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Features and improvements

• Improved the logging system with pluggable loggers, more specified verbose log levels, an HTML logger, and proper use of stdout/stderr
• Added basic compile support for 64-bit Windows (using the "win32" driver)
• Add a scoped alternative version of vibe.core.concurrency.lock (used for safe access to shared objects with unshared methods)
• Add support to repeat the idle event until a new message arrives
• Task is now weakly isolated and can thus be passed to other threads using runWorkerTask
• Implemented digest authentication in the MongoDB client (by Christian Schneider aka HowToMeetLadies) - pull #218
• The number of worker threads is now core.cpuid.threadsPerCPU
• TaskMutex is now fully thread safe and has much lower overhead when no contention happens
• TaskCondition now also works with a plain Mutex in addition to a TaskMutex
• Removed the deprecated Mutex alias
• Renamed Signal to ManualEvent to avoid confusion with other kinds of "signals"
• MemoryStream now supports dynamically growing to the buffer limit
• HttpServer will now drop incoming connections that don't send data within 10 seconds after the connection has been established
• Added a new createTimer overload that doesn't automatically arm the timer after creation
• exitEventLoop now by default also shuts down the worker threads (if enableWorkerThreads was called)
• Added new command line options "--vv", "--vvv" and "--vvvv" to specify more verbose logging
• Added connection pooling to the Redis client (by Junho Nurminen aka jupenur) - pull #199
• Various documentation improvements and better adherence to the style guide
• Compiles with DMD 2.063 (mostly by Vladimir Panteleev aka CyberShadow) - pull #207
• All examples now use exact imports rather than using import vibe.vibe; or import vibe.d;
• Moved basic WWW form parsing from vibe.http.form to vibe.inet.webform to reduce intermodule dependencies and improve compile time
• MongoDB URL parsing code uses vibe.inet.webform to parse query string arguments now instead of std.regex - improves compile time
• Much more complete REST interface generator example (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #210
• Updated OpenSSL DLLs to 1.0.1e (important security fixes)
• Renamed EventedObject.isOwner to amOwner
• Improved intermodule dependencies, configuration option/file handling and added pragma(lib) (using "--version=VibePragmaLib") for more comfortable building without dub/vibe (by Vladimir Panteleev aka CyberShadow) - pull #211
• Implemented an automatic command line help screen (inferred from calls to vibe.core.args.getOption)
• Added meaningful error messages when the connection to a MongoDB or Redis server fails
• Deprecated vibe.http.server.startListening, which is not necessary anymore

Bug fixes

• Fixed vibe.core.concurrency.receiveTimeout to actually work at all
• Fixed Win32Timer.stop to reset the pending state and allow repeated calls
• Fixed HttpClient to avoid running into keep-alive timeouts (will close the connection 2 seconds before the timeout now)
• Fixed HttpClient to properly handle responses without a "Keep-Alive" header
• Fixed isWeaklyIsolated for structs containing functions
• Fixed all invalid uses of countUntil where std.string.indexOf should have been used instead - issue #205
• Fixed spelling of the "--distport" command line switch and some documentation - pull #203, pull #204
• Fixed spurious error messages when accepting connections in the libevent driver (by Vladimir Panteleev aka CyberShadow) - pull #207
• Fixed adjusting of method names in the REST interface generator for sub interfaces (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #210
• Fixed falling back to IPv4 if listening on IPv6 fails when calling listenTCP without a bind address
• Fixed Libevent2MenualEvent.~this to not access GC memory which may already be finalized
• Fixed Win32TCPConnection.peerAddress and Win32UDPConnection.bindAddress
• Partially fixed automatic event loop exit in the Win32 driver (use -version=VibePartialAutoExit for now) - pull #213
• Fixed renderCompat to work with const parameters
• Fixed an error in the Deimos bindings (by Henry Robbins Gouk) - pull #220
• Fixed a compilation error in the REST interface client (multiple definitions of "url__")

Download

http://vibed.org/download?file=vibed-0.7.15.zip

http://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/

Features and improvements

• Performance tuning for the HTTP server and client
• Implemented distributed listening and HTTP server request processing (using worker threads to accept connections)
• Stable memory usage for HTTP client and server (tested for 50 million requests)
• Implemented new TaskMutex and TaskCondition classes deriving from Druntime's Mutex and Condition for drop-in replacement
• Added a simplified version of the std.concurrency API that works with vibe.d's tasks (temporary drop-in replacement)
• Added support for customizing the HTTP method and path using UDAs in the REST interface generator (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #189
• vibe.core.mutex and vibe.core.signal have been deprecated
• Added support for WebDAV specific HTTP methods - see also issue #109
• Compiles on DMD 2.061/2.062 in unit test mode
• Added Json.remove() for JSON objects
• Added Isolated!T in preparation of a fully thread-safe API
• The package description now exposes a proper set of configurations
• VPM uses the new download URL schema instead of relying on a "downloadUrl" field in the package description to stay forward compatible with DUB
• The default order to listen is now IPv6 and then IPv4 to avoid the IPv4 listener blocking the IPv6 one on certain systems
• Added HttpServerSettings.disableDistHost to force listenHttp to listen immediately, even during initialization
• Added WebSocket.receiveBinary and WebSocket.receiveText - issue #182
• Added HttpServerResponse.writeRawBody and HttpClientResponse.readRwaBody to allow for verbatim forwarding
• ".gz" and ".tgz" are now recognized as compressed formats and are not transferred with a compressed "Content-Encoding"
• Added a pure scoped callback based version of requestHttp to allow GC-less operation and also automatic pipelining of requests in the future

Bug fixes

• Fixed some possible crashes and memory leaks in the HttpClient
• Fixed the HttpRouter interface to derive from HttpServerRequestHandler
• Fixed parsing of version ranges in the deprecated VPM
• Fixed some examples by added a VibeCustomMain version to their package.json
• Fixed a possible range violation in the Diet compiler for raw/filter nodes
• Fixed detection of horizontal lines in the Markdown parser
• Fixed handling of one character methods in the REST interface generator - pull #195
• Fixed the reverse proxy to not drop the "Content-Length" header
• Fixed HttpClient to obey "Connection: close" responses
• Fixed Libevent2Signal to not move tasks between threads

Download

http://vibed.org/download?file=vibed-0.7.14.zip

http://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/

Features and improvements

• Compiles with the latest DUB, which is now the recommended way to build vibe.d projects
• Changed all public enums to use Phobos' naming convention (except for JSON and BSON)
• Moved vibe.http.common.StrMapCI to vibe.inet.nessage.InetHeaderMap
• Deprecated all hash modules in vibe.crypto in favor of std.digest
• Deprecated the vibe.crypto.ssl module (functionality moved to vibe.stream.ssl)
• Deprecated a number of functions that are available in Phobos
• Deprecated the setter methods in the Cookie class

Bug fixes

• Fixed connection unlocking in the HttpClient
• Fixed detection of unsuccessful SSL connection attempts
• Fixed freeing of SSL/BIO contexts
• Fixed some places in the deprecated VPM to use Path.toNativeString() instead of Path.toString()
• Fixed the package.json file of the benchmark project
• Fixed cross-thread incovations of vibe.core.signal.Signal in the Win32 driver
• Fixed compilation on DMD 2.062 - issue #183, issue #184

Download

http://vibed.org/download?file=vibed-0.7.13.zip

http://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/

Features and improvements

• Big refactoring of the MongoDB interface to be more consistent with its API (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #171
• Added a range interface to MongoCursor - redo of pull #172
• Added a dub compatible "package.json" file for vibe.d and all example projects
• Parameters can be made optional for registerFormInterface now (by Robert Klotzner aka eskimor) - issue #156
• The REST interface generator also supports optional parameters by defining default parameter values
• Added Task.interrupt(), Task.join() and Task.running
• Improved detection of needed imports in the REST interface generater (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #164
• Partially implemented zero-copy file transfers (still disabled for libevent) - issue #143
• Added HttpRequest.contentType and contentTypeParameters to avoid errors by direct comparison with the "Content-Type" header - issue #154
• Added a small forward compatibility fix for DUB packages ("vibe.d" is ignored as a dependency)
• Cleaned up the function names for writing out Json objects as a string and added convenience methods (partially done in pull #166 by Joshua Niehus)
• Renamed HttpRequest.url to HttpRequest.requestUrl and added HttpRequest.fullUrl
• Added the possibility to write a request body in chunked transfer mode in the HttpClient
• Added HttpServerRequest.ssl to determine if a request was sent encryted
• Changed several interfaces to take scope delegates to avoid useless GC allocations
• Removed the in_url parameter from Path.toString - now assumed to be true
• SysTime and DateTime are now specially treated by the JSON/BSON serialization code
• Refactored the Cookie interface to properly use @property (by Nick Sabalausky aka Abcissa) - pull #176
• Added HttpRouter as an interface for UrlRouter (by Laurie Clark-Michalek aka bluepeppers) - pull #177
• Changed HttpFileServerSettings.maxAge from long to Duration (by Nick Sabalausky aka Abcissa) - pull #178
• Added HttpFileServerSettings.preWriteCallback (by Nick Sabalausky aka Abcissa) - pull #180

Bug fixes

• Fixed matching of the host name in HttpServer - is case insensitive now
• Fixed issues in ConnectionPool and HttpClient that caused InvalidMemoryOperationError and invalid multiplexed requests
• Fixed GCAllocator and PoolAllocator to enforce proper alignment
• Fixed passing of misaligned base pointers to free() in MallocAllocator - at least 32-bit Linux seems to choke on it - issue #157
• Fixed listenTcp without an explicit bind address - now returns an array of listeners with one entry per IP protocol version
• Fixed "Connection: close" hangs also for HTTP/1.0 clients - those that depended on this behavior are broken anyway - [issue #147][issue147]
• Fixed possible invalid line markers in the mixin generated by the Diet compiler - issue #155
• Fixed all uses of render!() in the example projects by replacing them with renderCompat!() - issue 159
• Fixed concatenation of Path objects, where the LHS is not normalized
• Fixed serializeToBson in conjunction with read-only fields (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #168
• Fixed a possible endless loop caused by ChunkedOutputStream due to an inconsistent redundant field
• Fixed serializeToJson in conjunction with read-only fields (same fix as for BSON)
• Fixed download ignoring the port property of the target URL
• Fixed termination of Fibers by exceptions of already terminated tasks
• Fixed propagation of HttpStatusException in the REST interface generator (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #173
• Fixed handling of multiple cookies with the same name HttpServerRequest.cookies.getAll() can now be used to query them - fixes [issue #174][issue174]
• Fixed WebSocket.connected - issue #169
• Fixed accepting of invalid JSON syntax - issue #161
• Fixed use of tmpnam on Posix by replacing with mkstemps, still used on Windows - issue #137
• Fixed ZlibInputStream.empty to be consistent with leastSize

Download

http://vibed.org/download?file=vibed-0.7.12.zip

http://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/

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