugfixes
+ New features
ObjFW 0.7 -> ObjFW 0.7.1, 12.11.2012
+ 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, 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