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| author | Arseny Kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com> | 2014-11-17 22:34:17 -0800 |
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| committer | Arseny Kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com> | 2014-11-17 22:34:17 -0800 |
| commit | 0749d53613f49e5422c4ba125ca4026e1ceced77 (patch) | |
| tree | d0287f3605a97dc2148ef804f2f5f13aa0066390 /docs | |
| parent | b041e94f29fee9800f02ca6c257fe6cea4eae72a (diff) | |
docs: Add changelog for 1.5
Release date is (tentatively) 11/27.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual.qbk | 31 |
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diff --git a/docs/manual.qbk b/docs/manual.qbk index dde8b52..b703948 100644 --- a/docs/manual.qbk +++ b/docs/manual.qbk @@ -1892,6 +1892,37 @@ Because of the differences in document object models, performance considerations [section:changes Changelog] +[h5 27.11.2014 - version 1.5] + +Major release, featuring a lot of performance improvements and some new features. + +* Specification changes: + # xml_document::load(const char_t*) was renamed to load_string; the old method is still available and will be deprecated in a future release + # xml_node::select_single_node was renamed to select_node; the old method is still available and will be deprecated in a future release. + +* New features: + # Added xml_node::append_move and other functions for moving nodes within a document + # Added xpath_query::evaluate_node for evaluating queries with a single node as a result + +* Performance improvements: + # Optimized XML parsing (10-40% faster with clang/gcc, up to 10% faster with MSVC) + # Optimized memory consumption when copying nodes in the same document (string contents is now shared) + # Optimized node copying (10% faster for cross-document copies, 3x faster for inter-document copies; also it now consumes a constant amount of stack space) + # Optimized node output (60% faster; also it now consumes a constant amount of stack space) + # Optimized XPath allocation (query evaluation now results in fewer temporary allocations) + # Optimized XPath sorting (node set sorting is 2-3x faster in some cases) + # Optimized XPath evaluation (XPathMark suite is 100x faster; some commonly used queries are 3-4x faster) + +* Compatibility improvements: + # Fixed xml_node::offset_debug for corner cases + # Fixed undefined behavior while calling memcpy in some cases + # Fixed MSVC 2015 compilation warnings + # Fixed contrib/foreach.hpp for Boost 1.56.0 + +* Bug fixes + # Adjusted comment output to avoid malformed documents if the comment value contains "--" + # Fix XPath sorting for documents that were constructed using append_buffer + [h5 27.02.2014 - version 1.4] Major release, featuring various new features, bug fixes and compatibility improvements. |