1 Libidn NEWS -- History of user-visible changes. -*- outline -*-
2 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Simon Josefsson
3 See the end for copying conditions.
5 * Version 0.1.12 (unreleased)
7 ** New stringprep API entry point: stringprep_profile().
8 It takes a name of the stringprep profile as an argument instead of
9 the stringprep table structure.
11 ** stringprep_*.h are deprecated and will be removed in the future.
12 All symbols have been moved to stringprep.h. The reasons are that (1)
13 the files typically only defined one CPP macro and exported a symbol
14 definition, which is wasteful as it generates too much work in the
15 manual, and (2) using one header file for all profiles allows easier
16 access to all stringprep profiles during runtime. Note that the files
17 are still installed, but they only #include stringprep.h now, for
18 backwards compatibility.
20 ** GNU Libc add-on build instructions updated to GNU Libc 2.3.2.
22 ** SASLprep stringprep profile added.
24 ** An online interface to libidn written in PHP added to contrib/web/.
26 ** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
28 * Version 0.1.11 (released 2003-02-26)
30 ** Command line application "idn" is included.
31 A simple wrapper around the library that allows you to invoke punycode
32 encoding/decoding and IDNA ToASCII/ToUnicode on the command line.
34 ** Emacs Lisp interface for punycode and IDNA included.
35 See punycode.el and idna.el.
37 ** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
39 * Version 0.1.10 (released 2003-02-21)
41 ** idna_*_to_ace() and idna_*ace_to_*() are deprecated in favor of
42 ** idna_to_ascii_from_*() and idna_to_unicode_*_from_*() respectively.
43 The reason was that the old interfaces did not accept the
44 AllowUnassigned and UseSTD3ASCIIRules flags. Note that the old
45 functions are not removed, but will be in the future.
47 ** IPS iSCSI stringprep profile added.
49 ** A new contrib/ directory added.
50 Currently it contains a Python interface to Libidn, contributed by
53 ** idna.h and punycode.h are now installed by "make install".
55 ** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
57 * Version 0.1.9 (released 2003-02-20)
59 ** SASL ANONYMOUS "plain" stringprep profile added.
61 ** XMPP nodeprep profile fixed.
63 ** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
64 For future releases, the NEWS entry will specifically mention whether
65 the C header API or library ABI backwards compatibility is affected.
67 * Version 0.1.8 (released 2003-02-14)
70 This includes not building the API Reference Manual with GTK-DOC by
71 default, if you want it use configure parameter --enable-gtk-doc after
72 making sure your gtkdoc-mkdb accept the --tmpl-dir parameter.
74 ** The type for string length variables is now (s)size_t.
75 Unfortunately this means binary shared library binary backwards
78 ** New nameprep test vectors.
80 * Version 0.1.7 (released 2003-02-12)
82 ** Uses official IDNA ACE prefix.
84 * Version 0.1.6 (released 2003-02-11)
86 ** Uses tentative IDNA ACE prefix.
88 ** Added XMPP Node/Resource Identifiers stringprep profiles.
90 ** Fixed prohibited character checks for bidi.
92 * Version 0.1.5 (released 2003-01-28)
94 ** The library can now be built as part of GNU Libc.
95 This is experimental and only tested against GNU Libc version 2.3.1.
96 See the libc/ directory, and libc/README in particular.
100 * Version 0.1.4 (released 2003-01-15)
102 ** Documentation fixes.
104 ** Portability fixes.
108 * Version 0.1.3 (released 2003-01-15)
110 ** Added texinfo manual.
112 * Version 0.1.2 (released 2003-01-08)
114 ** Added high-level IDNA API.
116 ** Added example3.c and example4.c demonstrating the high-level IDNA API.
118 * Version 0.1.1 (released 2003-01-08)
120 ** Added documentation using GTK-DOC.
122 ** The obsolete stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4_fast API entry point was removed.
123 By accident it was never removed in 0.1.0.
125 * Version 0.1.0 (released 2003-01-05)
127 ** Official GNU project.
129 ** Renamed from libstringprep to libidn.
131 ** Supports punycode and IDNA. Caveat emptor: I don't use it myself.
133 ** Uses "unsigned long" for Unicode code points instead of "long".
134 Long is guaranteed to be at least 32 bits by C standards so it is
135 always sufficiently large, no need to use uint32_t and the like.
137 ** The obsolete stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4_fast API entry point was removed.
139 * Version 0.0.8 (released 2002-12-13)
141 ** Portability fixes (now works under Cygwin on Windows 2000).
145 * Version 0.0.7 (released 2002-12-09)
147 ** Apply all tables to entire strings, not just first hit.
151 * Version 0.0.5 (released 2002-12-07)
153 ** Fix prohibited characters handling.
157 ** Renamed type (struct) stringprep_table_element to Stringprep_table_element.
159 ** Renamed type stringprep_profile to Stringprep_profile.
161 ** Renamed type (struct) stringprep_table to Stringprep_table.
163 ** Added more self-tests.
165 * Version 0.0.4 (released 2002-12-06)
167 ** Add unassigned code point handling, including self test cases.
169 ** Portability fixes.
171 * Version 0.0.3 (released 2002-11-30)
173 ** Exported utility function `stringprep_utf8_to_unichar', complementary
174 to existing `stringprep_unichar_to_utf8'.
176 ** Renamed `stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4_fast' to `stringprep_utf8_to_ucs4' to
177 clean up API. The old entry point is maintained for binary backwards
178 compatibility though.
180 ** The distribution is from now on signed using GnuPG.
184 * Version 0.0.2 (released 2002-11-07)
190 * Version 0.0.1 (released 2002-11-06)
192 ** Add utility functions stringprep_locale_charset(), stringprep_convert()
193 and stringprep_locale_to_utf8 () that can be used to convert text from
194 system's locale into UTF-8, which should be done before invoking
195 stringprep(). The functions requires iconv() in the operating system.
197 ** An example program (example.c) that illustrates how libstringprep can be
200 ** The pkg-config --libs output should now include necessary -R options.
202 * Version 0.0.0 (released 2002-11-05)
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