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1 News
******
The currently released version of the library is '1.26.0'.
See the <ReleaseNotes.html> document for more information.
1.1 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.
1.2 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.
1.3 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.
1.4 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.
1.5 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.
1.6 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.
1.7 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
1.8 Noteworthy changes in version '1.24.5'
==========================================
* NSInvocationOperation
* OSX version compatibility macro improvements
* Static analyzer fixes (mostly printf format string issues)
* Various other bugfixes
1.9 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
1.10 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.
1.11 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)
1.12 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.
1.13 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
1.14 Noteworthy changes in version '1.21.1'
===========================================
This is an (unstable) copy of the 1.20.1 release
1.15 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.
1.16 Noteworthy changes in version '1.21.0'
===========================================
This is an (unstable) copy of the 1.20.0 release
1.17 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.
1.18 Noteworthy changes in version '1.19.3'
===========================================
* Bugfix to work around OSX behavior of [NSURL-path]
1.19 Noteworthy changes in version '1.19.2'
===========================================
* Various OSX compatibility improvements.
* String handling performance improvements.
* Several minor bugfixes.
1.20 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
1.21 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
1.22 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.
1.23 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.
1.24 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.
1.25 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.
1.26 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.
1.27 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.
1.28 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.
1.29 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.
1.30 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.
1.31 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.
1.32 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.
1.33 Noteworthy changes in version '1.10.3'
===========================================
This version includes a few minor bug fixes.
1.34 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.
1.35 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.
1.36 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.
1.37 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
1.38 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.
1.39 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.
1.40 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.
1.41 Noteworthy changes in version '1.7.4'
==========================================
* Added Korean encoding
* Updated use of ObjCRuntime functions.
1.42 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.
1.43 Noteworthy changes in version '1.7.2'
==========================================
* NSUndoManager improvements
* New NSMessagePort implementation.
* Private GSTcpPort becomre NSSocketPort.
* Improvements to handle selectors better over remote connections.
1.44 Noteworthy changes in version '1.7.1'
==========================================
Bug fixes.
1.45 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
1.46 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.
1.47 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.
1.48 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.
1.49 Noteworthy changes in version '1.4.0'
==========================================
* gdomap - security bug fixes.
1.50 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
1.51 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
1.52 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.
1.53 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.
1.54 Noteworthy changes in version '1.1.0'
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* 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
1.55 Noteworthy changes in version '1.0.2'
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Mostly a bug fix release to work with the new gcc 3.0.
* Added support for special gcc 3.0 options (constant string
support).
1.56 Noteworthy changes in version '1.0.1'
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* 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.
1.57 Noteworthy changes in version '1.0.0'
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* 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
1.58 Noteworthy changes in version '0.9.1'
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* 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.
1.59 Noteworthy changes in version '0.9.1'
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* Fixes for building on FreeBSD
* Unicode support for -initWithFormat:
* NSDate pass dates over DO bycopy unless explicit byref.
* Updated for Makefile package changes.
1.60 Noteworthy changes in version '0.9.0'
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* 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.
1.61 Noteworthy changes in version '0.6.6'
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* 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.
1.62 Noteworthy changes in version '0.6.5'
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* 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.
1.63 Noteworthy changes in version '0.6.0'
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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.
1.64 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.
1.65 Noteworthy changes in version '0.5.1'
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* Additional runtime functions for interaction with Guile and
ObjC-Guile library.
1.66 Noteworthy changes in version '0.5.0'
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* 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 <[email protected]>.
* gdomap now handles subnet addressing and machines with multiple IP
addresses from Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]>.
1.67 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 <[email protected]>.
* Major improvements to distributed objects and many related clases
from Richard Frith-Macdonald <[email protected]>. Also
added a nameserver.
* Major rewrite of NSString, include Unicode strings from Stevo
Crvenkovski <[email protected]>
* A rewrite of the NSBundle class from Adam Fedor <[email protected]>
* 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.
1.68 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.19'
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* 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 <[email protected]>.
* 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 <[email protected]>. 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
<[email protected]>, 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.
1.69 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.14'
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* Can be made as a shared library by passing '--enabled-shared' to
'configure'. Thanks to Jan Kybic <[email protected]> and Bryan
Headley <[email protected]> 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.
1.70 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.13'
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* 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.
1.71 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.
1.72 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.10'
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* 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.
1.73 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.9'
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* 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.
1.74 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.8'
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* 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 <[email protected]> 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.
1.75 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.7'
=============================================
* Thanks to Adam Fedor <[email protected]>, 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.
1.76 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.5'
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* 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 <String>); 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 <[email protected]> we have a new
version of the gcc-string.patch that should apply more smoothly.
* Thanks to Adam Fedor <[email protected]> for a bug fix to
NXStringTable's.
* Thanks to Mark Lakata <[email protected]> for a bug fix to
NSZone.c.
* Several bug fixes. Thanks to those who reported them. Credits are
in the ChangeLog.
1.77 Noteworthy changes since version '0.1.3'
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This release not well tested at all. We desperately need someone to
write a test suite using dejagnu. Any volunteers?