Revision history for Perl extension Sereal-Encoder
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* Warning: For a seamless upgrade, upgrade to version 5 *
* of the decoder before upgrading to version 5 of the *
* encoder! *
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5.000_002
* Prerelease CPAN testing. Build fixes for quadmath and
longdouble perls. Certain tests were failing with the old
versions which were subtly broken on quadmath or longdouble
machines. These tests are now skipped on these builds. You
will not be able to fully test this platform until you install
the Decoder, and then install the Encoder.
5.000_001
* Prerelease CPAN testing for 5.000_000.
5.000_000 Tue Aug 30, 2022
* Better handling of floating point values
* Support quadmath __float128 values as FLOAT_128.
* Better longdouble support.
* Add encoder option 'use_standard_double' which avoids
use of LONG_DOUBLE and FLOAT_128 and forces doubles
to go to the wire as DOUBLE instead. By default we use
the native double for back compat.
* Add support for YES and NO tags, to match the new booleans
we have in Perl. JSON this is for you. Requires Perl 5.36.
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4.025 Thr Jul 28, 2022
* Release with build fixes for the Decoder under threaded
perls and MANIFEST update.
4.024 Wed Jul 27, 2022
* Changes to the FREEZE/THAW mechanism. Remove the part that
says that FREEZE cannot return a list. It can, and we have
supported it for a very long time, although I have not checked
how far back this support goes. If you use the FREEZE/THAW
API's you should upgrade to this version.
* Test fixes for t/020_sort_keys.t hanging on some perls
which do not come bundled with Hash::Util.
4.023 Sun Feb 20, 2022
* Make it possible to upgrade with passing tests when using
Sereal::Decoder 4.015 - 4.019 on threaded debugging perls.
IF YOU USE THREADED PERLS YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO UPDATE
TO THIS VERSION OR LATER. *UPGRADE THE DECODER IMMEDIATELY.*
4.022 Sat Feb 19, 2022
4.021 Fri Feb 18, 2022
* Early but incomplete versions of 4.023, skip these releases.
4.020 Thurs Feb 17, 2022
* Fix "panic: free from wrong pool" errors on threaded debugging builds.
This error is only visible on DEBUGGING perls however it exists
regardless. If you are using a threaded build upgrade to this!
Thanks to Andreas J. Koenig for finding the bug, and Nicholas Clark
for suggesting valgrind to debug and fix it.
4.019 Mon Feb 7, 2022
* Fix build issue with latest perl - Thanks to Nicholas Clark
* Update zstd to 1.5.1
4.018 Thurs Aug 3, 2020
* Fix issue with gcc 10 with snappy compression.
4.017 Thurs July 9, 2020
* The build fixes in 4.016 didn't work correctly, this should fix them.
4.016 Thurs July 9, 2020
* Fix some dependency issues in build process
4.015 Weds July 8, 2020
* Build fixes (missing dependency)
4.014 Thurs June 11, 2020
* Fix build issue on non-win32 platforms.
* Update zstd to 1.4.5
4.012 Weds June 10, 2020
* Fix memory leak in looks_like_sereal(), thanks to Kirill Sysoev
4.011 Tues February 4, 2020
* Fix and test custom opcode logic for 5.31.2 and later.
4.010 Tues February 4, 2020
* Update miniz
* Update zstd
* perltidy perl code to a standard style
4.009 Fri January 31, 2020
* Update ppport.h for modern perls.
4.008 Thurs January 30, 2020
* Fixup casting error for pedantic compilers in srl_compress.h
* Build fixes.
4.007 Tues Apr 9, 2019
* Version bump only
4.006 Mon Apr 8, 2019
* Version bump only
4.005 Tues Jan 23, 2018
* Document encode_to_file()
4.004 Sun Nov 12
* Fix build issues from C++ style comments
* Fixup build_requires
4.003 Sun Nov 12
* Fixup Devel::CheckLib usage
* Do not compress using Snappy if the buffer is larger 2**32
* Build fixes
4.002
* Full release of Zstandard compression support etc.
4.001_001 Mon Feb 6 11:13:40 CEST 2017
* Sereal v4 release with Zstandard compression support
https://github.com/facebook/zstd
3.015 Thu Sep 1 20:18:44 CEST 2016
* Fix builds under 5.25+
3.014 Dec 7 2015
* Fix builds under 5.8.9
3.012 Dec 6 2015
* Yet another release related to broken META files.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker and CPAN::Meta need to be up to date
or the META files miss stuff.
3.011 Dec 6 2015
* No significant changes. Doc typo fixes, and build tweaks.
3.010 Dec 1 2015
* Build fixes.
3.009 Nov 30 2015
* Re-relase 3.008 with updated META files.
3.008 Nov 27 2015
* FIX: Make sure that reserializing a data structure created
using alias_varint_under does not produce a corrupted dataset.
Thanks to Iskra for the report.
* FIX: Precedence issue related to sort keys options. Thanks
to Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com> for the report and fix.
* FIX: Win32 build issues, thanks to bulk88 for help.
3.007 Nov 26 2015
* FIX: sorting should now work with tied hashes, and
be in general faster.
* CHANGED: Sort order for sort_keys=1 is now defined to be
"in order by length of bytes, then by byte order of the
underlying string, then by utd8ness, with non-utf8 first".
This sort order was chosen because it requires the least
operations to perform in the most cases, has a bounded number
of cases where we would have to create any temporary SV's or
to do operations that require us to introspect codepoints in
utf8 strings. IOW purely performance. Note that so long
as you compare data created with the same sort_keys setting
you will ALWAYS get the same order *in process*, regardless
of what you choose. Backwards compatible support for the
old order is available via sort_keys=3.
ADDED: sort_keys=2 to provide "perl cmp order"
(Its just there because it is easy to do, not for any
good reason.)
ADDED: sort_keys=3 to provide "rev perl cmp order"
Legacy sort order was equivalent to sort_keys=3, use this
option *ONLY* if you are extremely sensitive to changes in the
sorted order (or "canonical form").
* [DECODER] Build fixes for boxes without any Sereal installed (it seems
to be common on certain types of smokers, and not on others).
* Fix issues with serializing blessed scalars where we see the
blessed scalar before we see the reference to it.
* Handle PVLV undefs
* Build fixes for 5.8.9
* Doc patches
* Optimizations
3.006 Nov 14 2015
* [DECODER] fix segfaults from heavily corrupted data. Guards
against various pathological cases which could cause segfaults
fixed. Thanks to Damian Gryski and "fuzzing sereal with afl"
for finding these cases.
* [ENCODER] Various subtle fixes to how we choose whether to serialize
the string or numeric version of a value, in particular to
ensure that "00" always round trips as "00", and related issues.
Note this fix has correctness and performance consequences. In
some cases values that used to serialized as integers (arguably
incorrectly) will be serialized as strings instead, and some code
maybe be slower to serialize.
NOTE: Some issues related to this subject are not fixable without
a protocol change. In particular this change may affect the behavior
of code that uses binary logical operators on values serialized
with Perl.
Thanks to Zefram, Tom, and others for help with this issue.
* Fixups for cast warnings under -Wint-to-ptr builds by using
using PTR2INT and INT2PTR for casting our objects.
* Win32 fixes
* Build improvements
* Changes to how we generate constants
3.005 Jan 05 2015
* Build improvements related to char signedness being platform
dependent.
3.004 Dec 27 2014
* Performance optimizations and other miscellaneous changes.
* Build improvements.
* Win32 fixes for weakrefs.
3.003 Oct 19 2014
* Niko Tyni fixed the 64-bit big endian Sereal bug! (Yay Niko!)
* Setup META.yml correctly so that certain dependencies are
marked as being test dependencies and not build or run-time
dependencies.
* Allow one to build against an externally supplied version
of csnappy or miniz. Thanks to Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
3.002 Aug 20 2014
Summary of changes from 3.001 - 3.002
- Introduce "canonical" option to encoder
- Introduce "canonical_refs" option to encoder
* Test Infra Changes
- Split up bulk tests to speed up testing and make it easier
to see when a failure is restricted to a specific option.
* Big-Endian Support
- Improved support for Big-Endian machines. We now build and pass test
on Sparc and HP-UX and other platforms with big-endian or strict
alignedness requirements. Much thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi,
Gregor Herrmann, and H. Merijn Brand for for their assistance with
this.
- We still have issues with s390x (Z/Os) with Sereal. If someone wants
to help it would be appreciated.
3.001
- Upgrade to version 3 of the protocol
* Add Zlib compression support to the protocol
* Add Zlib support to Encoder/Decoder
* Add CANONICAL_UNDEF tag to represent PL_sv_undef
* Change magic header so it is trivial to detect
and reject utf8 encoded Sereal packets.
- Change how we serialize variables which have more
than one of IOK, NOK, and POK set. In general we
favour the numeric form, with the exception of when
all three are set when we favour the string form
(this is to handle engineering notation like "0E0"
where numeric and string equivalence may differ)
Full change history available at https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal