v0.8.4

New Features

• comprehensive improvements to load module
  • Enhanced StandardLoader with builder pattern and configuration management
• Added LoaderConfig for centralized configuration options
• Implemented LoadStats for performance monitoring and statistics collection
• Added comprehensive utility functions for file handling and validation
• Enhanced Walk API with path navigation and dot notation support
• Improved error handling with detailed context and validation
• Added file caching system to avoid re-parsing identical files
• Enhanced merge logic with better conflict resolution
• Added security-focused path validation and sanitization
• Implemented comprehensive field inspection and navigation capabilities
• Builder pattern for fluent loader configuration
• Statistics collection with processing time and memory usage tracking
• Path-based navigation (e.g., walker.get('config.database.host'))
• Enhanced debugging and introspection tools
• Validation framework with early error detection
• Module management with advanced manipulation capabilities
• Intelligent file caching system
• Better memory allocation strategies
• Optimized data structures for common operations
• Lazy loading where possible
• Some method signatures enhanced for better error handling
• Configuration now handled through LoaderConfig objects
• Enhanced error types with additional context
• Enhanced type system with TypeCategory enum and better compatibility checking
• Added memory tracking and performance monitoring capabilities
• Improved tree navigation with path-based lookup and recursive search
• Enhanced macro resolution with recursion protection and better error handling
• Added comprehensive validation methods for statement structure
• Improved error messages with source code context and location information
• Added utility functions for AST analysis, memory profiling, and pretty printing
• Enhanced Display formatting with proper indentation across all types
• Added const methods for compile-time evaluation where possible
• Comprehensive test coverage for all new functionality
• Some method signatures changed for better type safety
• Enhanced error types with additional context fields
• Reorganized internal data structures for better performance
• Add MAX_RECURSION_DEPTH constant (64 levels) to limit parser nesting
• Add recursion_depth field to Parser struct for depth tracking
• Add enter_recursion() and exit_recursion() guard methods
• Wrap recursive methods (value, value_type, statement, module) with guards
• Add RecursionLimit error type with location tracking
• Add comprehensive tests for recursion limit enforcement
• Maintain backward compatibility for legitimate use cases

Bug Fixes

• boolean values having lower priority than identifiers

Style

• Apply cargo fmt formatting

Commit Statistics

• 6 commits contributed to the release over the course of 3 calendar days.
• 5 commits were understood as conventional.
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Commit Details

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  • Release barkml v0.8.4 (1bb7e83)
  • Apply cargo fmt formatting (d2122c4)
  • Comprehensive improvements to load module (8a170ce)
  • Comprehensive improvements to AST module (a244107)
  • Add recursion guard to prevent stack overflow attacks (ea30b3d)
  • Boolean values having lower priority than identifiers (2ae8fb8)