Version history

Libucl 0.5

• Streamline emitter has been added, so it is now possible to output partial ucl objects
• Emitter now is more flexible due to emitter_context structure

0.5.1

• Fixed number of bugs and memory leaks

0.5.2

• Allow userdata objects to be emitted and destructed
• Use userdata objects to store lua function references

Libucl 0.6

• Reworked macro interface

Libucl 0.6.1

• Various utilities fixes

Libucl 0.7.0

• Move to klib library from uthash to reduce memory overhead and increase performance

Libucl 0.7.1

• Added safe iterators API

Libucl 0.7.2

• Fixed serious bugs in schema and arrays iteration

Libucl 0.7.3

• Fixed a bug with macros that come after an empty object
• Fixed a bug in include processing when an incorrect variable has been destroyed (use-after-free)

Libucl 0.8.0

• Allow to save comments and macros when parsing UCL documents
• C++ API
• Python bindings (by Eitan Adler)
• Add msgpack support for parser and emitter
• Add Canonical S-expressions parser for libucl
• CLI interface for parsing and validation (by Maxim Ignatenko)
• Implement include with priority
• Add 'nested' functionality to .include macro (by Allan Jude)
• Allow searching an array of paths for includes (by Allan Jude)
• Add new .load macro (by Allan Jude)
• Implement .inherit macro (#100)
• Add merge strategies
• Add schema validation to lua API
• Add support for external references to schema validation
• Add coveralls integration to libucl
• Implement tests for 80% of libucl code lines
• Fix tonns of minor and major bugs
• Improve documentation
• Rework function names to the common conventions (old names are preserved for backwards compatibility)
• Add Coverity scan integration
• Add fuzz tests

Incompatible changes:

• ucl_object_emit_full now accepts additional argument comments that could be used to emit comments with UCL output

Libucl 0.8.1

• Create ucl_parser_add_file_full() to be able to specify merge mode and parser type (by Allan Jude)
• C++ wrapper improvements (by @ftilde)
• C++ wrapper: add convenience method at() and lookup() (by Yonghee Kim)
• C++ wrapper: add assignment operator to Ucl class (by Yonghee Kim)
• C++ wrapper: support variables in parser (by Yonghee Kim)
• C++ wrapper: refactoring C++ interface (by Yonghee Kim):
  • use auto variables (if possible)
  • remove dangling expressions
  • use std::set::emplace instead of std::set::insert
  • not use std::move in return statement; considering copy elision
• C++ wrapper: fix compilation error and warnings (by Zhe Wang)
• C++ wrapper: fix iteration over objects in which the first value is false (by Zhe Wang)
• C++ wrapper: Macro helper functions (by Chris Meacham)
• C++ wrapper: Changing the duplicate strategy in the C++ API (by Chris Meacham)
• C++ wrapper: Added access functions for the size of a UCL_ARRAY (by Chris Meacham)
• Fix caseless comparison
• Fix include when EPERM is issued
• Fix Windows build
• Allow to reserve space in arrays and hashes
• Fix bug with including of empty files
• Move to mum_hash from xxhash
• Fix msgpack on non-x86
• python: Add support to Python 3 (by Denis Volpato Martins)
• python: Add support for Python 2.6 tests (by Denis Volpato Martins)
• python: Implement validation function and tests (by Denis Volpato Martins)
• python: Added UCL_NULL handling and tests (by Denis Volpato Martins)
• Fix schema validation for patternProperties with object data (by Denis Volpato Martins)
• Remove the dependency on NBBY, add missing <strings.h> include (by Ed Schouten)
• Allow to emit msgpack from Lua
• Performance improvements in Lua API
• Allow to pass opaque objects in Lua API for transparent C passthrough
• Various bugs fixed
• Couple of memory leaks plugged