Features and improvements

• Compiles with DMD 2.065 (and the current DMD HEAD)
• API improvements for the SSL support code
• Implemented SSL certificate validation (partially by David Nadlinger aka klickverbot, pull #474)
• Removed the old EventedObject interface
• Implemented support for string includes in Diet templates (idea by Stefan Koch aka Uplink_Coder) - issue #482
• JSON answers in the REST interface generator are now directly serialized, improving performance and memory requirements
• Reimplemented the timer code to guarantee light weight timers on all event drivers
• Libevent2TCPConnection now has a limited read buffer size to avoid unbounded memory consumption
• Fixed the semantics of ConnectionStream.empty and connected - empty is generally useful for read loops and connected for write loops
• Added an overload of runTask that takes a delegate with additional parameters to bind to avoid memory allocations in certain situations
• Added vibe.core.core.createFileDescriptorEvent to enable existing file descriptors to be integrated into vibe.d's event loop
• HTTP response compression is now disabled by default (controllable by the new `HTTPServerSettings.useCompressionIfPossible)
• Removed the deprecated sslKeyFile and sslCertFile fields from HTTPServerSettings
• Removed the compatibility alias Signal (alias for ManualEvent)
• :htmlescape in Diet templates is now processed at compile time if possible
• Added support for Rebindable!T in isStronglyIsolated and isWeaklyIsolated - issue #421
• Added RecursiveTaskMutex
• Throwable is now treated as weakly isolated to allow passing exceptions using vibe.core.concurrency.send
• exitEventLoop by default now only terminates the current thread's event loop and always works asynchronously
• Session is now a struct instead of a class
• Added support for storing arbitrary types in Session
• Moved the REST interface generator from vibe.http.rest to vibe.web.rest
• Added a new web interface generator (vibe.web.web), similar to vibe.http.form, but with full support for attribute based customization
• Added a compile time warning when neither VibeCustomMain, nor VibeDefaultMain versions are specified - starts the transition from VibeCustomMain to VibeDefaultMain
• Added requireBoundsCheck to the build description
• Added assertions to help debug accessing uninitialized MongoConnection values
• Added logFatal as a shortcut to log called with LogLevel.fatal (by Daniel Killebrew aka gittywithexcitement) - pull #441
• Empty JSON request bodies are now handled gracefully in the HTTP server (by Ryan Scott aka Archytaus) - pull #440
• Improved documentation of sleep() - issue #434
• The libevent2 and Win32 event drivers now outputs proper error messages for socket errors
• Changed setTaskEventCallback to take a delegate with a Task parameter instead of Fiber
• Added a Task.taskCounter property
• AutoFreeListAllocator.realloc can now reuse blocks of memory and uses realloc on the base allocator if possible
• HTML forms now support multiple values per key
• Inverted the no_dns parameter of EventDriver.resolveHost to use_dns to be consistent with vibe.core.net.resolveHost - issue #430
• Task doesn't alias this to TaskFiber anymore, but forwards just a selected set of methods
• Added `vibe.core.args.readRequiredOption - issue #442
• NetworkAddress is now fully pure nothrow
• Refactored the Redis client to use much less allocations and a much shorter source code
• Added Bson.toString() (by David Nadlinger aka klickverbot) - pull #468
• Added connectTCP(NetworkAddress) and NetworkAddress.toString() (by Stefan Koch aka Uplink_Coder) - pull #485
• Added NetworkAddress.toAddressString to output only the address portion (without the port number)
• Added compileDietFileIndent to generate indented HTML output
• Added Travis CI integration (by Martin Nowak) - pull #486
• Added appendToFile to conveniently append to a file without explicitly opening it (by Stephan Dilly aka extrawurst) - pull #489
• Tasks started before starting the event loop are now deferred until after the loop has been started
• Worker threads are started lazily instead of directly on startup
• Added MongoCursor.limit() to limit the amount of documents returned (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - pull #499
• The HTTP client now sets a basic-auth header when the request URL contains a username/password (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #481, pull #501
• Added RedisClient.redisVersion (by Fabian Wallentowitz aka fabsi88) - pull #502
• Implemented handling of doctypes other than HTML 5 in the Diet compiler (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #505, pull #509
• Boolean attributes in Diet templates are now written without value for HTML 5 documents (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #475, pull #512
• Empty "class" attributes in Diet templates are not written to the final HTML output (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #372, pull #519
• Implemented PUB/SUB support for the Redis client (by Michael Eisendle with additional fixes by Etienne Cimon aka etcimon)
• The logging functions take now any kind of string instead of only string (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #532
• Added SMTPClientSettings.peerValidationMode (by Stephan Dilly aka Extrawurst) - pull #528
• Diet templates that are set to null are now omitted in the HTML output (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #520, pull #521
• Extended the REST interface generator to cope with any type of error response and to always throw a RestException on error (by Stephan Dilly aka Extrawurst) - pull #533
• Added support for text blocks in Diet templates (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - issue #510, pull #518
• Added RedisClient.blpop and changed all numbers to long to be in line with Redis (by Etienne Cimon aka etcimon) - pull #527
• Changed WebSocket.receiveBinary and WebSocket.receiveText to strictly expect the right type by default (by Martin Nowak) - pull #543
• Avoid using an exception to signal HTTP 404 errors for unprocessed requests, resulting in a large performance increas for that case
• Modernized the Diet templates used for the example projects (by Damian Ziemba aka nazriel) - pull #551
• Added WebDAV HTTP status codes to the HTTPStatusCode enum (by Dmitry Mostovenko aka TrueBers) - pull #574
• Added support for multiple recipient headers (including "CC" and "BCC") in sendMail (by Stephan Dilly aka Extrawurst) - pull #582
• Added support for comma separated recipients in sendMail
• Added SSL support for the MongoDB client (by Daniel Killebrew aka gittywithexcitement) - issue #575, pull #587
• Made all overloads of listenHTTPPlain private (as they were supposed to be since a year)
• Added using -version=VibeDisableCommandLineParsing to disable default command line argument interpretation
• Added using -version=VibeNoSSL to disable using OpenSSL and added free functions to create SSL contexts/streams
• Functions in vibe.data.json now throw a JSONException instead of a bare Exception (by Luca Niccoli aka lultimouomo) - pull #590
• Functions in vibe.http.websocket now throw a WebSocketException instead of a bare Exception (by Luca Niccoli aka lultimouomo) - pull #590

Bug fixes

• Fixed a condition under which a WebSocket could still be used after its handler function has thrown an exception - issue #407
• Fixed a null pointer dereference in Libevent2TCPConnection when trying to read from a closed connection
• Fixed the HTTP client to still properly shutdown the connection when an exception occurs during the shutdown
• Fixed SSLStream to perform proper locking for multi-threaded servers
• Fixed the signature of TaskLocal.opAssign - issue #432
• Fixed thread shutdown in cases where multiple threads are used - issue #419
• Fixed SIGINT/SIGTERM application shutdown - issue #419
• Fixed HashMap to properly handle null keys
• Fixed processing WebSocket requests sent from IE 10 and IE 11
• Fixed the HTTP client to assume keep-alive for HTTP/1.1 connections that do not explicitly specify something else (by Daniel Killebrew aka gittywithexcitement) - issue #448, pull #450
• Fixed Win32FileStream to report itself as readable for FileMode.createTrunc
• Fixed a possible memory corruption bug for an assertion in AllocAppender
• Fixed clearing of cookies on old browsers - issue #453
• Fixed handling of yield()ed tasks so that events are guaranteed to be processed
• Fixed Libevent2EventDriver.resolveHost to take the local hosts file into account (by Daniel Killebrew aka gittywithexcitement) - issue #289, pull #460
• Fixed RedisClient.zcount to issue the right command (by David Nadlinger aka klickverbot) - pull #467
• Fixed output of leading white space in the HTMLLogger - now replaced by  
• Fixed serialization of AAs with const(string) or immutable(string) keys (by David Nadlinger aka klickverbot) - pull #473
• Fixed double-URL-decoding of path parameters in URLRouter
• Fixed URL.toString() to output username/password, if set
• Fixed a crash caused by a double-free when an SSL handshake had failed
• Fixed Libevent2UDPConnection.recv to work inside of a Task
• Fixed handling of "+" in the path part of URLs (is not replaced by a space) - issue #498
• Fixed handling of <style> tags with inline content in the Diet compiler - issue #507
• Fixed some possible sources for stale TCP sockets when an error occurred in the close sequence
• Fixed the Win64 build (using the "win32" driver) that failed due to user32.dll not being linked
• Fixed URLRouter to expose all overloads of match() - see also pull #535
• Fixed deserialization of unsigned integers in the BSON serializer (by Anton Gushcha aka NCrashed) - issue #538, pull #539
• Fixed deserialization of unsigned integers in the JSON serializer
• Fixed serialization of nested composite types in the JSON serializer
• Fixed two bogus assertions in the win32 event driver (one in the timer code and one for socket events after a socket has been closed)
• Fixed WebSocket.waitForData to always obey the given timeout value (by Martin Nowak) - issue #544, pull #545
• Fixed the high level tests in the "tests/" directory (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #541
• Fixed HashMap to always use the supplied Traits.equals for comparison
• Fixed the example projects and switched from "package.json" to "dub.json" (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #552
• Fixed emitting an idle event when using processEvents to run the event loop
• Fixed Path.relativeTo to retain a possible trailing slash
• Fixed image links with titles in the Markdown compiler (by Mike Wey) - pull #563
• Fixed a possible stale TCP connection after finalizing a HTTP client request had failed
• Fixed makeIsolated to work for structs
• Fixed listenHTTP to throw an exception if listening on all supplied bind addresses has failed
• Fixed a possible crash or false pointers in HashMap due to a missing call to GC.removeRange - issue #591
• Fixed non-working disconnect of keep-alive connections in the HTTP server (by Stephan Dilly aka Extrawurst) - pull #597
• Fixed a possible source for orphaned TCP connections in the libevent driver
• Fixed exitEventLoop to work when called in a task that has been started just before runEventLoop was called
• Fixed isWeaklyIsolated to work properly for interface types (by Luca Niccoli aka lultimouomo) - pull #602
• Fixed the BsonSerializer to correctly serialize SysTime as a BsonDate instead of as a string

Note that some fixes have been left out because they are related to changes within the development cycle of this release.

Download

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http://vibed.org/download?file=vibed-0.7.19.zip

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