1.24.8 release

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/base/trunk@38498 72102866-910b-0410-8b05-ffd578937521

ANNOUNCE

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 1 Announcement
 **************
 
-The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.7, is now available.
+The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.8, is now available.
 
 1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
 =====================================
@@ -18,20 +18,28 @@ portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).
    There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
 `http://www.gnustep.org'.
 
-1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.24.7'
+1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.24.8'
 ==========================================
 
-   * TLS and other security improvements (note, SSLv3.0 is disabled by
-     default in order to prevent the 'POODLE' attack).
+   * Performance optimisations (particularly in the use of tiny string
+     objects by the new objc runtime on 64bit systems).
 
-   * Latest timezone data included
+   * Thread naming and logging of threads by NSLog() has been made
+     consistent with the latest OSX releases, making debugging of
+     multithreaded code a little easier.
 
-   * Various other bugfixes
+   * Sergei Golovin has added NSURLConnection regression tests (while
+     fixing a few bugs there).
+
+   * As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most
+     recent international timezone data.
+
+   * Various other bugfixes.
 
 1.3 Where can you get it?  How can you compile it?
 ==================================================
 
-The gnustep-base-1.24.7.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
+The gnustep-base-1.24.8.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
 `ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.
 
 Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2015-05-15  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Documentation/install.texi:
+	* ANNOUNCE:
+	* INSTALL:
+	* NEWS:
+	Final updates for 1.24.8 release
+
 2015-05-13  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: Tidy compiler and preprocessor  detection and use

Documentation/install.texi

@@ -27,11 +27,13 @@ This version of gnustep-base requires gnustep-make version 2.0.0 or higher.
 Other external libraries that you may need to install include:
 
 @itemize
-@item ffcall or ffi (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+@item ffi (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+@item icu (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+@item gnutls (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
 @item libxml2 (RECOMMENDED)
 @item libxslt (OPTIONAL)
-@item openssl (OPTIONAL)
 @item iconv (OPTIONAL, not needed if you have glibc)
+@item openssl (OPTIONAL, not needed if you have gnutls)
 @end itemize
 
 If you are installing the GNUstep libraries individually, make sure you
@@ -134,49 +136,21 @@ the NSApplicationMain function in a gui application).
 
 GNUstep's NSInvocations and Distributed Objects code involves detailed
 manipulation of the stack and function calls using a library that
-implements a Foreign-Function Interface (FFI), such as the ffcall or
-libffi libraries. Use of ffcall is automatically enabled if the ffcall
-libraries are found (and the same with libffi, although ffcall takes
+implements a Foreign-Function Interface (FFI), such as the 
+libffi library. Use of libffi is automatically enabled if the libffi
+library is found (and the same with ffcall, although libffi takes
 precedence), unless specifically disabled with @code{--disable-do}.
-If disabled, the code reverts to the builtin method for stack frame
-handling, but this rarely works on non-ix86 machines and is not
-supported.
-
-You need to have the ffcall libraries, which you can get from
-@url{ftp://www.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/} or
-@url{http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/}. You also need to have a special
-version of the Objective-C library if you are not using gcc 3.x
-(before gcc 3.0 the required hooks were not in the standard
-library). You can get this library from
-@url{ftp://www.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs}.
-
-Support for the libffi library has also been added.  Current versions
-of libffi are only distributed with gcc version 3.x, although it is
-not installed by default. To install it, after you have built gcc, do
-something like:
-@example
-mkdir libffi-build
-cd libffi-build
-../gcc-3.2.1/libffi/configure
-make
-ffitest
-sudo make install
-@end example
-
- To enable this in the gnustep-base library, use the configure option
-@code{--enable-libffi}.
 
 @node OpenSSL,  , FFI Library, Configuration
 @subsection OpenSSL
 
-GNUstep base has optional support for using the OpenSSL libraries for
-secure URL connections (with the NSURL classes). This functionality is
+While GNUstep base has full support for HTTPS/TLS using gnustls, it also
+has optional support for using the OpenSSL libraries for secure URL
+connections (though only with the NSURL classes). This functionality is
 compiled as a separate bundle since the OpenSSL license is not
 compatible with GPL, and in the hopes that if someone writes an openssl
 replacement, it can quickly be used by creating another bundle. The
-openssl libraries need to be installed for this to work.  To disable
-this option add @code{--disable-openssl} when running the
-@file{configure} script.
+openssl libraries need to be installed for this to work.
 
 @node Compilation,  , Configuration, Top
 @section Compilation

INSTALL

@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@ higher.
 
    Other external libraries that you may need to install include:
 
-   * ffcall or ffi (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+   * ffi (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+
+   * icu (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
+
+   * gnutls (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
 
    * libxml2 (RECOMMENDED)
 
    * libxslt (OPTIONAL)
 
-   * openssl (OPTIONAL)
-
    * iconv (OPTIONAL, not needed if you have glibc)
 
+   * openssl (OPTIONAL, not needed if you have gnutls)
+
    If you are installing the GNUstep libraries individually, make sure
 you have installed the GNUstep Makefile package (gnustep-make) already,
 and you have sourced the makefile script:
@@ -107,45 +111,21 @@ application).
 
 GNUstep's NSInvocations and Distributed Objects code involves detailed
 manipulation of the stack and function calls using a library that
-implements a Foreign-Function Interface (FFI), such as the ffcall or
-libffi libraries. Use of ffcall is automatically enabled if the ffcall
-libraries are found (and the same with libffi, although ffcall takes
-precedence), unless specifically disabled with `--disable-do'.  If
-disabled, the code reverts to the builtin method for stack frame
-handling, but this rarely works on non-ix86 machines and is not
-supported.
-
-   You need to have the ffcall libraries, which you can get from
-`ftp://www.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/' or
-`http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/'. You also need to have a special
-version of the Objective-C library if you are not using gcc 3.x (before
-gcc 3.0 the required hooks were not in the standard library). You can
-get this library from `ftp://www.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs'.
-
-   Support for the libffi library has also been added.  Current versions
-of libffi are only distributed with gcc version 3.x, although it is not
-installed by default. To install it, after you have built gcc, do
-something like:
-     mkdir libffi-build
-     cd libffi-build
-     ../gcc-3.2.1/libffi/configure
-     make
-     ffitest
-     sudo make install
-
-   To enable this in the gnustep-base library, use the configure option
-`--enable-libffi'.
+implements a Foreign-Function Interface (FFI), such as the libffi
+library. Use of libffi is automatically enabled if the libffi library
+is found (and the same with ffcall, although libffi takes precedence),
+unless specifically disabled with `--disable-do'.
 
 0.2.3 OpenSSL
 -------------
 
-GNUstep base has optional support for using the OpenSSL libraries for
-secure URL connections (with the NSURL classes). This functionality is
+While GNUstep base has full support for HTTPS/TLS using gnustls, it also
+has optional support for using the OpenSSL libraries for secure URL
+connections (though only with the NSURL classes). This functionality is
 compiled as a separate bundle since the OpenSSL license is not
 compatible with GPL, and in the hopes that if someone writes an openssl
 replacement, it can quickly be used by creating another bundle. The
-openssl libraries need to be installed for this to work.  To disable
-this option add `--disable-openssl' when running the `configure' script.
+openssl libraries need to be installed for this to work.
 
 0.3 Compilation
 ===============