From acd87e08f2be2a74af6db03104f86deb3cb2611e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Mares Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:14:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Release notes are ready --- ucw/doc/relnotes.txt | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/ucw/doc/relnotes.txt b/ucw/doc/relnotes.txt index aba705f4..6be94e68 100644 --- a/ucw/doc/relnotes.txt +++ b/ucw/doc/relnotes.txt @@ -1,22 +1,11 @@ Release notes ============= -6.0 (2014-01-28) +6.0 (2014-06-20) ---------------- -* Libucw finally has a clean ABI, which does not pollute namespace, risking - collisions with other libraries. However, we did not want to abandon our - nicely and simply named functions, so the header files define macros, - which translate names of all externally visible symbols to start with `ucw_`. - If you don't like this, configure libucw with `CONFIG_UCW_CLEAN_ABI` turned off. -* All helper utilities are now installed with names starting with `ucw-` to - prevent collisions. -* The auxiliary libraries have been renamed to `libucw-charset`, `libucw-images`, - `libucw-xml`. -* A <> has been added, similar in spirit to - our <>. The <> module - has been obsoleted -* `` is automatically included by ``. +Incompatible changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * *Incompatible:* It turned out that almost all users of the <> module push/pop individual elements. Therefore, we have removed the second argument (item count) of `GARY_PUSH` and `GARY_POP`. If you want to push/pop @@ -28,9 +17,6 @@ Release notes operation was renamed to `HEAP_DELETE_MIN`. New operations `HEAP_REPLACE` and `HEAP_REPLACE_MIN` have been added. If you need to track positions of elements in the heap, please check the notes at individual functions. -* <> have been introduced, providing an abstract - way of memory allocation. <> are now based on such - allocators, which allows for example growing arrays in memory pools. * The <> has been improved: ** Multiple instances of the configuration parser are supported. ** *Incompatible:* As there may be more instances, we can no longer use @@ -46,6 +32,12 @@ Release notes terms of our generic <>. This makes them easier to use and most of the interface has been preserved. The only exception is static allocation via the DARY_ALLOC() macro, which is no longer available. +* *Incompatible:* The `UCW::CGI` Perl module has its custom error handlers + (which override default Perl error handlers) split off to a separate module + `UCW::CGI::ErrorHandler`. + +New modules +~~~~~~~~~~~ * <> have been added including a new `daemon-control` utility. The old `daemon-helper` utility has been obsoleted and it is not compiled by default. @@ -53,11 +45,35 @@ Release notes have been added. * The fastbuf I/O layer received a new back-end <>, which concatenates several fastbuf streams to form a single virtual stream. -* *Incompatible:* The `UCW::CGI` Perl module has its custom error handlers - (which override default Perl error handlers) split off to a separate module - `UCW::CGI::ErrorHandler`. * Added <> module for efficient UTF-8-like encoding of 64-bit integers to byte sequences. +* Added <> module for configurable formatting of + 2-dimensional tables in both user-friendly and machine-friendly ways. +* A <> has been added, similar in spirit to + our <>. The <> module + has been obsoleted +* <> have been introduced, providing an abstract + way of memory allocation. <> are now based on such + allocators, which allows for example growing arrays in memory pools. + +Cleanups +~~~~~~~~ +* Libucw finally has a clean ABI, which does not pollute namespace, risking + collisions with other libraries. However, we did not want to abandon our + nicely and simply named functions, so the header files define macros, + which translate names of all externally visible symbols to start with `ucw_`. + If you don't like this, configure libucw with `CONFIG_UCW_CLEAN_ABI` turned off. +* All helper utilities are now installed with names starting with `ucw-` to + prevent collisions. +* The auxiliary libraries have been renamed to `libucw-charset`, `libucw-images`, + `libucw-xml`. +* The alias `uns` for `unsigned int` has been replaced by a more common `uint`. + The old name is still maintained for backward compatibility. +* Several functions now accept `size_t` instead of `unsigned int` for size arguments. + +Minor changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +* `` is automatically included by ``. 5.0 (2012-02-21) ---------------- -- 2.39.5