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- Written by David Nichols
- Parent Category: Qore Release Notes
- Last Updated: 22 January 2013
- Created: 14 February 2009
Qore 0.7.3 Release Notes
release summary: qore 0.7.3 contains minor feature improvements over 0.7.2 and five bug fixes
- Socket::connect() takes an optional timeout value
- HTTPClient::constructor() options takes a new option: connect_timeout (usable with the XmlRpcClient and JsonRpcClient classes as well)
- SOAP support updated in examples directory: SoapClient.qc, SoapHandler.qc, HTTPServer.qc, WSDL.qc
- added is_writable() function as a correctly-spelled alias for is_writeable()
- fixed and documented getcwd() function
- added new functions parseXMLAsData() and parseXMLAsDataWithSchema()
- BUG FIX: fixed a bug in the binary() function when converting binary strings to binary type when the strings had embedded nulls
- BUG FIX: fixed a crashing bug in the handling of GLIBC gethostbyname_r() failures; contrary to the glibc documentation, the return value is 0 even when the function fails
- BUG FIX: fixed some erroneous builds on PowerPC where processor-specific features were not built properly
- BUG FIX: fixed a bug handling GLIBC gethostbyaddr_r() failures; contrary to the glibc documentation, the return value is 0 even when the function fails
- BUG FIX: fixed a bug doing math on negative units of relative dates; invalid dates would be returned