Release notes

19.0.0 released Nov 08, 2023

Release notes

Release notes (prior to version 9 were internal builds):

2023-11-08
Vely release notes for 19.0.0
- Notes: Vely 19 brings major new feature: balanced binary (AVL/B) memory trees, which enable fast data access even in very large data sets (with O(log N)). Tree support includes inserting, updating, deleting and searching of data in a variety of ways (equal, lesser, greater, lesser or equal, greater or equal, minimum, maximum), and also provides a fast (with O(1)) access for range-searches due to a double-linked sorted list (optional). Also included is cursor support, where searching of lesser or greater keys can be done with best possible performance, something that is important for range searches. Additionally, new "process-scope" clause is added for trees and hashes, which makes it easier to build in-memory key servers that allow for a wide range of capabilities. do-once statement is added to allow for simple execution of code that runs only once in a process, such as initializations and creation of structures such as trees or hashes etc. The only change that forced bumping up version to 19 is that num-string no longer allows fixed buffers as a result, but rather always allocates memory, which was done to make this statement the same as a number of similar others and to improve safety. A convenience of not having to write "include vely.h" has been added, as Vely will do that automatically. Improvements have been made to memory handling, reducing the memory usage. A number of bug fixes is included in this release. Full list of changes below.
- Minor: added AVL/B memory tree statements: new-tree, write-tree, read-tree, delete-tree, purge-tree, get-tree, as well as tree cursor statement use-cursor.
- Minor: added process-scoped memory for hash and tree statements, allowing easy creation of hash and tree servers.
- Release: improved error reporting to emit a proper error when statement object is not specified.
- Release: added mechanisms for easier handling of deprecated features in the future.
- Major: num-string now always allocates memory, in order to be consistent with other similar features and prevent accidental buffer overflows.
- Release: added warnings to diagnostics.
- Minor: added do-once statement to allow code that executes only once in process.
- Minor: including "vely.h" file is no longer necessary.
- Release: fixed a bug in comment processing where @ and ! output statements would not be processed with C-style comments.
- Release: fixed a bug in processing of request-handler statement where request name is sometimes not recognized.
- Release: fixed bug where realloc-ed memory would cause a small memory leak.
- Release: improved write-string to use less memory.
- Release: random-string is about 5% faster now.
- Release: fixed a bug in 'vv -r --req --exec' where status code from executed program is passed to caller.
- Release: fixed a bug where specifying --lflag would not work due to incorrect placement in the make call.
2023-09-25
Vely release notes for 18.4.0
- Notes: minor release that allows hyphens to be used in application name, plus a few minor enhancements. A commonly asked enhancement is implemented here: if the request handler does not match the name of .vely file, emit an error specifically to that effect; previous error was somewhat unrelated to the cause and was confusing.
- Minor: application name can have a hyphen in it, which is useful for common URL notations (such as REST).
- Release: vv will report if no request handlers found in the build.
- Release: vv will show error message if request handler does not match the name of .vely file
2023-09-22
Vely release notes for 18.3.0
- Notes: major performance improvements along with new features are in this release. Building an application is now about 20% faster. Serving requests is faster across several optimizations, most notable being that there's now a built-in hash table that makes any number of requests being routed virtually as fast as a single one. This is very important for large applications under a heavy load. request-handler statement is added in order to facilitate hierarchical URL paths (such as for REST), making writing and reading code easier. Other improvements in building URL are added as well.
- Release: fixed spurious output when compiling (vv -q), when there is no source files present.
- Release: input-param statement now uses an optimization that makes it 2x faster.
- Release: faster request serving due to refactoring names and values to use a single malloc/realloc.
- Minor: added request-handler statement to better serve and emphasise request-handling functions, and to allow hierarchy in request names.
- Minor: allow hierarchical path for a request name; this is very useful for REST or similar methodologies.
- Minor: added double paths, such as /param=value/ as another convenient way to build URLs.
- Release: much faster request routing via hash table that's built into the program data segment. Virtually the same cost to access 1 or 1,000 request handlers.
- Release: stack dumping when erroring out is now only for debugging builds.
- Release: making of Vely application is now considerably faster with internal optimizations.
- Release: added how-to-build-applications article.
2023-09-07
Vely release notes for 18.2.0
- Notes: this release is about performance and converting numbers to strings (a commonly asked feature) as well as other output statements. num-string statement is added, which is a high-performance and comprehensive way to convert any integer type (signed or unsigned) to a string in any base (2-36). Several other performance improvements were implemented, especially when outputting data and accepting requests. Building string (such as in write-string) and outputting them is now 20% faster due to optimizations implemented. Additionally p-* statements have added the ability to specify length of input and obtain the bytes written.
- Release: increase performance of handling application path in request processing.
- Release: vely_puts works faster, as any string constants' length is now calculated at compile time, and no such operation is performed at runtime.
- Minor: p-out, p-url, p-web now have length and bytes-written; p-num and p-dbl now have bytes-written; p-path now has bytes-written;
- Minor: added num-string statement to allow fast and comprehensive transformation of any integer numbers to strings, in any base (2-36).
2023-08-28
Vely release notes for 18.0.0
- Notes: There are several notable new features in this release. You can now use new --exec option in vv to test any request handler via command line, including REST APIs, by means of specifying the application path, URL path and content from a file (along with content-type, while content-length is automatically computed). You can also call any remote FastCGI server (such as Vely or PHP FPM) by means of --server option, along with --remote (to specify IP:port) or --socket (for local Unix sockets). For command line programs, directory clause in get-sys lets you use the current execution directory in code. Notable enhancements are present in JSON parsing. You can use key-list clause in addition to key clause in order to specify a list of key fragments. This is useful to build keys without creating a key, just by using hierarchical fragments; this increases performance of searching keys in a built-in JSON hash table because it avoids string copying. new-json now has no-hash clause (if you only wish to validate JSON) and node-handler clause for getting each value node along with full node hierarchy in a C event-function handler. The node-handler allows for extremely fast parsing and handling of JSON, and allows you to stop parsing once you've gotten all the data of interest. Unrelated to this, JSON parsing performance has increased by 50% by a number of internal optimizations. pf-out now has format clause, when output format (the same as for printf) is not a constant string. Finally, prior versions searched JSON via keys that did not have to be quoted; now each key must be a valid C string - this is the only fix here that may require minor code change in a Vely application that uses JSON, so it is marked as Major.
- Minor: added --exec options to vv with -r.
- Minor: added --app, --server, --remote, --socket, --content and --content-type in vv utility for -r option.
- Minor: added directory clause to get-sys for command line programs.
- Minor: added key-list clause in read-json.
- Minor: added no-hash and node-handler clauses in new-json.
- Minor: added format clause in pf-out for use with non-constant format expressions.
- Minor: JSON parsing performance increased by 50%.
- Release: added 34 new functional tests.
- Release: simpler JSON example due to new features.
- Major: fixed issue with improper quoting of JSON normalized keys.
2023-08-20
Vely release notes for 17.3.0
- Notes: Debian 12 apt installation package is now available in this release (consequently, Debian 10 package is no longer available, as only two most recent releases are generally carried). In addition, pf-out statement can now output directly into a string, which is properly allocated to hold the result - this is a very convenient method to safely build strings, in addition to write-string. In match-regex, you can now obtain the byte length of the replacement result. In run-query, input clause is now synonymous with ':' for added clarity in writing and reading code.
- Minor: added result-length clause to match-regex statement.
- Minor: pf-out now has 'to' clause to store its output.
- Release: Debian 12 apt package now available.
- Minor: added input clause to run-query statement to be used as a synonym in addition to semicolon.
2023-08-05
Vely release notes for 17.2.0
- Notes: Added support for pcre2 regex search/replace in this release. By default pcre2 is used, and you can also use the posix regex (extended syntax expressions) with --posix-regex option in vv. Some older Linux distributions will still only use posix due to older pcre2 libraries that have name conflicts; however you can upgrade those and use pcre2, see match-regex.
- Minor: added pcre2 regex in addition to the previous posix one; either one can be used. For example, now you can use lookbehinds and lookaheads, and it's generally faster. New regex also now supports UTF8 Unicode characters. New VV_C_POSIXREGEX constant allows for conditional use of either pcre2 or posix regex; see match-regex.
- Minor: added VV_OSNAME_ID constant available in code to conditionally compile depending on Linux distribution/version.
2023-07-27
Vely release notes for 17.1.11
- Notes: added uninstall target to Makefile. This allows to uninstall Vely when installed from source. If you need to upgrade or otherwise manage Vely installation, you can install Vely from pre-built apt/dnf/zypper/pacman packages from the Install page.
- Release: added uninstall to Makefile for source code install; added documentation for it.
2023-07-18
Vely release notes for 17.1.7
- Notes: remove unneeded headers for FastCGI API and clarify license when used standalone.
- Release: remove unneded fcgi lib headers when using standalone FastCGI API (without Vely installation), since it does not use fcgi library at all.
- Release: updated license info to clarify Vely framework; license is unchanged.
- Release: updated client API example and FastCGI API documentation on how to use without installing Vely.
2023-07-14
Vely release notes for 17.1.3
- Notes: This is a bug/documentation release.
- Release: fixed a bug with SQLite database access where a statement would execute multiple times in non-prepared mode.
- Release: added documentation about sessions in Application architecture, as well as other minor improvements.
2023-07-07
Vely release notes for 17.1.0
- Notes: Major addition in this release is the semantic and self-documenting implementation of tasks and subtasks within requests, which allows for more readable and cleaner application architecture. In addition, C/C++ comments are now properly parsed. Another notable improvement is the color-highlighting of diagnostic messages, which also includes both Vely and C code text (generated or otherwise), with exact placement of error; this makes developing with Vely easier.
- Minor: added semantic support for tasks under requests; see if-task and task-param.
- Minor: added support for C and C++ comments.
- Minor: added max-errors for the number of diagnostic messages.
- Release: added Application Architecture documentation article.
- Release: removed metadata expiration default for Fedora packages.
- Release: added color highlighting for Vely diagnostics, as well as the text of Vely source code and C code lines in the output. More precise diagnostic messages. Also added --plain-diag to use old diagnostic style.
- Release: maximum URL path is now 2500 bytes.
- Release: fixed bug where set-input would crash with unmanaged memory.
2023-06-03
Vely release notes for 17.0.0
- Notes: This Vely release adds a major new feature: support for distributed computing (see call-server). It allows for server-2-server calls over FastCGI protocol, a fast and capable binary protocol; many calls can be made in parallel, running in separate threads in MT-safe fashion. Further improvements have been made to FastCGI API, a client API for FastCGI, including a completion hook and additional information pertinent to multi-threaded runs, such as done/return_code. Several statements that had limitations on resources are now unlimited (i.e. limited only by OS/machine resources), namely for call-web, exec-program, out-header, send-file; and those improvements have actually reduced the amount of memory used.
- Minor: added new-server, call-server, read-server and delete-server statements for server-to-server calls (distributed computing).
- Minor: added completion hook for FastCGI API.
- Major: added a request pointer to output/error hooks in FastCGI API.
- Minor: added "done" and "return_code" members to FastCGI API request structure ("vv_fc").
- Major: payload-length clause has moved to request-headers and is now content-length in call-web; payload clause is renamed to content. content-type is now mandatory unless files or fields clauses are used. This is to be in accordance with RFC 9110, HTTP Semantics to avoid confusion with frame payloads in HTTP2/3.
- Release: improved error reporting when parsing statements to detect missing parameter in a clause.
- Release: SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 signals are now ignored as they have no meaning in Vely.
- Minor: the maximum number of input parameter in exec-program is now unlimited.
- Minor: the maximum number of fields and files in call-web is now unlimited.
- Minor: the maximum number of custom headers in HTTP for call-web is now unlimited.
- Release: reduced memory footprint by generating the code for the exact memory usage of internal arrays.
2023-05-10
Vely release notes for 16.10.0
- Release: Vely available on Fedora 38.
- Release: added -a option to vv for viewing changelog for the current release.
- Release: fixed bug in deleting key in hash list due to memory leak.
- Minor: added old-key clause in read-hash statement.
- Release: added hash server example.
- Release: added 11 new tests.
2023-05-01
Vely release notes for 16.9.4
- Release: fixed bug: path info would not work with query string in FastCGI Client C API; updated tests and added example to documentation.
- Release: vim highlighting update for Vely syntax.
2023-04-27
Vely release notes for 16.9.0
- Minor: added unmanaged memory, i.e. memory that can be used for the life of the process across many requests, and also with any external C API libraries.
- Release: fixed duplicate memory leak in vf process manager.
- Release: improved performance of Vely preprocessing by 15%.
- Release: fixed bug with command-line program exit code.
- Release: fixed bug where FCGI attempts to access bad memory in request on accept.
- Minor: added delete clause to purge-hash.
- Release: fixed memory leak with new-json.
- Minor: added delete clause to purge-fifo.
- Release: fixed memory violation bug with purge-fifo.
- Release: fixed memory violation bug with purge-hash.
- Release: fixed memory leak with purge-fifo.
- Release: fixed memory leak with delete-json.
- Minor: added process-data clause to get-app.
- Minor: added set-app statement with process-data clause. Added support for global process memory.
- Minor: added manage-memory statement to switch between managed and unmanaged memory.
- Release: added cleanup of db connections at the end.
- Release: properly close trace when program done; delete all memory when done in command line and fcgi.
- Release: fixed bug with finished-output where command line program would exit.
- Release: fixed memory leak with derive-key and encrypt/decrypt.
- Release: improved memory management performance: removed low-performance memory check.
- Minor: added skip-data clause to delete-query statement.
2023-04-14
Vely release notes for 16.8.0
- Minor: added 'name' clause to run-query to be used with any statements that operate on a query afterwards.
- Minor: added delete-query statement to release all memory associated with the query, including the query results.
- Release: simplified checking for issues in freeing memory, with a significant performance improvement.
2023-04-10
Vely release notes for 16.7.0
- Minor: added on-error-exit, on-error-continue, error and error-text to begin,commit and rollback transaction.
- Release: added current year to vv -v.
- Release: documentation update and 10 new functional tests.
2023-03-08
Vely release notes for 16.6.0
- Minor: added dynamic boolean expression support for previously static true/false flags in the following statements: count-substring, decrypt/encrypt-data, derive-key, hash-string, match-regex, out-header, send-file, read-hash, set-cookie, delete-cookie, write-file. This change allows for less code that is easier to read. Each flag that is enhanced signifies a static choice (such as download in send-file); now however, each such flag will also have an optional boolean expression that allows run-time selection.
- Minor: added secure clause in delete-cookie since newer changes in popular browsers require this option when deleting a secure cookie.
- Minor: added checks for cookie name/value per RFC6265; SameSite clause is undefined now by default because newer changes correlate this value with Secure flag.
2023-02-27
Vely release notes for 16.4.0
- Minor: Vely licensing changed from LGPL-3 to EPL-2 (Eclipse Public License 2).
- Minor: new FastCGI client C API provides the ability to write standalone programs that connect to any FastCGI server.
- Minor: pf-out, pf-url, pf-web now have to-error clause to write to stderr stream.
- Minor: added -i option to vv as support for FastCGI C API library, producing the include and library flags for gcc.
- Release: fixed bug in vv where it crashes when using --app-path with bad data.
- Minor: vf will now kill children server processes if parent is killed. This allows for clean restarts.
- Minor: added flush-output statement for partial output in a long-running request.
2023-01-18
Vely release notes for 15.2.0
- Release: memory handling improvements: faster clearing of memory on allocation.
- Minor: automatic closing of open-files.
- Minor: set errno to 0 when error is set by Vely to indicate error was not reported by the operating system.
- Minor: added new file handling statements with file-id clause that increase performance: open-file, close-file, file-position and read-file, write-file.
- Minor: added digest, binary and output-length clauses to hash-string for more useful output.
- Minor: added derive-key statement in cryptography.
- Release: fixed bug in encode-hex where some inputs would not encode correctly.
- Release: tracing is now faster as it is conditionally included or excluded at code generation time.
- Minor: added clear-cache to match-regex.
- Minor: added salt-length, init-vector(IV) and iterations clauses to encrypt-data and decrypt-data.
- Minor: added cache/clear-cache to encrypt-data and decrypt-data for caching of keys.
- Minor: added PBKDF2 key generation.
- Minor: added random-crypto generator which is cryptographically secure pseudo random generator (CSPRNG).
- Minor: improved performance and memory usage of memory allocator by adding tracking of free memory list.
- Minor: added block-size and init clauses to new-mem statement for more useful and faster memory allocation.
- Minor: added binary clause to random-string statement for increased performance when needing purely binary output.
- Release: documented each Vely statement that allocates memory so it can be released in a loop or a long running request.
- Release: added 140 new tests.
2022-12-29
Vely release notes for 15.1.0
- Release: json parsing performance improvement
- Release: fixed issue with certain crypto algorithms not found
- Release: improved hashing performance 4x times
- Release: added 22 new tests
- Release: report native OpenSSL errors
- Minor: added ability to choose any cipher for encryption
- Minor: added ability to choose any digest for encryption
- Minor: added ability to choose any digest for hashing
- Release: added how-to encryption article
- Minor: added path_info/query_string and request_method to command line execution generator (vv -r)
- Release: using digest and cipher fetching for openssl 3
- Release: fixed issue with docker test
- Release: added stress test for crypto
- Release: added web site articles as a category for documentation
2022-12-19
Vely release notes for 15.0.0
- Minor: added 'define' to 'output' clause in run-query statement so that query output variables can be defined in the query itself. This makes query code shorter and easier to work with.
- Minor: added set-input statement to dynamically change the value of an input parameter in the request handler.
- Release: enforce that content length must be present if content type specified in a request.
- Release: fixed bug where input parameter or query result name could not begin with underscore.
- Major: removed url-param statement as it is harder to meaningfully manipulate both query string and path segments; use match-regex instead.
- Minor: added '-r' option to vv to produce a helper output on how to specify HTTP environment variables for running a command-line program or FastCGI client.
- Release: fixed bug where hyphens in query string parameter names do not get converted to underscores.
- Release: increased performance of vv application building by fixing cache for database settings.
- Major: removed 'url' clause in get-req as superfluous; obtain query string, path segments etc. by using get-sys with variables like QUERY_STRING, SCRIPT_NAME, PATH_INFO etc. Added 'Getting URL' to documentation detailing this.
- Minor: added ability to process any kind of request method, aside from standard REST methods such as GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE. For example, a request method 'NEWMETHOD' can be used and processed like any other.
- Release: added REST API example (shopping application).
- Release: documentation typos fixed.
2022-11-29
Vely release notes for 14.2.0
- Minor: simplified URLs to access applications. Path-based URLs are now the default form of URL. This means a URL path in form of /app-path/request-name followed by optional REST-style parameters and a query string. This kind of URL is easier to read and write, general-purpose, and flexible for both REST and non-REST usage. The existing normalized URL will still be available.
- Minor: examples updated with new URL defaults; old ones still work the same to ensure backward compatibility.
- Release: documentation on URL structure and URL building simplified and a number of erratas fixed.
2022-11-20
Vely release notes for 14.1.2
- Release: fix environment substitution issue for docker tests
2022-11-20
Vely release notes for 14.1.0
- Release: bug fix with db config file when it ends with a dollar sign
- Release: better documentation for request URLs (REST), clearer explanation of URL types
- Release: changed environment variable substitution from gnu envsubst to Vely's own, equally fast but much smaller
- Release: added more tests; now over 1050 Vely functional tests
- Minor: added -u option to vv to perform environment substitutin at will
2022-11-17
Vely release notes for 14.0.0
- Minor: Added REST API URL capability with application path and request expressions
- Minor: Added --path option in vv to specify application path for REST requests
- Minor: Added PUT, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS and any arbitrary request methods support
- Minor: Added REST to multitenant SaaS example
- Minor: Added request-body and payload/payload-length to support any content type in call-web statement
- Minor: Added content-type to call-web statement
- Minor: Added request method to call-web statement
- Minor: Added content-type to get-req statement
- Minor: Added request method to get-req statement
- Minor: Added header clause to get-req statement
- Minor: Added p-path statement for building links and forms for REST and normalized URLs
- Minor: Added path clause to get-app statement
- Minor: Added environment variables to database configuration files for easier and safer deployment
- Minor: Added support for SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO environment variables for web and command-line programs
- Major: Renamed post clause to request-body in call-web, and headers to response-headers
- Release: Added a number of documentation articles for new features in this release
- Release: Refactor variable space in generated code and vv to avoid conflicts with environment
- Release: Added JSON example
2022-10-10
Vely release notes for 13.0.10
- Release: several bugs in examples fixed
- Release: documentation update, especially with new example format
- Release: OpenSUSE support is now for Tumbleweed
- Release: update package files
- Release: additional tests for exit-code
2022-10-07
Vely release notes for 13.0.2
- Release: fixed bug where exit-code sometimes does not set command line program exit code correctly
2022-10-06
Vely release notes for 13.0.0
- Major: changed Vely file extension from .v to .vely for better source file classification
- Major: simplified command line interface: vv no longer accepts app name; it automatically uses app name specified by vf when app created
- Release: fixed cgi test install; handling curl 56 errors in tests
- Release: added multitenant SaaS example
- Release: fixed bug with regex SIGSEGV when cache is used across multiple requests
- Release: fixed bug with random-string where it didnt allocate memory for result
- Release: fixed a bug where all execs had debug info stripped
2022-09-19
Vely release notes for 12.1.0
- Minor: fully automatic inclusion of any needed library based on the statements used. Removed --lib option in vv as it is no longer necessary.
- Minor: added get-req data clause and set-req statement for global request data.
- Release: production binary now stripped for a faster loading.
- Release: enforce that no semicolon after statements permitted.
- Release: fixed docker test, added tests for get-req, set-req, auto-lib inclusion.
2022-09-13
Vely release notes for 12.0.0
- Minor: add JSON parsing support (new-json, read-json, delete-json).
- Minor: add UTF8 support for JSON use (json-utf8, utf8-json).
- Minor: add hash table support (get-hash, new-hash, purge-hash, read-hash, resize-hash, write-hash).
- Major: rework FIFO support (new-fifo, purge-fifo, read-fifo, rewind-fifo, write-fifo).
- Minor: add query-specific error handling: on-error-continue, on-error-exit.
- Minor: web cookies can be now be set after out-header.
- Release: add web functionality to use query string with POST request, whether its MIME or POSTFIELD method.
- Release: add cache to match-regex for a much faster performance.
- Release: add p-dbl for double C type print out.
- Release: add delete clause to split-string.
- Major: fix Regex pattern matching bug for backreferences substitutions.
- Release: fix copy-string to allow an option to assign back to itself.
- Release: add -t option to vv to show latest trace files for debugging a given application.
- Minor: add column-names, column-count, column-data to run-query statement and removed those as standalone statements.
- Release: run-prepared-query did not syntax-highlight its clauses in vim.
- Major: use @ instead of database in database constructs as a simplification.
- Major: simplify run-query by removing the need to name query statements.
- Major: rename trace to trace-run to be in line with Vely's naming convention.
- Major: rename match-pattern to match-regex for a more descriptive statement.
- Major: rework query support to have less statements and be simpler: removed exec-query, define-query, start-query, loop-query, moved all existing functionality to run-query for more efficient SQL queries.
- Major: rename web-call to call-web to be in line with Vely's naming convention.
- Major: rename web-encode to encode-web to be in line with Vely's naming convention.
- Release: fix issue with comment in verbatim being highlighted.
2022-07-25
Vely release notes for 11.0.11
- Release: dockerfile example corrected
- Release: nginx examples corrected for location statement
2022-07-24
Vely release notes for 11.0.9
- Release: emit error from vv if no action specified
- Release: emit error from vv if application specified does not exist
- Release: emit error from vv if -q is not used, but developer options specified
- Release: rename constructs to statements as it is more accurate
- Release: add tests
- Release: clean up space before running tests
2022-07-20
Vely release notes for 11.0.0
- Minor: added POST to web-call, which can now issue POST calls, such as sending files like an HTML form. Also added custom HTTP request headers for web-call.
- Release: set proper exit code for vf when it exits.
- Minor: allow URL parameters with POST, which is technically allowed by the standard.
- Minor: starting vf when already running now produces appropriate message and exit code.
- Major: replace C vely_header structure with headers clause in out-header and send-file constructs, also in use with web-call.
- Release: fixed archlinux test when apache start/stop does not work properly.
- Release: document features in this release and added 30+ functional tests.
2022-06-22
Vely release notes for 10.4.36
- Release: fixed docker example, added 2 missing files
2022-06-22
Vely release notes for 10.4.35
- Release: fixed bug: vf server does not start if the client that invoked it dies. Fixed issue with premature vf server termination.
- Release: trimmed dependencies from packages.
- Release: included cgi-fcgi for testing, debugging and scripting.
2022-06-17
Vely release notes for 10.4.26
- Release: additional logging for vf
- Release: add Manjaro and other Arch-like distros
- Release: add Archlinux support
- Release: vv -m fails if current directory has non alphanumeric chars
- Release: smaller install file
- Release: apache killed with sigwinch due to systemd bug, use apachectl
2022-06-15
Vely release notes for 10.4.20
- Release: additional vf logging
- Release: new release system
2022-06-08
Vely release notes for 10.4.10
- Release: add Manjaro and other Arch-like distros
- Release: add Archlinux support
- Release: vv -m fails if current directory has non alphanumeric chars
- Release: smaller install file
- Release: apache killed with sigwinch due to systemd bug, use apachectl
2022-06-04
Vely release notes for 10.4.2
- Release: add Archlinux support
- Release: vv -m fails if current directory has non alphanumeric chars
- Release: smaller install file
- Release: apache killed with sigwinch due to systemd bug, use apachectl
2022-06-04
Vely release notes for 10.4.0
- Minor: add Archlinux support
- Release: vv -m fails if current directory has non alphanumeric chars
- Release: smaller install file
- Release: apache killed with sigwinch due to systemd bug, use apachectl
2022-05-29
Vely release notes for 10.3.34
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2022-05-27
Vely release notes for 10.3.30
- Release: Added vim syntax highlighting
- Release: Updated docker test
2022-05-26
Vely release notes for 10.3.28
- Release: Added vim syntax highlighting
- Release: Updated docker test
2022-05-06
Vely release notes for 10.3.18
- Release: added additionsl ARM64 builds
- Release: additional tests
2022-04-27
Vely release notes for 10.3.0
- Minor: added raspberry PI/aarch64 builds
- Release: documentation updates
- Release: packaging of functional tests is now of consistent byte size across platforms
- Release: bug fix: in type conversion for file size, which failed on aarch64
- Release: do not execute selinux setup twice in rpm install
2022-04-26
Vely release notes for 10.2.0
- Minor: added raspberry PI/aarch64 builds
- Release: bug fix: in type conversion for file size, which failed on aarch64
- Release: do not execute selinux setup twice in rpm install
2022-04-22
Vely release notes for 10.1.0
- Release: fixed a number of tests
- Release: fixed occasional issues with vf not seeing termination of a child
- Release: fixed vf to clear command in shared memory if server was not there or died
- Minor: added redhat 9 (Beta) build
- Release: fixed to properly terminate during fcgi accept for the first time
- Minor: added ubuntu 22 (Beta) build
- Minor: added OpenSSL 3 support
- Minor: changed default compression for package control and data to xz
2022-04-18
Vely release notes for 10.0.0
- Major: added SQLite support
- Major: added prepared queries support
- Minor: added support for OpenSSL 3
- Minor: added support for command-line programs
- Minor: added support for CGI programs
- Minor: added exit-code construct
- Minor: added silent-header construct
- Minor: added Ubuntu 22 as release platform
- Release: new tests added
- Release: moved man pages to more appropriate 2vv section
- Release: bug fix: curl resources not always released after web-call
- Release: bug fix: avoid memory violation when TERM signal sent to FastCGI program
- Release: bug fix: vf to properly handle child termination
- Release: bug fix: free db query result in all cases
- Release: added valgrind to tests
- Release: define subclause to validate C variable name
2022-04-09
Vely release notes for 9.1.0
- Minor: prepared statements
- Release: bug: db connection NULL when db escaping input
- Release: bug: prep stmts do not work when starting and stopping db server
- Release: bug: sql statement incorrect for cached prepared statement
- Minor: no unnecessary copying of field data in queries
- Minor: feature: added length to query-result construct
- Minor: added hex-encode/decode constructs
- Release: bug: loop-query would have undefined elements if start-query not run
- Minor: added timeout to web-call
- Release: bug: fixed memory leak in prep stmt
- Release: bug: curl call cleanup failure
2022-03-26
Vely release notes for 9.0.0
- Major: simplified db config files
- Minor: remove html from spec
- Release: fixed bug with sending http status; more tests
- Major: renamed vely handler to dispatcher; added socket location to mariadb tests
- Minor: added vely docker file
- Release: fixed bug in vf:socket would retain privs from old run; new version of test for simpler vely