Updates for 1.19.2 release

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Richard Frith-MacDonald 2009-08-25 11:13:00 +00:00
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migrate to using a newer version of the library.
</p>
<section>
<heading>Version 1.19.2</heading>
<p>This is a new unstable snapshot release of the base library.
It may contain minor binary incompatibilities with the previous
unstable release, but should generally work with software compiled
for that release.
</p>
<p>This is primarily intended as a bugfix release prior to major
rewrite of NSLock code by David Chisnall. As such, most changes
are bugfixes and performance tweaks. Some of the main ones are
listed below.
</p>
<deflist>
<term>NSCalendarDate</term>
<desc>
Add OSX compatible field widths in date formats.
</desc>
<term>NSCharacterSet</term>
<desc>
Uses a much more compact internal representation to decrease the
memory footprint of applications which make extensive use of
charactersets.
</desc>
<term>NSFileHandle</term>
<desc>
Fixes for socket connections on mswindows.
</desc>
<term>NSRunLoop</term>
<desc>
Adds OSX compatibility changes with timers acting like input
sources for determining blocking.
</desc>
<term>NSString</term>
<desc>
Performance improvements converting between 8bit and 16bit
character representations.
</desc>
<term>NSURL</term>
<desc>
Support file URLs on mswindows. Include 'Host' header in requests
to conform to W3C standards.
</desc>
<term>NSUserDefaults</term>
<desc>
Fixes for improved thread safety.
Now stores to file in XML format.
</desc>
<term>Key Value Coding/Observing</term>
<desc>
Various improvements for OSX compatibility.
</desc>
</deflist>
</section>
<section>
<heading>Version 1.19.1</heading>
<p>A great deal of improvements have occured recently. This includes
many improvements in garbage collection (first to get it working again).
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</desc>
<term>Garbage Collection</term>
<desc>
Get GC working again. Fixes in various classes to work better with GC.
Get GC working again. Fixes in various classes to work
better with GC.
</desc>
<term>Mac OS X 10.5 Return Types</term>
<desc>

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See the @url{ReleaseNotes.html} document for more information.
@end ifclear
@section Noteworthy changes in version @samp{1.19.2}
@itemize @bullet
@item Various OSX compatibility improvements.
@item String handling performance improvements.
@item Several minor bugfixes.
@end itemize
@ifclear ANNOUNCE-ONLY
@section Noteworthy changes in version @samp{1.19.1}
@itemize @bullet
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@item Method return types and arguments have been changed for Mac OS X 10.5
@end itemize
@ifclear ANNOUNCE-ONLY
@section Noteworthy changes in version @samp{1.19.0}
@itemize @bullet