5.6.7-RELEASE

Today, the XP group released XP 5.6.7. This release is the first official one to be released with the new setup infrastructure. Besides that, it contains respect for ANSI SQL in the rdbms package, a patch to the scriptlet API to produce nicer URLs, the new memory-saving XAR file format, some minor bugfixes and a couple of new features.

To use 5.6.7:

• Open a shell window
• Type wget http://xp-framework.net/downloads/releases/5.6.7/setup -O - | php
• Add the path shown at the end to your PATH environment setting

• Deprecated xml.XML class (friebe)

• Implemented RFC #0166: XP Runners (friebe)
  
• Implemented RFC #0165: New text.regex package (friebe)
  
• Implemented RFC #0163: Respect ANSI SQL in rdbms package (kiesel)
  
• Implemented RFC #0157: Make product, language and session optional URL parts (kiesel)
  

• Fixed FtpConnection::getDir() function by passing FTP connection object to FtpDir constructor (hinckel)
  
• Fixed _recurseData() in XPSoapMessage to handle arrays vs. objects correctly (hinckel)
  
• Made HttpScriptlet::process() rethrow HttpScriptletExceptions as-is,
  while any other exception is wrapped into a HttpScriptletException. (friebe).
  
• Fixed bug when scriptlet.xml.workflow.casters.ToDate accepted an abbreviated date, interpreted it as a time and used the current date with given time instead the given date (kiesel)
  
• Fixed session id initialization in XMLScriptletRequest::initialize() (hinckel)
  
• Fixed rdbms.Record::set() method (Michael Bayer, kiesel)
  

• Added lang.Process::newInstance() method - see this blog entry (friebe)
  
• Added " @ {host}" to rdbms.SQLConnectionClosedException's message (friebe)
  
• Changed XAR file format (BC-break-free) to be less memory-consuming, platform-independent and get rid of original filename junk (friebe)
  
• Added a parameter "bool append" (defaulting to FALSE) to io.streams.FileOutputStream's constructor (friebe)
  
• Made io.streams.FileInputStream and io.streams.FileOutputStream's constructors accept either an io.File or a string with the filename (friebe)
  
• Added syntactical support in text.doclet.markup API for ordered and unordered lists. (friebe)
  

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