Pike 8.0.438 Release notes

Changes since Pike 8.0.404 (release 8)

New Features

• Calendar

  Updated Calendar to use timezonedata from tzdata2017a.

• GL & GLUT

  Prefer Quartz implementation on systems that have it (OS X).

• GTK2

  • Add -x objective-c for Darwin.

  • Support linking against other implementations than X11.

• Protocols.HTTP

  Connecting to HTTP proxies over HTTPS is now supported.

• Web.decode_jwk()

  Support decoding of symmetric (ie HMAC) keys.

• Web.encode_jws() and Web.decode_jws()

  Added simplified API for dealing with JSON Web Signature values.

Bug fixes

• Runtime

  • Variant dispatcher

    Improved string range checking.

    Fixes mismatches due to te lazy string range (ed string(8bit)) exceeding the typed string range (eg string(7bit)) for narrow strings.

• mkpackage

  Support multiple sub-packages with the same name.

  Gnu-tar doesn’t like being asked to extract the same file multiple times from the same tar-file. It claims that the second file doesn’t exist in the archive.

  This can happen when a sub-package has been replaced with a fixed version.

• smartlink

  Don’t override MACOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET if it’s been specified.

  This should prevent “compiled against version x but linking against version y” warnings.

• Arg & ADT.Struct

  Survive use by old (ie 8.0.232) pike binaries.

  Roxen 6.0.130 uses a Pike 8.0.232 binary with current modules.

• Backend.PollDeviceBackend

  Make set_signal_event_callback() optional.

  This fixes the warning “An expression of type function({ Backend = object(implements _static_modules.Builtin()->defaultBackendClass) } : void) cannot be assigned to a variable of type function({ Backend = object(implements _static_modules.Builtin()->Backend) } : void).”.

• bool

  Make sure that 0 is part of the range for the bool type.

• Charset

  Fixed encoding errors for two characters in the GSM-03.38 charset.

• Debug

  Fixed typo in mask in check_callback_chain().

  Fixes infinite loop in circularity detection.

• Gdbm

  Support building with gdbc 1.13.

  Fixes obscure compilation error when building with gdbm 1.13 due to a symbol clash with the symbol “fatal” used as an argument in the macro definition of gdbm_set_errno().

• Mapping

  Removed extraneous and conflicting prototype.

  Fixes linking issues on NT.

• Protocols.HTTP

  • Fixed do_async_proxied_method() losing the timeout during TLS negotiation.

  • Now fails immediately if Query is unable to open a socket, instead of waiting 120 seconds for a time out.

  • Allow connection reuse also when the server is a hostname.

• Thread.Mutex

  • Perform a thread yield on mutex onlock in an attempt to reduce thread starvation.

• Sql.pgsql

  • Added an extra synchronisation condition, and increased parallelisation to resolve all detected race conditions (which in rare circumstances (many parallel queries on a single filedescriptor) could have resulted in a deadlock).