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2023-03-25

SPTK-5.5.0

After a long quiet time, a new version of SPTK is available.

One of the main changes is - SPTK is switched to C++ 20 and not going back. In 2023, there isn't match point supporting C++ 17 that is now about six years old.

The following changes are most interesting:

• Added new class SocketReader. It is separated from TCPSocket and made thread-safe. The TCPSocket and SSLSocket classes are now unbuffered.
• Optimised Timer class. Added new class IntervalTimer that is faster than Timer for constant intervals.
• Moved all unit tests to under test sub-directory, and added many new unit tests.
• Added unit_tests to auto-builds. Auto-builds are updated to the list of OSes that support C++ 20. Debian is not yet included as its stable version doesn't support C++ 20.
• Modified TCPServer interface to be thread-safe.
• Added xml2json utility. It allows conversions of the files from XML to JSON and back.
• Added DateTime parameter support for SQLite3.
• Added String::in() method.
• Added better support for null values for WSInteger and WSDouble.
• Upgraded googletest to release 1.11.
• Switched code formatting to CLang-formatter
• Added support for hex flag in Buffer output to stream.
• Optimised generation of WS-classes. New version generates more modern code.
• Removed xml:: and json:: classes - replaced with xdoc:: that can read and write both, XML and JSON, and convert one to another.
• Re-written of log/log engine destructors to shared_ptr, and removed most race conditions.
• Converted most of filename parameters from String to fs::path.

Fixed bugs, with most significant listed here:

• Fixed COUT and CERR macros to require ';' at the end of statement
• Fixed bug in ODBCConnection on getting object lists from the database
• Fixed bug in Buffer compare
• Fixed BLOB fields support for all drivers, except SQLite3. Added unit tests.
• Fixed incorrect assignment of bool to Variant
• Fixed incorrect detection of MySQL libs on Linux
• Fixed bug in SQLite3 selects that fetch first row containing nulls. Added SQLIte3 unit tests

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