- Update from version 5.2.2 to 5.3.0
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
5.3.0
1. Infrastructure changes: Removed the use of libsigsegv. The
value-add was never very much and it caused problems in some
environments.
2. In keeping with new features in BWK awk, gawk now has built-in
CSV file parsing. The behavior is intended to be identical to
that of the "One True AWK" when --csv is applied. See the
manual for details.
3. Also in keeping with BWK awk, gawk now supports a new \u escape
sequence. This should be followed by 1-8 hexadecimal digits. The
given code point is converted to its corresponding multibyte encoding
for storage inside gawk. See the manual.
4. If PROCINFO["BUFFERPIPE"] exists, then pipe output is buffered.
You can also use PROCINFO["command", "BUFFERPIPE"]. See the manual
for details.
5. Because of the additional `do_csv' variable in the API, which breaks
binary compatibility, the API major version was updated to 4 and
the minor version was reset to zero. The API remains source code
compatible; that is, existing extensions should only require recompilation.
6. The manual now requires Texinfo 7.1 and its texinfo.tex for formatting.
As a result, we no longer need to pre-process it, removing the need
for gawktexi.in and leaving just gawk.texi.
7. And of course, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
5.2.x
1. The readdir extension has been updated with additonal code and
features, see the manual or its man page. As a result, the
readdir_test.c extension has been removed.
2. We have a new translation: Ukranian.
3. Several subtle issues related to null regexp matches around
multibyte characters have been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
- Update from version 5.1.1 to 5.2.2
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2
1. Infrastructure upgrades: makeinfo 7.0.1 must be used to format
the manual. As a result, the manual can also now be formatted
with LaTeX by running it through `makeinfo --latex'.
2. Gawk no longer builds an x86_64 executable on M1 macOS systems.
This means that PMA is unavailable on those systems.
3. Gawk will now diagnose if a heap file was created with a different
setting of -M/--bignum than in the current invocation and exit with
a fatal message if so.
4. Gawk no longer "leaks" its free list of NODEs in the heap file, resulting
in much more efficient usage of persistent storage.
5. PROCINFO["pma"] exists if the PMA allocator is compiled into gawk.
Its value is the PMA version.
6. The time extension is no longer deprecated. The strptime() function
from gawkextlib's timex extension has been added to it.
7. Better information is passed to input parsers for when they want to
decide whether or not to take control of a file. In particular, the
readdir extension is simplified for Windows because of this.
8. The various PNG files are now installed for Info and HTML. The
images files now have gawk_ prefixed names to avoid any conflicts
with other installed PNG file names.
9. As usual, there have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes.
See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1
1. Infrastructure upgrades: PMA version Avon 8.
2. Issues related to the sign of NaN and Inf values on RiscV have
been fixed; gawk now gives identical results on that platform as
it does on others.
3. A few issues with the debugger have been fixed.
4. More subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
functions have been fixed.
5. The rwarray extension's readall() function has had some bugs fixed.
6. The PMA allocator is now supported on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux on S/390x.
It is now supported also on both Intel and M1 macOS systems.
7. There have been several minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0
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* MPFR mode (the -M option) is now ON PAROLE. This feature is now being *
* supported by a volunteer in the development team and not by the primary *
* maintainer. If this situation changes, then the feature will be removed. *
* For more information see this section in the manual: *
* https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/MPFR-On-Parole.html *
*****************************************************************************
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Libtool 2.4.7, Bison 3.8.2.
2. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational
operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed. This only
makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with
regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time.
3. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will
use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays.
4. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in
the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated.
5. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed
values. These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as
Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages
or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual
for details.
6. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are
now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option
remains, but it does nothing.
7. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(),
for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays.
8. The new `gawkbug' script should be used for reporting bugs.
9. The manual page (doc/gawk.1) has been considerably reduced in size.
Wherever possible, details were replaced with references to the online
copy of the manual.
10. Gawk now supports Terence Kelly's "persistent malloc" (pma),
allowing gawk to preserve its variables, arrays and user-defined
functions between runs. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!
For more information, see the manual. A new pm-gawk.1 man page
is included, as is a separate user manual that focuses on the feature.
11. Support for OS/2 has been removed. It was not being actively
maintained.
12. Similarly, support for DJGPP has been removed. It also was not
being actively maintained.
13. VAX/VMS is no longer supported, as it can no longer be tested.
The files for it remain in the distribution but will be removed
eventually.
14. Some subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to
functions have been fixed.
15. Syntax errors are now immediately fatal. This prevents problems
with errors from fuzzers and other such things.
16. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.x
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.16.5, Texinfo 6.8.
2. The rwarray extension now supports writing and reading GMP and
MPFR values. As a result, a bug in the API code was fixed.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Historically, the MD5 checksums in our LFS files serve as a protection
against broken downloads, or accidentally corrupted source files.
While the sources are nowadays downloaded via HTTPS, it make sense to
beef up integrity protection for them, since transparently intercepting
TLS is believed to be feasible for more powerful actors, and the state
of the public PKI ecosystem is clearly not helping.
Therefore, this patch switches from MD5 to BLAKE2, updating all LFS
files as well as make.sh to deal with this checksum algorithm. BLAKE2 is
notably faster (and more secure) than SHA2, so the performance penalty
introduced by this patch is negligible, if noticeable at all.
In preparation of this patch, the toolchain files currently used have
been supplied with BLAKE2 checksums as well on
https://source.ipfire.org/.
Cc: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@ipfire.org>
Acked-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremeripfire.org>
- Update from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
- Update rootfile
- Changelog is quite long and detailed so the following are the high level descriptions
of the changes from the NEWS file in the source tarball. More details can be found in
the ChangeLog file in the source tarball.
Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Bison 3.8, Gettext 0.20.2, Automake 1.16.4,
and (will wonders never cease) Autoconf 2.71.
2. asort and asorti now allow FUNCTAB and SYMTAB as the first argument if a
second destination array is supplied. Similarly, using either array as
the second argument is now a fatal error. Additionally, using either
array as the destination for split(), match(), etc. also causes a
fatal error.
3. The new -I/--trace option prints a trace of the byte codes as they
are executed.
4. A number of subtle bugs relating to MPFR mode that caused differences
between regular operation and MPFR mode have been fixed.
5. The API now handles MPFR/GMP values slightly differently, requiring
different memory management for those values. See the manual for the
details if you have an extension using those values. As a result,
the minor version was incremented.
6. $0 and the fields are now cleared before starting a BEGINFILE rule.
7. The duplication of m4 and build-aux directories between the main
directory and the extension directory has been removed. This
simplifies the distribution.
8. The test suite has been improved, making it easier to run the entire
suite with -M. Use `GAWK_TEST_ARGS=-M make check' to do so.
9. Profiling and pretty-printing output has been modified slightly so
that functions are presented in a reasonable order with respect
to the namespaces that contain them.
10. Several example programs in the manual have been updated to their
modern POSIX equivalents.
11. A number of examples in doc/gawkinet.texi have been updated for
current times. Thanks to Juergen Kahrs for the work.
12. Handling of Infinity and NaN values has been improved.
13. There has been a general tightening up of the use of const and
of types.
14. The "no effect" lint warnings have been fixed up and now behave
more sanely.
15. The manual has been updated with much more information about what is
and is not a bug, and the changes in the gawk mailing lists.
16. The behavior of strongly-typed regexp constants when passed as the
third argument to sub() or gsub() has been clarified in the code and
in the manual.
17. Similar to item #4 above, division by zero is now fatal in MPFR
mode, as it is in regular mode.
18. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the
ChangeLog for details.
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
- Update from 4.1.4 to 5.1.0
- Update of rootfile carried out
- Changelog is too long to fit in here.
Changes for versions 5.0.0 and 5.1.0 can be found in the ChangeLog file
in the source tarball
Changes for versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 can be found in the ChangeLog.1
file in the source tarball
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Most of these files still used old dates and/or domain names for contact
mail addresses. This is now replaced by an up-to-date copyright line.
Just some housekeeping... :-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@link38.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
This will allow us to run multiple builds on the same
system at the same time (or at least have them on disk).
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
