RELEASE NOTES for qore v0.7.2

release summary: qore 0.7.2 is a bugfix release from 0.7.1

• several bug fixes (including 8 crashing bugs), including packaging fixes
• support for timeouts in Socket::connect*() methods
• terminal attribute support, TermIOS class, new constants
• non-blocking read support for the File class
• event support for File class

 

several bug fixes (including 8 crashing bugs), including packaging fixes

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CRASH FIX: fixed a crashing bug in the map operator when the list operand is not a list

CRASH FIX: fixed a crashing bug in the parser with parse errors

CRASH FIX: fixed crash when pthread_create fails in thread.cc, thanks to Dmytro Milinevskyy for the info and patch

CRASH FIX: fixed a race condition with getAllThreadCallStacks() (only affected debugging builds)

CRASH FIX: fixed a bug where thread-local variables (as top-level local variables of a Program) were not being instantiated when another    Program called a function in a Program with such variables

CRASH FIX: fixed an issue where proper locking was not done to DBI drivers and more than one call could be issued to a connection at one time, causing crashes

CRASH FIX: fixed a crashing bug in the %= operator when the operand is NULL

CRASH FIX: fixed a crashing bug in the map with select operator when the map expression is NULL

fix to allow references to be used in closure and call reference calls

implemented an optimization to map to efficiently handle the case when no return value is used

spec file fixes; 0.7.1 spec file was badly broken

fixed configure.ac to account for linkable libraries in /lib - would cause configure to fail before

 

support for timeouts in Socket::connect*() methods

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added optional timeout parameters in ms to:
      Socket::connect()
      Socket::connectINET()
      Socket::connectSSL()
      Socket::connectINETSSL()

see updated documentation for details

 

terminal attribute support, TermIOS class, new constants

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new methods:

    File::setTerminalAttributes(action, TermIOS);
    File::getTerminalAttributes(TermIOS);

new class:
    TermIOS

 

non-blocking read support for the File class

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 new method:
    File::isDataAvailable()

the following methods now take optional timeout values in milliseconds:
    File::read()
    File::readBinary()

 

event support for File class

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new method:
    File::setEventQueue()

new events:
    QORE_EVENT_OPEN_FILE
    QORE_EVENT_FILE_OPENED
    QORE_EVENT_DATA_READ
    QORE_EVENT_DATA_WRITTEN

new event source:
    SOURCE_FILE

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