Changes in Pike 7.6.24

This document outlines the changes between Pike 7.6.6 and 7.6.24.

Changes in Pike code

• Fixed a cyclic resolver problem when running Pike with -V7.4
• Fixed #if constant so it doesn't rethrow a compilation error when #if constant failes to to compilation error.
• Better sslfile backward compatibility.
• Fix to prevent Regexp from throwing an error when PCRE isn't installed.
• Fixed pop() in ADT.Priority_queue.
• Fixes in Calendar.dwim_day for better accuracy.
• Major fixes and extensions of Parser.XML.Tree.
• Protocols.LMTP now displays correct error information.
• Content-type can now be set manually in Protocols.HTTP.Session.
• Protocols.LDAP now support paged searches. Fixed bugs related to dequoting and escaping values in filters.
• Fixed memory leak in Protocols.LysKOM.
• Fixed argument order in Remote.Client->provide.
• Fixed setting DES and DES3 keys.
• SSL now falls back to TLS 1.0 when accessed with SSL 3.2 (TLS 1.1).
• Fixed bug in decoding SSL2 hello messaged that caused incorrect padding of client challenges longer than 16 bytes. This caused some clients, typically based on OpenSSL, to fail to connect.
• Fixed an SSL bug that caused the session cache from working.
• Fixed an SSL bug where calls to the read callback could get lost when frequent switches between callback and non-callback mode occurs.
• Added EXIF kludge to handle broken FUJIFILM MakerNote.
• Fixed close in Stdio.FakeFile.
• Fixed Stdio.exist.
• Ensure that errno() is relevant if Stdio.recursive_rm returns with an error.
• Fixed a type parser bug in Hilfe.
• rdf:ID and rdf:about now takes xml:base into account in Web.RDF.
• Fix for Protocols.DNS on MacOS X.

Changes in C code

• Fixed bug in profiling support.
• Backend and UDP fixes for poll and AIX.
• Fixed bug in f_exit when called with multiple arguments.
• Fix for segmentation fault in random_string with negative argument.
• Added mprotect workaround.
• Avoid default usage of machine code on OpenBSD.
• Improved handling out-of-stack errors.
• find_external_context() now supports objects being destructed.
• Fixed copy_mapping_recursively().
• Fixed indices() and values() on objects to hide hidden items.
• rusage fix for system without 64 bit integer support.
• Fixes in create_process().
• Fixed memory leak when createing tuned boxed images.
• MMX no longer used for `* and `+ image object operators because of precision problems.
• New module, Kerberos
• Mysql module support Mysql 4.1.3.
• Bugfix in dbdate_cast() in the Oracle module.
• Several bugfixes in Shuffler.
• Added Stdio.Port()->bind_unix().
• Several bugfixes for rare array probles.
• Several cpp fixes to ensure that #if constant never interrupts compiliation. Use --show-all-cpp-warnings to see such failures.
• cpp expressions are now short-circuited.

Other chages

• Several fixes in the Pike package generation to make them work with GNU tar 1.14.
• Preliminary support for local variable extraction in unbug.
• New installer system for Microsoft Windows.