12.1.0: I/O buffer, async stream transfer

Features

• Merged PR #344: Add io.streams.StreamTransfer::transmit() which yields
  control after each chunk
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #343: Implement a limited in-memory buffer with filesystem
  overflow: io.streams.Buffer. See also xp-forge/web#118
  (@thekid)

12.0.1: Explicitely nullable fix

Bugfixes

• Fixed lang.ClassLoader::defineType() to generate correctly typed
  method forwards for methods with explicitely nullable types.
  (@thekid)

12.0.0: PHP 8 semantics

This major release adopts more PHP 8 semantics, getting rid of the XP annotation syntax with @ and deprecating implicitely nullable types. This is the last major release to support PHP 7, and only does so for its newest version.

Heads up!

• Removed deprecated Mersenne Twister algorithm from util.Random, see
  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_3#global_mersenne_twister
  (@thekid)
• Removed the deprecated resolve() method from lang.Process. Use
  lang.CommandLine::resolve() instead!
  (@thekid)
• Removed Proxy and InvocationHandler from the lang.reflect package,
  and AbstractDeferredInvokationHandler from util. See PR #341
  (@thekid)

RFCs

• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#342: Extract compression streams, removing
  the implementing classes from io.streams. See PR #342.
  (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#336, part 2: Remove XP annotations syntax,
  which was deprecated in XP 11, released October 2021. See PR #340.
  (@thekid)
• Implemented xp-framework/rfc#343, part 1: Drop support for all but the
  latest PHP 7 release. The minimum required PHP version is now 7.4!
  (@thekid)

Features

• Synchronized mime types list with most recent jshttp/mime-db - @thekid
• Merged PR #338: Set default character set for property files to utf-8
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue #336: Deprecate implicitly nullable parameter types, following
  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-implicitly-nullable-types
  (@thekid)

11.9.0: Implicitly nullable parameter types

Features

• Removed PHP 5 specific exception handling from lang.Throwable::wrap()
  (@thekid)
• Suppressed implicitly nullable parameter types deprecation warning as
  there is no way of fixing these syntactically as long as we support
  PHP 7.0. See issue #336 and xp-framework/rfc#343
  (@thekid)

11.8.3: Symlink fix

Bugfixes

• Merged PR #335: Fix removing directories with symlinks inside - @thekid

11.8.2: Meta cache consistency fix

Bugfixes

• Merged PR #334: Store original attribute names in DETAIL_TARGET_ANNO.
  This fixes a problem when using old and new reflection libraries in
  conjunction
  (@thekid)

11.8.1: Autoloader fix

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue #333: Class "lang\ClassLoader" not found - @thekid

11.8.0: Testing migration

Heads up!

• Merged PR #331: Migrate to new testing library. This makes it easier
  to run the test suite (now just xp test src/test/php like with any
  other library) and reduces the installed size by roughly 300 kB.
  Preliminary work was put into this to make the transition easier:
  • PR #330: Use COMPOSER_ROOT_VERSION and add dependency instead of
    bundling test library
  • PR #329: Restructure src/test/php - from tests inside the package
    net.xp_framework.unittest to the package (lang, util, io, xp)
    they're testing
  • Merged PR #328: Migrate tests to baseless / Assert DSL
    (@thekid)

11.7.0: Random API improvements

Features

• Implemented string casting for util.UUID instances - @thekid
• Merged PR #327: Use Xoshiro256** (w/o seed) as the fastest engine for
  PHP 8.2+, see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rng_extension#prng_shootout
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #326: Deprecate Random::MTRAND as Mersenne Twister is no
  longer recommended, see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/rng_extension
  (@thekid)
• Merged PR #325: Use random_int() instead of mt_rand() in util.UUID
  (@thekid)

10.16.0: Annotation array eval notation backport

Features

• Backported #324 from XP 11: Support eval array notation inside attributes.
  See xp-framework/compiler#169 (comment)
  (@thekid)

Bugfixes

• Backported #321 from XP 11: ix util.TimeZone::hasDst(), which was broken in
  multiple regards
  (@thekid)
• Backported #320 from XP 11: Call to undefined method util.TimeZone::getName()
  (@thekid)
• Backported #309 from XP 11: Use AES-128-CBC instead of DES (in util.Secret);
  the latter is considered legacy
  (@thekid)