Pike

Support for Nettle 2.0 was added. Timezone data was updated to 2009j. Some potential NULL-dereferences and memory leaks were fixed. Start up time was reduced. Some operations were optimized for the case of single element arrays and strings. Various minor bugs were fixed.

Several bugs with hard to track down failure modes were fixed. Protocols.IPv6 was added. Filesystem.Tar was improved. Improved performance on Mac OS X. Fully transparent support for Unicode was added for the PostgreSQL driver. Several minor memory leaks, mainly in the Image module, were plugged. Updated timezone data. Many minor bugs were fixed.

Support for Unicode was improved (5.1.0). Support for getters and setters was added. The type system was improved in multiple ways. Support for having multiple concurrent backend implementations was added. The symbol __func__ was added. Support for IPv6 was improved. The compiler was refactored to be more object-oriented. Many other fixes and changes.

Fixes and enhancements were made for: machine code
on Darwin IA32, optimization, -t on Win32, big
endian 64-bit, 64-bit file operations, bytecode,
multisets, program encoding, describe_value, array
growth policy, timezone data files (including the
recent US DST change), Calendar.Time.format_smtp,
Calendar.Events, mktime, Sql.Sql,
Mysql.set_charset, ODBC, UnixODBC, Gmp,
Standards.IIM, Image.Image, Image.Dims, Image.PS,
little endian TIFFs, GL, SSL, HTTP header parser,
Protocols.HTTP.Query and .async_close,
Protocols.DNS, Parser.XML.Validating, Shuffler,
Cache, Valgrind support, and many build related
issues.

Several HTTP and SSL issues were fixed. A rare PNG
decoding error was fixed. Support for Postgres was
improved. Diagnostics were improved. Support for
VC8 and Darwin/x86 was fixed.