Legend: * Changes of existing features or bugfixes + New features ObjFW 0.7.1 -> ObjFW 0.8, 14.10.2015 + An insanely huge amount of new APIs + New classes: OFHTTPServer, OFINICategory, OFINIFile, OFInflate64Stream, OFInflateStream, OFMapTable, OFRIPEMD160Hash, OFSHA224Hash, OFSHA256Hash, OFSHA384Hash, OFSHA512Hash, OFSettings, OFStdIOStream, OFSystemInfo, OFUDPSocket, OFZIPArchive, OFZIPArchiveEntry + New utils: ofzip, ofhash, ofhttp + Support for -[forwardingTargetForSelector:] on a lot of platforms (see PLATFORMS.md) * OFHTTPRequest: Split into OFHTTPRequest and OFHTTPClient * Rename OFHTTPRequestReply to OFHTTPResponse * OFDictionary now uses OFMapTable internally + Highly randomized, DoS-resistant hashtables (different seed per hashtable, additionally rotated by a random number of bits) * Reworked exceptions API that explicitly passes errno around + OFHTTPClient: Keep-alive and Basic Authorization support + Support for (and use of) ObjC generics, nullability and kindof + Fast path for resolving classes when using GCC (Clang doesn't need the fast path, as it directly references classes) * OFStreamObserver: Refactored and renamed to OFKernelEventObserver (as it is no longer limited to streams) + Support for SjLj and SEH exceptions + Support for DOS/DJGPP, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable + Support for bare metal (in other words: running without any OS; tested on ARM) + Full support for ARM64 on iOS + Full MessagePack implementation (the new MessagePack version that supports strings) + Backtraces for uncaught exceptions + Bridge to Cocoa now part of ObjFW * Default depth limit for XML and JSON parser + Optional support for outputting JSON5 (default is JSON) * 16 bit selector UIDs are now the default * BOOL replaced with bool everywhere (except where required by the ABI) * Fix for a nasty bug in -[replaceCharactersInRange:withString:] * Fix for a nasty bug in atomic ops * OFTLSKey replaced with +[OFThread threadDictionary] * Documentation improvements (for example, imports should now be shown correctly everywhere and many APIs have been documented in more detail) + Property introspection * OFProcess: Use posix_spawnp if available * OFProcess improvements for Win32 + epoll support for OFKernelEventObserver * Rewritten OFMD5Hash and OFSHA1Hash * Reworked OFTLSSocket API (easier verification) * Unicode support updated to Unicode 8.0 * OFURL: Proper escaping and unescaping ObjFW 0.7 -> ObjFW 0.7.1, 12.11.2012 + Support for Haiku * Autorelease pools now work properly without __thread * Incorrect framework version in Xcode project fixed * Documentation fixes and improvements * Blocks now only use 16 bits for the reference count in order to avoid problems with newer Clang versions * More use of OF_SENTINEL ObjFW 0.6 -> ObjFW 0.7, 27.10.2012 Again, the differences are more than in any release before, thus listing them all would be too much. The major differences are: + ObjFW now comes with its own runtime, which greatly increases performance compared to the GNU runtime and is even faster than the Apple runtime (using Clang >= 3.2 is recommended, but not necessary) * Support for the GNU runtime has been dropped + New, much faster autorelease pool implementation (now inside the runtime) + Support for Automatic Reference Counting (requires Clang >= 3.2) + Forwarding has been implemented + Asynchronous stream handling + New classes: OFThreadPool, OFRecursiveMutex, OFSortedList, OFTimer, OFRunLoop + New protocols: OFLocking, OFTLSSocket * Lots of API changes to make APIs more future-proof + Support for the new Objective-C literals * OFHTTPRequest now implements HTTP/1.1 * OFObject's memory handling has been improved, leading to better performance * Strings are allocated faster now + Support for JSON5 * All private methods use the prefix OF_ now instead of _, making it possible to use the _ prefix in applications * Most ObjC compiler feature checks are not part of configure anymore, making it possible to use the same installation with different compilers ObjFW 0.5.4 -> ObjFW 0.6, 27.02.2012 The differences between 0.5.4 and 0.6 are too big to list them all. However, the major new features are: * OFString, OFArray, OFDictionary, OFSet and OFCountedSet are now class clusters + Serialization and deserialization of objects into/from XML and JSON + New class OFIntrospection for introspecting classes + New class OFProcess for working with and controlling child processes * Lots of OFXMLParser and OFXMLElement improvements + OFHTTPRequests can have a delegate now for status updates and processing data as soon as it arrives + There are several backends for OFStreamObserver now, including kqueue, poll and select + SOCKS5 support for OFTCPSockets (client only) * Several API changes ObjFW 0.5.3 -> ObjFW 0.5.4, 30.08.2011 * The blocks runtime is now working correctly * Documentation fixes * -framework works with objfw-compile now + Support for QNX * Various small fixes ObjFW 0.5.2 -> ObjFW 0.5.3, 01.07.2011 * Lots of bugfixes, see Git log for details ObjFW 0.5.1 -> ObjFW 0.5.2, 25.04.2011 * Fix double-retain in OFList * Don't ignore the timeout in OFStreamObserver when using select() * Do -[OFURL copy] in a try block to prevent a leak when an exception occurs * Fix too big buffer in -[OFMutableString _applyTable:withSize:] * Call madvise() on the correct length variable so it covers the whole string * Fix a warning when sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long long) * Skip possible BOMs when appending strings ObjFW 0.5 -> ObjFW 0.5.1, 21.04.2011 * Work around a wrong warning produced by Apple GCC 4.0.1 which would cause the build to fail due to -Werror * Call objc_thread_{add,remove} when using the GNU runtime to make sure the runtime knows about our thread * Detach a thread before restarting if it was never joined * Release the old return value when restarting a thread ObjFW 0.4-alpha1 -> 0.5, 09.04.2011 + %@ is now allowed in format strings + Added of_log for easy logging * Exceptions have one header per exception now * Lots of exception improvements * Huge improvements in XML handling * Improvements in socket handling, including improved API * OFStreamObserver is now thread-safe and stops the current observe call when the set of streams to observe is modified + New class OFURL + New class OFHTTPRequest + New class OFCondition * Improvements in objfw-compile + Blocks can be used together with Cocoa now + When linking ObjFW and Cocoa, OFAutoreleasePools are used by both now + Support for Base64 + Use a real Xcode project instead of just calling make + Add Haiku to the list of supported platforms * Lots of small bugfixes and countless small changes. Read the commits! ObjFW 0.3.1 -> 0.4-alpha1, 03.01.2011 * ObjFW is now available under the terms of the QPL, GPLv2 and GPLv3 + Support for blocks was added, including a blocks runtime + Added support for the new GNU runtime, introduced in GCC 4.6 * Objects returned from collections are no longer retained and autoreleased + Added new classes OFXMLParser, OFXMLElement, OFXMLAttribute and OFXMLElementBuilder + Added new class OFStreamObserver to observe streams + Added new class OFDate for storing dates + Many new methods in almost all classes * OFAutoreleasePool was optimized * Handling of ASCII strings was optimized * OFSocket was renamed to OFStreamSocket * OFConstString was renamed to OFConstantString * objfw-compile now has a new syntax + objfw-compile can now compile libraries and plugins * Many small changes and new features that would be too much to list here The diff between 0.3.1 and 0.4-alpha1 has almost 24000 lines! ObjFW 0.3 -> 0.3.1, 19.06.2010 * Fix a typo in OFMutableDictionary that prevented termination in case the last bucket is already used when the dictionary is resized * The mutations pointer is now correctly initialized in enumerators for immutable collections * The objc_sync test was still using the old threads API and was updated to use the new one now * PLATFORMS has been updated to be more specific ObjFW 0.2.1 -> 0.3, 09.05.2010 + Many new methods were added to different classes + A huge amount of methods was added to OFStream, allowing easy binary stream handling and even mixing string-based and binary operations + An optional write buffer was added to OFStream + OFSeekableStream was added for streams that allow seeking, for example OFFiles * OFNumber was completely reworked and got many new features now * Large parts of OFDictionary were rewritten for better readability, better memory usage and to fix a bug with removing objects * OFThread has been greatly improved * Many small optimizations * Many documentation improvements * Method replacing was reworked and the methods renamed + Tests for OFStream were added * A bug with building ObjFW as a Universal Binary Framework was fixed + Support for ObjFW-RT, the ObjFW Objective C runtime, was added * Sockets are now properly closed before an exception is thrown * Error handling with sockets was improved * OFFile now uses open(), read() and write(), thus allowing -[readLine] to be used on of_stdin and fixing many other annoyances * A few misc methods were renamed + OFApplication was added * All tests and the table generator are now using OFApplication + It is now possible to get the remote address of an OFTCPSocket + OFString can now build paths in the OS-native format + It is now possible to create a string with the contents of a file + Many new file operations were added to OFFile * The existing file operations in OFFile were improved * Almost all functions that returned self before now return void + OFHash was added as a superclass for OFMD5Hash and OFSHA1Hash and OFHashes renamed to OFHash + objfw-compile was added for easy compilation of ObjFW projects, which includes dependency checking for headers etc. * The instance variable naming convention was changed so that properties work + Properties were added to the interfaces and are used if they are supported by the compiler + The library version is now included in the resulting dylib and libobjc is reexported now. Additionally, objfw-config offers --reexport now to produce libraries that link against ObjFW and reexport it ObjFW 0.2 -> 0.2.1, 14.03.2010 * Fix for OFNumbers not doing calculations * Improved -[hash] for OFNumbers with floats and doubles + Tests for OFNumber * Small optimization for OFArray's -[componentsJoinedByString:] * Documentation improvements * Updated copyright ObjFW 0.1.2 -> 0.2, 01.02.2010 + Support for ObjC 2 Fast Enumerations on every platform which has compiler support for fast enumerations + Support for ObjC 2 properties on every platform with compiler support + Fast Enumeration through arrays and dictionaries * OFIterator has been removed + OFEnumerator was added to replace OFIterator, which is more general and works with arrays and dictionaries + Portable implementation for atomic operations + Portable implementation for spinlocks. They use atomic operations if available, if not they fall back to pthread spinlocks. If both are unavailable, mutexes are used as a last fallback * -[retain] and -[release] are now atomic. If no atomic operations are available, spinlocks are used (which can fall back to mutexes, see above) * -[readLine] now handles \r\n without having the \r included in the returned line + OFThread now has -[tryLock] * Mutation methods have been removed from immutable interfaces, thus already giving an error at compilation instead of at runtime * Dependencies between headers have been reduced, leading to faster compile times * The interfaces of OFSocket and OFStream were cleaned up and some methods were moved to OFTCPSocket, as they make sense only there * File methods unavailable on Windows don't throw an exception at runtime anymore, but instead are not even in the interface on Windows. This way, it is a compile time error instead of a runtime error ObjFW 0.1.1 -> 0.1.2, 15.01.2010 * Fix a bug in OFMutableArray's -[removeObject:] and -[removeObjectIdenticalTo:] that could lead to not removing all occurrences of the object from the array and to out of bounds reads * Change the URL in the framework plist to the homepage ObjFW 0.1 -> 0.1.1, 04.01.2010 * Fix a missing out of range check for -[removeNItems:atIndex:] that allowed the programmer to specify too big ranges so it would crash instead of throwing an exception * Fix missing calls to -[retain] and -[autorelease] when getting objects from an OFArray or OFDictionary * Safer and more fault-tolerant way to remove objects from an OFMutableArray * Calling +[dealloc] throws an exception now. If someone really calls [SomeClass dealloc], this should be punished and not ignored, as this is a serious programmer error * -[readLineWithEncoding:] is more fault-tolerant now and does not lose data when it stumbles upon invalid encoding. Instead, it allows recalling with the correct encoding now ObjFW 0.1, 24.12.2009 + Initial release