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Sat Jul 24 21:25:38 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2021.07

+ Fix "Collectable in a gen2 freelist accessed" when deserializing a method cache
+ Fix possible acces to a freed SC during deserialization
+ Convert more realloc+memset(0) to recalloc
+ Fix some bugs in the various `hash_fsck` functions
+ Fix read buffer overflow in bytecode dumper
+ Fix overflows on slight reallocations of fixed size alloced buffers
+ Fix error handling of mkdir
+ Assign the result of a socket(2) call immediately
+ Fix memory corruption by accessing freed spesh stats
+ Fix ShiftJIS decoder bug where a replacement is used
  and a decoding error is encountered after '\r' character

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Sat Jul 10 15:45:40 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2021.06

+ Set sc.idx during deserialization to avoid costly lookup later
+ Try to trap concurrent hash accesses
+ Fix a case of heap-use-after-free rarely affecting `t/spec/S17-promise/nonblocking-await.t`

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Mon May 24 14:01:50 UTC 2021 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>

- Forward port reproducible.patch after build system changes

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Mon May 24 15:46:17 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2021.05

+ No longer require an exception as argument of nqp::backtrace
+ Remove nqp::time_i and nqp::time_n in favor of nqp:time which just return integer nanoseconds since the epoch
+ Deprecate now unused graphs_s operator
+ Eliminate the sec_n, asec_n and sech_h operators, which are no longer used
+ Prohibit hllbool when the HLL doesn't have special booleans
+ Add a setup_notify handler and queue to nqp::signal to avoid race conditions when setting up a signal handler
+ Fix getobjsc returning NULL when the object has no SC
+ Always log the type coming out of an nqp::decont
+ Make smrt_intify specializable like other smrt_* operators
+ More thorough --full-cleanup
+ Do not downcast bytes argument to write()/send() calls
+ Fix spesh missing writes to containers
+ Fix missing gc_mark of simstackframe's arg_types
+ Propagate spesh facts after optimizations
+ Fix getting garbage numbers after spesh optimized away smart_intify
+ Fix inlines missing synthetic deopt points
+ Constrain C pointer serialization to sizes <= INT32_MAX
+ Fix possible GC upset caused by half-deserialized STables
+ Use the FSA for MVMActiveHandlers
+ Fix a segfault in VMArray's copy_elems
+ Fix a segfault on trying to use an untyped array with buffer write functions
+ Fixing generated backtraces missing inlined frames
+ Save a malloc+free per frame when creating a Backtrace object
+ Fix a memory leak related to Unicode hashes
+ Only call MVM_jit_bytecode_dump_enabled if code is non-NULL
+ Fix JITed ordfirst/ordat/ordbaseat returning 4294967295 instead of -1
+ Fix expr JITed ordbaseat and getcpbyname returning 4294967295 instead of -1
+ Fix spesh removing not-really-dead code
+ Fix possible segfault on exit when using spesh log

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Sun Mar 21 21:43:23 CET 2021 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2021.03

+ Improve serialization of C types
+ Introduce `platform/socket.h`
+ Fix confused profiler output in multi-threaded apps

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Sun Feb 21 13:26:03 CET 2021 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2021.02

+ Introduce new hash implementation based on Robin Hood Hash
+ Fixed serveral memory leaks
+ Fixed several segfaults
+ Improvements to the debug server
+ Fix MVM_file_isexecutable() when being root
+ Give io loop thread and spesh thread a name
+ Several improvements to spesh
+ Introduce the setthreadname op
+ Fix case insensitive string matching with an empty string
+ Fix CStruct handling of inlined attributes
+ Don't obliterate lib_name in exception text of NativeCall
+ Allow for explicitly marking the mainline_frame in the bytecode
+ Possibly fix MVM_panic from entering GC during spesh
+ Fix some possible double frees
+ Add methods WHICH and raku to MAST::Frame for easier debugging
+ JIT compile some more ops

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Wed May 13 12:39:51 CEST 2020 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2020.05

+ Use the FSA for ConcBlockingQueue
+ Use memcpy instead of strncpy
+ Fix some compiler warnings
+ Fix numerous very rare but possible GC bugs
+ Align offsets in P6opaque.c
+ Don't null-terminate string when stringifying int
+ Improve handling of errors in native callbacks
+ Use smaller buffer for native int to str coercion
+ Fix deadlock when trying to report an unsupported NativeCall return type
+ Improve memory usage of utf8-c8 encoding
+ Make profiling more stable, resolving potential panics
+ Add more ops to be profiled for allocations
+ Give MVMSpeshAnn an "order" field to improve diagnostic output
+ Let encode take a preallocated buffer
+ Fix a tiny mistake in containers implementation
+ Add a value_desc_cont container descriptor, which brings the needs of Rakudo's Scalar into the VM
+ Fix invalid reads when freeing native callback cache
+ Implement calculation of unmanaged size for CArray
+ Bounds check codepoint passed to chr
+ Add missing args spesh coercion validation
+ Make OSR work in frames from invokewithcapture
+ JIT nextdispatcherfor
+ Update libuv to version 1.35.0
+ Fix segfaults in MVM_spesh_plugin_guard_list_mark, in profiler and the JIT compiler
+ Fix various memory leaks, mostly relevant to running with --full-cleanup

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Tue Mar  3 12:38:52 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2020.02

+ [ca2a4c4c5] Resolve hostnames given a socket type, protocol, and passivity
+ [d606d9112,b1ff3d826,cf44a3686,cf44a3686,7920f2cc4,cfecd54bd,82f2719ce,e9a63e03f,296bedfa6,
  3bbab8c4b,f56248139,5a2f4ed47,056c523db,192f0433c] Switch our libtommath to upstream's 1.2.0
+ [17935040a,1fbbb9335,a51428429,7877b0376,e67022405,10f98288c,f32b383cc,76d34faf1,d9c087f36]
  Handle return values from libtommath functions
+ [1d80b6038] Fixes for MVM_bigint_pow
+ [dfdaf19a8] Use right size+sign in comparison in MVM_bigint_rand
+ [9709537d9] Serialize the names of closures
+ [f47f53110] Update libuv to version 1.34.2
+ [0814ab4d8] Negative numbers should not be prime
+ [2296bcaed] New libtommath that builds bn_mp_set_double.c...
+ [4d7c7e142] Clear callsite of bottom frame when uninlining
+ [657b536cf,2cc4d3027] Update dyncall submodule
+ [978480b28] Mark cmp_tc static to avoid linker errors
+ [a71eee4c2] Allow closing handle bound to async proc stdin
+ [dd20883c3] Align MVM_args_get_required_pos_num with what the JIT actually expects

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Thu Jan 23 07:41:02 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2020.01.1

+ [105d09d62] Fix NativeCall libraries losing state during repossession
+ [7b8ed6308,a3ec7f315,921c8de84,9d053b8e9,8ac8afcc2,611532317,0995f19b9,fce208cb1,72941ee22,
   9166ea591,61ac671ea] Fix several more compiler warnings

- Remove moarvm-fix-segfaults-in-openssl.diff as the issue has been fixed upstream

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Mon Jan  6 19:44:55 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org

- Add moarvm-fix-segfaults-in-openssl.diff fixing segfaulty regression
  noticed too late for the release.

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Sun Jan  5 10:58:58 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2020.01

+ Fix relocatability of modules using NativeCall
+ Fix segfault caused by deopt all in NativeCall callback
+ Fix segfaults caused by JITed takehandlerresult returning NULL
+ Fix frame walker segfaults caused by deopt of a caller on a different thread
+ Fix memory corruption after cancelling signal
+ Allow getting absolute epoch startup time of VM in vmeventsubscribe
+ Add support for '−' (U+2212) minus for nqp::radix(_I)
+ Clean up MVM_io_resolve_host_name and make it more portable
+ Move to C99, compile with -Wall -Wextra and fix preexisting compiler warnings
+ Jit ordbaseat

- Remove MoarVM-buildroot-fix.diff as the issue has been fixed upstream

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Sun Dec 01 15:15:00 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org

- Backport fix for buildroot in packaged files in MoarVM-buildroot-fix.diff

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Fri Nov 29 08:12:59 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2019.11

Features;
+ Update Unicode to 12.1
+ Add GB18030 encode, decode and decodestream support
+ Introduce vmevent, "VM Event Subscription"
+ Improvements to the profiler, including a new heapsnapshot format with zstd
  support and improvements to the profiler's "confprog" probe language
+ Add MVM_vm_run_bytecode() as alternative to MVM_vm_run_file()
+ Improve hostname resolution with better support for IPv6
+ Partial escape analysis
+ Support JIT compilation of floating point operations
+ Support for deoptimization in the expression JIT
+ Jit getuniprop_(int|bool|str), captureposarg_n, smrt_intify
+ Various smaller performance improvements
+ Fix more than 40 garbage collection related bugs leading to segfaults and other issues
+ Make MVM_file_is_rwx honor root and groups
+ Fix crashes when destroying threads
+ Stability fixes
+ Fix pointer arithmetic in inlined CArrays in CStruct/CPPStruct REPRs
+ Put limits on local and inline counts for inlining to avoid overly long spesh blockages
+ Fixed some memory leaks
+ Improvements to the debug server
+ NativeCall: improvments to error messages
+ Improve Unicode handling with paths
+ Show correct bad bytes in encoding errors
+ Improvements to documentation

- Remove fix-build.patch as the issue has been fixed upstream

Tue Jul 18 10:10:00 CEST 2019 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2019.07

+ Fix several segfaults
+ Fix inlining CStruct and CUnion in CPPStruct REPR instances
+ Fix a couple of memory leaks
+ Many updates to the heap profiler
+ Make builds of mbc files reproducible
+ Many performance improvements
+ Add freemem and totalmem ops

- Add fix-build.patch with a backported fix to Configure.pl

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Tue Mar 19 09:22:56 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2019.03

+ New partial escape analysis allows objects to be replaced by registers
+ Fix memory leaks
+ Fix memory corruption issues
+ Fix wrong type selection for push_* And pop_*
+ Fix inline end annotation motion on BB deletion
+ Fix segfaults related to corrupted CStruct STables. Fixes issue #2564
+ Optimize bindattr_i on CStruct to a cheap direct memory access
+ Turn elems On VMArray Into Direct Memory Access
+ Fix nativecall refresh clearing used child object pointers
+ randscale_n and rand_I are not pure ops, so don't mark them as such
+ Support endian switching in writenum and readnum
+ Call strerror for directory errors so we get error text not just an error code on POSIX platforms
+ JIT compile getlexref_u*, stat, lstat, (open|read|close)_dir
+ Fix JITed extend_u8 accidentally extending 16 bits.
+ Fix rw args of native calls not getting updated if JIT compilation fails
+ Support double type arguments in NativeCall JIT
+ Fix call to memcpy with NULL *src in lego JIT compiler
+ Fix JIT compiled getcodename not always dieing on type objects
+ Ensure last_payload and plugin_guard_args are valid so spesh plugins can be used outside speshresolve
+ Handle non-merge case of PHI
+ Add BOOTHash to spesh cheat list
+ Disable inlining when running the debug server
+ Add a limit on spesh plugin guard set size
+ Allow dead instruction elimination in inlines
+ Teach optimize_smart_coerce About Boot Types
+ Fix harmless off-by-one preventing optimization
+ Add op name to JIT "bailed completely" error
+ Remove obsolete MAST compiler
+ Integrate scalar replacement with profiling

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Fri Dec 28 18:35:57 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2018.12

+ New (read|write)(u?int|num) ops for handling binary data
+ Replace MAST compiler by NQP code for writing bytecode
+ Fix repossessions that cause object size "changes"
+ Fix memory leak of MVMFrameExtra
+ Free spesh log entries after consuming them. Reduces memory usage
+ Add a cancel handler for filewatch tasks to prevent leaking
+ Fix double free in platform/sys.c
+ Fix "pointer cast size mismatch" warnings on 32-bit arch's to resolve issue #444
+ Correctness improvements to the profiler
+ Fix a segfault that could occur due to missing Facts
+ Teach spesh about known values for PHI nodes
+ Unblock optimizing the box_* into a fastbox. Allow box_i to go through int cache.
+ decont on nativeref shall become decont_* + box_* to more easily
+ Improved spesh log output
+ Improve handling of failure to join a thread, throw instead of
+ Use larger buffer for gethostname when available
+ Reimplement async socket introspection
+ Set callsite in frame for JIT spesh plugin resolve.
+ Discover type Facts of coerce_sI op
+ Fix a case where the UTF-16 decoder would have a corrupted final
+ Correct named argument type tuple index calc. Fixes memory access
+ Make bytecode dumper more resilient against invalid bytecode
+ Expr JIT templates for hllboolfor, radix_I, coerce_*, extend_{u,i}*, mul_i,
  sp_findmeth, serializetobuf, unbox_u
+ Use arithmetic right shift in JIT of brshift_i to ensure new bits
+ Fix trunc to casting upwards
+ JIT compile coerce_sI, param_rp_u, coerce_us, unbox_u, extend_{i8,u8,u32} and
  trunc_{i8,u8}, decodertakeallchars, writeint, writeuint, coerce_(iu|ui),
  extend_[ui]16, trunc_u(16|32)

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Sun Nov 11 20:51:00 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2018.10

+ Improved performance and randomization of hashes
+ Speed up various string operations
+ Various Unicode fixes
+ Improves support for native ints and unsigned ints
+ Atomic ops for object attributes
+ Improvements to debugserver
+ Improvements to the JIT compiler
+ Plugin infrastructure for spesh
+ Fixes to memory leaks
+ Sort hashes before serialization for more reproducible builds
+ Implement one dimensional inlined shaped CArrays
+ Lots of small fixes and performance improvements

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Mon Jul 30 04:15:47 UTC 2018 - bwiedemann@suse.com

- Add reproducible.patch to make build independent of build system
  CPU type (boo#1100677)

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Tue May  1 08:39:34 CEST 2018 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2018.04.1

+ Fix precision in Num and use Grisu3 algorithm for stringification
+ Use vectorization to speed up many string operations
+ Add support for the windows-932 variant of the ShiftJIS encoding
+ Fix bug in windows-1252 when a replacement occurs in the last position of the input stream
+ JIT expr templates for getstringfrom and getwvalfrom
+ JIT floor_n, continuationinvoke, ctx and a few ops that ThreadPoolScheduler uses
+ Measure and report time spent on JIT compilation
+ Ensure memory blocks in the nursery are aligned where necessary
+ Spot use of an item already put in a gen2 freelist
+ Suspend other threads during global destruction
+ Fix missing GC mark of deserializer contexts list
+ Optimize getrusage and log it in the profile
+ Add getsignals op, queries for valid signals
+ Guard against negative and zero signals in MVM_io_signal_handle
+ Make tryfindmeth not throw in some cases it did
+ Add missing write barrier enforcement in CPPStruct, CStruct
+ Use Fixed Size Allocator for all_scs list
+ Fix segfault on concurrent array access while resizing
+ Mark thread blocked around getaddrinfo
+ Convey the process ID of a started child
+ Fix optimization of wvals
+ Fix negated spesh of known type
+ Add optimize_unbox
+ Fix issues with optimization of boolean tests
+ Insert null-out-instructions before prof_enter
+ Cut module names out of filenames
+ Add metadata for ReentrantMutex and Semaphore
+ Fix loading bytecode on big endian systems
+ Correct lazy static lexical deserialization
+ Fix bytecodedump to understand inlines

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Tue Mar 20 08:21:34 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2018.03

+ Add remote debugging support, optionally enabled with the --debug-port option
+ Add getppid op. Allows a child process to get the parent process id, and thus
+ Use uv_fs_copyfile API in MVM_file_copy
+ Make IO signal handlers cancellable
+ Add an tryfindmethod op which evaluates to null in the event that the method
+ Ignore libuv-caused "fake" empty datagrams
+ Expose both hostname and port of received datagrams
+ Add proper support for strict decoding and replacements in decodestream for windows1252/1
+ Add some string consts in MVMStringConsts for MVMDecodeStream
+ optimize eq_s and ne_s against empty string in spesh
+ Bump libuv version 1.19.2
+ Add JIT templates for more than 50 ops
+ Fix several bugs in the expr JIT compiler
+ Only BAIL on DEOPT_ONE annotations on actual guard ops in expr JIT
+ Support for threaded profiling has been added, although it is not fully stable yet
+ Clean up one-shot timers after firing
+ Fix missing argument to syncsocket error message
+ Fix EOF detection on zero-size files
+ Add windows-1251 (Cyrillic) decode/encode support
+ Make MVM_spesh_manipulate_remove_handler_successors() public
+ Fix MVM_spesh_log_decont not logging anything
+ Don't spesh log if we have a spesh_cand
+ Don't optimize getattr unless known concrete
+ Implement unmanaged_size in MVMSpeshLog repr
+ Run basic facts discovery on inlined code
+ Clean up handler successors after throwish ops become non-throwing
+ Put inlined blocks between their caller and its successor
+ Fix an off-by-one in uninline
+ Remove superfluous DEOPT_ONE_INS annotation on some deconts
+ Work around a segfault caused by type tuple without type information
+ Revive removal of dead instructions after the first inlined function
+ Fix SEGV when opening MVM_*_LOG files
+ Better error in boxed ref for repr_id mismatch
+ Merge non-control-flow basic blocks so expr JIT has more code to optimize

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Thu Feb  1 06:29:35 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2018.01

+ Faster string searching and other string improvements
+ New expression JIT
+ JIT compilation of native calls
+ Update Unicode database for Unicode 10
+ Flush standard handles at exit
+ Flush output buffer where needed
+ Various improvements to spesh
+ Lots of bug fixes

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Mon Aug 21 22:50:32 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2017.08.1

+ Dynamic optimization moved to a worker thread
+ New statistics model for making better specialization decisions
+ New argument guard, based around a tree, which means less checks need to be
+ More efficient usage of memory in hot paths
+ Lots of bug fixes (around optimization and string handling)
+ JIT improvements
+ Performance improvements
+ Make precompiled byte code reproducible
+ Enable native callbacks on different threads
+ Update TinyMT to version 1.1
+ Implement atomic ops
+ Add nqp::coveragecontrol op

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Sat Jul 29 10:10:28 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2017.07

+ Full Unicode 9.0 and Emoji 4.0 text segmentation support
+ Lots of speed-ups, especially in string processing and JIT compiler
+ Numerous bug fixes
+ Remove support for character level I/O - taken over by high level code
+ Remove arbitrary string repeat limit
+ Remove synchronous process support - now done using async code
+ Re-implement synchronous sockets without using libuv
+ Add ability to get port from already bind-ed socket
+ Add cpucores op to get the number of CPU cores
+ Re-implement print/say debug output ops to encode and then use binary I/O
+ Eliminate use of libuv in synchronous file handles
+ Support merge_bytes in async proc ops, for reading STDOUT and STDERR
+ Support binding handles to file descriptors in async procs
+ Add string eqat/index ignorecase+ignoremark functions
+ Add new eqaticim_s and indexicim_s ops ignorecase+ignoremark
+ Add improved support for GCB=Prepend
+ Improve Regional Indicators support during normalization
+ Serialize a Decoder REPR object into null, so incidental file handle
+ Fix newline translation in various encoding's streaming decoder

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Wed Jun  7 12:26:00 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- Explicitly state build requirement to fix build on Fedora

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Fri Jun  2 09:01:00 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2017.05

+ Mark profiler call graphs iteratively instead of recursively
+ Keep around line number annotations in spesh, for more accurate source
+ Introduce "telemeh", a high-precision-time low-impact logger
+ Fix error reporting in chdir
+ Fix memory leak on error in chdir
+ Fix bug in index ignorecase and equal at ignorecase
+ Fix all known remaining bugs in indexic and eqatic
+ Zero slot when popping a VMArray, to avoid junk reads if it grows again later
+ Add can_fit_into_8bit funct, put logic used many places into one function
+ Use -1 instead of 0 when long right-shifting negative smallints
+ Remove workaround for tommath issue #56, which is now fixed upstream
+ Don't crash on reading a closed dir handle
+ Remove deprecated async string I/O ops

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Tue Apr 18 22:32:02 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2017.04

+ Shorten the nursery when creating large bigints, to bring GC forward and
+ Use correct format for repeat/concat errors
+ Fix bug in indexic_s if expanding codepoint is the last codepoint
+ Speed up MVM_nfg_is_concat_stable
+ Do not set use rpath if installing into proper system locations
+ Optimize passes_quickcheck_and_zero_ccc to be much faster
+ Give this_repr constants more meaningful names to aid debugging
+ Streamline MVM_bigint_radix and MVM_radix for Nd Unicode #'s
+ Fix case-insensitive string compare bug when synthetics are in the haystack
+ Improve description for "should eventually be unreachable" error
+ Correctly detect and handle overflow in mp_get_int64
+ Split into mp_get_int64 and mp_get_uint64
+ Only allocate and normalize for cp's that require it in MVM_string_chr, and
+ Provide a better error when failing to encode surrogates in UTF-8
+ Add a cast to suppress a compiler warning in strings/ops.c
+ Factor out code from equal_at_ignore_case for use in index_ignore_case also
+ Use both hex and decimal for UTF8 encoding error messages
+ Use PRIu64 in fprintf's to fix compiler warning about incorrect types
+ Add a check that introspection->is_tty is not NULL, avoiding a crash
+ Mention debug_name in errors about uncomposed repr
+ Cope with a native type with no nativesize, but signedness
+ Remove two functions in normalize.c that have been superseded
+ Give collapse_strands a 5.4% speed boost under some workloads
+ Add MVM_string_graphs_nocheck funct, use it in places we previously already
+ Have a two-part loop in collapse strands to make loop tighter when possible
+ Implement serialize/deserialize in VMHash REPR.
+ Use memmem in string index. Uses Knuth-Morris-Pratt on glibc, and adds the
+ Fix a join NFG bug when there was an  empty string and an empty seperator
+ Reorder MVMStaticFrameBody to save 16 bytes according to pahole; similarly
+ Remove arbitrary and small length range check for reading bytes from a file
+ Greatly reduce contention in the fixed-size allocator for multi-threaded
+ Mark thread GC blocked when doing synchronous writes
+ Add missing MVMROOT when reading bytes, which could result in occasional

- Remove moarvm-remove-rpath.diff as the issue has been fixed upstream.

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Sun Mar 19 10:42:38 CET 2017 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2017.03

+ Fix loads of performance and stability issues

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Sun Dec 18 10:19:43 CET 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- remove use of rpath in build
  Patch is already included in upstream git and can be removed in the next
  release.
  new patch: moarvm-remove-rpath.diff

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Sun Dec 18 10:19:43 CET 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- replace patching in spec file by use of proper configure options
- update to version 2016.12

+ Decode Latin-1 and UTF-8 strings to 8-bit width when possible
+ Teach a few string functions to compress results into 8-bit storage
+ Fix for AIX's INFINITY not being a constant
+ Unlink libmoar before (re)installing it
+ Add configuration for AIX
+ Support Perl older than 5.10 for Configure.pl
+ Use "pkgconfig --libs libffi" additionally to --cflags
+ Fix powerpc detection on AIX (gcc)
+ Make multidim error messages say they are multidim
+ Add comment about where to find UNIDATA
+ Implement captureinnerlex op, for fixing QUIT/LAST phaser scoping in Perl 6
+ Fix mis-sized free in the NFG trie that only showed up in 32-bit
+ Add GC debug helper to "find" a pointer in nurseries/gen2 bins
+ Make ASSERT_NOT_FROMSPACE check fromspaces of all threads
+ Fix missing MVMROOT around an allocation
+ Fix typo in nfg.h comment
+ Fix native callback and GC interaction when embedded
+ Add GC block management functions to the public API
+ Mark throwpayload* as :throwish in oplist
+ Optimize the check for negative bignums
+ Remove useless mp_neg calls
+ Fix premature free of UV socket handles
+ Fix premature handle free in async UDP sockets
+ Add a "check every register access" GC debug mode
+ Provide a #define to disable dynlex caching
+ Provide a #define for deopt logging
+ Invalidate dynlex caches during deopt
+ Fix pow_I when it takes an exponent larger than 2**32
+ Only do MVM_ASSERT_NOT_FROMSPACE in GC debug mode
+ Add a fromspace assertion in finalize
+ Avoid a number of spesh GC invariant violations
+ Panic if we try to GC when speshing/JITing
+ Ensure we don't leak partially deserialized objects
+ Fix unrooted frame around SC object lookup
+ Remove some GC debug code
+ Avoid reading nativerefs in spesh, since it can cause boxing and thus GC
+ Cope with push being used on concurrent queues
+ MVMROOT around putting work on concurrent queue
+ MVMROOT eventloop queue when polling it
+ Do MVM_ASSIGN_REF after block/unblock in concurrent queue
+ Fix more unrooted frame around SC object lookup

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Thu Nov 24 16:33:05 CET 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2016.11

+ Workaround tommath issue #56 which affects random bigint numbers > 32 bits
+ Fix memory leaks in nqp_nfa_run
+ Fix a sizeof arg that allocated a much-too-big buffer for callsite arg names
+ Add missing breaks in MVMString's copy_to
+ Prevent null deref when calling MVM_string_utf16_encode
+ Introduce MVM_SPESH_LIMIT, which limits how many specializations will be
+ Make sure we never box a NULL filename when creating backtraces
+ Fix the nativecall attribute error messages
+ Remove (non-existent) num16 from error message
+ Make the fixed size allocator provide useful information to Valgrind
+ Implement serialization of SCRef
+ Include file/line of unserializable closure, to aid debugging
+ Add type info when failing to bind an attribute
+ Use ffi_arg type for libffi nativecall return types
+ Handle libffi return type more correctly
+ Work around missing libatomic_ops prototype on s390x
+ Panic when trying to GC a locked mutex
+ Make VM panic output state that a panic occurred
+ Fix JIT code generation bug in nqp::exception
+ Add missing rooting of value pushed to concurrent queue
+ Add src/gc/debug.h dependency to Makefile
+ Mark a thread GC-blocked while it is in native code
+ Have "Cannot * a type object" also outputs the type's debug name
+ Don't reveal partially deserialized method cache
+ Give a bunch of exception ops REPR and debug name output
+ Prevent segfault when null string used as hash key
+ Request POSIX.1.c compliance on solaris
+ Change to use readdir insteal of readdir_r
+ give diagnostic output when compiling fails
+ Fixed readdir so it won't check old errno
+ Refactor hashes to no longer need to flatten ropes in string keys
+ Save 8 (64-bit) or 4 (32-bit) bytes per entry in the MVMHash REPR
+ Remove the deprecated flattenropes op
+ Remove now-unused MVM_string_flatten function
+ Don't treat an nread of 0 in libuv read callbacks as an error
+ Bump to latest libatomic_ops

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Sun Oct 16 13:33:10 CEST 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to version 2016.10

+ Fix build without libtommath source
+ Make MVM_file_open_fh() throw if the file we opened was a directory
+ Fix bug and memory leaks in MVM_file_open_fh()
+ Add error message for likely MacOS build failure
+ Don't set inheriting process on inherited pipe, fixing a segfault
+ Update to the Unicode 9 database
+ Die on CStruct without any fields
+ Constant-fold unipropcode and unipvalcode
+ Use PRId64 instead of %d for 64 bit int format string args
+ "Cannot unbox type object" error gets debugname and native type info
+ Fix uninitialized arg_names of an MVMCallsite
+ Handle C++ constructors on libffi
+ Fix CUnion get_attribute treating inlined attrs as pointers
+ Fix 32 bit issue with rw args in NativeCall callbacks
+ Use better throw-away type for void nativecalls
+ Gracefully handle a 0 RSS reported by the Linux kernel
+ Fix "Invalid free()" in empty repossessed arrays
+ Make sure we mean "signed char" when we say "char"
+ Fix calculating structure sizes for arm64 and others
+ Disable JIT on x32, since it has a different calling convention
+ Fix pointer size unit in configure message
+ Use set_uint64 in from_num, otherwise we overflow on x32
+ Rewrite mkdir_p api, no function changes
+ Improve nativecall attribute error messages
+ Include debug_name in crossthreadwritelog and serialization errors
+ Deprecate async string I/O ops
+ Deprecate flattenropes op
+ Implement indexingoptimized op (replaces flattenropes, but is not in-place)
+ Fix memory leadk in ord_basechar_at
+ Ensure errno is grabbed before MVM_free is called
+ Make extra sure unlock only happens if lock happened

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Fri Sep 30 10:33:53 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to 2016.09

+ Fix various crasher bugs
+ Fix sprintf
+ Move string decoding to higher levels of the stack
+ Fix a couple of memory leaks
+ Fix deadlocks when accepting a socket

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Sun Aug 21 14:18:31 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to 2016.08

+ Fix various concurrency issues
+ Don't crash in P6opaque on NULL name_to_index_mapping
+ Fix off-by-one in grapheme iterator
+ Add a flag for PIPE_MERGED_OUT_ERR; fix stdio setup for merge
+ Fix EOF detection when reading files from /proc and similar
+ Fix lost socket listen errors
+ Add some missing fact dependencies in spesh, fixing some wrong guard eliminations
+ Avoid use of possibly-invalidated decont facts in spesh
+ Remove keep_caller from MVMFrame
+ Correctly NULL-terminate the buffer in MVM_vm_dump_file

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Sun Jul 24 08:59:23 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to 2016.07
  * Numerous fixes for memory leaks
  * Numerous performance improvements
  * Fixes for NativeCall
  * Updates to moar-gdb.py (MoarVM GDB plug-in)
  * New heap profiler
  * JIT compile more code paths
  * Make the GC smarter
  * Fixes for UTF8-C8 encoding and use it for directory listing
  * Fixe a couple of SEGVs
  * Further support for function pointers in native calling
  * Implement loadbytecodebuffer and loadbytecodefh ops
  * New multi-dispatch cache supporting calls with named parameters

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Mon Jan 29 14:27:38 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to 2016.01

* Only optimize istrue to unbox_i when known concrete
  * Bump libuv to 1.8
  * Various fixes/updates to graph_spesh.p6
  * Don't install sha1 and tinymt headers; they're only used internally
  * Only install msinttypes on MS platform
  * Fix a gc bug in string concatenation
  * Add subsecond file time ops stat_time and lstat_time
  * Fix stat CREATETIME return value
  * Note graphs_s will be deprecated; dupe of chars

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Mon Jan  4 14:27:38 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org

- update to 2015.12
  * support for multidimensional arrays
  * updated to Unicode 8 and lots of Unicode fixes
  * C++ support for native calling
  * proper support for unsigned native types
  * threading fixes
  * memory leak fixes

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Thu Jun 11 16:42:37 CEST 2015 - mls@suse.de

- update to 2015.05
  * instrumenting profiler
  * many optimizations
  * added documentation
  * large file handling
  * endian fixes
  * lazy deserialization
  * implement NFC/NFD/NFKC/NFKD Unicode normalization algorithms
  * fix various memory leaks
- fix setup

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Fri Aug 22 14:03:03 CEST 2014 - mls@suse.de

- update to 2014.08
  * support for JIT
  * specializer support
  * async read/write
  * lots of bugfixes

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Tue Mar 11 11:26:26 CET 2014 - mls@suse.de

- fix file list for i586 debuginfo builds

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Wed Mar  5 11:17:16 CET 2014 - mls@suse.de

- added Artistic2.txt to the doc section

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Mon Mar  3 17:42:09 CET 2014 - mls@suse.de

- initial release

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