2.6.0

2.6.0 (2024-05-13)

Changes

• Revert back API change around PLIST_DATA to use char* again

2.5.0

2.5.0 (2024-05-04)

PACKAGE MAINTAINERS: DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE, USE 2.6.0+ INSTEAD

Changes

• Change API around PLIST_DATA to use uint8_t* instead of char*
• Add PLIST_DICT helper functions for different operations
• Require Cython 3.0 for python bindings

2.4.0

2.4.0 (2024-02-21)

Maintenance release.

Features

• Add a PLIST_OPT_NONE value to plist_write_options_t
• autoconf: Allow disabling build of test suite
• Update doxygen config and document undocumented macros
• Add an explicit PLIST_FORMAT_NONE value
• Add a libplist_version() function to the interface
• docs: Use README.md to generate mainpage with doxygen

Bug Fixes

• Several compiler-related fixes and code improvements
• Plug memory leak in plist_write_to_stream()
• Prevent adding NULL items to array/dictionary nodes
• Fix parallel running of test suite
• Fix cython bindings
• Fix OOB read in plist_from_memory()

2.3.0

2.3.0 (2023-04-21)

Maintenance release.

Breaking

• plist_from_memory() gets additional format parameter

Features

Rename PLIST_UINT to PLIST_INT and add plist_new_int() and plist_get_int_val()

• Add support for JSON format
• Add support for OpenStep format
• Introduce error codes and format constants
• Add return value to import/export functions to allow returning error codes
• Add new plist_sort() function
• Add several human-readable output-only formats
• Add new plist_write_to_string/_stream/_file() functions
• Add new plist_print() function
• Add new plist_read_from_file() function
• Add new plist_mem_free() function
• Add a few C++ methods
• Add C++ interface test
• Add PLIST_NULL type
• Some code housekeeping (mostly clang-tidy)

Bug Fixes

• Fix multiple bugs in all of the parsers
• Fix handling of PLIST_UID nodes

2.2.0

Homepage

2.2.0 (2020-06-15)

Maintenance release.

Breaking

• Rename library and all related files by adding an API version resulting in libplist-2.0 and libplist++-2.0

Features

• bplist: Improve recursion check performance by at least 30% for large files
• Add new plist_val_compare(), plist_val_contains() helper functions
• plistutil: Added ability for files to be read from stdin
• plistutil: Added ability to specify output format
• Add GitHub Actions integration for automatic build tests
• plistutil: Add manual page and usage output
• Improve README.md with project description, installation, contributing and usage sections

Bug Fixes

• test: Fix test suite on Windows
• cython: Fix handling of Date nodes (MACH_EPOCH)
• Fix/suppress several compiler warnings
• Fix: Return NULL from plist_copy() if passed a NULL pointer instead of asserting
• Fix removal of docs directory on make clean