1 News ****** The currently released version of the library is ‘1.31.1’. See the document for more information. 1.1 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.31.1’ ========================================== • This is a bugfix release correcting a missing KVO method when using the ng runtime and an error in weak reference support when using the gnu runtimeR, along with a few other minor fixes and documentation improvements. • The library version changes from 1.31.0 to 1.31.1 1.2 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.31.0’ ========================================== • Library version changed from 1.30 to 1.31 • Implementation of weak references for the GNU runtime, so that weak references are now supported/available in portable code, and in conjunction with NSPointerFunction fixes we now support weak references in NSMapTable, NSHashTable, and NSPointerArray as well as supporting automatic deregestration of deallocated observers in NSNotificationCenter. • Autogsdoc updated to support modern CSS based HTML and provide simple diagrams of inheritence in the reference documentation. • New experimental implementation of NSURLSession ... we still need work to replace non-portable (blocks dependent) code before it can be a supported class. • New KeyValueObserving code for Clang and GNUstep runtime. • Other new methods/features − BSByteOrder fixes for NSSwappedFloat and NSSwappedDouble − [NSDate] small object optimisation when using Clang − -[NSFileManager URLsForDirectory:inDomains:] − NSGeometry missing functions implemented − [NSInvocation] missing typedefs implemented − [NSOperation] threads are now named for easy identification − [NSPredicate] BETWEEN operator for more types − -[NSString enumerateLinesUsingBlock:] − [NSThread] priority support now working on Android − [NSString] NSRegularExpressionSearch option − [NSString] ICU collator cached for improved performance − -[NSURLRequest assumesHTTP3Capable] − -[NSURLRequest setAssumesHTTP3Capable:] − [NSUserDefaults] use bundle identifier rather than program name − [NSValue] edge insets added − -[NSZombie logZombie:] • Support for being built with the '-asan yes' command line option or the GNUSTEP_WITH_ASAN=1 environment variable setting. The library is also aware when it was not built with that option but is linked to an executable which was (and a few features which confuse the leak checker are turned off). In addition NSObject+GNUstepBase.h declares new methods for tracking the ownership of objects of a particular class (or individual instances) to help in identifying the cause of any leak found by the leak sanitizer. • Many minor bugfixes and very, very many minor memory leaks fixed in both the library and the automated testcases. • Removed deprecated locking code and changed many classes to use lightweight and more fine-grained locking for simple cases protecting short regions. We retain a global lock for more complex situations where there is a significant chance of deadlock. • Several symbols (variables and functions) which were accidentally public have been made static or internal to the library. • Updated to work with recent versions of autoconf. 1.3 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.30.0’ ========================================== • Library version changed from 1.29 to 1.30 • autogsdoc (and many source/header files) updated for ObjC-2 support • gdnc gspath spelling error fixes • GSFileHandle remove handle from run loop when -dealloc is called • GSHTTPURLHandle close socket if we end loading with I/O in progress. • GSMimeDocimnet optimisations • GSPrivateSymbolPath() portability improvements • GSVersionMacros add GS_UNIMPLEMENTED to mark unimplemented methods • HTMLLinker man page groff warning fixed • Make GSTcpTune options available to streams as well as file handles and improve debug logging for stream operations. • NSBundle improvements in librarym bundle lookup • NSCache thread safety fix • NSData caching data of file URLs and OSX consistency tweak to permissions when writing file atomically • NSDate implements +now constructor. • NSDecimalNumber fix possible coimparison bug for zero values • NSError -description and -localizedDescription formats match OSX • NSException portability improvments • NSFileManager makeed safety fix and make enumerating a file URL return URLs rather than paths. • NSIndexSet implements enumerateRangesInRange convenience methods. • NSISO8601DateFormatter.m: bugfix for date/time string generation • NSJSONSerialization fix memory leak, fix issue with unicode surrogate pairs. • NSKeyValueObserving Add methods to remove observers • NSLocale Fix -countryCode incorrectly returning language code, fix for hyphen and underscore in locale identifier • NSMessagePort remove restriction on Distributed Objects message length • NSNotificationCenter fix for memory leak, minor bugfixes (use before initialise) • NSNull fix for -valueForUndefinedKey: to return singleton • NSNumberFormatter make minimum/maximum properties NSNumbers • NSObject optimise allocation with new runtime library • NSOperation fix occasional scheduling bug • NSOrderedSet Fix keyed encoding to match Apple platforms. • NSPathUtilities fix intialisation order deadlock. • NSPredicate fix for array access keywords • NSProcessInfo android support • NSString correct class used when loading empty string from file/URL, implements regular expression search methods. • NSTask return an error if the path to launch in is bad, use _exit to terminate forked process if needed, use closefrom() to close descriptors in child process if possible • NSTimer wrap call to block in exception handler (bug #289) • NSTimeZone improvements • NSURL Fix NSURL path on Windows for UNC paths. • NSURLRequest: Support deleting using setValue:forHTTPHeaderField: with nil value. • NSURLSession many bugfixes and improvements • NSUserDefaults fix potential deadlock • NSXMLElement bugfix to remove previous attributes when setting attributes. • NSXMLNode returns NSError on failure to evaluate xpath expression. • gnustep_global_lock and GSLazyLock deprecated for removal in next release. 1.4 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.29.0’ ========================================== • Library version changed from 1.28 to 1.29 1.5 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.28.1’ ========================================== • Many changes to make building and testcases work on ms-windows (particularly with the MSVC target and when using a strict C99 compiler). • Support for native locking on ms-windows. • Support for overlapped I/O on ms-windows. • New timezone handling code to deal with v2+ of the timezone format. • TLS support for secure Distributed Objects connections. • Masking of sensitive information in http/https debug logs. • a variety of bugfixes. 1.6 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.28.0’ ========================================== Aside from an assortment of bugfixes, this release includes a lot of improvements for Windows support as well as numerous new classes and methods. Not every bugfix, improvement or a new feature will be listed here. • Reading and setting File Creation Date attribute on Windows. • Added new ‘ASSIGNMUTABLECOPY()’ macro for consistency with ‘ASSIGNCOPY()’. • Replaced character set data headers for URLs with loading these from a standard data source, and updated bitmap representation to use much less space for character sets residing wholly in the base plane, such as the URL charsets (given they are purely ASCII). • Updated character set data with newer Unicode data set. • ‘[NSURLProtocol -initWithRequest:cachedResponse:client:]’ will now retain the client up until the last message is sent to it, which improves compatibility with OS X. • Percent-escaping code in ‘NSURL’ simplified. • Removed mixed ABI support. • Use of Apple runtime now assumes non-fragile ABI (which is true on modern systems). • Improve typing on method implementation pointers in some classes. • In ‘NSHTTPCookie’, rewritten code for extracting individual cookies from the HTTP header. • In ‘NSKeyedArchiver’, implement secure coding methods. • New methods in ‘NSDateComponents’. • Improvements in ‘NSCalendar’ and ‘NSLocale’ for calendar locale and ‘NSDateComponents’. • In ‘NSFileManager’, use ‘utimensat()’ to set file modification date, if available. • Correctly stop parsing number being decoded in ‘NSJSONSerialization’ when encountering a number with an invalid exponent. • Improve OS X compatibility for ‘NSURLQueryItem’ initializers. • For ‘NSFileManager’, in ‘changeFileAttributes’, implement setting creation date for Unix-like systems. Implement reading the creation date if a supported method was detected. • Support reading Android assets from the main bundle in ‘NSInputStream’. • Support Android assets directories in ‘NSBundle’ and ‘NSFileManager’. • Implement ‘-[NSXMLParser initWithStream:]’. • Allow clearer choice between 'sloppy' ‘GSSloppyXMLParser’ used in ‘NSXMLParser’ and the libxml2-based ‘GSStrictXMLParser’. • Fix building Win32 implementations for ‘GSFileHandle’ and ‘NSMessagePort’ with nonfragile ABI. • Use ‘NSNumber’ and not ‘NSString’ in ‘-[NSUserDefaults setBool:forKey:]’. • Posting notification before ‘NSThread’ exit. • Actually declare optional ‘NSFilePresenter’ methods as optional. • In ‘NSConcreteMapTable’, fix replacing existing values in a weak objects map table. • Fix leaks in ‘NSOperation’. • Various compat fixes for various MSYS systems, particularly around sockets code. • In ‘NSData’, ‘NSFileManager’ and more, various improvements when overwriting and creating files with respect to file attributes (owners, creation timestamp, etc). • Improve ‘NSLog’ output on Android. • Use ‘instancetype’ in ‘NSURLRequest’ header. • Define ‘NSAttributedStringKey’ and ‘NSNotificationName’. • Add new ‘NSURL’ methods. • In ‘GSMime’, have ‘-contentFile’ check the ‘Content-Type’ header before checking ‘Content-Disposition’. • Fix a bug linking with WEAK symbols where binutils 2.3.5 would fail to link due to not all expected symbols being exported. • New ‘plutil’ utility. • Implementation of ‘[NSData rangeOfData:options:range:]’ which finds the ‘NSRange’ in which the passed data occurs. • Change ‘ENTER_POOL’/‘LEAVE_POOL’ so they no longer wrap the enclosed code in a loop, enabling use in some loops. • New 10.5 methods in ‘NSRunLoop’/‘NSURLConnection’. • Improve compatibility when building with ICU 68. • Fix compiling libdispatch integration of ‘NSRunLoop’ on Windows. • Add support for building on Windows with MSVC's Clang by passing the ‘configure’ flag ‘--host=x86_64-pc-windows’. Use of an MSYS2 shell without ‘-devel’ packages is recommended. • Implementation of ‘NSURLSession’ and related classes. This adds some dependencies on more recent versions of ‘libcurl’, ‘libdispatch’ etc. • Fix initializing ‘NSUUID’ from a string. • Disable use of ‘libcurl’ if its headers are not found. • In ‘NSURLProtocol’, continue writing data if not all of it was written. • Fix use of GnuTLS under MinGW by using ‘send/recv’ rather than ‘read/write’. • Add support for libobjc2 runtime on Windows. • Fix BOM insertion when generating data from a string using one of the Unicode encodings. 1.7 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.27.0’ ========================================== Aside from an assortment of bugfixes, this release includes a lot of improvements for Android support as well as numerous new classes and methods. • Expose GNU TLS wrappers and add methods to get certificate expiry. • Improve thread safety when using zombies, particularly on statup/shutdown. • Improvements for Ukrainian localization. • Decreased ICU requirements to 49 to support Windows 2000. • Simplifications and fixes in GSPrivateSymbolPath(). • GSMime improvements (word encoding specifier, utf-8 improvements encoding quoted words with multibyte characters) • NSJSONSerialization fixes for codepoints over 0x7f. • NSCharacterSet support for URL*AllowedCharacterSet and declarations for new character sets. • NSString implementations for new methods stringByRemovingPercentEncoding/ stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacterSet:. • Fixed a crash in gdomap when an invalid hostname is given for the -M option. • In NSString.m, removed functions urldecode() and ishex() which were mistakenly neither namespaced nor declared static and thus could have conflicted with non-library code. • Fixed libdispatch configuration switch so -enable-libdispatch works correctly; correctly checking for HAVE_LIBDISPATCH_RUNLOOP. • Updated libdispatch runloop integration so it is compatible with Swift's corelibs libdispatch release (from github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch). The libdispatch must be compiled with INSTALL_PRIVATE_HEADERS=YES. • In NSThread, spinlocks implemented using builtins to be able to target platforms without pthread_spin_lock(), such as Android targeting API level < 24. • In NSLog on Android, send logs to syslog. • Implementation of NSOrderedSet. • When ./configuring, link against libandroid on Android. • In NSBundle, allow integrating with Android asset manager using +[NSBundle setJavaAssetManager:withJNIEnv:], enabling use of mainBundle's pathForResource:ofType:, -URLForResource:ofType: and similar; referencing Info.plist if it exists in Android assets; use of NSFileManager's fileExistsAtPath: et al and isReadableFileAtPath:; reading files using NSFileHandle APIs; use of NSDirectoryEnumerator to enumerate Android assets from the main bundle. • In NSBundle, localization support on Android. • In NSProcessInfo, automatic initialization on Android using a fake executable path (/data/data//Resources). • In NSData, improvements in reading Android assets. • Various improvements in the mechanism to report memory usage of individual objects. • Skeletal implementation of NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore. • Implementation of NSByteCountFormatter. • Fixes to writing large HTTPS requests (GSSocketStream, NSURLProtocol). • In gdomap.c, fix detection of local networks. • In NSArray's -removeObjectsInArray:, prevent some crashes. • In GSTLS, avoid setting session priority twice. • In NSFileHandle, fix so that setting certificate information does not discard any other options already set. • In GSXML's -fatalErrorFunction, use the correct function to get the line number. • In NSOperation's _execute, ensure lock gets released on an error by surrounding with NS_DURING. • Generics support in NSHashTable. • Implementation of NSProgress. • Skeleton implementation of NSURLComponents. • In NSSortDescriptor, added -sortDescriptorWithKey:ascending:descending:. • In NSOperationQueue, added -addOperationWithBlock. • In NSFileManager, added -URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: and -enumeratorAtURL:includingPropertiesForKeys:options:errorHandler:. Also added NSItemReplacementDirectory constant, and updated stub implementation for -URLForDirectory:shouldCreate:error:. Added -initWithDirectoryPath:... with additional parameters skipHidden and errorHandler. • In NSDictionary, fixed keysSortedByValueUsingComparator:. • Moved NSFileWrapper from -gui to -base. • Added NSFilePresenter, NSFileVersion and NSFileCoordinator. • Added NSPersonComponents and NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter. • Added units of measurement classes such as NSUnit, NSMeasurement, NSMeasurementFormatter, NSEnergyFormatter, NSLengthFormatter, NSMassFormatter. • In NSUnit, support for NSUnitArea, NSUnitConcentrationMass, NSUnitDispersion, NSUnitElectricCharge, NSUnitIlluminance, NSUnitElectricCurrent, NSUnitElectricPotentionDifference, NSElectricResistance, NSUnitMass, NSUnitEnergy, NSUnitFrequency, NSUnitPower, NSUnitSpeed, NSUnitFuelEfficiency, NSUnitPressure, NSUnitVolume, NSUnitLength. • Support for data directory on Android introduces GSInitializeProcessAndroid and makes use of the path returned by Context.getFilesDir() as the basis for storing data (e.g. NSUserDefaults) and when querying for directory paths (NSLibraryDirectory, NSApplicationSupportDirectory, etc.). • Placeholder NSScript* classes. Added NSUserActivity, NSObjectScripting, NSHFSFileTypes, NSAppleEventManager and NSAppleEventDescriptor. • Added NSDateInterval intersectionWithDateInterval:. • Added NSBackgroundActivityScheduler. • Added NSISO8601DateFormatter and NSMetadataAttributes. • Added NSOrtogrpahy and NSLinguisticTagger. • Added NSExtensionItem, NSExtensionContext, NSExtensionRequestHandling, and NSItemProvider and NSItemProviderReadingWriting. • Updated timezone info for NSTimeZones. • On Android, support for NSTemporaryDirectory to use Context.getCacheDir(), and cleaning it up in GSInitializeProcessAndroid() given there is no support for temp directory before Android API 26. Also used with NSCachesDirectory + NSUserDomainMask. • NSXPCConnection fixes. • NSException symbolication support using libunwind (used when backtrace() is unavailable). • Travis build improvements to use new runloop integration and gnustep-2.0 runtime. • In NSKeyValueObserving, implement two missing methods for NSArray: -addObserver:options:context: and -removeObserver:fromObjectsAtIndexes:forKeyPath:. • Updated NSUUID to use instancetype. • Added support for NSDate constants in NSPredicate. • Fixed a NSTimer bug with blocks. • In GSTLS, do not put password in the hash key of the credentials, and to avoid logging it when debugging is on. • Improvements in NSConcreteHashTable and NSConcreteMapTable. • In various places, switch away from deprecated CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL() to use the ARC-compatible ENTER_POOL and LEAVE_POOL macros. • When building the list of hosts to be probed to see if they have gdomap servers, fix code to include those explicitly defined in the config file. Add -S option to list the addresses of the known gdomap servers. • Backward compatibility fix for ICU 65. • Update GSPrivateSymbolPath() so that, on the path where LINKER_GETSYMBOL is not available, we attempt to lookup classes using the prefix ._OBJC_CLASS_ for the 2.0 ABI (earlier ABIs use a prefix of __objc_class_name_ for the class definition. • Fix parsing of NSURLResponse content type header. • Fix for class lookup when using the 2.0 ABI. • Fixed NSURLComponents setURL: throwing exceptions when URL didn't have all expected parts caused by rangeOfString: throwing for nil values. • Added NSURLQueryItem implementation. 1.8 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.26.0’ ========================================== • Improve utf8 validity checks. • Make point and size subclasses for NSValue interchangable. • Add support for TLS SNI. Always request certificate from client and update certificates after 5 minutes. • Don't write deprecated fields to desktop link file. • Use NSLock instead of GSLazyLock and other improvements for multithreaded processes. • Clean up of NSString cluster. • Update NSAssert() and NSCAssert() to handle variable arguments (as OSX has done) and mark the numbered macros as obsolete. • Various improvements in tests. • Require ICU >= 50. • ICU is now detected using pkg-config. • Improve XML parsing. • Make NSXMLNode ivar a union representing different types, instead of assuming it will contain different underlying class types in different contexts. This is important for the new libobjc2 ABI. • OSX compatibility changes to NSURL. • NSFileManager call error handle on missing file. • Dummy spinlock implementation for platforms that don't support it. • Internationalization improvements: Japanese translation, Turkish translation, Polish translation. • Various improvements for new libobjc2 "v2 ABI", including things like a new NSConstantString implementation, making GS_REPLACE_CONSTANT_STRING a noop with the new ABI, etc. • Improvements for stack traces, exception handling and dead lock detection. • Other more minor bugfixes and cleanups. Many found by Coverity scan results. • As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most recent international timezone data. 1.9 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.25.1’ ========================================== • Unicode fixes for characters outside the base plane • Stubs for some new OSX methods • Various new OSX compatibility macro and type definitions • NSFileManager fixes and tweaks to match OSX implementation • NSDistributedLock bugfix for pre-existing lock directories • Alternative sort algorithms selectable at runtime • Compatibility-related changes for environments not supporting weak symbols • Other more minor bugfixes and cleanups. • As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most recent international timezone data. 1.10 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.25.0’ =========================================== • Garbage collection support removed (NSGarbageCollector stub remains) • Support for Debian style multi-architecture installations added • OpenSSL bundle removed since it didn't match GNUTLS support • Ported to Debian/Hurd • ICU string (regexp in particular) fixes • OSX compatibity changes in NSRunLoop and NSTask behavior • Alternative sort algorithms selectable at runtime • Many bugfixes and cleanups. • As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most recent international timezone data. 1.11 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.9’ =========================================== • Niels added support for generics • Support for 'ng' runtime library (latest language features enabled) • Performance optimisations and improved diagnostic messages • Garbage Collection deprecated (support to be removed) • As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most recent international timezone data. 1.12 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.8’ =========================================== • Performance optimisations (particularly in the use of tiny string objects by the new objc runtime on 64bit systems). • Thread naming and logging of threads by NSLog() has been made consistent with the latest OSX releases, making debugging of multithreaded code a little easier. • Sergei Golovin has added NSURLConnection regression tests (while fixing a few bugs there). • As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most recent international timezone data. • Various other bugfixes. 1.13 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.7’ =========================================== • TLS and other security improvements (note, SSLv3.0 is disabled by default in order to prevent the 'POODLE' attack). • Latest timezone data included. • Various other bugfixes. 1.14 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.6’ =========================================== • NSUUID implemented • New OSX version macros • TLS support improvements • Various new methods for OSX compatibility • Various other bugfixes 1.15 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.5’ =========================================== • NSInvocationOperation • OSX version compatibility macro improvements • Static analyzer fixes (mostly printf format string issues) • Various other bugfixes 1.16 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.4’ =========================================== • Updated time zone data • OSX 10.7 NSCalendar methods • Portability improvments and minor bugfixes • More testcases in the testsuite 1.17 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.3’ =========================================== • Implementation of the NSXML DOM classes • Implementation of consistent TLS/SSL support • Implementation of new/selectable sorting algorithms • More explicit dependencies on external libraries. 1.18 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.24.0’ =========================================== • There is binary incompatibility on 64bit systems in that the value of the NSNotFound constant there is now 64bits rather than 32bits. • gcc-4.0 is the minimum official supported compiler for GNUstep • Support for the GNU LANGUAGES environment variable and other locale improvements • IPV6 support for NSHost and networking operations • Support for UTF-8 string literals in source (compiler permitting) 1.19 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.23.0’ =========================================== • Support for automatic reference counting (ARC) when using clasng and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime 1.5 or later. • Full support for weak references in NSHashTable, NSMapTable and NSPointerArray when using clang and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime 1.5 or later. 1.20 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.22.0’ =========================================== • Many updates and new classes • There is now a regression test framework included with the package • New support for Objective-C 2.0 1.21 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.21.1’ =========================================== This is an (unstable) copy of the 1.20.1 release 1.22 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.20.1’ =========================================== This is a stable bugfix release. There are no major changes or binary incompatibilities, but this release does include an update of timezone handling to include the latest zone information. 1.23 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.21.0’ =========================================== This is an (unstable) copy of the 1.20.0 release 1.24 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.20.0’ =========================================== This is a stable release. There have been major changes and reorganizations to support, among other things, the new non-fragile ABI from clang. These changes, although they break binary compatibility with previous releases, should allow all future releases to maintain compatibility. 1.25 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.19.3’ =========================================== • Bugfix to work around OSX behavior of [NSURL-path] 1.26 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.19.2’ =========================================== • Various OSX compatibility improvements. • String handling performance improvements. • Several minor bugfixes. 1.27 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.19.1’ =========================================== • New Mac OS X methods for writing data in NSData • New classes NSHashTable and NSMapTable • Garbage collection now works again and is much improved. • Method return types and arguments have been changed for Mac OS X 10.5 1.28 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.19.0’ =========================================== • Support for native objective-c exceptions • Connection keepalive for ms-windows • Path utitlites fix for ms-windows • Changes to build on 64bit ms-windows • Support for @synchronize 1.29 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.15.3’ =========================================== • Extended NSUserDefaults so it recognizes ../ as a relative path. • Added TLS/SSL support for NSStream based on GNU TLS • Added support for https to NSURLConnection using new stream code and added basic support for digest authentication. • Fixed various problems with and added new options to KVO. 1.30 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.15.2’ =========================================== Bug fixes include improved thread safety (and a change to the NSThread class structure) and Key-Value observing. 1.31 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.15.1’ =========================================== This is an unstable release. There may be API and ABI changes from previous releases. The licesne hase changed to GPLv3 and LGPLv3. Mostly bug fixes, but a few improvements in NSPredicates and Key-Value coding have been added. 1.32 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.15.0’ =========================================== This is an unstable release from 1.14.0. It is otherwise identical to the 1.14.0 release. Releases in the 1.15 series may not be forward compatible with previous 1.15 releases. 1.33 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.14.0’ =========================================== Many portability (particularly for ms-windows) and MacOS-X compatibility fixes. New MacOS-X classes and incorporation of NSAffineTransform and NSSpellServer which were formerly in the gui library. Improved performance of amssively multithreaded programs. 1.34 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.13.1’ =========================================== Various minor bugs and MacOS-X incompatibilities fixed. One important fix for a possible buffer overrun attack when initialising NSDate objects from strings. One fix for a serious (crash) bug when initialising the bundles system in an application which has a lot of frameworks linked to it. See the release notes for more details. 1.35 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.13.0’ =========================================== Several sets of classes have been added for dealing with urls and predicates. A few minor api changes have occured as well. 1.36 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.12.0’ =========================================== There have been a number of API changes and several methods have been depreciated in this release. Although current GNUstep programs that use these methods will still work in this version, there are enough changes that a new library version was considered useful. See the release notes for more details. New NSStream classes where added to the library. User defaults were restructured to create the defaults lazily and can be set to not write to an external file at all, for developers who wish to use the library as a stand-alone library or in other situations where using external resources is not desired. 1.37 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.11.2’ =========================================== • Support for GNUstep.conf and relocation of the filesystem is much improved in this release. • The WM_QUIT message is now intercepted to allow an application to terminate cleanly. • NSMessagePort was implemented on Windows platforms. • Deprecated support for system-wide GNUsteprc files has been removed. • Some support for keeping user defaults in the Windows registry implemented. 1.38 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.11.1’ =========================================== • New Cocoa class NSSortDescriptor • NSStringFrom... functions now output strings that can be read by old OpenStep implementations (but can also still be read by GNUstep and MacOSX). • More support for debugging on mingw, including writing logs to debugger and event viewer. 1.39 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.11.0’ =========================================== This release is binary incompatible with previous releases. The interface version of the library has changed so that apps, tools and libraries that use the base library need to be recompiled to use this new version. • Window's path handling has changed to use native paths throughout. • Startup/configuration of the libraries no longer requires environement variables. • Character sets are included in the library rather than being read from data files. • NSRunLoop and related classes use natvie win32 event handling on Windows machines. 1.40 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.10.3’ =========================================== This version includes a few minor bug fixes. 1.41 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.10.2’ =========================================== This version mostly includes minor fixes and updates. • The definition of NSContainsRect has changed to correspond with the current Mac OS X/Cocoa def - the sides of the bRect can touch aRect. • Add support for systems that support unichar file paths (e.g. Windows). • Use a proper one-to-one abbreviation dictionary for NSTimeZone. 1.42 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.10.1’ =========================================== This version mostly includes minor fixes and updates. • Runtime discovery of the library version is possible. • NSXMLParser class added. Not completely implemented. • NSArrays makeObjectsPerformSelector iterates in same order as MacOS X. • Designated initializers for NSArray, NSDictionary, NSSet, and NSString have been changed for MacOS X compatibility. 1.43 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.10.0’ =========================================== Note the interface version of the library has changed so that apps, tools and libraries the use the base library need to be recompiled to use it. • A large majority of the library classes have been documented thanks to the efforts of Adrian Robert • URL classes support persistant connections • Mac OSX XML compatibility fixes. 1.44 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.9.2’ ========================================== • GSMime parsing ignores extraneous data • New log functions GSOnceFlag and GSOnceMLog • New class NSError • Multiple new function in GSObjCRuntime • NSProtocolChecker rewritten • autogsdoc support added for building frames • Binary incompatibility: NSUnarchiver, GSIMapTable have new ivars added 1.45 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.9.1’ ========================================== • Default string encoding taken from system nl_langinfo if not set with GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING. • NSKeyedArchiver/NSKeyedUnarchiver classes added. • NSPropertyLists class added, also decodes Mac OS X binary propery lists. 1.46 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.9.0’ ========================================== • Lazy locking implemented (see GSLock documentation) • MacOSX PB files updated to 10.3 • DO retain/release implementation simplified and also handles some complex DO retain/release problems. • GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING now supports any valid iconv name. • gdomap uid/gid fixes • NSString subclass heirarchy reorganized to fix problems with copying and ownership of data. 1.47 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.8.0’ ========================================== Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes since the last stable version. The major change is that the header files (both in the package and when installed) are in different locations. Also, due to filesystem changes in gnustep-make, several components of gnustep-base are located in different locations. Generally this should not affect the compilation or running of applications and tools. 1.48 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.7.4’ ========================================== • Added Korean encoding • Updated use of ObjCRuntime functions. 1.49 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.7.3’ ========================================== Note in this version there have been large changes to the location of header files (both in the package and when installed). It's possible (though unlikely) that certain applications that rely on GNUstep specific headers may not compile because of this. • A number of Protocol and DO fixes. • New TraditionalChinese language. 1.50 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.7.2’ ========================================== • NSUndoManager improvements • New NSMessagePort implementation. • Private GSTcpPort becomre NSSocketPort. • Improvements to handle selectors better over remote connections. 1.51 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.7.1’ ========================================== Bug fixes. 1.52 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.7.0’ ========================================== See gnustep-make for comments on the filesystem change. Some components of gnustep-base are now stored in different directories and in some cases you should use different methods to look for them. Use +pathForLibraryResource:ofType:inDirectory: instead of +pathForGNUstepResource:. Also try using +bundleForLibrary:. gnustep-base is now documentated as OpenStep complient. Other changes: • Add GSApplicationSupportDirectory for NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains. • Added man page for gdomap 1.53 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.6.0’ ========================================== • More MinGW support • New MacOSX compatible methods. • The Base Additions library compiles on native OSX. • autogsdoc produces better, cleaner docs. • Built-in garbage collecting classes. • Any many many bug fixes and minor improvements. 1.54 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.5.1’ ========================================== • Port NSThread to MingW • Better framework support in NSBundle • Added Thai string encodings. • New makeImmutableCopyOnFail: method. • Lots of autogsdoc improvements, Updated gsdoc DTD to 1.0 version. • Added GSPrintf for logging to stdout. • Warning logs selectable at runtime. • NSTimeZone code rewritten for speed. 1.55 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.5.0’ ========================================== • New MacOSX methods implemented (NSString, NSArray, NSObject) • Fixed bug that occationally deleted user defaults. • Tcp connections use runloop in NSConnectionReplyMode. 1.56 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.4.0’ ========================================== • gdomap - security bug fixes. 1.57 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.3.4’ ========================================== This is a first pre-release version for 1.4. This version also fixes a potentially destructive bug in gdomap. All users are urged to upgrade to this version as soon as possible. • gdomap - don't write pidfile until after setuid away from root • New combined Unix/Windows version of NSFileHandle 1.58 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.3.3’ ========================================== Note there are interface and binary changes in this release that require you to recompile all applications and tools that use gnustep-base. • Rewrite of NSURL (NOTE: Requires recompilation of all apps!) • NSMapTable fix (also requires recompilation). • Hack to avoid bug in gcc 3.1 • MacOSX compatibility changes: -dealloc, NSLog • Add NSZombie class. • GC improvements • Support for system-wide .GNUsteprc 1.59 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.3.2’ ========================================== • Corrections for handling Windows file paths, etc • Other fixes for Windows - DO now works on Windows • New localization/internationalization tool make_strings • Experimental libffi support. • Handle running tools/apps on other hosts • Updated files and new tool for handling different encodings (cvtenc). • Unicode and UTF8 handling improvements. 1.60 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.3.0’ ========================================== • Moved additional classes into subprojects and/or bundles to make it easier to port these to other Foundation libraries.. • Traditional Chinese extensions added. • Better support for resources (bundles) • Ports and DO work on MingW. • Better KeyValueCoding support (for EOF). • New, partially finished Objective-C/Foundation programming manual. 1.61 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.1.0’ ========================================== • Removed use of distributed lock to sync defaults file. • Compiles on Darwin (but does not work yet). • New tool autogsdoc for inline Objective-C documentation. • Some NSBundle convienience methods for associating resources with libraries and tools (like a lightweight framework). • URL classes improved and more robust. • SSL classes compiled as a separate bundle due to license problems. • Better operation in MinGW environment. • New localization files. • XML property lists 1.62 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.0.2’ ========================================== Mostly a bug fix release to work with the new gcc 3.0. • Added support for special gcc 3.0 options (constant string support). 1.63 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.0.1’ ========================================== • Many fixes to work better with Darwin (still not there). • Fixes to work with BSD Unix • Added some missing methods, better conformance to MacOSX Docs. • Added support for invoking super implementation (mostly for writting bridges from other languages). • Works better with gcc 3.x, newer kernels. • More memory debugging support. 1.64 Noteworthy changes in version ‘1.0.0’ ========================================== • Fix parsing of arguments for new linux kernels. • File manager and other fixes for mingw • Fix alignment issues on CPUs that require it. • Update unicode support and fixes 1.65 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.9.1’ ========================================== • New MacOSX compatible files for NSCalendarDate, NSTimeZone • NSUserDefaults now uses NSLanguages not Languages • Various improvements for Windows platforms • NSCharacterSets updated to v3.0.1 of Unicode data. • Added some gettext compatible localization macros. 1.66 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.9.1’ ========================================== • Fixes for building on FreeBSD • Unicode support for -initWithFormat: • NSDate pass dates over DO bycopy unless explicit byref. • Updated for Makefile package changes. 1.67 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.9.0’ ========================================== • Workaround when no host IP set. • Standardized non-NS filenames • Lots of code simplifications and standardization. • Added key/value methods to NSObject. • Updated DO and NSInvocation to use ffcall libraries. • New GSHTTPURLHandle class for http and https support. • New GSMime class for MIME parsing • Made DO threadsafe. • Added extension to NSThread to allow JIGS to map java threads to gnustep threads. • Modifications to make it easier to port to Apple runtime. • Added framework support to NSBundle • Added localization support • Better unicode conversion. • New NSNull class. • Major rewrite of NSString • Port to MinGW/Windows • Removed obsolete classes. 1.68 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.6.6’ ========================================== • Lots of new documentation. • Completely rewritten Distributed Object to be much more compatible with the MacOS-X API (and incidentally, closer to the original OpenStep standard). • Support to compile library as a DLL on Windows (still cygwin only). • Removed lots of obsolete classes. • New tools for handling property lists. • More optimization of classes. 1.69 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.6.5’ ========================================== • Better debugging information. • Timezone information rewritten to work more like GNUstep wants it rather than strict Posix. • Added support for FreeBSD native POSIX threads • Better garbage collection support. • Lots of optimizations and bug fixes. 1.70 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.6.0’ ========================================== Most of the changes to the Base Library are bug fixes and updates to include MacOS-X specifications. Although the base library hasn't been extensively tested, it is currently used in several commercial products and installations, and is considered to be fairly stable. • Some changes to eventually allow the use of automatic garbage collection. • Better localization support in NSBundle. • Performance boosts in many classes. 1.71 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.5.5’ ========================================== Too many changes to mention in detail, but here is a list of a few: • Many base classes have been rewritten with tonnes of performance improvements that in many cases make it as fast as or faster than the NeXT implementation. • DO and archiving has received many improvements that help it work on a variety of different platforms. • Configuration and compilation has been greatly improved and fool proofed. • There are several new tools for handling services, defaults, and pasteboards. 1.72 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.5.1’ ========================================== • Additional runtime functions for interaction with Guile and ObjC-Guile library. 1.73 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.5.0’ ========================================== • Improvements to the NSInvocation class, from Masatake Yamato . • Implemented several new OpenStep methods and classes (e.g. NSTask) and speed improvements for others (NSArray, NSData, NSString), from Richard Frith-Macdonald . • gdomap now handles subnet addressing and machines with multiple IP addresses from Richard Frith-Macdonald . 1.74 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.4.0’ ========================================== • New tools for maintaining the defaults database. • Use the new GNUstep Makefile Package to compile the library, tools checks, and everything else. • An implementation of NSDistributedLock • NSData implemented as a class cluster including a class to allocate shared VM memory. • Big NSTimeZone improvements, as well as inclusion of time zone files, from Yoo C. Chung . • Major improvements to distributed objects and many related clases from Richard Frith-Macdonald . Also added a nameserver. • Major rewrite of NSString, include Unicode strings from Stevo Crvenkovski • A rewrite of the NSBundle class from Adam Fedor • Addition of a C-language style stream package. • Better support for threads and locking. • Support for running on Windows from Scott Christley • Many, many, many, many bug fixes and new classes. 1.75 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.19’ ============================================== • The library has changed its name from ‘libobjects’ to ‘libgnustep-base’. The Apr 17 ChangeLog entry contains a list of the way various other names were changed. • The library now requires a patch to gcc-2.7.2. The patch adds thread-safe features to the GNU Objective C runtime. Each thread has its own exception handler and assertion handler, thanks to Yoo C. Chung . • Distributed Objects is much improved. Exceptions in the server are sent back to the client. Ungracefully closed connections are gracefully handled. • NSUserDefaults has been implemented, thanks to Georg Tuparev . • NSScanner has been implemented, thanks to Eric Norum . • NSCharacterSet has a new caching scheme, and is now faster than NeXT's implementation, thanks to Adam Fedor. • Preliminary thread-safety work has been done. NSObject and NSAutoreleasePool should be thread-safe. • The "%@" printf directive now works on systems without GNU libc. • The NS*Page* functions have been implemented. • The mframe and behavior functions have been overhauled and better commented. • The NSHashTable and NSMapTable functions have been implemented, thanks to Albin Jones . Albin has also implemented underlying GNU functions that provide functions for arrays and linked lists of C-type variables. • The NSThread class has been implemented. Thanks to Scott Christley , the NSLock class has been implemented. • A RunLoop class has been implemented, and is used for listening to Port objects. It is used for Distributed Objects. There is also an NSRunLoop class based on RunLoop. • The NSTimer class has been implemented, although its use with RunLoops is currently disabled. • The Notification mechanism has been implemented. It makes good use of hash tables and linked lists in order to be fast. • The Invocation class heirarchy has been fleshed out and now works. • The collection classes have been overhauled to better handle distributed objects, and for better compatibility with NeXT's method names. A new separation has been made in the abstract collection classes: IndexedCollections contain objects accessible by an integer key, but the user cannot insert at an arbitrary key; these are useful for sorted collections, such as SplayTree's. OrderedCollection can have their order determined by the user; i.e. users can send ‘-insertObject:atIndex:’, etc. There is a new set of rich enumeration methods based on Invocations. • Port class heirarchy has been overhauled. There are now classes for TCP ports, UDP ports, and Mach ports. Only the TCP ports are currently functional. • GNU-style archiving has had an overhaul, and the GNUstep NSArchiver class is functional, but not strongly tested. It does not yet call -awakeUsingCoder:. I have separated the high-level archiving of groups of objects from the low-level format of how C-types are written. There are several new classes. CStream is a subclass of Stream that knows how to encode C-type variables in a machine independent way; this class has two concrete subclasses: BinaryCStream, and TextCStream. Plug these backends into Coder to get different style low-level formats for archiving. Floats and doubles are now encoded more efficiently. NSArchiver is built on top of Coder. You can actually send all the Coder methods to NSArchiver and vice-versa. GNU classes BinaryCoder and TextCoder are gone. • Several new OpenStep functions have been implemented: NSHomeDirectory, NSUserName, NSHomeDirectoryForUser, NSPageSize, NSLogPageSize, NSroundUpToMultipleOfPageSize, NSRoundDownToMultipleOfPageSize, NSRealMemoryAvailable, NSAllocateMemoryPages, NSDeallocateMemoryPages, NSCopyMemoryPages. • ...and many bug fixes. 1.76 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.14’ ============================================== • Can be made as a shared library by passing ‘--enabled-shared’ to 'configure'. Thanks to Jan Kybic and Bryan Headley for suggestions. • New classes NSSet, NSMutableSet, NSCountedSet. New concrete classes NSGSet, NSGMutableSet, NSGCountedSet. New test program nsset.m. New class NSMethodSignature. • Running './configure' and building the library in a different directory than the source works as it should, according to the GNU standards. • Dynamic loading fixes for Solaris, thanks to Adam Fedor. • Fixes to Coder correct bugs with encoding/decoding wildly interconnected objects. (My application uses a "Suffix Tree" structure: a Tree, and a LinkedList that winds its way through the leaves of the tree; the LinkedList nodes also have pointers back to the tree nodes.) • NSTimeZone implemented, thanks to Peter Burka • NSData fixes, thanks to Adam Fedor. • NSObjCRuntime functions implemented. NSObject description methods implemented. • Bug fixes in NSString, NSDictionary, NSArray, NSGeometry and other places. 1.77 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.13’ ============================================== • NSProcessInfo class, thanks to Georg Tuparev. • NSDate now more operational, thanks to Jeremy Bettis. • Autorelease checking improved, thanks to Adam Fedor. • NSString concrete classes now more configurable. Several new methods implemented. • Many bug fixes. 1.78 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.12’ ============================================== • Bug fixes: installation; NSArray and NSDictionary copying; NSArray, NSDictionary, NSData, NSArchiver, NSUnarchiver concrete class configurability; NSString -getCharacter:range:. See the ChangeLog for more details. 1.79 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.10’ ============================================== • Now using ‘src’, ‘config’ and ‘doc’ directories to un-clutter the top-level directory. • New GNUStep classes implemented: NSDictionary, NSMutableDictionary; concrete classes NSGDictionary, NSGMutableDictionary; enumeration classes NSGDictionaryKeyEnumerator, NSGDictionaryObjectEnumerator. • More methods in NSData are implemented, thanks to Albin Jones. • More methods in NSString are implemented; we have new classes NSCharacterSet and NSBitmapCharSet; all thanks to Adam Fedor. • And several bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. 1.80 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.9’ ============================================= • Renamed "foundation" include file directory to "Foundation", in accordance with OpenStep. • Several bug fixes, including a problem with a missing file in 0.1.9. 1.81 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.8’ ============================================= • Many new GNUStep classes: NSEnumerator, NSArrayEnumerator, NSCoder, NSArchiver, NSUnarchiver, NSData, NSMutableData, NSGCoder, NSGArchiver, NSGUnarchiver, NSGData, NSGMutableData. Much coding and prep work has been done to make archiving work (see the ChangeLog), but it's not quite ready for action yet. • New GNUStep classes implemented by others: Thanks to Adam Fedor, NSAssertionHandler. Thanks to Jeremy Bettis, NSDate. • Overhauled encoding and decoding. The Coder now sends -initWithCoder by default, but will still send the more flexible +newWithCoder if the class implements it. See objects/Coding.h. The Stream class interface has been changed slightly. There are two new protocols for Streams. • Several new debug-aiding methods implemented in NSAutoreleasePool. • Separated Constant Collection protocols from changeable ones. Eventually I'll separate the classes too. • Included an outline for the GNU Objective C Language Manual. The GNU project is looking for volunteers to help flesh it out. Send email to Martin Michlmayr or Andrew McCallum . • Include the AUTHORS file, needed for legal reasons. Include the ‘GNUStep-volunteers’ file. • Several bug fixes: Typo in Array.m; Linux header file frobbing in NSZone.h; typo causing crash in checks/nsarray.m; bad deallocation in Collection.m; typo in BinaryTree.m; put -write: and -read: implementations back in Collection.m. 1.82 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.7’ ============================================= • Thanks to Adam Fedor , classes NSBundle, NSNumber and NSValue are now operational. He also provided stubs for NSArray, NSCoder and NSDictionary. • NSArray has been fleshed out. There are new classes NSConcreteArray and NSConcreteMutableArray. Basic operations with the NSArray class cluster now work, and it is set up to coexist nicely with the GNU collection heirarchy. Next I'll do NSDictionary in a similar style. • From Adam Fedor, there is a new patch to the gcc Objective C runtime that aids dynamic linking. You'll have to apply this patch and reinstall the runtime before you can compile this version of libgnustep-base. • Several bug fixes, including two serious ones in Collection deallocation and behavior adding. See the ChangeLog for details. 1.83 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.5’ ============================================= • Better string handling. NSString is now fleshed out, and I've implemented a scheme by which the GNU String object and OpenStep's NSString can coexist nicely. The OpenStep classes declare their string arguments with (NSString*) just like the standard says, but the preferred (more flexible) way to declare string arguments is (id ); and these two types are set up so that they coexist. There is still more to be done. NSString has several unimplemented methods; GNU String needs some more work. • Newly implemented classes: MallocAddress, NSString, NSMutableString, NSCString, NSMutableCString. • Thanks to Pieter Schoenmakers we have a new version of the gcc-string.patch that should apply more smoothly. • Thanks to Adam Fedor for a bug fix to NXStringTable's. • Thanks to Mark Lakata for a bug fix to NSZone.c. • Several bug fixes. Thanks to those who reported them. Credits are in the ChangeLog. 1.84 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.3’ ============================================= This release not well tested at all. We desperately need someone to write a test suite using dejagnu. Any volunteers? I made this release now in order to share the progress that is being made on GNUSTEP. • New GNUSTEP implementations: NSObject, NSAutoreleasePool, NSZone. Thanks to Mark Lakata for NSZone. • New GNUSTEP implementations included, but not compiled: NSBundle, NSException, NSGeometry, NSNumber, NSValue. Many thanks Adam Fedor. • Many new GNU classes: String classes! String, MutableString, ConstantString. One interesting feature of the GNU string classes is that that, just like in Smalltalk, they are part of the Collection heirarchy--all the methods you are used to using on other collections can be used on these "collections of characters". You can create ConstantStrings using the @"" syntax. • Entire library converted to use ‘retain’, ‘release’, ‘autorelease’, ‘dealloc’ instead of ‘free’. 1.85 Noteworthy changes since version ‘0.1.0’ ============================================= • New category: ObjectRetaining. New classes: AutoreleasePool, AutoreleaseStack. • Bug fixes: Install next-includes properly. New instructions in README.ULTRIX. Time.m patched for Solaris 2.4. test12.m free fix. 1.86 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.1.0’ ========================================== • Renamed the library from ‘libcoll’ to ‘libgnustep-base’. (See the end of the file ‘DISCUSSION’ for the background on this name choice.) Several file names changed to reflect this. GNU class interfaces are now included with ‘objects’ prefix, e.g. ‘#include ’. • Many new classes. Pseudo-random number classes Random, RNGBerkeley and RNGAdditiveCongruential. New stream classes Stream, StdioStream and MemoryStream. New coder classes Coder, TextCoder and BinaryCoder. New network packet transmission classes Port and SocketPort. New remote object messaging classes Connection, Proxy and ConnectedCoder. New protocols Coding and Retaining. New, but unimplemented: Lock and Locking. New but soon-to-disapppear: RetainingNotifier, InvalidationListening. • Some bug fixes: Fixed the assert typo in Storage.m. The Time class now compiles under Solaris. Fixed insertion bug in CircularArray. NXStringTable_scan.l can now be compiled with lex, not just flex, (thanks to Adam Fedor ). Properly detect the difference between gcc running under NEXTSTEP and NeXT's cc. Using autoconf version 2.0. Renamed DelegateList to DelegatePool. Renamed some collection hierarchy methods for better consistency. • Some directory reorganization so that NeXT-compatible files can be included in the standard way, e.g. #include . Some other NeXT-compatibility improvements: Changed ‘GNU’ prefix to ‘NX’ in List and HashTable. New files zone.[hc] containing dummy stubs for NeXT-compatible zone functions. 1.87 Noteworthy changes in version ‘940524’ =========================================== • A NeXT-compatible NXStringTable object, thanks to Adam Fedor . • SplayTree and RBTree classes now operational. More methods in Time class implemented. • Some API cleanup: -delegateListList changed to -delegateListCollection. -includesSameContents: changed to -contentsEqual:. -insertObject:atKey: changed to -putObject:atKey:. See the ChangeLog for more detail. • Configuration by autoconf in the self-tests directory. Configuration script tests GCC nested functions. Configuration script detects NEXTSTEP and makes the appropriate adjustments, including skipping the NeXT-compatibility classes. • Bug fixes: BinaryTree rotate methods fixed. Fixed the way ‘ifNone:’ and ‘ifAbsent:’ functions were called. Fixed the way long elements are printed. Added methods for preventing memory leaks by unfinished enumerations: ‘-newEnumState’ and ‘-freeEnumState:’. Several bug fixes in List and Storage; changes for better NeXT-compability. And more. 1.88 Noteworthy changes in version ‘931026’ =========================================== • Installation using ‘./configure’ and ‘autoconf’ • New BinaryTree and RBTree(unfinished) classes. Rewritten LinkedList class. • A new scheme for holding non-object elements in classes that require object contents; EltNodeCollector class. • Archiving with -write: and -read: methods. This involved removing the ability to set the comparison function independent of content type. • Removed COLL_NO_ELEMENT and friends. Now there are no arbitrary restrictions on which long int's can be stored. Like in Smalltalk, ...ifAbsentCall: methods have been added to replace this functionalty. • Added a LABMDA() macro for defining small functions in the arg position. • Removed many ...perform: methods. Use instead the more flexible ...call: methods with LABMDA(). • Renamed ...Description: methods to ...Encoding: for better use of already-defined objc keyword: @encode(). • New in the Collecting protocol: Filtered enumerating instead of filtered shallowCopy'ing. Enumerations still safe when modifying the contents. • The beginnings of documentation in libcoll.texi. • Many bug fixes. • ...and more. Also see the ‘ChangeLog’ file for more detail. Copyright © 2005 Free Software Foundation Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.