Rebol v3.17.0

Features:

• 7c6c10 Implemented transcode/part
• fde583 Possibility to see user defined op! sources
• 481446 Enhanced possible time limit from 2147483647ns to 9223372036ns
• 2cf831 hash! datatype (works like block! for now, hashing not implemented yet)
• f3060c Implemented map comparison
• 9a90e2 Improved hashing
• 185f45 Allow seeding random number generation using pairs and tuples

Changes:

• fa831f Updated Mbed-TLS sources to version 3.6.0

Fixes:

• 06c115 Allow syntax like +<tag> or 1.1.1<tag>
• fdf662 Does not allow refinement ending with a colon char
• 409c96 Console string input does not handle percent char correctly
• ca8b40 Block comparison with numeric and word values
• 583866 Word binding inside maps when construction syntax is used
• c9895f Incorrect tuple values hashing
• 164a3f Invalid define for XXHash include
• 604720 Argument type validation of catch a callback function
• 62dd93 Code cleanup

Rebol v3.16.0

Changes:

• 3c2b93 Switching map and construction syntax
• 2ba01e unset value in any and all is transparent now
• da1905 Updated Mbed-TLS sources to version 3.5.2
• 52efc0 Register .swc file extension with zip codec
• 7c84b6 Allow issues like ### or #a# (Rebol2/Red compatibility)
• 9bb910 Zlib source updated to version 1.3.0.1
• 7a9e11 Updated httpd scheme to version 0.9.0
• bf4999 Modified launch function not to use shell and to handle all optional script arguments
• abc6ec Using system error codes when opening a MIDI device on Windows

Features:

• f25ddf Implemented optional XXH3, XXH32, XXH64 and XXH128 checksums
• ab42ca Tiny optimization
• da4718 Not using hashing for small enough maps (reduces memory usage)
• e401ed Added sum and average functions
• 27611e Including source of webdriver and websocket modules
• ffa41e bbcode image gallery emitter
• e39581 bbcode csv table emitter
• 963d08 Allow word!, get-word! and get-path! values inside a call argument
• 39c7e2 Allow any-string value as a call argument
• a38e2a Added possibility to set/clear BRK, RTS and DTR serial port flags on Posix

Fixes:

• 01a68c Compiler warnings
• 695636 Correct fix of regression when creating 64 bit vectors
• 238ecb Regression when creating 64 bit vectors
• 820687 checksum with file! argument not supporting all available methods
• d4364d Saving a file into a zip archive
• 1bfcbb Bbcode codec - reset row-width of an image gallery tag
• 307b24 Windows JPEG codec unexpected property type error
• 592454 LF to CRLF conversion when using write with string input
• fbad12 Joining path/url using path notation not respecting index position
• aa7aa4 Throw an error when converting 1.#NaN value to integer
• 45b358 Close httpd server on request even when there are pending client connections
• 9715d1 Code simplified
• aa227f Avoid an error when loading an unset value
• 051670 Using correct path to images in the generated bbcode image gallery
• 8ee972 bbcode codec must convert binary input to string before decoding
• b0f684 Reading from virtual /proc files on Linux using read/part
• a73014 Accept block input to call function on Windows
• 56a39e Warning: implicit declaration of function ‘wcwidth’
• 2ea23b Ignore warning: ‘__builtin___strncpy_chk’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument
• a84671 Warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
• 98c54f Warning: specified bound depends on the length of the source argument
• 45832b Trying to fix build for Haiku OS
• da13e8 Trying to fix build for Haiku OS
• 7f8108 Trying to fix build for Haiku OS

Rebol v3.15.0

Features:

• 1ff2d9 Optional support for SHA3 family checksums (included in Bulk)
• 3dc6f6 New platform for TurrisOS
• feaaef Better info when native extension fails to load its library
• a1b79b wait-for-key which waits for a single key press
• 855adc Struct reflection code reduction
• 4332e1 Implemented body-of struct reflection (returning struct's key/value pairs)
• 8c111a Implemented values-of and words-of struct reflections
• b6640e Allow changing binary series with tuple values
• 455f04 function and closure accepting also module! for its object argument
• bee8e0 Unicode utils module with decode-utf8 function
• 3b731a Extension library API for conversion of Rebol file to OS file and back

Changes:

• 35c1b6 Updated Mbed-TLS sources to version 3.5.1
• 4dc546 Using line breaks in molded struct! values for better readability
• 68bf82 Moved STATIC_ASSERT macro to reb-c.h file and used it in a few more cases
• ad12a6 Don't try to validate baud rate for a serial port

Fixes:

• 0be75d Timeout when reading some HTTPS URLs
• b63745 Invalid length of checksum:sha224 port result
• a87e66 Redundant message when logging an error value
• 821a5a Better struct! initialization; empty struct not allowed
• 7aaa05 Early validate input data type (else there could be free before alloc call)
• 76c8c0 Signed/unsigned mismatch warning
• 96ece9 Not using NZ macro
• 45749f Not initialized local variable
• 1871d9 Only using paren char escaping for chars in range 0x7F - 0x9F
• 3a7282 Using replacement char for all chars outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
• 0976da Formed/molded output with ASCII chars using always a special char escaping
• e1cc08 Correctly terminate truncated series
• af865e Included support for some rare codepages in iconv
• ea71e7 Unreferenced local variable warnings

Rebol v3.14.0

Features:

• ca45cf Allow extension to mark handle's context on free call and so prevent it from releasing
• a0ff1b Allow write action on the console port

Changes:

• f5aaa5 Including RXA_UINT64 macro
• aab9d4 Extended possible number of extension command arguments to 15
• 2c4565 Extended possible number of extension command arguments from 7 to 11
• 928761 Using lower MiniAudio extension version
• b24999 Downloading extensions into system/options/modules directory instead of the current dir
• 3f7972 Including uint64 in the RXIARG value union
• c87321 Deprecated system/options/module-paths replaced with system/options/modules

Fixes:

• f29b6b Using correct module name (not using arch and .rebx extension) in case, that url to module contains file name
• c7d328 Crash when trying to initialise multi-dimension struct value
• 9fffc0 Invalid function name when used help on function using a path
• 54bb9d Properly implemented List_Func_Types function
• 158080 Make the modules directory, if does not exists
• db8971 Lower security policy on the application data directory (when running a script)
• 56eac4 Missing optional extension handle mold callback registration
• 0837df Warning: pointer type mismatch
• 48e772 Using proper type for extension handle mold callback function argument
• 5413ff list-dir stopping its output on symbolic link to not existing file

Rebol v3.13.0

Features:

• be97ce Included link to Rebol/MiniAudio extension version 1.0.0
• d4878d Allow custom mold callback for context handles to provide additional handle's info, if wanted
• a74b26 Provide info, when molding a released handle, that it is already released
• b048bd Allow to pass handle objects to external handle's free function and dispose handle objects before freeing any series
• 93e07d Added possibility to register extension handles with custom setters/getters
• 3e53cf Handle SHIFT and CONTROL flags with arrow keys on Posix for char based terminal input

Changes:

• 2f7998 Debug print function ?? not throwing an error on invalid paths
• f4dd93 Restrict value? to word arguments only

Fixes:

• 922ac0 Use handle's context path access only if the handle is still in use (not already released)
• 41a265 Correctly check for a handle's context flag on free
• ba824b Allow extension context handles to reference other Rebol resources and so keep it safe from GC
• ad9863 Incorrectly molded NBSP char
• 639ad7 LOAD can't open JSON over HTTP

Rebol v3.12.0

Features:

• 4bcc98 Simple wait-for-key function test file
• e1c7da Using poll instead of select to query events on Posix
• 37145b Code reduction
• 84ae96 Key presses with unprintable chars are now reported as control and control-up events on Windows (on console with turned off line mode and from GUI as well)
• 3f57b5 Preliminary support for char based input on Posix
• 37971d Access to Decode_UTF8_Char core function from host's sources
• d423e9 Support for optional Brotli encoding in HTTP scheme
• 7d24ad Updated Spotify module to version 0.2.1 (test file moved to the test folder)
• 1b74d4 Updated Spotify module to version 0.2.0
• 05b700 Shortened code of rejoin function
• 82682e Enhanced ajoin native function for merging values into a string types
• fd5656 Initial audio device prototype for Windows (using XAudio2)
• 5d9af5 Dynamic function refinements
• 869708 Optional support for Brotli de/compression

Changes:

• ea3cd4 Moved wait-list from system/ports to system/state
• efbfa4 Moved event-keys and event-types from system/view to system/catalog, because these are used not only in GUI
• 8eb643 Modified verbosity of the gzip codec
• f49d96 Renamed Signal_Device to OS_Signal_Device
• 473bb0 Updated Mbed-TLS sources to version 3.4.0
• 467ae8 Using more lightweight dynamic function refinements instead of either where possible
• a14bf5 Using more lightweight dynamic function refinements instead of apply where possible
• fbbb20 Value of false dynamic function refinement is none, not false (as native code expects none, which is cheaper to compare)
• 3fa4a0 List Brotli compression in system/catalog/compressions
• 3d23ed Using lower default compression level for Brotli compression

Fixes:

• 511a4e Unspecified calling convention fails in 32 bit build
• 2cde09 Not all control paths return a value warning
• 90fabd Signed/unsigned mismatch
• 227f8d Unreferenced local variable
• f57e4f Swapped location of the virtual key conversion table (host-event.c is not used in Base builds)
• d22923 Moving the newly introduced host lib function to the tail (to keep compatibility with old extensions)
• 65a33d Hide X-goog-api-key header field from HTTP logs
• bd91b5 mold emitting invisible chars in some cases
• a7c2cc Include only included optional compressions in system/catalog/compressions
• 786e33 form ignores leading empty strings and unset values
• 8115be Invalid console input
• 03a2cd ) not allowed as a first character in tag
• 1a1706 Not able to use list-dir without any argument
• 1712f2 Removed forgotten probe
• 8e5e1b Removed unwanted line break after ask function call
• 4e8d95 Enable wide character support on Posix
• 8d7a6f ~ folder name expansion does not work in all cases
• 290720 Wrong directory names when diacritics is used
• dc1bcd Suppress compiler warnings
• 6af517 Not all control paths return a value warning
• 908362 Suppress compiler warnings
• 2c23ea Possible loss of data warnings
• ad1f2a Signed/unsigned mismatch warning
• 23b8c8 Unreferenced label
• 5d036f Unreferenced local variables
• 5fdac4 Regression (code reduced too much)
• 777da7 Non-void function does not return a value in all control paths

Rebol v3.11.0

Features:

• 311223 Added possibility to set/clear BREAK, DATA-TERMINAL-READY and REQUEST-TO-SEND serial signals (on Windows so far)
• 083c0d Implemented attempt/safer to catch also thrown exceptions
• 6edaaa Implemented try/all to catch also thrown exceptions
• 059643 Allowed function for a recovery of a caught throw
• e3c224 Implemented catch/all which may be used to catch all throws (named and unnamed)
• b91715 New /recover option of the catch function
• 808276 New request-password native which reads line with hidden input and avoids command history
• 2494ff Dispatch file argument to checksum native to file-checksum function
• b91f64 Included function file-checksum returning checksum of a given file's content
• b522a2 Anonymize authentication tokens in log
• b6aedc Direct conversion between date and decimal now uses Modified Julian Date
• 483db9 Conversion from date to decimal now returns Julian date as well as /julian date accessor
• b18dc5 to-date mezzanine function accepting input in format like: 1-1-2000 00:00:00
• 0401ce Allowed specifying MIDI devices using its names
• 8319d5 Special integer notation (bit, octal, decimal and hexadecimal)
• eeb381 Allow gob! to be used as a source for move function
• df0907 Simplified enbase-64 padding code
• 422ac0 Store user's persistent data before releasing existing user
• 4d9318 Including optional support for serial device as was used in the Atronix's branch
• 3761b7 Allow use of series index in parse's remove command
• 7f46bc Implemented a raw string syntax in a form %{...}%
• 9fa0f5 Native for computation of a difference between two images
• dd1807 Native for human perception weighted Euclidean distance between two RGB colors
• dbdb4d Allow comments in automatically collected REBNATIVE code specifications
• d7d85c Included link to Rebol/BlurHash extension version 1.0.0
• 8a44ea Implemented passing a struct value to an extension

Changes:

• 6ed8da Deprecated try/except. Using try/with instead.
• 519fd4 Using catch/with instead of catch/recover
• 0cb8bd Include JSON codec in Core builds
• a2ac18 Include date mezzanine functions in Core builds
• 58b604 Not using HostileFork's CPP casting macros
• 8cfcc7 Moved the event port location from system/view/event-port to system/ports/event
• 11fc8b Make halt catchable
• 7bce10 Removed the quit/now option
• 476a74 More aggressive recycle native
• 8657fb Do not delay JSON codec module as it is used in HTTP protocol

Fixes:

• 8d4fed Variable used without being initialized
• 4dc5b4 Path evaluation does not process THROWN values as THROWN
• 842939 MAKE ERROR! does not process THROWN values as THROWN
• 7e2585 Better error messages for not caught throws
• 6e0011 Using wrong constants
• 2bbd3e catch/quit/name catches only quit or halt, but not any named throw
• 0605fd Equality of objects with hidden values
• dc85ac Regression in 1.#NaN comparison
• 8bb611 Proper handling wide Unicode characters in console input on Posix systems
• e5219e Code cleanup
• bbbabb Simplified request-password native code and fixed Win32 version
• ce2711 Allow releasing a system user with none value
• 7c96ba Potentially uninitialized local pointer variable
• 8d4879 Throw an error when checksum is used with refines on a file argument
• b62428 Checksum port crashes when input is not a series value
• 91f574 parse/case parsing words and paths
• 44e7f8 Invalid output when converting date to integer without a time value
• a5c247 Incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers warning
• 828473 Provide error numbers instead of hard-coded traces from the MIDI device
• cae3ef Changes of the MIDI setup not recognized on macOS
• 9dbc8e MIDI implementation for macOS so it works same like on Windows
• 952d76 Ignore the 3rd MIDI message byte in the MIDI test (it can have value on macOS)
• 67e519 MIDI port using old path (test script included)
• fd780c access-os function was missing because of the old native definition used
• d063af Corrupted output from trace on Posix systems
• 0c4fad Missing string definition for map
• de59c1 Finer decimal equiv? comparison than equal?
• ddcedf Do not pad output when used enbase/url
• cbd626 Correct decoding escaped Unicode chars in the JSON codec"
• c77e99 Correct decod...

Rebol v3.10.6

Version updated

Rebol v3.10.5

Changes:

• 9c9fef Updated mbedTLS code to version 3.3.0

Fixes:

• 73a481 TCP connection not working on Haiku OS
• f5f6ae Make sure that os-info is always loadable

Note:

Main purpose of this release is bootstrapping package for Alpine Linux.

Rebol 3.10.4

Changes:

• 9a327d Simplified use of TO_ defines and included Linux armv6 targets (and using armv7 instead of arm32 now)

Fixes:

• 4070cf Missing define from the previous change
• b99a78 32bit builds crashes when struct is being recycled
• de73f7 Crash when resolving file name containing a colon char on Posix systems