CHANGELOG

2012.06.12, Version 0.9.4 (stable), v1900

New features:

  * Tools
    - 'opa create myapp' to generate a full Opa project

  * Stdlib
    - Map.filter
    - Uri.of_relative and Uri.default_relative
    - Support of Gravatar API

Improvements:

  * switch to --db-local option and ~/.opa/mongo directory by default
  * Use of curl on Mac OS to download mongoDB archive
  * Option to include the version on @deprecated directive
  * Auto conversion from iterator to xml
  * Formbuilder markup compatible with Bootstrap

Bug fixes:

  * Compilation of libiconv on FeeBSD, thanks Jeremy Messenger!
  * mongoDB archive URL for Mac OS
  * Bootstrap white glyphicons
  * IMAP Client for Gmail


2012.05.31, Version 0.9.3 (stable), v1869

New supported platform:

  * FreeBSD
    - Opa commited to FreeBSD port trees: http://www.freshports.org/lang/opa/
      Thanks to Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com>


New features:

  * Doc
    - 5 first chapters translated in Chinese.
      Thanks to Li Wenbo <li.wenbo@whu.edu.cn> for this major contribution!
      Online preview: http://cn.doc.opalang.org

  * Syntax
    - Possibility to use underscore inside numbers
    - In js-like syntax, block braces of inserts can be used as delimiting a anonymous block function.
      e.g.            <div onready={ {function(_) code} }></>
      and             <div onready={ function(_){ code} }></>
      can be written  <div onready={ function(_) code   }></>
    - Projection database syntax
    - Allows several match case with the same production

  * IMAP Client

  * SMTP Client
    - plain authentication

  * HTTP Server
    - PUT and DELETE methods are now handled

  * Iconv
    - binded libiconv with the help of iconv-ocaml
    - added an Iconv module consequently

  * The directive @atomic(expr) now checks that the compiler is able to emit an atomic expression computation
    (i.e. containing no scheduling point)

  * New package stdlib.core.concurrency that provides (on server side only):
     - generic Mutex mecanism
     - exclusive section
     - and reference with exclusive access

  * Database
    - Mongo is the default database backend
    - Sub-path on database set and map
    - Projection
    - Options for update (ifexists)
    - Remove and Remove all operators on database list
    - Slice Projection
    - Added hole expression and indexed expression on sub-path
    - Exists query


Improvements:

  * Easier to define several server register: it now accepts a single registrable or a list of registrable

  * Better support of html5 void elements: for those elements, the close tag is now optional
    Note: html5 void elements can't be closed with a frag tag (</>).

  * Easier to change the doctype. For example, to use html5 doctype:
    Server.start(Server.http, [{register: { doctype : { html5 }}}, {title:"html5", ~page} ])

  * utf-8 charset meta tag automatically added for doctype html5

  * namespace on html tag only for doctype xhtml1_1

  * Scheduling policy updated to improve concurrency level

  * possibility to disable manpages generation with NO_MANPAGES

  * do not generate dyn_css link or script tag if useless

  * The 'with' construction generate more efficient code (less scheduling points)

  * Better check of wrong cyclic type definition

  * Faster parsing of Mime Multipart message

  * Added a max pang attemps

  * Html escaping, faster (x2) and introduces almost no html entities for utf8 encoded html resources

Bug fixes:

  * Memory leaks of buffer pools (http and mongodb)

  * File descriptor leaks in case of error while answering http request

  * Url decoding on multibyte utf8 characters

  * UriParser
    - fixed bug when parsing ' ' character in path
    - accept key without value (including equal sign)

  * Mime
    - fixed a bug in Mime headers parsing
    - various fixes

  * Mongodb buffer sharing is now always safe

  * Database
    - Reference and value on mongo path
    - Update of sum path
    - Encode special mongo character on mongo fields
    - Db.remove on path embedded in mongo database set and map

  * Server
    - Case insensitive http header parser

  * Syntax
    - Added 'default' case on Opa trx parser

  * RPC
    - Generation of client skeleton in some polymorphic case
    - Serialized funaction as server cell

  * Session
    - The error callback was not called in some use of Session.try_send

Updated APIs:

  * Server
    - {register:...} now accepts a list of registrable instead of a list of string
      Use Server.register_from_extension to register a list of string.

  * Resource
    - allow custom response headers (name, value)

  * SMTP Client
    - return the raw message sent on success (Ok)

  * Cache
    - removed deprecated Negociator API (misspelled)
    - added reset function to reset cache entirely

  * Mime
    - Mime.get_text and Mime.get_attachments now takes an additional decoding function
    - Mime.Header.decode_value also takes a decoding function

  * Bootstrap
    - upgraded to Bootstrap 2.0.3
    - ability to import Bootstrap CSS with or without responsiveness
    - merged WBootstrap Badge and Label importance type

  * Queue
    - stdlib.queue moved to stdlib.core.queue
    - add many folding function

  * Set
    - add 'mapping' functions that can map to different kind of set

  * List
    - add 'rev_iter'

  * Random add 'bool'

  * Parser
    - Parser.alphanum, Parser.ident and Parser.bool added

  * Scheduler
    - New functions for advance users, providing fine-tuning of scheduling policy:
      set_max_compute_successive, new set_nb_step_apply, point, yield, switch.

  * ThreadContext
    - add Client.using

  * OpaValue
    - Generator of default value (OpaValue.default)

  * Json
    - Added sort function


2012.04.06, Version 0.9.2 (stable), v1591

New supported platform:

 * Windows 64bits
   - the platform is now supported via our binary installer while still considered as unstable
     Congratulations to shadinger (https://github.com/shadinger) for the major contribution!

Bug fixes:

  * Windows
    - line error location

  * Mime
    - fixed a bug in q-parser and qp-parser
    - fixed inline plain/text detection

  * UriParser
    - fixed bug when parsing '+' character in query
    - accept empty values for query parameters

  * Json
    - serialisation: emit an error when an integers serialisation could be out of range for the client

  * Mongo
    - ref and val path on database set
    - sum type updating
    - composed path
    - always resize buffer when it's full
    - detection of primary key query
    - update with _id
    - use 64bits package for autoinstall

  * Separate compilation
    - Fix packages ordering issues with compiler packages

Updated APIs:

  * `+` : can be used to concatenate two strings

  * Bootstrap CSS
    - upgraded to v2.0.2
    - fixes for Bootstrap and Opa icons inclusion
    - changed the import names
    - added Font Awesome icons

  * Bootstrap Widgets
    - upgrade bootstrap widgets to match v2.0 of bootstrap
    - the previous implementation (compatible with <= v1.4.0) is moved in stdlib.widgets.deprecated.bootrap

  * Mongo low-level drivers
    - added authentication parameters and command line options

  * HttpRequest
    - added a get_form_data to retieves POST data (application/x-www-form-urlencoded )

  * Date
    - support %z in scanner format (returns GMT date)

Other features:

  * Windows
    - the installer is now completly standalone, nothing else need to be installed

  * Html response, size reduction
    - add option --xhtml-enable-inlined-event, that can choose to inline event handler code in the html
    - automatic dom ids are shorter

  * Dom ids: accept minus char inside ids

  * Slicer
    - new warning classes that prevent using inadapted slicer directives
    - new compile-time option '--slicer-check' that activate predefined configuration for theses warning classes

  * Mongo
    - added authentication options for @mongo database
    - added reference path on database set/map
    - use the default command line options if non-specific command line
    - use cursors
    - 'tilda' syntactic sugar for update request

  * Db3
    - added reference path on the root

  * bslClient
    - better handling of DOM appendChild under an HTML5 element in IE (fallback to jQuery)

  * Editor
    - start support of Sublime Text 2 with a plugin available at https://github.com/OpaOnWindowsNow/OpaSublimeText/downloads


2012.03.09, Version 0.9.1 (stable), v1466

Other features:

  * opa-translate tool updated for classic to js-like syntax translation
    with support of syntactic sugar, prettier printer and various enhancements and bugfixes

  * directive @from
    - new @from directive to resolve importation conflicts
    - In case of conflicts beetween two types with same original names, error message includes packages.

  * cyclic types
    - exportation of cyclic types
    - typer.cyclic warnings when (non local) cyclic type exportation

  * mixing database backends
    - Added @db3 and @mongo database options on database schema declaration.

  * new exprimental --remote-logs option to send logs to a remote web server

  * new --cookie-accept-client-values to use cookie ec/ic values provided by the client instead of generating new ones

New APIs:

  * Unification of runtime types (and fix 'magic' functions)

Updated APIs:

  * included Twitter's Bootstrap CSS inside the stdlib, and improved the import system (see doc)

  * added a way to register favicons (like css and js)

  * changed WebClient API concerning additional headers

  * improved / fixed MIME library

Bug fixes:

  * Improved HTTP gzip compression time

  * Various fixes on http client response parser

  * Parser fixes : bindinds, declaration directives, sugared list

  * Checking of recursives values

  * Database queries on primary keys

  * Events handler in new syntax

  * Coercion on Xhmtl fragment

  * File descriptors leak when embedding static files

Other changes:

  * Log.* functions take a strings instead of 'alpha

  * Http client doesn't log by default (use the new HTTP_CLIENT_DEBUG debug variable if needed)

  * --db-local options with mongo databases: download, install and launch a mongo database if needed.


2012.02.14, Version 0.9.0 (stable), v1300

Major features:

  * js-like syntax
    - new parser for a syntax close to JavaScript
    - this is now the default syntax (use --parser classic to the the previous syntax)
    - emacs mode and vim mode have been updated for this syntax

  * MongoDB support
    - new db backend based on MongoDB (not default)
    - fully integrated with the langage db syntactic construction
    - replica sets are supported using SlaveOk mode
    - db syntactic construction extension to support queries with multiple ranges

Other features:

  * i18n
    - new @i18n directive
    - it supports generic value that depends on the language
    - more concise and simpler support for string

  * directive @public_env
    - instructs the compiler that it is legal to serialize a closure
    - helps constructing functions on the server side that will be used later on the client side

New APIs:

  * Mime, WBootstrap, Bootstrap, Dropbox, GCharts, Markdown, IRC, XlsExport, CsvExport, ...

Updated APIs :

  * Email, SmtpClient, SmtpServer, Dom, Resource, OAuth, Canvas, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, ...

Bug fixes:

  * json string escaping: escape all control characters

  * many other minor and major bug fixes

  * Mongo replica sets now detect unsolicited change in primary due to new
    priority feature for replica set nodes

  * System.get_memory_usage(() on FreeBSD

Other changes:

  * versioning number to semantic versioning (http://semver.org/)
    - 1.0s4 => v0.9.0

  * no automatic include of the favicon link

  * .mlstate renamed into .opa, and no un-necessary creation at runtime

  * HTML5 doctype added


opa (1.0s3.4) unstable; urgency=low
  * initial open-source release
 -- Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@mlstate.com>  Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:44:20 +0200