recutils/NEWS

This NEWS file records noteworthy changes, very tersely.
See the manual for detailed information.

  Copyright 2010-2022 Jose E. Marchesi.

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 Version 1.9 (16 April 2022)
* Utilities:
  . Fix bug preventing recins and recset to work when /tmp is
    in a different mount point.
  . Fix a segfault that occured when csv2rec was presented with
    invalid data.
  . Fix long option name for -j/--join.
* Format:
  . New special field %singular to mark fields whose contents
    must be unique in the containing record set.
* librec:
  . Fix a segmentation fault when there are blank characters before
    the list of fields in %type fields.
* Documentation:
  . New manual chapter discussing the ob-rec.el major mode.
  . Do not claim that recins creates non-existent files.
* Other fixes:
  . CVE-2021-46019
  . CVE-2021-46022
  . CVE-2021-46022
  . gnulib updated.

 Version 1.8 (3 January 2019)
* Utilities:
  . Fix the build of readrec with recent bash headers.
* librec:
  . Fix evaluation of sexes containing #NAME expressions.
  . Make numeric results from aggregated functions signed.
* readred:
  . readrec --help now shows the help message and returns,
    instead of waiting for input.
* Emacs mode:
  . rec-mode.el now supports case-insensitive searches.
  . rec-mode.el now defines it's own faces.
  . ob-rec.el was switched to lexical binding to satisfy later
    org-mode versions.
* It is now possible to run the testsuite in parallel.
* Other fixes:
  . gnulib updated.
  . GNU/Hurd build fixed.
  . Aggregate functions now work properly in Aarch64 and powerpc.

 Version 1.7 (25 March 2014)
* Utilities:
  . rec2csv now supports a -d option to change the delimiter
    character in CSV files.
  . It is now possible to specify several recfiles in the
    command line containing anonymous records.
* Format:
  . Support for restricting the fields that can appear in records
    with the new %allowed special field.
  . If a tab separates a field name and a field value is now
    ignored and not considered part of the field value.
* librec:
  . The current version of the library is now 1.
* Emacs mode:
  . It now possible to jump several records while navigating
    using a prefix argument to the next/previous commands.
* Documentation:
  . The examples in the manual have been improved, and well as many
    other aspects: formatting, English, etc.  Special thanks to Karl
    Berry for pointing out the problems and suggesting solutions.
* Internal cleanup and code factorization.
* Many, many, many bug fixes :D

 Version 1.6 (03 November 2013)
* Utilities:
  . Support for joins and foreign keys.
  . Grouping records by one or more fields.
  . Sorting recors by several fields.
  . Specifying rewrite rules in field expressions.
  . Writing field values in rows.
  . Dot-notation in selection expressions.
  . Support for the >= and <= operators in selection expressions.
  . Aggregated functions: sum, min, max, avg.
  . New bash loadable builtin `readrec'.
* Format:
  . New UUID field type.
  . User provided arbitrary constraints with %constraint.
  . Pre-defined constants MIN and MAX can now be used in ranges.
* librec:
  . New high-level API: rec_db_query, rec_db_insert, rec_db_delete and
    rec_db_set.
  . Documentation in the rec.h header file extended and improved.
* Emacs mode:
  . Texinfo manual describing the usage of rec-mode.
  . Support for a mode hook.
  . Comments are now supported in records.
  . add-change-log-entry in a recfile now does the right thing.
  . Commands for copying/killing fields and records.
  . Support for undo in navigation mode.
  . Field folding.
  . Editing methods for the several field types.
  . Statistics.
* Documentation:
  . The user manual has been restructured and expanded.
* Internal cleanup and code factorization.
* Many, many, many bug fixes :D

 Version 1.5 (13 January 2012)
* The utilities will now ask interactively for a password if it was
  not provided with the -s command line option.  This avoids security
  problems related to shell history files.
* Support for octal and hexadecimal numbers has been added.  They can
  be used in both the records and selection expressions.
* It is now possible to select a given number of random records in
  many of the utilities using the -m command line option.
* The -n option now accepts a list of indexes, supporting ranges.
* The new -U (uniq) option for recsel removes duplicated fields in the
  output records.
* The new -q (quick) option allows to quickly search for the desired
  record without having to provide a complete selection expression.
* Auto generated fields are now considered integers by default.  This
  avoids repetitive patterns in record descriptors involving %auto and
  %type.
* Tab characters are now allowed in blank lines betwwen records.
* The API in rec.h is now better documented with comments, and
  improved.
* recfix now exits with an error status if there is a parse error in
  some input file.
* The usage of the internal data structures has been _vastly_
  improved, resulting in a much faster operation.
* Internal cleanup and code factorization.
* Many, many, many bug fixes :D

 Version 1.4 (03 November 2011)
* Support for encryption with the new %confidential special field.
* Support for named types with the new %typedef special field.
* Support for sorting with the new %sort special field.
* Recutils support for org-babel is now included in the distribution
  as ob-rec.el.  It allows to read rec data into org documents in both
  raw and table formats.
* It is now possible to use double quotes for delimiting string
  literals in selection expressions, as well as single quotes.
  Unescapted newline characters are also supported.
* The manual has been vastly improved.
* recfix now supports several operations: check, sort, encrypt and
  decrypt.
* recins now generates parseable locale independent dates when
  generating time-stamps in auto-fields.
* Lots of bug fixes.

 Version 1.3 (11 February 2011)
* A quite bad (and embarrassing) bug introduced in 1.2 has been
  fixed.  The bug was causing recins, recdel and recset to report
  random integrity failures, due to a uninitialized variable.
* New special field %size, that allows to define constraints in the
  size of record sets.
* Several fixes in the user manual.
* Little portability issue that prevented one of the tests to compile
  in macos x has been fixed.
* Translations updates.

 Version 1.2 (4 February 2011)
* New utility rec2csv, to export rec data to csv files.
* Support for auto-incremented fields and timestamps with the new
  %auto field in record descriptors.
* Support for comments in enum type descriptions.
* recset now supports a new "set or add field" operation, implementing
  the common case of setting the value of a field in case it exists,
  or else add it to the record.
* The flavor of regular expressions accepted in both selection
  expressions and type descriptions is now documented in the user
  manual.
* Translations for German, Finnish, Swedish and Dutch.
* recdel now performs an integrity check before to complete the
  deletion.
* The utilities no longer "expand" the contents of remote descriptors
  in the local ones.
* recset and recins no longer destroy the permissions of the rec file
  that is being modified.
* Many fixes in the documentation.
* Lots of bug fixes.

 Version 1.1 (24 December 2010)
* New utility recfmt, to format records based on templates.
* Improvements in selection expressions:
  . Support ranges in field subscripts.
  . New date operators: before (<<), after (>>) and sametime (==).
  . New ternary conditional operator (?:).
  . New string concatenation operator (&).
* libcsv is now embedded in the source distribution, so it is no
  longer required to have it installed to build csv2rec.
* Portability problems fixed.  The programs have been tested in the
  following systems:
  . GNU/Linux
  . FreeBSD 6.4
  . MacOS X
  . mingw32
  . Solaris 8
  . AIX 5.1
  . HP-UX 11.00
  . IRIX 6.5
  . Tru64 (OSF/1 5.1)
  . Cygwin 1.7
* Lots of bug fixes.

 Version 1.0 (3 December 2010)
* Initial release.
  . User manual.
  . Library (librec).
  . Utilities: recinf, recsel, recins, recdel, recset, recfix, csv2rec,
    mdb2rec.
  . Experimental Emacs mode (rec-mode.el).