12.4.0: Available processors

Features

• Cleaned up code base by standardizing API doc references - @thekid
• Merged PR #350: Add Environment::availableProcessors() - @thekid

12.3.0: Bytes handling

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue #348: Class "rt.script.php" could not be found - @thekid

Features

• Improved util.UUID constructor performance when passed util.Bytes
  (@thekid)
• Changed util.Bytes constructor to accept zero or more chunks, each of
  which may be string[], int[], string or util.Bytes, from which
  the underlying byte buffer will be concatenated. Improved performance
  while refactoring.
  (@thekid)

12.2.0: Date and timezone enhancements

Bugfixes

• Fixed Implicitly marking parameter $prompt as nullable is deprecated
  warnings in util.cmd.Console class with PHP 8.4, fixing #346.
  (@thekid)

Features

• Merged PR #347: Accept strings or util.TimeZone instances - implementing
  the be liberal in what you accept-paradigm in the util.Date class
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #345: Support passing floating point numbers to constructor,
  setting microseconds for util.Date instances.
  (@thekid)

12.1.0: I/O buffer, async stream transfer

Features

• Merged PR #344: Add io.streams.StreamTransfer::transmit() which yields
  control after each chunk
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #343: Implement a limited in-memory buffer with filesystem
  overflow: io.streams.Buffer. See also xp-forge/web#118
  (@thekid)

12.0.1: Explicitely nullable fix

Bugfixes

• Fixed lang.ClassLoader::defineType() to generate correctly typed
  method forwards for methods with explicitely nullable types.
  (@thekid)

12.0.0: PHP 8 semantics

This major release adopts more PHP 8 semantics, getting rid of the XP annotation syntax with @ and deprecating implicitely nullable types. This is the last major release to support PHP 7, and only does so for its newest version.

Heads up!

• Removed deprecated Mersenne Twister algorithm from util.Random, see
  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_3#global_mersenne_twister
  (@thekid)
• Removed the deprecated resolve() method from lang.Process. Use
  lang.CommandLine::resolve() instead!
  (@thekid)
• Removed Proxy and InvocationHandler from the lang.reflect package,
  and AbstractDeferredInvokationHandler from util. See PR #341
  (@thekid)

RFCs

• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#342: Extract compression streams, removing
  the implementing classes from io.streams. See PR #342.
  (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#336, part 2: Remove XP annotations syntax,
  which was deprecated in XP 11, released October 2021. See PR #340.
  (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#343, part 1: Drop support for all but the
  latest PHP 7 release. The minimum required PHP version is now 7.4!
  (@thekid)

Features

• Synchronized mime types list with most recent jshttp/mime-db - @thekid
• Merged PR #338: Set default character set for property files to utf-8
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue #336: Deprecate implicitly nullable parameter types, following
  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-implicitly-nullable-types
  (@thekid)

11.9.0: Implicitly nullable parameter types

Features

• Removed PHP 5 specific exception handling from lang.Throwable::wrap()
  (@thekid)
• Suppressed implicitly nullable parameter types deprecation warning as
  there is no way of fixing these syntactically as long as we support
  PHP 7.0. See issue #336 and xp-framework/rfc#343
  (@thekid)

11.8.3: Symlink fix

Bugfixes

• Merged PR #335: Fix removing directories with symlinks inside - @thekid

11.8.2: Meta cache consistency fix

Bugfixes

• Merged PR #334: Store original attribute names in DETAIL_TARGET_ANNO.
  This fixes a problem when using old and new reflection libraries in
  conjunction
  (@thekid)

11.8.1: Autoloader fix

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue #333: Class "lang\ClassLoader" not found - @thekid