New stable release: 8.0.240

The 3rd stable release of Pike 8.0 is now available: 8.0.240.

There is no major critical bugs fixed, but there is a fair amount of
polishing and a recommended upgrade. New for this release is a MacOSX
binary build. Please note that the Mac build is a executable installer
that requires gmp and nettle from macports to run though.

Source:

    http://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.240/Pike-v8.0.240.tar.gz

Other builds:

    http://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.240/Pike-v8.0.240-Darwin-15.4.0-x86_64-macports
    http://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.240/Pike-v8.0.240-win32-oldlibs.msi


Changes since Pike 8.0.182 (release 2)
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New features
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o Roxen.http_decode_string() now decodes UTF-16 surrogate pairs.

o Protocols.HTTP.Query now always sends a content-length header.

o Report feature flags for System.FSEvents and System.Inotify.

o Updated Calendar to use timezonedata from tzdata2016c

o Added module Apple.Keychain that can extract certificates.

o Made Standards.X509 aware of more OS specific ways of retriving certificates.

o JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption)

  Some low-level API support has been added to the Crypto and Web
  modules to support parts of RFC 7515 - 7520.


Bug fixes
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o The machine code generator on ia32 now aligns the stack
  on a 16 byte boundary. This makes it possible to call
  code that uses SSE2 instructions.

o Exceptions thrown in GTK signal handlers no longer cause
  segfaults.

o The SSL client code now interprets the RFCs more leniently to
  address some interoperability issues.

o Fixed bugs in cipher selection that prevented null-ciphers from
  being negotiated by the SSL server (if allowed by the Context
  object).

o Multiple fixes for the handling of accelerated
  Filesystem.Monitor monitors, which could sometimes
  lose notifications.

o Improved handling of response content-length in Protocols.HTTP.Query.

o Fixed case where unfinished programs could lose their parents.

o Fixed "Invalid service"-error from connect() on Fedora Core 4.

o Fixed next_result() in Sql.sql_array_result.

o Fixed sizeof() in Array.Iterator, Multiset.Iterator and
  String.Iterator.


Testing
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o Reduced the memory requirements of Tools.Shoot (pike -x benchmark)


Building and installing
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o Multiple fixes for building on Solaris.

o Improved scanning for Odbc header files.

o Fixed some issues with --with-abi flags not propagating
  correctly to the modules.

-- 
Peter Bortas