From fe3dc34dc3484006e12b403f7ceb06f0ad40b6f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikias Bassen Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:37:53 +0200 Subject: Updated NEWS for release --- NEWS | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2627893..0b2abc6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,48 @@ +Version 2.8.0 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Changes: + * Convert plist_array_set_item, plist_array_append_item, plist_array_insert_item, + plist_array_remove_item, plist_array_item_remove, plist_dict_set_item, + plist_dict_remove_item, and plist_dict_merge from void to plist_err_t return + type so that memory allocation and other errors can be reported + * Make #PLIST_ARRAY and #PLIST_DICT iterators opaque; add plist_array_free_iter + and plist_dict_free_iter to release them + * Add JSON coercion support for non-JSON plist types + * Add OpenStep coercion support for non-OpenStep plist types + * Add circular reference detection to all format writers + * Prevent deep nesting of plist structures in all input/output formats + * plistutil: Use getopt for solid option parsing + * plistutil: Add a --nodepath option to allow selecting a specific node + * plistutil: Read STDIN in chunks instead of one byte at a time + * plistutil: preserve binary data on Windows standard streams + * Add NULL checks and error handling across the codebase (node_attach/insert + failures, realloc failures in byte_array_grow/ptr_array_insert, etc.) + * Make plist copy and free implementations iterative to avoid stack overflow + on deeply nested structures + * docs: Add OpenStep to man page + +- Bugfixes: + * Fix heap overflow caused by incorrect PLIST_STRING length during copy + * Fix UTF-8 to UTF-16 decoding and enforce strict validation in bplist + * Fix inverted strcmp in string to boolean conversion + * Fix incorrect size storage in plist_copy() for PLIST_STRING nodes + * Fix is_ascii_string by using a sufficiently large data type + * Fix bplist offset_table range check and add overflow check to node offset + pointer arithmetic + * Reject insertion of plist nodes that already have a parent + * xplist: Enforce single root value inside + * xplist: Convert nested {CF$UID:} dicts to PLIST_UID safely + * xplist: Harden entity unescaping against malformed input and improve + robustness of XML text parsing and value conversion + * Fix plist_is_binary() not checking for NULL input + * Fix a few memory leaks in JSON parsing and libcnary node_copy_deep() + * Fix Cython crashes + * Fix fread() unused return values by actually handling errors + * Fix Integer constructor to copy plist node (C++ bindings) + * Various smaller compiler warning and portability fixes (MSVC ssize_t, + format specifiers, WIN32 time_s support) + Version 2.7.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- cgit v1.1-32-gdbae