| This file contains a brief overview of the changes made in each release. |
| A detailed description of changes are available in the CHANGES.current |
| and CHANGES files. |
| |
| Release Notes |
| ============= |
| Detailed release notes are available with the release and are also |
| published on the SWIG web site at http://swig.org/release.html. |
| |
| SWIG-4.0.2 summary: |
| - A few fixes around doxygen comment handling. |
| - Ruby 2.7 support added. |
| - Various minor improvements to C#, D, Java, OCaml, Octave, Python, |
| R, Ruby. |
| - Considerable performance improvement running SWIG on large |
| interface files. |
| |
| SWIG-4.0.1 summary: |
| - SWIG now cleans up on error by removing all generated files. |
| - Add Python 3.8 support. |
| - Python Sphinx compatibility added for Doxygen comments. |
| - Some minor regressions introduced in 4.0.0 were fixed. |
| - Fix some C++17 compatibility problems in Python and Ruby generated |
| code. |
| - Minor improvements/fixes for C#, Java, Javascript, Lua, MzScheme, |
| Ocaml, Octave and Python. |
| |
| SWIG-4.0.0 summary: |
| - Support for Doxygen documentation comments which are parsed and |
| converted into JavaDoc or PyDoc comments. |
| - STL wrappers improved for C#, Java and Ruby. |
| - C++11 STL containers added for Java, Python and Ruby. |
| - Improved support for parsing C++11 and C++14 code. |
| - Various fixes for shared_ptr. |
| - Various C preprocessor corner case fixes. |
| - Corner case fixes for member function pointers. |
| - Python module overhaul by simplifying the generated code and turning |
| most optimizations on by default. |
| - %template improvements wrt scoping to align with C++ explicit |
| template instantiations. |
| - Added support for a command-line options file (sometimes called a |
| response file). |
| - Numerous enhancements and fixes for all supported target languages. |
| - SWIG now classifies the status of target languages into either |
| 'Experimental' or 'Supported' to indicate the expected maturity |
| level. |
| - Support for CFFI, Allegrocl, Chicken, CLISP, S-EXP, UFFI, Pike, |
| Modula3 has been removed. |
| - Octave 4.4-5.1 support added. |
| - PHP5 support removed, PHP7 is now the supported PHP version. |
| - Minimum Python version required is now 2.7, 3.2-3.7 are the only |
| other versions supported. |
| - Added support for Javascript NodeJS versions 2-10. |
| - OCaml support is much improved and updated, minimum OCaml version |
| required is now 3.12.0. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.12 summary: |
| - Add support for Octave-4.2. |
| - Enhance %extend to support template functions. |
| - Language specific enhancements and fixes for C#, D, Guile, Java, PHP7. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.11 summary: |
| - PHP 7 support added. |
| - C++11 alias templates and type aliasing support added. |
| - Minor fixes and enhancements for C# Go Guile Java Javascript Octave |
| PHP Python R Ruby Scilab XML. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.10 summary: |
| - Regression fixes for smart pointers and importing Python modules. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.9 summary: |
| - Add support for Python's implicit namespace packages. |
| - Fixes to support Go 1.6. |
| - C++11 std::array support added for Java. |
| - Improved C++ multiple inheritance support for Java/C# wrappers. |
| - Various other minor fixes and improvements for C#, D, Go, Java, |
| Javascript, Lua, Python, R, Ruby, Scilab. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.8 summary: |
| - pdf documentation enhancements. |
| - Various Python 3.5 issues fixed. |
| - std::array support added for Ruby and Python. |
| - shared_ptr support added for Ruby. |
| - Minor improvements for CFFI, Go, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.7 summary: |
| - Add support for Octave-4.0.0. |
| - Remove potential Android security exploit in generated Java classes. |
| - Minor new features and bug fixes. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.6 summary: |
| - Stability and regression fixes. |
| - Fixed parsing of C++ corner cases. |
| - Language improvements and bug fixes for C#, Go, Java, Lua, Python, R. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.5 summary: |
| - Added support for Scilab. |
| - Important Python regression fix when wrapping C++ default arguments. |
| - Minor improvements for C#, Go, Octave, PHP and Python. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.4 summary: |
| - Python regression fix when wrapping C++ default arguments. |
| - Improved error messages. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.3 summary: |
| - Add support for C++11 strongly typed enumerations. |
| - Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements for C#, D, Go, Java, |
| Javascript, PHP, Perl and Python wrappers. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.2 summary: |
| - Bug fix during install and a couple of other minor changes. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.1 summary: |
| - Javascript module added. This supports JavascriptCore (Safari/Webkit), |
| v8 (Chromium) and node.js currently. |
| - A few notable regressions introduced in 3.0.0 have been fixed - in |
| Lua, nested classes and parsing of operator <<. |
| - The usual round of bug fixes and minor improvements for: |
| C#, GCJ, Go, Java, Lua, PHP and Python. |
| |
| SWIG-3.0.0 summary: |
| - This is a major new release focusing primarily on C++ improvements. |
| - C++11 support added. Please see documentation for details of supported |
| features: http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/CPlusPlus11.html |
| - Nested class support added. This has been taken full advantage of in |
| Java and C#. Other languages can use the nested classes, but require |
| further work for a more natural integration into the target language. |
| We urge folk knowledgeable in the other target languages to step |
| forward and help with this effort. |
| - Lua: improved metatables and support for %nspace. |
| - Go 1.3 support added. |
| - Python import improvements including relative imports. |
| - Python 3.3 support completed. |
| - Perl director support added. |
| - C# .NET 2 support is now the minimum. Generated using statements are |
| replaced by fully qualified names. |
| - Bug fixes and improvements to the following languages: |
| C#, Go, Guile, Java, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Octave, R, Ruby, Tcl |
| - Various other bug fixes and improvements affecting all languages. |
| - Note that this release contains some backwards incompatible changes |
| in some languages. |
| - Full detailed release notes are in the changes file. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.12 summary: |
| - This is a maintenance release backporting some fixes from the pending |
| 3.0.0 release. |
| - Octave 3.8 support added. |
| - C++11 support for new versions of erase/insert in the STL containers. |
| - Compilation fixes on some systems for the generated Lua, PHP, Python |
| and R wrappers. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.11 summary: |
| - Minor bug fixes and enhancements mostly in Python, but also |
| C#, Lua, Ocaml, Octave, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.10 summary: |
| - Ruby 1.9 support is now complete. |
| - Add support for Guile 2.0 and Guile 1.6 support (GH interface) has |
| been dropped. |
| - Various small language neutral improvements and fixes. |
| - Various bug fixes and minor improvements specific to C#, CFFI, D, |
| Java, Octave, PHP, Python, |
| - Minor bug fix in ccache-swig. |
| - Development has moved to Github with Travis continuous integration |
| testing - patches using https://github.com/swig/swig are welcome. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.9 summary: |
| - Improved typemap matching. |
| - Ruby 1.9 support is much improved. |
| - Various bug fixes and minor improvements in C#, CFFI, Go, Java, |
| Modula3, Octave, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl and in ccache-swig. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.8 summary: |
| - Fix a couple of regressions introduced in 2.0.5 and 2.0.7. |
| - Improved using declarations and using directives support. |
| - Minor fixes/enhancements for C#, Java, Octave, Perl and Python. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.7 summary: |
| - Important regression fixes since 2.0.5 for typemaps in general and |
| in Python. |
| - Fixes and enhancements for Go, Java, Octave and PHP. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.6 summary: |
| - Regression fix for Python STL wrappers on some systems. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.5 summary: |
| - Official Android support added including documentation and examples. |
| - Improvements involving templates: |
| 1) Various fixes with templates and typedef types. |
| 2) Some template lookup problems fixed. |
| 3) Templated type fixes to use correct typemaps. |
| - Autodoc documentation generation improvements. |
| - Python STL container wrappers improvements including addition of |
| stepped slicing. |
| - Approximately 70 fixes and minor enhancements for the following |
| target languages: AllegroCL, C#, D, Go, Java, Lua, Ocaml, Octave, |
| Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Tcl, Xml. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.4 summary: |
| - This is mainly a Python oriented release including support for Python |
| built-in types for superior performance with the new -builtin option. |
| The -builtin option is especially suitable for performance-critical |
| libraries and applications that call wrapped methods repeatedly. |
| See the python-specific chapter of the SWIG manual for more info. |
| - Python 3.2 support has also been added and various Python bugs have |
| been fixed. |
| - Octave 3.4 support has also been added. |
| - There are also the usual minor generic improvements, as well as bug |
| fixes and enhancements for D, Guile, Lua, Octave, Perl and Tcl. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.3 summary: |
| - A bug fix release including a couple of fixes for regressions in the |
| 2.0 series. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.2 summary: |
| - Support for the D language has been added. |
| - Various bug fixes and minor enhancements. |
| - Bug fixes particular to the Clisp, C#, Go, MzScheme, Ocaml, PHP, R, |
| Ruby target languages. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.1 summary: |
| - Support for the Go language has been added. |
| - New regular expression (regex) encoder for renaming symbols based on |
| the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library. |
| - Numerous fixes in reporting file and line numbers in error and warning |
| messages. |
| - Various bug fixes and improvements in the C#, Lua, Perl, PHP, Ruby |
| and Python language modules. |
| |
| SWIG-2.0.0 summary: |
| - License changes, see LICENSE file and http://www.swig.org/legal.html. |
| - Much better nested class/struct support. |
| - Much improved template partial specialization and explicit |
| specialization handling. |
| - Namespace support improved with the 'nspace' feature where namespaces |
| can be automatically translated into Java packages or C# namespaces. |
| - Improved typemap and symbol table debugging. |
| - Numerous subtle typemap matching rule changes when using the default |
| (SWIGTYPE) type. These now work much like C++ class template partial |
| specialization matching. |
| - Other small enhancements for typemaps. Typemap fragments are also now |
| official and documented. |
| - Warning and error display refinements. |
| - Wrapping of shared_ptr is improved and documented now. |
| - Numerous C++ unary scope operator (::) fixes. |
| - Better support for boolean expressions. |
| - Various bug fixes and improvements in the Allegrocl, C#, Java, Lua, |
| Octave, PHP, Python, R, Ruby and XML modules. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.40 summary: |
| - SWIG now supports directors for PHP. |
| - PHP support improved in general. |
| - Octave 3.2 support added. |
| - Various bug fixes/enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, Java, Octave, Perl, |
| Python, Ruby and Tcl. |
| - Other generic fixes and minor new features. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.39 summary: |
| - Some new small feature enhancements. |
| - Improved C# std::vector wrappers. |
| - Bug fixes: mainly Python, but also Perl, MzScheme, CFFI, Allegrocl |
| and Ruby |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.38 summary: |
| - Output directory regression fix and other minor bug fixes |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.37 summary: |
| - Python 3 support added |
| - SWIG now ships with a version of ccache that can be used with SWIG. |
| This enables the files generated by SWIG to be cached so that repeated |
| use of SWIG on unchanged input files speeds up builds quite considerably. |
| - PHP 4 support removed and PHP support improved in general |
| - Improved C# array support |
| - Numerous Allegro CL improvements |
| - Bug fixes/enhancements for Python, PHP, Java, C#, Chicken, Allegro CL, |
| CFFI, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, R, Lua. |
| - Other minor generic bug fixes and enhancements |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.36 summary: |
| - Enhancement to directors to wrap all protected members |
| - Optimisation feature for objects returned by value |
| - A few bugs fixes in the PHP, Java, Ruby, R, C#, Python, Lua and |
| Perl modules |
| - Other minor generic bug fixes |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.35 summary: |
| - Octave language module added |
| - Bug fixes in Python, Lua, Java, C#, Perl modules |
| - A few other generic bugs and runtime assertions fixed |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.34 summary: |
| - shared_ptr support for Python |
| - Support for latest R - version 2.6 |
| - Various minor improvements/bug fixes for R, Lua, Python, Java, C# |
| - A few other generic bug fixes, mainly for templates and using statements |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.33 summary: |
| - Fix regression for Perl where C++ wrappers would not compile |
| - Fix regression parsing macros |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.32 summary: |
| - shared_ptr support for Java and C# |
| - Enhanced STL support for Ruby |
| - Windows support for R |
| - Fixed long-standing memory leak in PHP Module |
| - Numerous fixes and minor enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, cffi, Chicken, Guile, |
| Java, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl. |
| - Improved warning support |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.31 summary: |
| - Python modern classes regression fix |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.30 summary: |
| - Python-2.5 support |
| - New language module: R |
| - Director support added for C# |
| - Numerous director fixes and improvements |
| - Improved mingw/msys support |
| - Better constants support in Guile and chicken modules |
| - Support for generating PHP5 class wrappers |
| - Important Java premature garbage collection fix |
| - Minor improvements/fixes in cffi, php, allegrocl, perl, chicken, lua, ruby, |
| ocaml, python, java, c# and guile language modules |
| - Many many other bug fixes |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.29 summary: |
| - Numerous important bug fixes |
| - Few minor new features |
| - Some performance improvements in generated code for Python |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.28 summary: |
| - More powerful renaming (%rename) capability. |
| - More user friendly warning handling. |
| - Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage |
| the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disables both constructors and |
| destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor' |
| and/or 'nodefaultdtor'. |
| - Automatic copy constructor wrapper generation via the 'copyctor' option/feature. |
| - Better handling of Windows extensions and types. |
| - Better runtime error reporting. |
| - Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions. |
| - Add the %naturalvar directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping. |
| - Better default handling of std::string variables using the %naturalvar directive. |
| - Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when |
| accessing a variable. |
| - Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors. |
| - Add the -fastdispatch option to enable smaller and faster overload dispatch |
| mechanism. |
| - Template support for %rename, %feature and %typemap improved. |
| - Add/doc more debug options, such as -dump_module, -debug_typemaps, etc. |
| - Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all |
| scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps. |
| - New language module: Common Lisp with CFFI. |
| - Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL, many old reported and hidden |
| errors with typemaps are now fixed. |
| - Initial Java support for languages using the UTL via GCJ, you can now use |
| Java libraries in your favorite script language using gcj + swig. |
| - Tcl support for std::wstring. |
| - PHP4 module update, many error fixes and actively maintained again. |
| - Allegrocl support for C++, also enhanced C support. |
| - Ruby support for bang methods. |
| - Ruby support for user classes as native exceptions. |
| - Perl improved dispatching in overloaded functions via the new cast and rank |
| mechanism. |
| - Perl improved backward compatibility, 5.004 and later tested and working. |
| - Python improved backward compatibility, 1.5.2 and later tested and working. |
| - Python can use the same cast/rank mechanism via the -castmode option. |
| - Python implicit conversion mechanism similar to C++, via the %implicitconv |
| directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library). |
| - Python threading support added. |
| - Python STL support improved, iterators are supported and STL containers can |
| use now the native PyObject type. |
| - Python many performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test |
| all of them. Python runtime benchmarks show up to 20 times better performance |
| compared to 1.3.27 and older versions. |
| - Python support for 'multi-inheritance' on the python side. |
| - Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the |
| additional 'ClassPtr' classes. |
| - Python extended support for smart pointers. |
| - Python better support for static member variables. |
| - Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work |
| only with swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28 |
| - Python test-suite is now 'valgrinded' before release, and swig also |
| reports memory leaks due to missing destructors. |
| - Minor bug fixes and improvements to the Lua, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Guile, |
| Chicken, Tcl and Perl modules. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.27 summary: |
| - Fix bug in anonymous typedef structures which was leading to strange behaviour |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.26 summary: |
| - New language modules: Lua, CLISP and Common Lisp with UFFI. |
| - Big overhaul to the PHP module. |
| - Change to the way 'extern' is handled. |
| - Minor bug fixes specific to C#, Java, Modula3, Ocaml, Allegro CL, |
| XML, Lisp s-expressions, Tcl, Ruby and Python modules. |
| - Other minor improvements and bug fixes. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.25 summary: |
| - Improved runtime type system. Speed of module loading improved in |
| modules with lots of types. SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION has been increased |
| from 1 to 2, but the API is exactly the same; only internal changes |
| were made. |
| - The languages that use the runtime type system now support external |
| access to the runtime type system. |
| - Various improvements with typemaps and template handling. |
| - Fewer warnings in generated code. |
| - Improved colour documentation. |
| - Many C# module improvements (exception handling, prevention of early |
| garbage collection, C# attributes support added, more flexible type |
| marshalling/asymmetric types.) |
| - Minor improvements and bug fixes specific to the C#, Java, TCL, Guile, |
| Chicken, MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and Ocaml modules). |
| - Various other bug fixes and memory leak fixes. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.24 summary: |
| - Improved enum handling |
| - More runtime library options |
| - More bugs fixes for templates and template default arguments, directors |
| and other areas. |
| - Better smart pointer support, including data members, static members |
| and %extend. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.23 summary: |
| - Improved support for callbacks |
| - Python docstring support and better error handling |
| - C++ default argument support for Java and C# added. |
| - Improved c++ default argument support for the scripting languages plus |
| option to use original (compact) default arguments. |
| - %feature and %ignore/%rename bug fixes and mods - they might need default |
| arguments specified to maintain compatible behaviour when using the new |
| default arguments wrapping. |
| - Runtime library changes: Runtime code can now exist in more than one module |
| and so need not be compiled into just one module |
| - Further improved support for templates and namespaces |
| - Overloaded templated function support added |
| - More powerful default typemaps (mixed default typemaps) |
| - Some important %extend and director code bug fixes |
| - Guile now defaults to using SCM API. The old interface can be obtained by |
| the -gh option. |
| - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, |
| MzScheme, Perl, Python and Ruby |
| - Improved dependencies generation for constructing Makefiles. |
| |
| SWIG-1.3.22 summary: |
| - Improved exception handling and translation of C errors or C++ |
| exceptions into target language exceptions. |
| - Improved enum support, mapping to built-in Java 1.5 enums and C# |
| enums or the typesafe enum pattern for these two languages. |
| - Python - much better STL support and support for std::wstring, |
| wchar_t and FILE *. |
| - Initial support for Modula3 and Allegro CL. |
| - 64 bit TCL support. |
| - Java and C#'s proxy classes are now nearly 100% generated from |
| typemaps and/or features for finer control on the generated code. |
| - SWIG runtime library support deprecation. |
| - Improved documentation. SWIG now additionally provides documentation |
| in the form of a single HTML page as well as a pdf document. |
| - Enhanced C++ friend declaration support. |
| - Better support for reference counted classes. |
| - Various %fragment improvements. |
| - RPM fixes. |
| - Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, |
| MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and XML. |
| |
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