RELEASE NOTES for qore v0.7.7

release summary: 15 bug fixes from 0.7.6

• BUG FIX: fixed a bug where taking a slice from an object could return private members when called outside the class (backported from trunk)
• BUG FIX: fixed a bug making a hash slice where the character encoding was not ensured to be QCS_DEFAULT before trying to match key names (backported from trunk)
• BUG FIX: fixed a bug returning the last builtin data type ID; affects qore modules that implement new builtin types (ex qt module, qt4 module)
• BUG FIX: fixed a reference counting bug in callObjectMethodArgs() that could lead to a crash if a list is passed as the 3rd argument
• BUG FIX: fixed a bug executing builtin functions if an exception is raised when evaluating the arguments (the function was erroneously executed)
• BUG FIX: fixed a bug in the FtpClient class that caused the connection to never get established
• BUG FIX: fixed a bug when a builtin class tries to access private data of an object that's already been deleted; now an appropriate exception is thrown; previously it would silently fail
• BUG FIX: fixed examples/WSDL.qc de/serializing "int" and "short" from negative numbers
• BUG FIX: removed an extraneous reference and dereference in objects when launching new threads in objects (slightly better performance launching new threads in objects)
• BUG FIX: fixed a rare race condition in object constructors when an object launches threads in the object and then the constructor throws an exception afterwards
• BUG FIX: fixed handling in the Datasource and DatasourcePool classes when auto-reconnects fail (connection aborted handling) - now the Datasource class tags the connection as aborted and closes the connection when Datasource::connectionAborted() is called by the DBI drivers, and the DatasourcePool class correctly returns the Datasource to the pool.  Additionally, the Datasource class will not execute any action on the Datasource once the connection has been aborted.  The flag is cleared when the connection is opened again.
• BUG FIX: fixed memory leaks in parse exceptions with static method call references (backported from 0.8.0/trunk)
• BUG FIX: detected erroneous variable list declarations like: our (my $x, ...) or my (our $x) and throw a parse exception (backported from 0.8.0/trunk)
• BUG FIX: fixed a harmless bug in the C++ class TempEncodingHelper to remove a message from valgrind (backported from 0.8.0/trunk)
• BUG FIX: fixed memory bug in the C++ class CryptoHelper - removed unnecessary and incorrect string termination code (backported from 0.8.0/trunk)

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