X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=bba59f7dc502d5c841c2f95f86e83c4cc4bfb9db;hb=cba9de39a4637376d5e06e2a909d0904f443868d;hp=236358c5929d6dedb949d686ed6ece42cd0ec663;hpb=9dd901312ce5ac5a1d4b7da7b90167c9b782f1ed;p=plcapi.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 236358c..bba59f7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,38 +1,68 @@ -XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 201X/Y/Z +XML-RPC for PHP version 4.0.0 - 2015/Y/Z This release does away with the past and starts a transition to modern-world php. Code has been heavily refactored, taking care to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible, but some breackage is to be expected. -PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade. +The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, even though we strongly urge you to use +more recent versions. -The minimum required php version has been increased to 5.3, -even though we strongly urge you to use more recent versions. +PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BELOW to insure a smooth upgrade. * new: introduction of namespaces. All php classes have been renamed and moved to separate files. Class autoloading can now be done in accord with the PSR-4 standard. Backward compatibility is maintained via lib/xmlrpc.inc, lib/xmlrpcs.inc and lib/xmlrpc_wrappers.inc. + For more details, head on to doc/api_changes_v4.md -* improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard +* changed: the default encoding delivered from the library to your code is now utf8. + It can be changed at anytime setting a value to PhpXmlRpc\PhpXmlRpc::$xmlrpc_internalencoding -* improved: this release is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ). - Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.0 nightly, plus HHVM +* improved: all php code is now formatted according to the PSR-2 standard * improved: no need to call anymore $client->setSSLVerifyHost(2) to silence a curl warning when using https with recent curl builds +* improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line + +* improved: a specific option allows users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls. + This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate, + and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as on Travis VMs) + +* improved: the library is now tested using Travis ( https://travis-ci.org/ ). + Tests are executed using all php versions from 5.3 to 7.0 nightly, plus HHVM; code-coverage information + is generated using php 5.6 and uploaded to both Code Coverage and Scrutinizer online services + * improved: phpunit is now installed via composer, not bundled anymore * improved: when phpunit is used to generate code-coverage data, the code executed server-side is accounted for -* improved: debug messages are not html-escaped any more when executing from the command line +* improved: the testsuite has basic checks for the debugger and demo files -* improved: a specific option allow users to decide the version of SSL to use for https calls. - This is useful f.e. for the testing suite, when the server target of calls has no proper ssl certificate, - and the cURL extension has been compiled with GnuTLS (such as Travis) +* fixed: the server would fail to decode a request with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml prolog only + +* fixed: the client would fail to decode a response with ISO-8859-1 payload and character set declaration in the xml prolog only + +* fixed: the function decode_xml() would not decode an xml with character set declaration in the xml prolog + +* fixed: the client can now successfully call methods using ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 characters in their name + +* fixed: the debugger would fail sending a request with ISO-8859-1 payload (it missed the character set declaration). + It would have a hard time coping with ISO-8859-1 in other fields, such as e.g. the remote method name + +* improved: the debugger is displayed using UTF-8, making it more useful to debug any kind of service + +* improved: echo all debug messages even when there are characters in them which php deems to be in a wrong encoding + (this is visible e.g. in the debugger) + +* changed: debug info handling + - at debug level 1, the rebuilt php objects are not dumped to screen (server-side already did that) + - at debug level 1, curl communication info are not dumped to screen + - at debug level 1, the tests echo payloads of failures; at debug level 2 all payloads + +* improved: makefiles have been replaced with a php_based pakefile XML-RPC for PHP version 3.0.0 - 2014/6/15 @@ -381,3 +411,160 @@ http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpxmlrpc/xmlrpc/ChangeLog?view=markup Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list or to the sourceforge project pages at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpxmlrpc/ + + +XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 + +I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 (final). It's taken +two years to get to the 1.0 point, but here we are, finally. The major change +is re-licensing with the BSD open source license, a move from the custom +license previously used. + +After this release I expect to move the project to SourceForge and find +another primary maintainer for the code. More details will follow to the +mailing list. + +It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html + +Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you +can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/ + +Bugfixes in this release include: + + * Small fixes and tidying up. + +New features include: + + * experimental support for SSL via the curl extensions to PHP. Needs + PHP 4.0.2 or greater, but not PHP 4.0.6 which has broken SSL support. + +The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt + +Please report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP mailing list, of which more details are +available at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to +. + + +XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9 + +I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 9. This is +is largely a bugfix release. + +It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html + +Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you +can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/ + +Bugfixes in this release include: + + * Fixed string handling bug where characters between a + and tag were not ignored. + + * Added in support for PHP's native boolean type. + +New features include: + + * new getval() method (experimental only) which has support for + recreating nested arrays. + * fledgling unit test suite + * server.php has support for basic interop test suite + +The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt + +Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP +mailing list, of which more details are available at +http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to . + + +XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8 + +I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 8. + +This release fixes several bugs and adds a couple of new helper +functions. The most critical change in this release is that you can no +longer print debug info in comments inside a server method -- you must +now use the new xmlrpc_debugmsg() function. + +It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html + +Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you +can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/ + +Bugfixes in this release include: + + * fixed whitespace handling in values + * correct sending of Content-length from the server + +New features include: + + * xmlrpc_debugmsg() method allows sending of debug info in comments in + the return payload from a server + + * xmlrpc_encode() and xmlrpc_decode() translate between xmlrpcval + objects and PHP language arrays. They aren't suitable for all + datatypes, but can speed up coding in simple scenarios. Thanks to Dan + Libby for these. + +The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt + +Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP +mailing list, of which more details are available at +http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to . + + +XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7 + +I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 7. This is +fixes some critical bugs that crept in. If it shows itself to be stable +then it'll become the 1.0 release. + +It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html + +Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you +can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/ + +Bugfixes in this release include: + + * Passing of booleans should now work as expected + * Dollar signs and backslashes in strings should pass OK + * addScalar() now works properly to append to array vals + +New features include: + + * Added support for HTTP Basic authorization through the + xmlrpc_client::setCredentials method. + + * Added test script and method for verifying correct passing of + booleans + +The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt + +Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP +mailing list, of which more details are available at +http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to . + + +XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6 + +I'm pleased to announce XML-RPC for PHP version 1.0 beta 6. This is the +final beta before the 1.0 release. + +It can be downloaded from http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/php.html + +Comprehensive documentation is available in the distribution, but you +can also browse it at http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/doc/ + +New features in this release include: + + * Perl and Python test programs for the demo server + * Proper fault generation on a non-"200 OK" response from a remote host + * Bugfixed base64 decoding + * ISO8601 helper routines for translation to and from UNIX timestamps + * reorganization of code to allow eventual integration of alternative + transports + +The changelog is available at: http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/ChangeLog.txt + +Please test this as hard as possible and report bugs to the XML-RPC PHP +mailing list, of which more details are available at +http://xmlrpc.usefulinc.com/list.html, or to .