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Libidn NEWS -- History of user-visible changes. -*- outline -*-
Copyright (C) 2002-2018 Simon Josefsson
See the end for copying conditions.
* Version 1.34 (2018-03-31)
** libidn: Fix integer overflow in combine_hangul()
Found by fuzzing.
** libidn: Fix integer overflow in punycode decoder
Found by fuzzing, fix for the fix reported by Christian Weisgerber
** libidn: Fix performance issue in idna_to_unicode_internal()
Found by fuzzing.
** libidn: Fix performance issue in stringprep functions.
Found by fuzzing.
** libidn: Fix NULL pointer dereference in g_utf8_normalize()
Found by fuzzing.
** libidn: Fix NULL pointer dereference in stringprep_ucs4_nfkc_normalize()
Found by fuzzing.
** libidn: Increase performance of stringprep functions
Found by fuzzing.
** testing: Add OSS-fuzz integration and regression testing
** build: Update gnulib files
** build: Modernize GTK-Doc build
** build: Fix parallel builds
** build: Add configure flag --disable-doc
** build: Add configure flag --enable-ubsan (enable UB Sanitizer)
** build: Add configure flag --enable-asan (enable Address Sanitizer)
** build: Fix compiler warnings
** build: Fix build for gcc-7
** i18n: Added Swedish translation.
Thanks to Josef Andersson.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.33 (released 2016-07-20) [beta]
** libidn: Fix out-of-bounds stack read in idna_to_ascii_4i.
See tests/tst_toascii64oob.c for regression check (and the comment in
it how to use it). Reported by Hanno Böck <[email protected]>.
** idn: Solve out-of-bounds-read when reading one zero byte as input.
Also replaced fgets with getline. Reported by Hanno Böck <[email protected]>.
** libidn: stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize reject invalid UTF-8.
It was always documented to only accept UTF-8 data, but now it doesn't
crash when presented with such data. Reported by Hanno Böck.
** Dropped valgrind suppressions file, should no longer be needed.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.32 (released 2015-08-01) [beta]
** libidn: Fix crash in idna_to_unicode_8z8z and idna_to_unicode_8zlz.
This problem was introduced in 1.31. Reported by Adam Sampson.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.31 (released 2015-07-08) [beta]
** libidn: stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4 now rejects invalid UTF-8. CVE-2015-2059
This function has always been documented to not validate that the
input UTF-8 string is actually valid UTF-8. Like the rest of the API,
when you call a function that works on UTF-8 data, you have to pass it
valid UTF-8 data. Application writers appear to have difficulties
using interfaces designed like that, as bugs triggered by invalid
UTF-8 has been identified in a number of projects (jabberd2, gnutls,
wget, and curl). While we could introduce a new API to perform UTF-8
validation, so that applications can easily implement the proper
checks, this appear error prone because there is a risk that the check
will be forgotten. Instead, we took the more radical approach of
modifying the documentation and the implementation of the API. The
intention is that all functions that accepts UTF-8 data should
validate it before use. This will solve the problem for applications,
without needing to change them. This change has the unfortunate
side-effect that Surrogate codes (see section 5.5 of RFC 3454) no
longer trigger the STRINGPREP_CONTAINS_PROHIBITED error code but
instead will trigger the newly introduced STRINGPREP_ICONV_ERROR error
code, as the gnulib/libunistring-based code that we use to test
UTF-8-compliance rejects Surrogate codes. We hope that this is an
acceptable cost to live with in order to improve application security.
We welcome feedback on this solution, and we are marking this release
as beta rather than stable to signal that we may reconsider this
approach if people disagree. Reported by several people including
Thijs Alkemade, Gustavo Grieco, Daniel Stenberg, and Nikos
Mavrogiannopoulos.
** libidn: Added STRINGPREP_ICONV_ERROR error code.
** libidn: Workaround valgrind/gcc/glibc issue.
Valgrind reported a 'Invalid read of size 4' that was caused by
optimized strlen implementation. Reported and patch by Alessandro
Ghedini <[email protected]>.
** build: Use LOG_COMPILER instead of TESTS_ENVIRONMENT to fix valgrind use.
Errors caught by valgrind did not always trigger 'make check' failures
before.
** i18n: Updated Danish translation.
Thanks to Joe Hansen.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
See discussion above on slight change in semantics of functions.
* Version 1.30 (released 2015-03-02) [stable]
** libidn: The punycode.{c,h} files were re-imported from RFC 3492bis.
A comment explaining the origin and what was changed was added.
** Bump gettext to 0.19.3.
** Use LT_INIT instead of AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL.
** i18n: Added Hungarian translation. Updated some other languages.
Thanks to Balázs Úr.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.29 (released 2014-08-10) [stable]
** libidn: Mark internal variable "g_utf8_skip" as static.
Reported by Thomas Dineen <[email protected]>.
** idn: Flush stdout to simplify for tools that buffer too heavily.
Tiny patch from Hugh Daschbach <[email protected]>.
** i18n: Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
Thanks to Rafael Ferreira.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.28 (released 2013-07-10) [stable]
** idn: Don't crash when string conversion from UTF-8 to locale fails.
Reported by Jeffrey Frey <[email protected]>.
** java: Fix build failures.
** java: TestIDNA -a and -u logic was reversed, now fixed.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.27 (released 2013-06-05) [stable]
** Java library can be built using Maven. Speed improvements.
Thanks to several patches from Stefan Larsson. Testing indicate 70-90
times faster node/name/resource-prep.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.26 (released 2012-12-11) [stable]
** libidn, idna_to_ascii: Propagate error on malloc failure.
Reported by Sarat Chandra Addepalli <[email protected]>.
** libidn, tld_get_4: Fix out of bounds read access violation.
** i18n: Added Croatian translation. Updated Vietnamese translation.
Thanks to Tomislav Krznar and Trần Ngọc Quân.
** java: Permit usage by Apache projects.
Thanks to Oliver Hitz and Angus Turner.
** tests: Improve tld self-tests.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.25 (released 2012-05-23) [stable]
** MSVC: Build fixes related to _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE.
Reported by Bartosz Brachaczek <[email protected]>.
** examples: Fix compiler warning about ignoring return value from fgets.
** tests: Ship with a valgrind suppressions file for the strlen issue.
See tests/libidn.supp and bottom of HACKING for discussion.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.24 (released 2012-01-10) [stable]
** Libraries are re-licensed from LGPLv2+ to dual-GPLv2+|LGPLv3+.
** build: Fix parallel Windows builds.
Reported by René Berber <[email protected]>.
** libidn: Fix potential infloop in pr29 code.
Reported by Jon Nelson <[email protected]> in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2012-01/msg00008.html>.
** libidn: Add 'const' keyword to 'stringprep_ucs4_nfkc_normalize' function.
** Sync glib NFKC code and improve copyright/license statements.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.23 (released 2011-11-25) [stable]
** stringprep.h: Now #include's sys/types.h instead of unistd.h for ssize_t.
Some systems (e.g., Mingw with MSVC 9) does not have unistd.h.
** idn-free.h: Protect prototypes with 'extern "C"' marker.
Reported by Bittner Ede <[email protected]>.
** doc: Update link to experimental TLD tables.
The new link is <https://github.com/gnuthor/tldchk>.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** QA: Improved cyclo output. Update GTK-DOC files. Various bugfixes.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.22 (released 2011-05-04) [stable]
** libidn: Add -liconv as static library requirement in libidn.pc, for MinGW.
Reported by Volker Grabsch <[email protected]>.
** libidn: Fix memory leak in idna_to_ascii_4z when idna_to_ascii_4i fails.
Reported by and tiny patch from Olga Limburg <[email protected]>.
** libidn: Ran clang-analyze on the code.
Fixed some dead assignments/initializations.
** build: Really distribute win32/libidn4win.mk.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.21 (released 2011-04-24) [stable]
** build/gettext: Demand gettext >= 0.18.1 in order to get newer M4 files.
The old M4 files associated with 0.17 caused problems on Solaris,
hopefully now fixed. Reported by Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]>
in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/25522>.
** build: Improve MinGW cross-compile makefile, see win32/libidn4win.mk.
** build: Visual Studio files fixed to define LIBIDN_BUILDING.
Tiny patch from Waqas Hussain <[email protected]>.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.20 (released 2011-03-01) [stable]
** libidn: Fix bug in ToUnicode to compare 'xn--' case-insensitively.
The problem is typically noticed when an upper ACE case string is
converted to Unicode. Before, this would return the input rather than
converting the ACE form to Unicode. Reported by Stepan Golosunov
<[email protected]> in <http://bugs.debian.org/610617>.
** tests: Added self-test tst_idna3 to catch any regression of problem above.
** idn: Only print copyright and license blurb when used interactively.
Reported by "Andrew O. Shadoura" <[email protected]> and Roman Mamedov
<[email protected]> in <http://bugs.debian.org/615947> and
<http://bugs.debian.org/615949> respectively.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.19 (released 2010-05-22) [stable]
** doc: Typo fixes. Added PDF version of API reference manual.
See doc/reference/libidn.pdf.
** build: Update gnulib files.
** build: Use valgrind -q to reduce verbosity.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.18 (released 2010-02-15) [stable]
** libidn: Put forgotten symbols under old namespace.
Reverts one unnecessary change introduced in 1.17. Suggested by Marco
d'Itri <[email protected]>.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.17 (released 2010-02-05) [alpha]
** libidn: Fix symbol export problem for a few variables.
Applications (that use these rarely used variables) built against
versions before 1.13 did not work with libidn versions 1.13 to 1.16.
Symbol versioning was introduced in version 1.13 but by accident some
symbols that were visible before that release were not exported, and
the consequence was that those symbols were not available in version
1.13 to 1.16. This release fixes the problem, so the symbols are
visible again, making this release backwards compatible with all
earlier releases.
The affected symbols are the following variables:
stringprep_iscsi_prohibit, stringprep_rfc3454_A_1,
stringprep_rfc3454_B_1, stringprep_rfc3454_B_2,
stringprep_rfc3454_B_3, stringprep_rfc3454_C_1_1,
stringprep_rfc3454_C_1_2, stringprep_rfc3454_C_2_1,
stringprep_rfc3454_C_2_2, stringprep_rfc3454_C_3,
stringprep_rfc3454_C_4, stringprep_rfc3454_C_5,
stringprep_rfc3454_C_6, stringprep_rfc3454_C_7,
stringprep_rfc3454_C_8, stringprep_rfc3454_C_9,
stringprep_rfc3454_D_1, stringprep_rfc3454_D_2,
stringprep_saslprep_space_map.
Thanks to Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> for reporting
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561291> that led to
discovering this problem.
** Really fix the link error of self-tests on MinGW.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.16 (released 2010-01-12)
** java: Add a Maven pom.xml project file.
Contributed by Guus der Kinderen <[email protected]>.
** Fix a link error on MinGW.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.15 (released 2009-06-08)
** libidn: Use c_strcasecmp instead of strcasecmp.
For portability to NetWare CLIB. The specification requires a ASCII
comparison, so it is also more appropriate to use c_strcasecmp.
Reported by Guenter Knauf <[email protected]>.
** java: Fix some Java compiler warnings.
** doc: Improved sections for the info manual.
We now follow the advice given by the texinfo manual on which
directory categories to use. In particular, libidn moved from the
'GNU Libraries' section to the 'Software libraries' and 'Invoking idn'
moved from 'GNU utilities' to 'Localization'.
** New configure parameters to set packaging specific information.
The parameters are --with-packager, --with-packager-version, and
--with-packager-bug-reports. See
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/17791> for more
details.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.14 (released 2009-04-03)
** libidn: Install a libidn-*.def file when building under MinGW.
The file is useful if you develop programs in Visual Studio that links
to libidn.
** tests/tst_toutf8: Don't crash if stringprep_utf8_to_locale returns NULL.
Reported by Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libidn.general/192>.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.13 (released 2009-03-06)
** libidn: Use a LD version script on platforms where it is supported.
Currently only GNU LD and the Solaris linker supports it. This helps
Debian package tools to produce better dependencies. Before we used
Libtool -export-symbols-regex that created an anonymous version tag.
Libidn uses -export-symbols-regex if the system does not support LD
version scripts, but that only affect symbol visibility.
** libidn: Compiled with -fvisibility=hidden by default if supported.
Currently only GCC supports it for ELF targets. This hides internal
symbols and has other advantages, see
<http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility>.
** libidn: Compiled with warning flags only when GCC is used.
This avoids the problem that some flags confuse non-GCC compilers, for
example -fdiagnostics-show-option. Reported by
** doc: The idn_free function is now documented.
Suggested by "Sisyphus" <[email protected]>.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.12 (released 2009-01-23)
** idn: New parameter --no-tld to deprecate the old parameter --tld.
The new parameter --no-tld disable TLD checking of the input string.
The --tld parameter was broken; it behaved opposite to its documented
behaviour. To avoid confusion over what --tld means, we decided to
deprecate it. Now --tld is not printed in the idn --help output, but
will continue to work as before.
** doc: Modernize doxygen configuration.
** doc: Change license on the manual to GFDLv1.3+.
** doc: Improve JavaDoc output.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** Build with more warnings.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.11 (released 2008-10-28)
** libidn: New WARN_CFLAGS configure variable.
It is used internally to add -Werror and other warnings flags, to
catch coding mistakes before releases.
** Win32: Perl is no longer required to build Libidn in Visual Studio.
** Win32: Functions in idna.h are also exported.
Reported by Adam Strzelecki <[email protected]>.
** doc: Included cyclomatic code complexity charts of the library code.
See doc/cyclo/.
** tests: Add more self-tests to get more self-test code coverage.
** tests: New 'make coverage' command to generate code coverage reports.
The output is created in doc/coverage/. Requires the LCOV tools. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/coverage/ for a pre-generated copy.
** Clarify copyright and license for gdoc, man pages, and C# port.
** Update gnulib files and translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.10 (released 2008-08-27)
** idn: accept -n as short form for --nfkc.
Before '-k' was used as the short form, but all documentation has said
'-n'. We now accept both short forms, and -n remains the documented
short form. Reported by John McGowan <[email protected]> in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/2008-08/msg00000.html>.
** Fix compiler warnings.
** Update gnulib files.
** Update translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.9 (released 2008-07-01)
** idn: fix error message when NFKC fails, and some other translation fixes.
Reported by Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>.
** C# Libidn.dll: Work around bug that cause a failure during C# compilation.
See <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372483>.
** Remove more non-free text from doc/specifications/rfc3454.txt.
The remaining data tables are not copyrightable.
** Update gnulib files, and include gnulib self-tests.
** Update translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.8 (released 2008-04-23)
** Translations files not stored directly in git to avoid merge conflicts.
This allows us to avoid use of --no-location which makes the
translation teams happier.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.7 (released 2008-04-10)
** idn: new parameter --nfkc to process string with Unicode v3.2 NFKC.
** Minor build fix for native Win32 builds.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.6 (released 2008-03-19)
** Add native Windows Visual Studio project files.
Contributed by Adam Strzelecki <[email protected]>.
** Remove non-free portions of RFC 3454 in doc/specifications/rfc3454.txt.
** Update gnulib files.
** Doc fixes in IDNA to clarify that some functions operate on
** just one domain labels and some operate on domain name (which
** can contain several domain labels).
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.5 (released 2008-02-19)
** Don't include wchar.h in idn-int.h.
Fixes problems on uClibc systems which lack a wchar.h. Reported by
Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>, see
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libidn.general/118>.
** Added appendix 'On Label Separators' to the manual.
Thanks to Erik van der Poel <[email protected]> for bringing the issue
to our attention and for discussing the matter. See
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libidn.general/96>.
** Improved rendering of non-ASCII in the info manual.
Done by adding a @documentencoding UTF-8. This affect how the
examples are encoded, the files examples/*.c are now encoded using
UTF-8 instead of a mix of ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15.
** Fix non-portable use of brace expansion in makefiles.
** Update translations.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.4 (released 2008-01-09)
** Fixes to make the C# port compile under Mono.
** Update gnulib files.
** Improve idn --version and --help output to conform to GNU standards.
This also enables translations of --help output.
** Update translations.
Added Finish translation, thanks to Jorma Karvonen. Updated Dutch and
Vietnamese.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.3 (released 2007-12-11)
** Some hints on Windows installation in the manual.
** Update translations.
Added Czech translation, thanks to Petr Pisar.
** Use gettext 0.17.
** Update gnulib files.
Top-level gnulib files are now distributed under GPLv3+. (The gnulib
files used by the core library are still under LGPLv2.1+.)
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.2 (released 2007-10-01)
** Development git tree moved to savannah.
See <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libidn/>.
** Update gnulib files.
Including mono detection fixes.
** Update translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.1 (released 2007-09-01)
** Fix compilation error in idn-int.h.
The error would typically be 'error: no include path in which to
search for stdint.h'. Reported by Remko van der Vossen
<[email protected]>, see
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libidn.general/65> and
<http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13857>.
** Declare external variables with __declspec(import) for Windows.
Apparently this is required for variables in DLL's on Windows. This
is enabled if __DECLSPEC_SUPPORTED is defined (MinGW), or if _MSC_VER
and_DLL is defined (MSVC).
** Update gnulib files.
** Update translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 1.0 (released 2007-07-31)
** Command-line tools, examples, etc are now licensed under GPL version 3.
The library is still licensed under LGPL v2.1 for compatibility
reasons (it is included in glibc).
** Updated documentation as per license change.
** Update gnulib files.
** Update translations.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.14 (released 2007-05-31)
** Libidn is now developed using Git instead of CVS.
A public git mirror is available from
<http://repo.or.cz/w/libidn.git>. If you have pulled from this
repository before this release, you need to erase your clone because
it has been re-generated from scratch.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.13 (released 2007-05-31)
** Documentation fixes.
Clarify that the C# and Java libraries are licensed under the LGPL.
Earlier, some places incorrectly said that these were licensed under
the GPL. If you encounter other places that still suggest that GPL
applies to the C# and Java library, please let me know.
** Updated Polish and Vietnamese translations.
Thanks to Jakub Bogusz <[email protected]> and Clytie Siddall
** Install images for the manual in $infodir.
This fixes the broken image in the info manual. Image files will be
called libidn-*.png to avoid namespace collisions with images from
other info manuals.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.12 (released 2007-04-25)
** Use AM_JAVACFLAGS instead of JAVACFLAGS in java/misc/Makefile.am.
Reported by Petteri Räty <[email protected]>.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.11 (released 2007-03-13)
** Update of the C# Libidn port, by Alexander Gnauck.
The code has been refactored and the namespace has been modified to
comply with .NET naming conventions. An IDNA bug was fixed.
** Update gnulib files.
We now use the "striconv" module instead of the "iconvme", which
causes a slight increase of code size (from 303kb to 319kb with
debugging symbols on i386). The reason is the use of a new locale
independent strcasecmp, which may cause faster operation in some
locales where, e.g., "ASCII" and "ascii" are not treated as the same.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.10 (released 2007-01-04)
** Corrected year in copyright notices.
** Update gnulib files.
Including the code to convert strings between different encodings
(noted in case this introduces problems).
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.9 (released 2006-11-30)
** The Java code is fixed to properly translate any non-ASCII dot into '.'.
Reported and fixed by "Stephane Mikaty" <[email protected]>.
** Update gnulib files.
** Bump tool versions to autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10, and gettext 0.16.
** Old versions of iconv.m4, codeset.m4 and lib-link.m4 removed from m4/.
Modern versions are part of gnulib.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.8 (released 2006-10-18)
** The gnulib directory is separated into two directories.
One gnulib directory (lib/gl/) for the LGPL library in lib/, and one
gnulib directory (gl/) for the GPL tools in src/. This allows the
GPL'd tools to use more gnulib modules than before, since earlier all
gnulib files had to be LGPL.
** Update gnulib files.
** Some minor cleanups, like assuming locale.h and setlocale().
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.7 (released 2006-09-13)
** Fix build failure of idn-int.h on C99 platforms.
Reported by Paul Howarth <[email protected]>.
** The manual includes the GPL license, for the command-line tools.
** The function, variable and concept index is moved to the end of the manual.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.6 (released 2006-08-23)
** Instead of AX_CREATE_STDINT_H, use the stdint gnulib module, for idn-int.h.
This solves building on some HPPA systems. Note that the generated
idn-int.h is specific to the build environment that libidn was built
under, and is not generally usable by any other compiler (if any) on
the host. This was true before too.
** Update gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.5 (released 2006-06-07)
** Link the library with external libintl, for gettext.
This fixes building on FreeBSD, reported by Kirill Ponomarew
** Update doxygen config file to version 1.4.7.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.4 (released 2006-06-07)
** Fix translation of error messages.
Thanks to Joe Orton <[email protected]>.
** Fix warnings on 64-bit platforms.
Thanks to Joe Orton <[email protected]>.
** The tests are run under valgrind, if it is installed.
Use --disable-valgrind-tests to unconditionally disable this. It is
disabled by default for cross compiles.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.3 (released 2006-03-08)
** Fixes for the build environment.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.2 (released 2006-02-07)
** Fix objdir != srcdir builds for the Java documentation.
Thanks to Bernard Leak <[email protected]>.
** Update of gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.1 (released 2006-01-20)
** Make it possible to cross-compile to mingw32.
You can build Libidn for Windows by invoking `./configure
--host=i586-mingw32msvc' (or similar).
** Minor changes in how the C# code is built.
** Update of gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.6.0 (released 2005-12-03)
** A C# port of Libidn has been contributed by Alexander Gnauck.
The port resides in the csharp/ directory. Configure will build it if
a working C# compiler can be found. Mono's "mcs" compiler is known to
work (available in Debian in the "mono-mcs" package), but PNET's
"cscc" compiler should also work (available in Debian in the "pnet"
package). The port is licensed under the GPL. Some Microsoft Visual
Studio project files are also present in the csharp/ directory, which
may be useful when building the port under Windows. The C# API is
currently not documented, improvements are gratefully accepted.
** Support shared libraries on Cygwin and Mingw32, thanks to Yaakov S.
** Fix memory leak.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.20 (released 2005-10-23)
** The header file pr29.h is now installed by 'make install'.
** Translation updates.
** Update of gnulib files.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.19 (released 2005-09-19)
** The test for setlocale and nl_langinfo has now been separated.
The autoconf script now test for locale.h, setlocale and
nl_langinfo(CODESET) independently.
** Gnulib updates, fixes for getopt.
** Java manuals in doc/java/ are now generated by Gjdoc from GNU Classpath.
** Kaffe is used to link the pre-built libidn-*.jar file.
** Translation updates.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.18 (released 2005-07-16)
** The macro AX_CREATE_STDINT_H that is used to create idn-int.h
** has been updated.
** Fix use of 'head -1' in configure script (should be 'head -n -1'),
** thanks to Carsten Lohrke.
** Announce the help-libidn mailing list in documentation and README.
** Translation updates.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.17 (released 2005-05-26)
** The gnulib portability files were updated.
** The license template in files were updated with the new address.
** Translation updated.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.16 (released 2005-05-06)
** Mark static PR29 data tables as 'const', thanks to Joe Orton.
** Kinyarwanda translations added, thanks to Steve Murphy.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.15 (released 2005-03-19)
** Improvements to code to convert data between character sets.
The license template was changed to the LGPL, from the GPL template
that was mistakenly used in the previous two releases. Document here
that cleaning up this code has solved memory allocation and arithmetic
overflow problems.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.14 (released 2005-03-19)
** Building for srcdir != objdir from CVS now work, thanks to Linus Nordberg.
** Simplified Chinese translations added, thanks to Meng Jie.
** Vietnamese translation added, thanks to Clytie Siddall.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.13 (released 2005-01-29)
** The code to convert data between character encodings have been cleaned up.
The stringprep_convert function has been added to gnulib, under the
name iconv_string, and is now used by libidn. This should not have
any user-visible consequences, though.
** It is now possible to bootstrap with unmodified Automake installations.
** Italian translation added, thanks to Marco Colombo.
** Swedish translation updated.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.12 (released 2004-12-04)
** Java code now support the XMPP NodePrep and ResourcePrep profiles.
** Bug fixes and improvements to Java code.
The allowUnassigned flag is now respected properly. The prohibited
code points check now works. Arguments are now checked. Convenience
method with allowUnassigned set to false was added.
** Update getopt from gnulib.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.11 (released 2004-11-21)
** Fix formatting of man pages, based on warnings from Doclifter.
** Update of gnulib files to fix potential getopt problem on ELF systems.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.10 (released 2004-11-08)
** Libtool's -export-symbols-regex is now used to only export official APIs.
Before, applications might accidentally access internal functions.
Note that this is not supported on all platforms, so you must still
make sure you are not using undocumented symbols in Libidn.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.9 (released 2004-11-07)
** Align GTK-DOC build infrastructure with GTK-DOC official recommendations.
This mean that you can now browse the Libidn API manual using Devhelp.
** Update of gnulib files to fix potential problem in getopt on BSD.
** Documentation improvements.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.8 (released 2004-10-12)
** BidiMirroring-3.2.0.txt is now included, not only the generated source code.
This allow builds to succeed after 'make realclean'.
** Generated files now have consistent 'DO NOT EDIT!' comments.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.7 (released 2004-10-12)
** Shared library version incremented, because new APIs were added.
This was forgotten in the last release.
** French translation updated.
** Minor bug fixes.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.6 (released 2004-10-02)
** Added functions to convert return codes to human readable text.
** Now using GNULib in command line front end (src/) for portability code.
See <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/> for more information on
GNULib. This should make the code easier to read and maintain.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
idna_strerror: ADD.
pr29_strerror: ADD.
punycode_strerror: ADD.
stringprep_strerror: ADD.
tld_strerror: ADD.
TLD_NO_TLD: ADD. Replaces TLD_NOTLD.
TLD_NOTLD: DEPRECATED. Use TLD_NO_TLD instead.
* Version 0.5.5 (released 2004-09-13)
** Hide accidentally exported variable g_utf8_skip, by marking it as static.
** Various fixes.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
g_utf8_skip: REMOVED. (But never meant to be used.)
* Version 0.5.4 (released 2004-08-08)
** Translation updates.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
* Version 0.5.3 (released 2004-08-05)
** Fix crash in `idn --tld' command line tool.
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.