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1 This file contains a brief overview of the changes made in each release. 2 A detailed description of changes are available in the CHANGES.current 3 and CHANGES files. 4 5 Release Notes 6 ============= 7 Detailed release notes are available with the release and are also 8 published on the SWIG web site at https://swig.org/release.html. 9 10 SWIG-4.1.1 summary: 11 - Couple of stability fixes. 12 - Stability fix in ccache-swig when calculating hashes of inputs. 13 - Some template handling improvements. 14 - R - minor fixes plus deprecation for rtypecheck typemaps being optional. 15 16 SWIG-4.1.0 summary: 17 - Add Javascript Node v12-v18 support, remove support prior to v6. 18 - Octave 6.0 to 6.4 support added. 19 - Add PHP 8 support. 20 - PHP wrapping is now done entirely via PHP's C API - no more .php wrapper. 21 - Perl 5.8.0 is now the oldest version SWIG supports. 22 - Python 3.3 is now the oldest Python 3 version SWIG supports. 23 - Python 3.9-3.11 support added. 24 - Various memory leak fixes in Python generated code. 25 - Scilab 5.5-6.1 support improved. 26 - Many improvements for each and every target language. 27 - Various preprocessor expression handling improvements. 28 - Improved C99, C++11, C++14, C++17 support. Start adding C++20 standard. 29 - Make SWIG much more move semantics friendly. 30 - Add C++ std::unique_ptr support. 31 - Few minor C++ template handling improvements. 32 - Various C++ using declaration fixes. 33 - Few fixes for handling Doxygen comments. 34 - GitHub Actions is now used instead of Travis CI for continuous integration. 35 - Add building SWIG using CMake as a secondary build system. 36 - Update optional SWIG build dependency for regex support from PCRE to PCRE2. 37 38 SWIG-4.0.2 summary: 39 - A few fixes around doxygen comment handling. 40 - Ruby 2.7 support added. 41 - Various minor improvements to C#, D, Java, OCaml, Octave, Python, 42 R, Ruby. 43 - Considerable performance improvement running SWIG on large 44 interface files. 45 46 SWIG-4.0.1 summary: 47 - SWIG now cleans up on error by removing all generated files. 48 - Add Python 3.8 support. 49 - Python Sphinx compatibility added for Doxygen comments. 50 - Some minor regressions introduced in 4.0.0 were fixed. 51 - Fix some C++17 compatibility problems in Python and Ruby generated 52 code. 53 - Minor improvements/fixes for C#, Java, Javascript, Lua, MzScheme, 54 Ocaml, Octave and Python. 55 56 SWIG-4.0.0 summary: 57 - Support for Doxygen documentation comments which are parsed and 58 converted into JavaDoc or PyDoc comments. 59 - STL wrappers improved for C#, Java and Ruby. 60 - C++11 STL containers added for Java, Python and Ruby. 61 - Improved support for parsing C++11 and C++14 code. 62 - Various fixes for shared_ptr. 63 - Various C preprocessor corner case fixes. 64 - Corner case fixes for member function pointers. 65 - Python module overhaul by simplifying the generated code and turning 66 most optimizations on by default. 67 - %template improvements wrt scoping to align with C++ explicit 68 template instantiations. 69 - Added support for a command-line options file (sometimes called a 70 response file). 71 - Numerous enhancements and fixes for all supported target languages. 72 - SWIG now classifies the status of target languages into either 73 'Experimental' or 'Supported' to indicate the expected maturity 74 level. 75 - Support for CFFI, Allegrocl, Chicken, CLISP, S-EXP, UFFI, Pike, 76 Modula3 has been removed. 77 - Octave 4.4-5.1 support added. 78 - PHP5 support removed, PHP7 is now the supported PHP version. 79 - Minimum Python version required is now 2.7, 3.2-3.7 are the only 80 other versions supported. 81 - Added support for Javascript NodeJS versions 2-10. 82 - OCaml support is much improved and updated, minimum OCaml version 83 required is now 3.12.0. 84 85 SWIG-3.0.12 summary: 86 - Add support for Octave-4.2. 87 - Enhance %extend to support template functions. 88 - Language specific enhancements and fixes for C#, D, Guile, Java, PHP7. 89 90 SWIG-3.0.11 summary: 91 - PHP 7 support added. 92 - C++11 alias templates and type aliasing support added. 93 - Minor fixes and enhancements for C# Go Guile Java Javascript Octave 94 PHP Python R Ruby Scilab XML. 95 96 SWIG-3.0.10 summary: 97 - Regression fixes for smart pointers and importing Python modules. 98 99 SWIG-3.0.9 summary: 100 - Add support for Python's implicit namespace packages. 101 - Fixes to support Go 1.6. 102 - C++11 std::array support added for Java. 103 - Improved C++ multiple inheritance support for Java/C# wrappers. 104 - Various other minor fixes and improvements for C#, D, Go, Java, 105 Javascript, Lua, Python, R, Ruby, Scilab. 106 107 SWIG-3.0.8 summary: 108 - pdf documentation enhancements. 109 - Various Python 3.5 issues fixed. 110 - std::array support added for Ruby and Python. 111 - shared_ptr support added for Ruby. 112 - Minor improvements for CFFI, Go, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby. 113 114 SWIG-3.0.7 summary: 115 - Add support for Octave-4.0.0. 116 - Remove potential Android security exploit in generated Java classes. 117 - Minor new features and bug fixes. 118 119 SWIG-3.0.6 summary: 120 - Stability and regression fixes. 121 - Fixed parsing of C++ corner cases. 122 - Language improvements and bug fixes for C#, Go, Java, Lua, Python, R. 123 124 SWIG-3.0.5 summary: 125 - Added support for Scilab. 126 - Important Python regression fix when wrapping C++ default arguments. 127 - Minor improvements for C#, Go, Octave, PHP and Python. 128 129 SWIG-3.0.4 summary: 130 - Python regression fix when wrapping C++ default arguments. 131 - Improved error messages. 132 133 SWIG-3.0.3 summary: 134 - Add support for C++11 strongly typed enumerations. 135 - Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements for C#, D, Go, Java, 136 Javascript, PHP, Perl and Python wrappers. 137 138 SWIG-3.0.2 summary: 139 - Bug fix during install and a couple of other minor changes. 140 141 SWIG-3.0.1 summary: 142 - Javascript module added. This supports JavascriptCore (Safari/Webkit), 143 v8 (Chromium) and node.js currently. 144 - A few notable regressions introduced in 3.0.0 have been fixed - in 145 Lua, nested classes and parsing of operator <<. 146 - The usual round of bug fixes and minor improvements for: 147 C#, GCJ, Go, Java, Lua, PHP and Python. 148 149 SWIG-3.0.0 summary: 150 - This is a major new release focusing primarily on C++ improvements. 151 - C++11 support added. Please see documentation for details of supported 152 features: https://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/CPlusPlus11.html 153 - Nested class support added. This has been taken full advantage of in 154 Java and C#. Other languages can use the nested classes, but require 155 further work for a more natural integration into the target language. 156 We urge folk knowledgeable in the other target languages to step 157 forward and help with this effort. 158 - Lua: improved metatables and support for %nspace. 159 - Go 1.3 support added. 160 - Python import improvements including relative imports. 161 - Python 3.3 support completed. 162 - Perl director support added. 163 - C# .NET 2 support is now the minimum. Generated using statements are 164 replaced by fully qualified names. 165 - Bug fixes and improvements to the following languages: 166 C#, Go, Guile, Java, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Octave, R, Ruby, Tcl 167 - Various other bug fixes and improvements affecting all languages. 168 - Note that this release contains some backwards incompatible changes 169 in some languages. 170 - Full detailed release notes are in the changes file. 171 172 SWIG-2.0.12 summary: 173 - This is a maintenance release backporting some fixes from the pending 174 3.0.0 release. 175 - Octave 3.8 support added. 176 - C++11 support for new versions of erase/insert in the STL containers. 177 - Compilation fixes on some systems for the generated Lua, PHP, Python 178 and R wrappers. 179 180 SWIG-2.0.11 summary: 181 - Minor bug fixes and enhancements mostly in Python, but also 182 C#, Lua, Ocaml, Octave, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl. 183 184 SWIG-2.0.10 summary: 185 - Ruby 1.9 support is now complete. 186 - Add support for Guile 2.0 and Guile 1.6 support (GH interface) has 187 been dropped. 188 - Various small language neutral improvements and fixes. 189 - Various bug fixes and minor improvements specific to C#, CFFI, D, 190 Java, Octave, PHP, Python, 191 - Minor bug fix in ccache-swig. 192 - Development has moved to Github with Travis continuous integration 193 testing - patches using https://github.com/swig/swig are welcome. 194 195 SWIG-2.0.9 summary: 196 - Improved typemap matching. 197 - Ruby 1.9 support is much improved. 198 - Various bug fixes and minor improvements in C#, CFFI, Go, Java, 199 Modula3, Octave, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl and in ccache-swig. 200 201 SWIG-2.0.8 summary: 202 - Fix a couple of regressions introduced in 2.0.5 and 2.0.7. 203 - Improved using declarations and using directives support. 204 - Minor fixes/enhancements for C#, Java, Octave, Perl and Python. 205 206 SWIG-2.0.7 summary: 207 - Important regression fixes since 2.0.5 for typemaps in general and 208 in Python. 209 - Fixes and enhancements for Go, Java, Octave and PHP. 210 211 SWIG-2.0.6 summary: 212 - Regression fix for Python STL wrappers on some systems. 213 214 SWIG-2.0.5 summary: 215 - Official Android support added including documentation and examples. 216 - Improvements involving templates: 217 1) Various fixes with templates and typedef types. 218 2) Some template lookup problems fixed. 219 3) Templated type fixes to use correct typemaps. 220 - Autodoc documentation generation improvements. 221 - Python STL container wrappers improvements including addition of 222 stepped slicing. 223 - Approximately 70 fixes and minor enhancements for the following 224 target languages: AllegroCL, C#, D, Go, Java, Lua, Ocaml, Octave, 225 Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, Xml. 226 227 SWIG-2.0.4 summary: 228 - This is mainly a Python oriented release including support for Python 229 built-in types for superior performance with the new -builtin option. 230 The -builtin option is especially suitable for performance-critical 231 libraries and applications that call wrapped methods repeatedly. 232 See the python-specific chapter of the SWIG manual for more info. 233 - Python 3.2 support has also been added and various Python bugs have 234 been fixed. 235 - Octave 3.4 support has also been added. 236 - There are also the usual minor generic improvements, as well as bug 237 fixes and enhancements for D, Guile, Lua, Octave, Perl and Tcl. 238 239 SWIG-2.0.3 summary: 240 - A bug fix release including a couple of fixes for regressions in the 241 2.0 series. 242 243 SWIG-2.0.2 summary: 244 - Support for the D language has been added. 245 - Various bug fixes and minor enhancements. 246 - Bug fixes particular to the Clisp, C#, Go, MzScheme, Ocaml, PHP, R, 247 Ruby target languages. 248 249 SWIG-2.0.1 summary: 250 - Support for the Go language has been added. 251 - New regular expression (regex) encoder for renaming symbols based on 252 the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library. 253 - Numerous fixes in reporting file and line numbers in error and warning 254 messages. 255 - Various bug fixes and improvements in the C#, Lua, Perl, PHP, Ruby 256 and Python language modules. 257 258 SWIG-2.0.0 summary: 259 - License changes, see LICENSE file and https://www.swig.org/legal.html. 260 - Much better nested class/struct support. 261 - Much improved template partial specialization and explicit 262 specialization handling. 263 - Namespace support improved with the 'nspace' feature where namespaces 264 can be automatically translated into Java packages or C# namespaces. 265 - Improved typemap and symbol table debugging. 266 - Numerous subtle typemap matching rule changes when using the default 267 (SWIGTYPE) type. These now work much like C++ class template partial 268 specialization matching. 269 - Other small enhancements for typemaps. Typemap fragments are also now 270 official and documented. 271 - Warning and error display refinements. 272 - Wrapping of shared_ptr is improved and documented now. 273 - Numerous C++ unary scope operator (::) fixes. 274 - Better support for boolean expressions. 275 - Various bug fixes and improvements in the Allegrocl, C#, Java, Lua, 276 Octave, PHP, Python, R, Ruby and XML modules. 277 278 SWIG-1.3.40 summary: 279 - SWIG now supports directors for PHP. 280 - PHP support improved in general. 281 - Octave 3.2 support added. 282 - Various bug fixes/enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, Java, Octave, Perl, 283 Python, Ruby and Tcl. 284 - Other generic fixes and minor new features. 285 286 SWIG-1.3.39 summary: 287 - Some new small feature enhancements. 288 - Improved C# std::vector wrappers. 289 - Bug fixes: mainly Python, but also Perl, MzScheme, CFFI, Allegrocl 290 and Ruby 291 292 SWIG-1.3.38 summary: 293 - Output directory regression fix and other minor bug fixes 294 295 SWIG-1.3.37 summary: 296 - Python 3 support added 297 - SWIG now ships with a version of ccache that can be used with SWIG. 298 This enables the files generated by SWIG to be cached so that repeated 299 use of SWIG on unchanged input files speeds up builds quite considerably. 300 - PHP 4 support removed and PHP support improved in general 301 - Improved C# array support 302 - Numerous Allegro CL improvements 303 - Bug fixes/enhancements for Python, PHP, Java, C#, Chicken, Allegro CL, 304 CFFI, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, R, Lua. 305 - Other minor generic bug fixes and enhancements 306 307 SWIG-1.3.36 summary: 308 - Enhancement to directors to wrap all protected members 309 - Optimisation feature for objects returned by value 310 - A few bugs fixes in the PHP, Java, Ruby, R, C#, Python, Lua and 311 Perl modules 312 - Other minor generic bug fixes 313 314 SWIG-1.3.35 summary: 315 - Octave language module added 316 - Bug fixes in Python, Lua, Java, C#, Perl modules 317 - A few other generic bugs and runtime assertions fixed 318 319 SWIG-1.3.34 summary: 320 - shared_ptr support for Python 321 - Support for latest R - version 2.6 322 - Various minor improvements/bug fixes for R, Lua, Python, Java, C# 323 - A few other generic bug fixes, mainly for templates and using statements 324 325 SWIG-1.3.33 summary: 326 - Fix regression for Perl where C++ wrappers would not compile 327 - Fix regression parsing macros 328 329 SWIG-1.3.32 summary: 330 - shared_ptr support for Java and C# 331 - Enhanced STL support for Ruby 332 - Windows support for R 333 - Fixed long-standing memory leak in PHP Module 334 - Numerous fixes and minor enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, cffi, Chicken, Guile, 335 Java, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl. 336 - Improved warning support 337 338 SWIG-1.3.31 summary: 339 - Python modern classes regression fix 340 341 SWIG-1.3.30 summary: 342 - Python-2.5 support 343 - New language module: R 344 - Director support added for C# 345 - Numerous director fixes and improvements 346 - Improved mingw/msys support 347 - Better constants support in Guile and chicken modules 348 - Support for generating PHP5 class wrappers 349 - Important Java premature garbage collection fix 350 - Minor improvements/fixes in cffi, php, allegrocl, perl, chicken, lua, ruby, 351 ocaml, python, java, c# and guile language modules 352 - Many many other bug fixes 353 354 SWIG-1.3.29 summary: 355 - Numerous important bug fixes 356 - Few minor new features 357 - Some performance improvements in generated code for Python 358 359 SWIG-1.3.28 summary: 360 - More powerful renaming (%rename) capability. 361 - More user friendly warning handling. 362 - Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage 363 the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disables both constructors and 364 destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor' 365 and/or 'nodefaultdtor'. 366 - Automatic copy constructor wrapper generation via the 'copyctor' option/feature. 367 - Better handling of Windows extensions and types. 368 - Better runtime error reporting. 369 - Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions. 370 - Add the %naturalvar directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping. 371 - Better default handling of std::string variables using the %naturalvar directive. 372 - Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when 373 accessing a variable. 374 - Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors. 375 - Add the -fastdispatch option to enable smaller and faster overload dispatch 376 mechanism. 377 - Template support for %rename, %feature and %typemap improved. 378 - Add/doc more debug options, such as -dump_module, -debug_typemaps, etc. 379 - Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all 380 scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps. 381 - New language module: Common Lisp with CFFI. 382 - Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL, many old reported and hidden 383 errors with typemaps are now fixed. 384 - Initial Java support for languages using the UTL via GCJ, you can now use 385 Java libraries in your favorite script language using gcj + swig. 386 - Tcl support for std::wstring. 387 - PHP4 module update, many error fixes and actively maintained again. 388 - Allegrocl support for C++, also enhanced C support. 389 - Ruby support for bang methods. 390 - Ruby support for user classes as native exceptions. 391 - Perl improved dispatching in overloaded functions via the new cast and rank 392 mechanism. 393 - Perl improved backward compatibility, 5.004 and later tested and working. 394 - Python improved backward compatibility, 1.5.2 and later tested and working. 395 - Python can use the same cast/rank mechanism via the -castmode option. 396 - Python implicit conversion mechanism similar to C++, via the %implicitconv 397 directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library). 398 - Python threading support added. 399 - Python STL support improved, iterators are supported and STL containers can 400 use now the native PyObject type. 401 - Python many performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test 402 all of them. Python runtime benchmarks show up to 20 times better performance 403 compared to 1.3.27 and older versions. 404 - Python support for 'multi-inheritance' on the python side. 405 - Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the 406 additional 'ClassPtr' classes. 407 - Python extended support for smart pointers. 408 - Python better support for static member variables. 409 - Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work 410 only with swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28 411 - Python test-suite is now 'valgrinded' before release, and swig also 412 reports memory leaks due to missing destructors. 413 - Minor bug fixes and improvements to the Lua, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Guile, 414 Chicken, Tcl and Perl modules. 415 416 SWIG-1.3.27 summary: 417 - Fix bug in anonymous typedef structures which was leading to strange behaviour 418 419 SWIG-1.3.26 summary: 420 - New language modules: Lua, CLISP and Common Lisp with UFFI. 421 - Big overhaul to the PHP module. 422 - Change to the way 'extern' is handled. 423 - Minor bug fixes specific to C#, Java, Modula3, Ocaml, Allegro CL, 424 XML, Lisp s-expressions, Tcl, Ruby and Python modules. 425 - Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 426 427 SWIG-1.3.25 summary: 428 - Improved runtime type system. Speed of module loading improved in 429 modules with lots of types. SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION has been increased 430 from 1 to 2, but the API is exactly the same; only internal changes 431 were made. 432 - The languages that use the runtime type system now support external 433 access to the runtime type system. 434 - Various improvements with typemaps and template handling. 435 - Fewer warnings in generated code. 436 - Improved colour documentation. 437 - Many C# module improvements (exception handling, prevention of early 438 garbage collection, C# attributes support added, more flexible type 439 marshalling/asymmetric types.) 440 - Minor improvements and bug fixes specific to the C#, Java, TCL, Guile, 441 Chicken, MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and Ocaml modules). 442 - Various other bug fixes and memory leak fixes. 443 444 SWIG-1.3.24 summary: 445 - Improved enum handling 446 - More runtime library options 447 - More bugs fixes for templates and template default arguments, directors 448 and other areas. 449 - Better smart pointer support, including data members, static members 450 and %extend. 451 452 SWIG-1.3.23 summary: 453 - Improved support for callbacks 454 - Python docstring support and better error handling 455 - C++ default argument support for Java and C# added. 456 - Improved c++ default argument support for the scripting languages plus 457 option to use original (compact) default arguments. 458 - %feature and %ignore/%rename bug fixes and mods - they might need default 459 arguments specified to maintain compatible behaviour when using the new 460 default arguments wrapping. 461 - Runtime library changes: Runtime code can now exist in more than one module 462 and so need not be compiled into just one module 463 - Further improved support for templates and namespaces 464 - Overloaded templated function support added 465 - More powerful default typemaps (mixed default typemaps) 466 - Some important %extend and director code bug fixes 467 - Guile now defaults to using SCM API. The old interface can be obtained by 468 the -gh option. 469 - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, 470 MzScheme, Perl, Python and Ruby 471 - Improved dependencies generation for constructing Makefiles. 472 473 SWIG-1.3.22 summary: 474 - Improved exception handling and translation of C errors or C++ 475 exceptions into target language exceptions. 476 - Improved enum support, mapping to built-in Java 1.5 enums and C# 477 enums or the typesafe enum pattern for these two languages. 478 - Python - much better STL support and support for std::wstring, 479 wchar_t and FILE *. 480 - Initial support for Modula3 and Allegro CL. 481 - 64 bit TCL support. 482 - Java and C#'s proxy classes are now nearly 100% generated from 483 typemaps and/or features for finer control on the generated code. 484 - SWIG runtime library support deprecation. 485 - Improved documentation. SWIG now additionally provides documentation 486 in the form of a single HTML page as well as a pdf document. 487 - Enhanced C++ friend declaration support. 488 - Better support for reference counted classes. 489 - Various %fragment improvements. 490 - RPM fixes. 491 - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, 492 MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and XML. 493 494