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@@ -1,3 +1,45 @@ + TXR 279 + 2022-08-08 + + + Features + + - Lib + - missing count function added. + - regsub + - now accepts a string in place of the regex, + - avoids consing a list of pieces to be catenated; works using string-extend. + - gcd function rewritten for efficiency + - when arguments fit into a machine word, bignum math is avoided + + - Build/Deployment + - make install now creates hard links to the txr executable + called txrlisp and txrvm, useful in scripting with unsuffixed files. + - txrlisp behaves much like txr --lisp + - txrvm behaves much like txr --compiled + - compile-file translates txrlisp to txrvm in hash bang line. + + - Path test functions: + - All path test functions now use effective UID not real. + - New function path-components-safe for validating permissions + along an entire path. + - Useful for testing whether a path that is supposed to be private + is actually properly secured. + + - Listener: + - Security checks on .txr_history and .txr_profile have been revised. + - Now done with help of path-components-safe in additition to + path-private-to-me-p. + + Bugs + + - compile-file: + - tries unsuffixed path before adding .tl, like load. + - only tries different names on nonexistence error. + - other exceptios now propagate out of the function. + + + TXR 278 2022-07-01 |