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authorlloyd <[email protected]>2012-06-20 16:45:46 +0000
committerlloyd <[email protected]>2012-06-20 16:45:46 +0000
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Split log.txt into individual release notes. Integrate most of the
relevant contents from the pyblosxom news site into said relnotes. DRY suggests having only one form of release notes, and having it in the public source repo. Also some updates for the allocator changes.
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+Version 0.7.8, 2002-02-28
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+* More capabilities for Pipe, inspired by SysV STREAMS, including peeking,
+ better buffering, and stack ops. NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE: SEE DOCUMENTATION
+* Added a BufferingFilter class
+* Added popen() based EntropySource for generic Unix systems (unix_rnd)
+* Moved 'devrand' module into main distribution (ent_file.h), renamed to
+ File_EntropySource, and changed interface somewhat.
+* Made Randpool somewhat more conservative and also 25% faster
+* Minor fixes and updates for the configure script
+* Added some tweaks for memory allocation
+* Documentation updates for the new Pipe interface
+* Fixed various minor bugs
+* Added a couple of new example programs (stack and hasher2)
+