Release Notes

Ember+ SDK Release Notes

Ember+ SDK v1.6.2 Release Notes

Overview

Version v1.6.2 of the Ember+ SDK is a maintenance release that fixes an important oversight in version v1.6.0 with regard to the correct spelling of the newly introduced "schemaIdentifiers" attribute.

In addition to this functional change this release increases stability and addresses a few performance problems. All users of the v1.6.0 version are encouraged to update to this release as soon as possible.

Fixes

• Updated DTD version implemented by the various libraries to v2.31 which includes a minor change to the naming of the schemaIdentifier attribute.
  Please note that this requires a small change to client code that uses the accessors, because the spelling has been changed from the singular form "schemaIdentifier" to the plural form "schemaIdentifiers".
• Fixed potential memory leaks during decoding in DomReader.
• Optimized the equality comparison of two type erased iterator instances, yielding a massive performance improvement in typical loop constructs.
• Corrected the signedness of a few temporary variables and integral constants used in the implementation.
• Removed extraneous semicolons that caused compiler warnings on high warning-levels.
• Removed obsolete entries from the Doxygen configuration and corrected wrong output directories in the Doxygen configuration.

Additions

• Added a method called compliesWithSchema which tests whether a schema is part of the schema identifier collection of a node, parameter or matrix.

Ember+ SDK v1.6.0 Release Notes

Overview

Version v1.6.0 of the Ember+ SDK is a feature release that introduces the new Schema extension to the GLOW DTD.

Apart from this new feature this release also contains numerous fixes and stability improvements.

Additions

• Added a Ruby script that converts the premake4 generated VS2012 solution to VS2013 because the automated conversion no longer works reliable strange licensing reasons.
• Added traits to determine the property type from a GLOW type.
• Added libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::push_back(..) and libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::push_front(..) to allow building a path iteratively. Changed the underlying container to std::deque<..> in order to support push_front(..).
• Added libember::ber::ObjectIdentifier::back() to access the last element of the OID.
• Added explicit constructor taking an argument of type value_type to some of the enum-wrappers (CommandType, MessageType, Dtd). PackageFlag and Byte already have a non-explicit constructor taking an argument of type value_type.
• Added equality operators for some of the enum-wrapper types.

Fixes

• Fixed issue #13, by changing the visibility of the default constructor of GlowRootElementCollection and setting the root tag in the default constructor.
• Fixed issue #14 by replacing the standard container with a more suitable alternative and storing the stack elements by value.
• Fixed issue #15 by Replacing C++11 specific constructs in libember with their C++03 equivalents and changing the C++ language standard on non-Windows platforms from C++11 to C++03.
• Fixed issue #17, pass (type-erased) iterator by const-reference, because copying it is expensive.
• Fixed macro to generate type-traits, which was causing errors under GCC.
• Fixed GlowTupleItemDescription::type() always returning ParameterType::None.
• Fixed a lot of warnings at high warning levels.
• Fixed errors reported by cppcheck.
• Fixed Simian warnings in various parts of the Ember+ libraries.
• Fixed a broken link in the Ember+ documentation.

Miscellaneous changes

• Declared the step property of the parameter as deprecated.
  The documentation contains a hint that this property may also be removed in future releases of the libraries.
• Declared GlowRootElementCollection::create() as deprecated.
• Corrected target prefix for libember and libember_slim to avoid the double "liblib" prefix on Unix like systems.
• Modified linker options to set RPATH to '.' on Unix like systems.
• Added (currently failing) test for issue #6.

Ember+ SDK v1.4.0 Release Notes

Overview

Version v1.4.0 of the Ember+ SDK is a feature release that introduces provider specified callable functions the GLOW DTD.

Apart from this new feature this release also contains numerous fixes and stability improvements.

Additions

• Added a method to glow::Value to convert it to an instance of ber::Value.
• Added methods hasEnumeration and effectiveParameter method to GlowParameterBase.
• Added the enumeration entry ParameterType::None to indicate that the type is unknown or not present.
• The methods minimum, maximum, value and defaultValue of the class GlowParameterBase now return an instance of Value or MinMax with the parameter type set to None when the requested value is not present.
• Added comparison operators for the ObjectIdentifier class.

Fixes

• Fixed issues #4, #5, #10, #11 and #12.
• Fixed encoding of real numbers that treated the mantiassa as signed.
• Fixed encoding of unsigned ling values that caused the encoded value to contain a leading zero.
• Fixed DomReader not decoding values of type OctetString.
• Fixed wrong GLOW tag of EmberPlus-Glow.MatrixContents.labels.