Oldes/Rebol3 3.11.0

Rebol v3.11.0

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Features:

• 311223 Added possibility to set/clear BREAK, DATA-TERMINAL-READY and REQUEST-TO-SEND serial signals (on Windows so far)
• 083c0d Implemented attempt/safer to catch also thrown exceptions
• 6edaaa Implemented try/all to catch also thrown exceptions
• 059643 Allowed function for a recovery of a caught throw
• e3c224 Implemented catch/all which may be used to catch all throws (named and unnamed)
• b91715 New /recover option of the catch function
• 808276 New request-password native which reads line with hidden input and avoids command history
• 2494ff Dispatch file argument to checksum native to file-checksum function
• b91f64 Included function file-checksum returning checksum of a given file's content
• b522a2 Anonymize authentication tokens in log
• b6aedc Direct conversion between date and decimal now uses Modified Julian Date
• 483db9 Conversion from date to decimal now returns Julian date as well as /julian date accessor
• b18dc5 to-date mezzanine function accepting input in format like: 1-1-2000 00:00:00
• 0401ce Allowed specifying MIDI devices using its names
• 8319d5 Special integer notation (bit, octal, decimal and hexadecimal)
• eeb381 Allow gob! to be used as a source for move function
• df0907 Simplified enbase-64 padding code
• 422ac0 Store user's persistent data before releasing existing user
• 4d9318 Including optional support for serial device as was used in the Atronix's branch
• 3761b7 Allow use of series index in parse's remove command
• 7f46bc Implemented a raw string syntax in a form %{...}%
• 9fa0f5 Native for computation of a difference between two images
• dd1807 Native for human perception weighted Euclidean distance between two RGB colors
• dbdb4d Allow comments in automatically collected REBNATIVE code specifications
• d7d85c Included link to Rebol/BlurHash extension version 1.0.0
• 8a44ea Implemented passing a struct value to an extension

Changes:

• 6ed8da Deprecated try/except. Using try/with instead.
• 519fd4 Using catch/with instead of catch/recover
• 0cb8bd Include JSON codec in Core builds
• a2ac18 Include date mezzanine functions in Core builds
• 58b604 Not using HostileFork's CPP casting macros
• 8cfcc7 Moved the event port location from system/view/event-port to system/ports/event
• 11fc8b Make halt catchable
• 7bce10 Removed the quit/now option
• 476a74 More aggressive recycle native
• 8657fb Do not delay JSON codec module as it is used in HTTP protocol

Fixes:

• 8d4fed Variable used without being initialized
• 4dc5b4 Path evaluation does not process THROWN values as THROWN
• 842939 MAKE ERROR! does not process THROWN values as THROWN
• 7e2585 Better error messages for not caught throws
• 6e0011 Using wrong constants
• 2bbd3e catch/quit/name catches only quit or halt, but not any named throw
• 0605fd Equality of objects with hidden values
• dc85ac Regression in 1.#NaN comparison
• 8bb611 Proper handling wide Unicode characters in console input on Posix systems
• e5219e Code cleanup
• bbbabb Simplified request-password native code and fixed Win32 version
• ce2711 Allow releasing a system user with none value
• 7c96ba Potentially uninitialized local pointer variable
• 8d4879 Throw an error when checksum is used with refines on a file argument
• b62428 Checksum port crashes when input is not a series value
• 91f574 parse/case parsing words and paths
• 44e7f8 Invalid output when converting date to integer without a time value
• a5c247 Incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers warning
• 828473 Provide error numbers instead of hard-coded traces from the MIDI device
• cae3ef Changes of the MIDI setup not recognized on macOS
• 9dbc8e MIDI implementation for macOS so it works same like on Windows
• 952d76 Ignore the 3rd MIDI message byte in the MIDI test (it can have value on macOS)
• 67e519 MIDI port using old path (test script included)
• fd780c access-os function was missing because of the old native definition used
• d063af Corrupted output from trace on Posix systems
• 0c4fad Missing string definition for map
• de59c1 Finer decimal equiv? comparison than equal?
• ddcedf Do not pad output when used enbase/url
• cbd626 Correct decoding escaped Unicode chars in the JSON codec"
• c77e99 Correct decoding escaped Unicode chars in the JSON codec
• e92f1f Correctly handle not existing user argument for the set-user function
• 107df0 Handle decoding escaped Unicode chars in the JSON codec
• a65ef4 Posting large data over TLS
• 6c458f Typo in previous commits
• b0412a Posix error: too many arguments to function ‘Open_StdIO’
• d87348 Don't set READ_LINE mode when started with --cgi option
• 358b73 Removing trailing LF from console's input tail on Posix only when in READ_LINE mode
• 96eb7d Handle 1.INF and 1.#NaN cases of its percent type
• be1edd Dealing with index past tail scenarios
• b47bbd Missing path value in serial port's specification
• 122d3d Including serial port related files taken from Atronix's branch