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Jansson v2.7 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-10-02 // over 9 years ago

  • 🚀 Released 2014-10-02

    • 🆕 New features:

      • json_pack() and friends: Add format specifiers s% and +% for a size_t string length (#141).
      • json_unpack() and friends: Add format specifier s% for unpacking the string length along with the string itself (#141).
      • Add length-aware string constructors json_stringn() and json_stringn_nocheck(), length-aware string mutators json_string_setn() and json_string_setn_nocheck(), and a function for getting string's length json_string_length() (#141, #143).
      • Support \u0000 escapes in the decoder. The support can be enabled by using the JSON_ALLOW_NUL decoding flag (#141).
      • Add json_boolean_value() as an alias for json_is_true() (#146).
      • Add JSON_REAL_PRECISION encoding flag/macro for controlling real number precision (#178).
      • Define the maximum indentation as JSON_MAX_INDENT (#191).

    • 🐛 Bug fixes:

      • Some malformed \uNNNN escapes could crash the decoder with an assertion failure.
      • Avoid integer overflows with very long strings in UTF-8 decoder and hashtable.
      • Check for NULL key in json_object_get() and json_object_del() (#151).
      • Enhance hashtable seeding on Windows (#162).
      • json_unpack(): Allow mixing JSON_STRICT with optional keys (#162, #163).
      • Fix int/int32 mismatch (#142).
      • Parse subnormal numbers correctly (#202).

    • 🏗 Build:

      • Remove VS2010 build files. CMake should be used on Windows instead (#165).
      • Fix CMake build flags for MinGW (#193).
      • Add CMake config files for find_package. Rename config.h to jansson_private_config.h (#157, #159).
      • Make Valgrind checks work with CMake (#160).
      • Fix feature checks to use correct __ATOMIC flags.
      • Fix CMake checks for uint16_t and uint8_t support (#177).
      • Make Jansson build on SmartOS/Solaris (#171).
      • Work around a GCC bug on Solaris (#175).
      • Fix autoreconf on Debian (#182).
      • Don't use GNU make specific export for global AM_CFLAGS (#203, #204).
      • Fix building on Android using the supplied Android.mk (#166, #174).
      • Android.mk: Add -DHAVE_STDINT_H to LOCAL_CFLAGS (#200).

    • 📚 Documentation:

      • Document JANSSON_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS CMake option (#187).

    • ✅ Tests:

      • Close file handles correctly (#198).

    • Other changes:

      • \uNNNN escapes are now encoded in upper case for better readability.
      • Enable usage of AddressSanitizer (#180).