Pike 8.0 release 6

Peter Bortas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.pike.devel,gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
Message-ID <CA+NK+AC-mBn_7i0KQRptAFQiznbTT_iP5PZwJs_RkYcWij6sqw@mail.gmail.com>
Pike 8.0 release 6 (build 8.0.370) is now out.

Source:

    https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.370/Pike-v8.0.370.tar.gz

Other builds:

    https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.370/Pike-v8.0.370-Darwin-15.4.0-x86_64-macports
    https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.370/Pike-v8.0.370-win32-oldlibs.msi



Changes since Pike 8.0.358 (release 5)
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New features
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o Calendar

  Updated Calendar to use timezonedata from tzdata2016j.

o Nettle

  Added version().

o Refdoc

  Updated to new Pike site layout.

Bug fixes
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o JSON

  Fixed a bug in the unicode handling of Standards.JSON.decode(), which
  treated codepoints slightly below the surrogate range as invalid.

o pike -x pmar_install

  Works again and properly verifies PMAR checksums.

o ::_indices(), ::_values(), ::_types(), ::`->(), ::`->=()

  Fixed several argument checking bugs in the magic_* functions.

o Fixed some bugs in the pmar installer.

o Msql

  Fixed some compilation issues.

o Sql.pgsql

  Fixed broken reconnect behaviour when the database connection dies.

Runtime
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o Added workaround for incompatibility in MS Windows 10's Linux
  emulation layer.

Regards,
-- 
Peter Bortas
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