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December 23rd, 2016: 1.7.0 Release
This release is kind of big because it fixes two potential big problems: stringize precision and [] (brackets: when doing an insert into a Val) access on a const Val. See the CHANGES for this release for all the gory details.
July 28th, 2016: 1.6.3 Release
1.6.3 is a bug-fix release. we've tested to make sure things work on CentOs 7, and we've added methods to Tab anbd OTab (.keys(), .values(), .items()), so they feel more Pythonesque.
June 14th, 2016: 1.6.2 Release
1.6.2 is a bug-fix release. Updated the ptools Python module (so all its code was up to date), updated Array to allow users to reference memory without owning it (so they can use the Array interface homogeneously), catch an exception in the Python C extension module for XML so it fails gracefully, uipdate includes for CQ.
November 13th, 2015: 1.6.1 Release
This is a minor bug fix release to 1.6.1. It fixes the FixedSizeAllocator's cross process shared memory hang problem.
October 2nd, 2015: 1.6.X Releases update
1.6.0 is quite a big release.
OC Serialization: supported by C++, and now a new Python C Extension module. Faster serialization than pickling and supports greater than 4 Gigabytes strings and arrays.
MidasTalker/Server: With OC Serialization supporting greater than 4Gig, had to make a backwards compatible change to allow larger strings to come over the socket. This affects all midas talkers and servers throughout the C++, Python and M2k baselines (M2k updates to OpalPythonDaemon for this).
C++ Val: now supports complex integers
Shared Memory updates: better support for shared memory error reporting. Added fixed size allocator and support for it with the streaming allocator.
July 31st, 2015: 1.5.X Releases update
1.5.4: Mostly minor bug fixes to have the shared memory tools work better.
1.5.3 features a bunch of bug fixes, plus better error messages if you mix DUAL SOCKET and SINGLE SOCKET code.
1.5.2. It features a bunch of small bug fixes, plus the introduction of the new Python seriallib which allows conversion back and forth between Python dictionaties and Windows INI fles and key-value lines.
1.5.1. Complete the transition to NumPy (from Numeric), fix documentaton spelling errors, move some timeout code from MidasTalker to MidasSocket (so MidasServer can access the send code with the timeout), rejiggered C++ baseline to work with -Wextra.
1.5.0. It is first release to handle Java support. Currently, there is support to write a Java client that can pickle and unpickle, but no server (coming later). There is support for textual Python dictionaries (from strings and files) as well as binary (pickled) format. Support is limited to Python 2.X series.
1.4.2 is a quick bug-fix release: it allows Jython to work with a Python MidasTalker (select bug fixed) and the Python C extension module to build with 2.6 and 2.7 versions of Python.
PicklingTools 1.4.1: Up until now, the XML to dict and dict to XML conversion tools were written either in Pure Python or pure C++. The pure Python routines were significantly slower (10x-100x) slower than their C++ counterparts. To battle this problem, we created the "cxmltools" module which wraps the C++ routines so they can be called from Python (and get the massive speedup!). We also cleaned up the arbitrary sized int interfaces: they were clumsy and needed a little more polish (see the CHANGES log for more discussion of some of the cleanup).
PicklingToolsis 1.4.0. The cross-process shared memory tools have been updated, with better documentation and testing. Currently one major application is using the shared memory pipes in a real-world production system. The XMLtools have also been updated to work with numpy.
Version 1.3.4 adds some minor M2k updates.
Version 1.3.3 adds a simple schema-like mechanism for validating dictionaries are well-formed, as well as some bug and performance fixes.
Version 1.3.2 added JSON support, NumPy support, and tools to write HTTP servers and clients.
Versions 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 concentrated on getting XML conversion tools available.
"Do souls look like pickles?" - Spongebob Squarepants
Downloads/CHANGELOGS
Stringize precision is better, fixed op[] problem)
CentOS 7 check, added keys(), values(), items()
Bug fix for FixedSizeAllocator
OC Serialization, complex int, better shared mem and allocator
Bug Fixes, better single/dual socket errors
Fix Warnings, complete NumPy transition
Version 1.4.2: Quick bug-fix
Version 1.4.1: Python C Extension module for XML and dict conversion tools
Version 1.4.0: shared memory tools and numpy support for xmltools
Version 1.3.4: minor M2k updates
Version 1.3.3: Conforms checking, minor bug and performance fixes
Version 1.3.2: JSON, NumPy, HTTP
Version 1.3.1: Performance
Version 1.3.0: XML support
Version 1.2.2: more intel/endian fixes
Version 1.2.1: minor Intel compiler fixes, M2k now builds, endianness problem resolved
Version 1.2.0: Major Speed Improvements, Tuples, Ordered Dictionary, Arbitrary sized ints, New PickleLoader
Version 1.1.1: Namespace and pickling bug fixes
Version 1.1.0: M2k fix and build fixes
Version 1.0.9: Documentation upgrades
Version 1.0.8: Bug fix for X-Midas & threads
Version 1.0.7: Combinations and opafile.py
Version 1.0.6: Bug Fix Pickling Protocol 0
Version 1.0.5: real_8 precision
Version 1.0.4: Handle size_t, MV
Version 1.0.3: Allow timeouts on open
Version 1.0.2: Added dataReady
Version 1.0.1: User-types and bug fixes
Version 1.0.0: Proxys (ref-counting)
Version 0.96: Linux 64-bit support
Version 0.95: Minor bug fixes (memory leaks)
Version 0.94: Adaptive and M2k serialization
Version 0.93: Pickling Protocol 2 Support
Version 0.90: UDP Socket support
Version 0.86: Minor bug fixes (file reading)
Version 0.85: Read OpalTables from raw C++
Version 0.84:Bug fixes, mostly X-Midas updates
Version 0.83:Bug fixes, mostly X-Midas updates
Version 0.82:Minor OpenContainers fixes
Version 0.81: GetHostByName, Tru64 support
Version 0.80: Added MidasServer
Version 0.74: OpenContainers update
Version 0.73: Support for separated files
Version 0.72: Added X-Midas support
Version 0.71: Clean up
version 0.70: Dual-socket mode support
Version 0.40: ..too old...
Full CHANGE log
If you wish to see the entire CHANGES file (included in the PicklingTools distribution at the top-level), click HERE. This show all changes that up to the current release.
Changes in the first number (from release 0.96 to 1.00 for example) indicate major releases with possible incompatibilities. In general, though, the PicklingTools strives to be backwards compatible with previous releases. [Even the 1.00 release was released to some beta users to make sure it compiled and worked with their previous systems. The few incompatibilities were documented].