New/changed behaviour in pike 7.2.197

This document outlines the major changes between Pike 7.2.30 and 7.2.197. Release notes for Pike 7.2.30.

• SSL support is now available by default.
• Added support for TLS 1.0.
• Added support for blocking SSL.
• Protocols.HTTP.Query now supports HTTPS.
• LDAP search operations are 50% faster.
• Protocols.SNMP added.
• Protocols.XMLRPC added.
  
  
• Several bugfixes in the Image module (image layer, PSD and WBMP handling).
• Added image->blur and image->grey_blur.
• Optimized the html parser.
• Math.Matrix now supports dot product.
• Added support for big5, sjis, euc and koi8.
• Added Unicode module.
• Updated the Unicode definitions to Unicode 3.1.0.
• Improved support for Postgres.
  
  
• {encode,decode}_value() now support the type type.
• Bytecode compiler and interpreter optimized.
• Improved support for NaN.
• Fix for macro-redefinition bug in cpp.
• Improved support for compilation handlers.
• Fixed a few optimizer bugs.
• Fixed bugs in handling of weak mappings and multisets.
• Fixed wide-string handling in combine_path().
• Several gc fixes.
• Modifier ranges added.

  Makes it easier to provide a set of modifiers to several symbols. Example:

      static
      {
        int i;
        Tools.PVImage image;
      }
  

  is synonymous to:

      static int i;
      static Tools.PVImage image;
  

  
  
  
• Improved support for MacOS X.
• Support for dynamic modules on NetBSD.
• Support for AIX 5L/IA64.
• Improved support for Microsoft Windows NT.
  
  
• Fixed tickets: 968, 1304, 1330, 1420, 1468, 1469, 1499, 1505, 1546, 1593, 1645, 1648, 1670, 1676, 1679, 1711, 1714, 1728, 1735, 1739, 1743, 1757, 1779, 1777, 1793, 1811, 1825, 1831, 1839, 1843, 1859, 1950, 1976, 2034, 2108, 2119, 2167, 2179, 2203, 2250