1.13.1 / 2020-06-09
Changed:
- Revert use of
ucrtbase.dllas default C library on Windows-MINGW.ucrtbase.dllis still used on MSWIN target. #790 - Test for
ffi_prep_closure_loc()to make sure we can use this function. This fixes incorrect use of system libffi on MacOS Mojave (10.14). #787 - Update types.conf on x86_64-dragonflybsd
1.13.0 / 2020-06-01
Added:
- Add TruffleRuby support. Almost all specs are running on TruffleRuby and succeed. #768
- Add ruby source files to the java gem. This allows to ship the Ruby library code per platform java gem and add it as a default gem to JRuby. #763
- Add FFI::Platform::LONG_DOUBLE_SIZE
- Add bounds checks for writing to an inline char[] . #756
- Add long double as callback return value. #771
- Update type definitions and add types from stdint.h and stddef.h on i386-windows, x86_64-windows, x86_64-darwin, x86_64-linux, arm-linux, powerpc-linux. #749
- Add new type definitions for powerpc-openbsd and sparcv9-openbsd. #775, #778
Changed:
- Raise required ruby version to >= 2.3.
- Lots of cleanups and improvements in library, specs and benchmarks.
- Fix a lot of compiler warnings at the C-extension
- Fix several install issues on MacOS:
- Look for libffi in SDK paths, since recent versions of macOS removed it from
/usr/include. #757 - Fix error
ld: library not found for -lgcc_s.10.4 - Don’t built for i386 architecture as it is deprecated
- Look for libffi in SDK paths, since recent versions of macOS removed it from
- Several fixes for MSVC build on Windows. #779
- Use
ucrtbase.dllas default C library on Windows instead of oldmsvcrt.dll. #779 - Update builtin libffi to fix a Powerpc issue with parameters of type long
- Allow unmodified sourcing of (the ruby code of) this gem in JRuby and TruffleRuby as a default gem. #747
- Improve check to detect if a module has a #find_type method suitable for FFI. This fixes compatibility with stdlib
mkmf. #776
Removed:
- Reject callback with
:stringreturn type at definition, because it didn’t work so far and is not save to use. #751, #782
1.12.2 / 2020-02-01
- Fix possible segfault at FFI::Struct#[] and []= after GC.compact . #742
1.12.1 / 2020-01-14
Added:
- Add binary gem support for ruby-2.7 on Windows
1.12.0 / 2020-01-14
Added:
- FFI::VERSION is defined as part of
require 'ffi'now. It is no longer necessary torequire 'ffi/version'.
Changed:
- Update libffi to latest master.
Deprecated:
- Overwriting struct layouts is now warned and will be disallowed in ffi-2.0. #734, #735
1.11.3 / 2019-11-25
Removed:
- Remove support for tainted objects which cause deprecation warnings in ruby-2.7. #730
1.11.2 / 2019-11-11
Added:
- Add DragonFlyBSD as a platform. #724
Changed:
- Sort all types.conf files, so that files and changes are easier to compare.
- Regenerated type conf for freebsd12 and x86_64-linux targets. #722
- Remove MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET that was targeting very old version 10.4. #647
- Fix library name mangling for non glibc Linux/UNIX. #727
- Fix compiler warnings raised by ruby-2.7
- Update libffi to latest master.
1.11.1 / 2019-05-20
Changed:
- Raise required ruby version to >=2.0. #699, #700
- Fix a possible linker error on ruby < 2.3 on Linux.
1.11.0 / 2019-05-17
This version was yanked on 2019-05-20 to fix an install issue on ruby-1.9.3. #700
Added:
- Add ability to disable or force use of system libffi. #669 Use like
gem inst ffi -- --enable-system-libffi. - Add ability to call FFI callbacks from outside of FFI call frame. #584
- Add proper documentation to FFI::Generator and ::Task
- Add gemspec metadata. #696, #698
Changed:
- Fix stdcall on Win32. #649, #669
- Fix load paths for FFI::Generator::Task
- Fix FFI::Pointer#read_string(0) to return a binary String. #692
- Fix benchmark suite so that it runs on ruby-2.x
- Move FFI::Platform::CPU from C to Ruby. #663
- Move FFI::StructByReference to Ruby. #681
- Move FFI::DataConverter to Ruby (#661)
- Various cleanups and improvements of specs and benchmarks
Removed:
- Remove ruby-1.8 and 1.9 compatibility code. #683
- Remove unused spec files. #684
1.10.0 / 2019-01-06
Added:
- Add /opt/local/lib/ to ffi’s fallback library search path. #638
- Add binary gem support for ruby-2.6 on Windows
- Add FreeBSD on AArch64 and ARM support. #644
- Add FFI::LastError.winapi_error on Windows native or Cygwin. #633
Changed:
- Update to rake-compiler-dock-0.7.0
- Use 64-bit inodes on FreeBSD >= 12. #644
- Switch time_t and suseconds_t types to long on FreeBSD. #627
- Make register_t long_long on 64-bit FreeBSD. #644
- Fix Pointer#write_array_of_type #637
Removed:
- Drop binary gem support for ruby-2.0 and 2.1 on Windows
1.9.25 / 2018-06-03
Changed:
- Revert closures via libffi. This re-adds ClosurePool and fixes compat with SELinux enabled systems. #621
1.9.24 / 2018-06-02
Security Note:
This update addresses vulnerability CVE-2018-1000201: DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS, when a Symbol is used as DLL name instead of a String. Found by Matthew Bush.
Added:
- Added a CHANGELOG file
- Add mips64(eb) support, and mips r6 support. (#601)
Changed:
- Update libffi to latest changes on master.
- Don’t search in hardcoded /usr paths on Windows.
- Don’t treat Symbol args different to Strings in ffi_lib.
- Make sure size_t is defined in Thread.c. Fixes #609
1.9.23 / 2018-02-25
Changed:
- Fix unnecessary rebuild of configure in darwin multi arch. Fixes #605
1.9.22 / 2018-02-22
Changed:
- Update libffi to latest changes on master.
- Update detection of system libffi to match new requirements. Fixes #617
- Prefer bundled libffi over system libffi on Mac OS.
- Do closures via libffi. This removes ClosurePool and fixes compat with PaX. #540
- Use a more deterministic gem packaging.
- Fix unnecessary update of autoconf files at gem install.
1.9.21 / 2018-02-06
Added:
- Ruby-2.5 support by Windows binary gems. Fixes #598
- Add missing win64 types.
- Added support for Bitmask. (#573)
- Add support for MSYS2 (#572) and Sparc64 Linux. (#574)
Changed:
- Fix read_string to not throw an error on length 0.
- Don’t use absolute paths for sh and env. Fixes usage on Adroid #528
- Use Ruby implementation for
whichfor better compat with Windows. Fixes #315 - Fix compatibility with PPC64LE platform. (#577)
- Normalize sparc64 to sparcv9. (#575)
Removed:
- Drop Ruby 1.8.7 support (#480)
1.9.18 / 2017-03-03
Added:
- Add compatibility with Ruby-2.4.
Changed:
- Add missing shlwapi.h include to fix Windows build.
- Avoid undefined behaviour of LoadLibrary() on Windows. #553