changelog.dd

$(VERSION 058, ddd mm, 2012, =================================================,

    $(WHATSNEW
       $(LI Added std.csv for reading CSV files.)
       $(LI Added std.net.curl as D-ified wrapper over etc.c.curl and libcurl.)
       $(LI Added templates PackageName, ModuleName and FullyQualifiedName into std.traits.)
       $(LI The overload of std.concurrency.receiveTimeout which takes a long has
            been deprecated. Please use the overload which takes a core.time.Duration.)
       $(LI Moved std.datetime.abs to core.time.)
       $(LI The overload of std.conv.to which used a member function named to on the
            type being converted has been deprecated. Please define opCast on the type
            instead, and std.conv.to will use that.)
       $(LI std.datetime's endOfMonthDay functions have been deprecated. Please use
            daysInMonth instead.)
       $(LI std.ctype has been deprecated. Please use std.ascii instead.)
       $(LI std.string's hexdigits, digits, octdigits, lowercase, letters, uppercase,
            whitespace, and newline have been deprecated. Please use the
            corresponding symbols in std.ascii instead.)
       $(LI std.string's LS and PS have been deprecated. Please use the corresponding
            symbols in std.uni instead.)
       $(LI std.string's iswhite has been deprecated. Please use either
            std.ascii.isWhite or std.uni.isWhite instead.)
       $(LI std.string's tolower, tolowerInPlace, toupper, toupperInPlace, splitlines,
            stripl, stripr, ljustify, rjustify, and expandtabs have been deprecated.
            Please use the new versions of these functions with properly camelcased names.)
       $(LI std.string's zfill has been deprecated. Please use rightJustify instead.)
       $(LI std.string's capwords has been deprecated.)
       $(LI The overloads of std.string's isNumeric which takes anything and
            which takes a va_list have been deprecated. The other overloads remain.)
       $(LI std.uni's isUniLower, isUniUpper, toUniLower, toUniUpper, and isUniAlpha
            have been deprecated. Please use the versions of these functions which do
            not have Uni in their name.)
       $(LI Get rid of Windows 3.x and Windows 9x support. Affected modules: std.file,
            std.mmfile, std.stream, and std.windows.registry.)
     )

    $(LIBBUGSFIXED
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4295): IID_IUnknown symbol undefined in phobos.lib)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5614): version(Win32) vs version(Windows) in Phobos)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5718): Can't demangle symbol defined inside unittest block)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6255): Add support for different base conversions in std.conv)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6472): RedBlackTree.removeKey)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6642): SysTime should not be hasUnsharedAliasing)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6874): heap corruption caused by std.array.insertInPlaceImpl or gc.gcx)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6944): stdio.File.byLine can't handle an empty file)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7092): std.concurrency.receive does not accept free functions)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7141): std.regex - escaped characters can form operators in character classes)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7230): Crash during printing anonymous union with writeln family functions.)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7241): std.format can't read into array of dchar)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7302): std.conv.parse with radix doesn't work on ranges)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7397): [Regression] std.path.buildPath can't be used with string[])
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7480): Unhelpful formatting specifier mismatch exception message for pointers)
       $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7484): std.algorithm.copy overlapping array copy)
     )
 )

$(VERSION 057, ddd mm, 2011, =================================================,

    $(WHATSNEW
      $(LI Major overhaul of std.regex module's implementation.
        $(RED Breaking change) in std.regex.replace with delegate,
        use Captures!string instead of RegexMatch!string as delegate parameter.)
      $(LI As typedef has been deprecated, overloads of std.conv.to which use
           typedef have now been deprecated.)
      $(LI std.array.insert has been deprecated. Please use std.array.insertInPlace instead.)
      $(LI The overload of std.array.replace which replaces in place has been deprecated.
           Please use std.array.replaceInPlace instead.)
      $(LI The toISOExtendedString and fromISOExtendedString functions on SysTime, Date,
           TimeOfDay, and DateTime in std.datetime have been deprecated. Please use
           toISOExtString and fromISOExtString instead.)
      $(LI std.file.getTimesPosix has been deprecated. Please use std.file.getTimes instead.)
      $(LI The overloads for isDir, isFile, and isSymlink in std.file which take a uint
           have been deprecated. Please use attrIsDir, attrIsFile, and attrIsSymlink instead.)
     )

    $(LIBBUGSFIXED
        $(LI Unlisted bug: std.conv: Fix to!float("-0"))
        $(LI Unlisted bug: std.file broken on OS X x86_64 due to wrong stat64 declaration.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 2936): std.regex.match() short string optimization)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4765): std.math.modf always returns 0)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5193): SList cannot have struct elements that have immutable members.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5620): Implicit conversion of RegexMatch to bool.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5712): [patch] std.regex.replace disallows w/dstring)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6204): emplace() for classes accepts larger chunk but fails in array assignment)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6887): Regression of getopt)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6888): std.getopt.getopt: one-letter hash option causes range violation)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6935): struct with @disable this cannot make range)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6973): static assert(isOutputRange!(OutputRange!int, int)) is false)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6976): GetLastError called as property)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6977): getErrno called as property in std.stdio)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6979): hasUnsharedAliasing cannot accept plural parameters)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6990): std.string.splitlines deprecation doc missing a word)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7000): missing import of std.stdio in std.regex?)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7039): Posix 2.057 Makefile error breaking 64bit build)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7040): Phobos must use "version/else version" blocks for proper
                               documentation generation.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7045): AssertError in std.regex on line 1573)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 7055): to!float("INF2") == 2)
     )
 )

$(VERSION 056, ddd mm, 2011, =================================================,

    $(WHATSNEW
      $(LI std.exception: enforce/enforceEx now can use in @safe pure function.)
      $(LI Added optional KeepTerminator param to std.string.splitLines.)
      $(LI Added std.string.outdent.)
      $(LI std.utf: More @safe and pure.)
      $(LI std.windows.registry now use *W functions in order to deal properly with Unicode.)
     )

    $(LIBBUGSFIXED
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5522): std.range.zip fails on arrays of Object.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6009): std/container disabled on freebsd/64)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6160): std.conv.to: Ignore _ to match the rest of D)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6181): assert fails in datetime.d while runining Phobos unittest)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6258): std.conv.to!real("-") fetches the front of an empty array.)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6275): Const values in tuples)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6288): std.conv.to removes const/immutable when converting a class)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6609): std.conv.parse!Integer should consider sign when radix == 10)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6634): std.path.globMatch throws wrong assertion)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6640): More formatting consistency between string and range of char)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6761): Strange behavior of RedBlackTree causing a dangling pointer)
     )
 )

$(VERSION 055, ddd mm, 2011, =================================================,

    $(WHATSNEW
      $(LI std.algorithm.copy now specializes on arrays for 10-80x improved 
           performance.)
      $(LI std.path has been rewritten from scratch and has a completely new API.)
      $(LI std.utf.toUTFz allows you to get a zero-terminated string of any
           character type and of any type of mutability.)
      $(LI Added symlink and readLink to std.file for Posix systems.)
      $(LI Values for GDC and LDC were added to std.compiler.Vendor.)
      $(LI Added functions to std.bitswap for generically handling swapping
           endianness.)
      $(LI Added std.parallelism.TaskPool.workerIndex.)
      $(LI Added buffer recycling overload of std.parallelism.asyncBuf)
      $(LI std.math.tgamma, lgamma, erf, and erfc are now deprecated. The
           equivalent functions in std.mathspecial should be used instead.)
      $(LI The names of the values of std.mmfile.Mode, std.system.Endian,
           std.traits.FunctionAttributes, std.traits.ParameterStorageClass,
           and std.traits.Variadic were changed to match Phobos' naming conventions.)
      $(LI std.range:  Added indexed and chunks)
      $(LI std.string.translate has been updated to work with unicode. As a
           result, its signature has been changed. The old version and
           std.string.maketrans have been scheduled for deprecation.)
      $(LI std.string.tr has been updated so that it works with any string type.)
      $(LI std.conv.parse works for associative array and static array)
      $(LI std.format: Improvement of formatValue and unformatValue.
           They now works for associative array, consider element escaping,
           and treat range format spec more properly.)
     )

    $(LIBBUGSFIXED
        $(LI Unlisted bug:  std.range.transversal should have length)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3890): Bad writeln of a nested struct)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4977): cannot use nothrow or pure with Rebindable)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5237): writefln doesn't respect Complex.toString)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5645): std.range.drop())
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5825): write is calling a deprecated function)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6064): std.array.join is unnecssarily slow for strings)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6194): [GSoC] Destructor gets called on object before it is copied when calling writeln())
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6261): [2.054 beta regression] Regex cannot take a char[])
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6377): std.conv.to should check range when changing signedness)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6587): std.parallelism's Task cannot handle immutable values)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6606): RefCounted doesn't work with unions due to use of format)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6608): Tuple field is not escaped)
     )
 )

$(VERSION 054, ddd mm, 2011, =================================================,

    $(WHATSNEW
        $(LI std.array.insertInPlace supports inserting of multiple ranges/elements in one go)
        $(LI Added std.array.uninitializedArray and std.array.minimallyInitializedArray)
        $(LI Various functions in std.string were renamed to match Phobos'
             naming conventions and be properly camelcased. The old names
             are still there but have been scheduled for deprecation.)
        $(LI The deprecated std.string.toString and std.string.atoi functions
             were removed. If you were still using them for any reason,
             replace them with calls to std.conv.to.)
        $(LI Various functions in std.uni were renamed so that they don't have
             "Uni" in their name, since it was decided that it was not desirable to
             repeat a module's name in its functions' names. The old names
             are still there but have been scheduled for deprecation.)
        $(LI std.ctype has been scheduled for deprecation. std.ascii has been
             added to replace it.)
        $(LI Major performance improvements for std.algorithm.sort)
     )

    $(LIBBUGSFIXED
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 876): std.intrinsic.bswap overloads)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 2108): regexp.d: The greedy dotstar isn't so greedy)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 2117): Please add more byteswapping support)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3136): Incorrect and strange behavior of std.regexp.RegExp if using a pattern with optional prefix and suffix longer than 1 char)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3457): rdmd fails silently in a particular setup where the compiler is not the expected)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3479): writef/writefln: positional precision not working)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3564): Rdmd failing to link external C libraries)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 3752): File.byLine fetches lines in a confusing manner)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4367): std.regex: Captures is not a random access range)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4574): std.regex: breaks with empy string regex)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 4608): std.string.chomp documentation mismatch implementation)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5019): In std.regex, empty capture at end of string causes error)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5511): std.regex optional capture with no-match cause error)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5673): Add lookahead and forgetful matching support std.regex)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5857): std.regex (...){n,m} is bogus when (...) contains repetitions)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6076): regression, std.regex: "c.*|d" matches "mm")
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6113): singletons in std.datetime are not created early enough)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 5705): Swapping identical struct with hasElaborateAssign causes "overlapping array copy" exception)
        $(LI $(BUGZILLA 6193): Appender.clear() functionality or documentation)
     )
)