Hi Gustaf Many thanks. Really a great job!
Thanks Cesáreo El 20/febrero/15 a las 4:55, Gustaf Neumann escribió: > Dear Friends of NaviServer, > > the last release of NaviServer was more than half a year or more than > 730 commits ago, so it becomes time for a release of 4.99.7 if this > is fine with everybody. > > Below is the preliminary summary of the changes since the release > of 4.99.6 (excluding the changes in the modules). If you have > pending commits please let me know. > > i'll hope to be able to do the usual testing, updates of the > versions numbers in the documentation, tagging, summarizing > of the module changes etc. over the weekend. > > all the best > -gustaf neumann > > PS: sooner or later a release 5.0 seems unavoidable, but are coming closer. > > > > > ====================================== > NaviServer 4.99.7, released 2015-XX-XX > ====================================== > > Changes relative to 4.99.6 > 215 files changed, 20782 insertions(+), 13282 deletions(-) > > New Features: > > * Added Interface to NaviServer to read/write directly > via driver routines. The new command "ns_connchan" > provides a higher level alternative to the idiom > "ns_conn channel" + Tcl-commands. The new command > uses the internal socketcallback infrastructure and allows to > > - detach the currently open connection channel from a > connection thread, to > - read/write/close the channel from other threads, and to > - query the states to then currently detached channels > (similar to "ns_writer list") > > By accessing the driver infrastructure, "ns_connchan" makes it > possible to read/write from/to SSL/TLS channels. The new command > makes it easy e.g. to implement WebSockets over SSL/TLS > (ws://... and wss://...) which is not possible with the > pre-existing infrastructure. > > Summary of Advantages: > * use the same interface for http and https (and other drivers) > * no (potential) problems with select() in Tcl when using > many (>1024) file descriptors > * less potential problems with Tcl-Sockets (buffering, translations) > * lower resource consumption > > Implemented interface: > ns_connchan detach > ns_connchan close channel > ns_connchan list ?-server server? > ns_connchan callback ?-timeout s? ?-receivetimeout s? ?-sendtimeout > s? channel command when > ns_connchan read channel > ns_connchan write channel string > > * Improved ns_log handling > - new subcommand [ns_log stats] returns the statistics > from calls to ns_log by severity-level. This allows > to write monitoring tools to provide rough overviews > at which time at which server what kind of > servers/warnings/... were produced > > - Allow to modify logging of sql statements via > ns_logctl severity Debug(sql) on > at runtime > > - Add debugging severity for tasks "Debug(task)" > > * Added ability to load a driver module without listening on a > port: This is useful in cases, where the driver registers > client commands (such as nssock or nsssl) and only these > are wanted. Loading the driver without listening can be > achieved by specifying "0" for the port. > > * Improved support for windows compilation with native compilers > for 32 and 64 bit (Many thanks to Andreas Piskorski) > > > Performance Improvements: > - add compiler hints likely/unlikely > - make Ns_Encrypt threadsafe under Linux (reduce mutex) > - use getpwnam_r, getpwuid_r, getgrnam_r, and getgrgid_r instead of > their thread-unsafe counterparts. This change allow these functions > to run without locking. > - reduce size of compressed requests in several situations (empty io_vecs) > > > Bug Fixes: > * fixed encoding in [ns_conn content] > * fixed incorrect result of "ns_conn protocol" (returned empty) > * fixed crash when a thread was created with > "ns_thread begindetached" and an error occurred > during startup > * fixed memory management for TclThread by moving TclThreadArg into > thread local storage > * fixed race condition in TLS cleanup > * fixed bug in argument parsing of "ns_cond" > * fixed setting of private/shared in ns_module > * fixed bug with "ns_adp_ctl stream on" > * move network module filtering to the front to avoid double loading > of tcl modules (many thanks to William Scott Jordan for the fix) > * ns_http: > - fix trailing slashes in some urls > - fix possible race condition when time gap between "ns_http queue" > and "ns_http wait" is larger > * minor fixes in nscgi > * windows > - fixed Ns_NormalizePath() for //foo/bar paths on Win32 (bug #1162890) > - use distinct bit-patterns for signal detection under windows. > - fix array unset bug > * fixed a potential race condition in writer threads > * [ns_perm delperm] fixed ignoring of argument "-noinherit" > * fixed reply headers in HEAD requests > > > Documentation improvements: > - improve typesetting, wording > - remove more obsolete content (e.g. concerning CVS, old dummy parameters) > - use examples from existing code basis > - improve comment density in source code > - document missing subcommands, such as "ns_time format" > > > Tcl API Changes: > * mark "ns_geturl" as deprecated, use ns_http instead > * marked redundant names of subcommands in "ns_thread" as deprecated > - ns_thread begin -> ns_thread create > - ns_thread getid -> ns_thread id > - ns_thread join -> ns_thread wait > - ns_thread get -> ns_thread handle > * allow time interval of "-timeout" for "ns_db gethandle" to be > specified with second factions (in the usual "ns_time" format) > > > C API Changes: > - [ns_conn content]: new flag "-binary" to return always the raw bytes > - [ns_thread begin|begindetached]: added flag "-name" for naming > thread explicit > > > Configuration Changes: > - update Makefiles as recommended in documentation > > > Code Changes: > > * Many of the changes are the result of a (sometimes over-picky) > code-checkers on unix and windows systems, in particular pc-lint, > cppcheck and the clang static checkers. Many thanks to > Maurizio Martignano for setting up the testing framework > based on SonarQube. > > * Function prototypes and API definition > - add missing function prototypes > - removed occurrences of old-style prototypes (when functions are > defined without arguments) > - removed unneeded external references and symbols and unreferenced > enumeration values > - aligned argument names in function prototypes with function > definitions > - added non-null/returns non-null assertions for prototypes > - added asserts to check non-null properties > - added "const" when appropriate > - added missing "static" declarations > > * Improved and more consistent macro definitions > - use INT2PTR and PTR2INT consistently when converting between > integers and pointers > - use NS_TRUE/NS_FALSE instead of 1/0 > - use NS_INVALID_FD instead of -1 > - use NS_SOCKET and NS_INVALID_SOCKET instead of int/-1 > - use NS_INVALID_PID for invalid pids > - change from usage of -1 or INVALID_SOCKET (windows predefined > constant) > to NS_INVALID_SOCKET due to confusions > - use UNUSED consistently > - character properties and conversions > . new macro CHARTYPE for testing character properties > . new macro CHARCONV for converting characters > - added a new macros PTR2NSSOCK and NSSOCK2PTR in analogy to PTR2INT > and INT2PTR to mask more win incompatibilities > - prefer "const" over "CONST" unless in Tcl interface > - improved consistency of variable and macro naming > - put macro values into parenthesis > > * Improved general code quality > - reduced variable scopes > - remove cases of undefined C behavior > - prefer leaving a switch statement via "break", and not via "return" > - move assignments out of if-conditions > - brace body of "if" statements and "for" loops > - make ignoring of function results explicit > - avoid shadowing of variable names > - fix potentially uninitialized local and static variables > > * Used more precise and consistent types > - prefer type "bool" over "int" when appropriate > - use unsigned types for bit operations > - prefer size_t, ssize_t, socklen_t, pid_t, nfds_t over int > - use consistently uintptr_t for nextids > - use enumerations instead of plain defines on some occasions > - prefer boolean expression > - reduce implicit conversions > (signed/unsigned, signed constants, loss of precision, ...) > - removed many cases of casts of complex expressions > - reduce prohibited operations with plain (signed) chars > - recast results of << > - standardize type definitions of objv in ObjCmds to the > variant recommended by Tcl man pages > > * Improved C-standard compliance > - silence "-pedantic" compilation with -stc=c99 under linux on most > cases > - avoid c90 identifiers starting with str[a-z], to[a-z], E[A-Z], _* > - avoid c90 reserved identifier "signal", "free", "remove", "time" > - added missing printf macros > > * Improved usage of c-library functions and OS abstraction > - use arc4random() when available > - use crypt_r() when available > - prefer memcpy() over strncpy(), since it has in most cases the > appropriate semantics and it is faster > - new/fixed OS abstractions functions/macros: > ns_lseek, ns_dup, ns_dup2, use ns_open, ns_close, ns_lseek, ns_dup, > ns_dup2, ns_write, ns_read, ns_mkstemp > > * Removed potential crashes from buffer overflows > - use memory bounded functions instead of potentially buffer > overflowing functions > - replace unsafe atof() by strtod() > - replace unsafe atoi() by strtol() > - replace call to deprecated function asctime() by a call to > asctime_s() > - remove hard-coded sizes of ip-addresses and replace it > by NS_IPADDR_SIZE > - don't hardcode sizes for string arrays > > * Use of modern-style argument parser Ns_ParseObjv() on several places > instead of manual argv parsing > ns_job interface, ns_truncate, ns_ftruncate, > ns_addrbyhost, ns_hostbyaddr > > * Make mutex timings configurable via #define NS_NO_MUTEX_TIMING > > * Improved code formatting > - add emacs editor hints to to keep formatting conventions > - prefer spaces over tabs > > * Extended regression test > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! 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