Breaking Changelog
This only lists changes that broke things and got a major version bump. I didn’t start keeping track here until 9.0.
Please note that I DO consider changes to build process to be a breaking change, but I do NOT consider symbol additions, changes to undocumented members, or the occasional non-fatal deprecation to be breaking changes. Undocumented members may be changed at any time, whereas additions and/or deprecations will be a minor version change.
12.0
Future release, likely May 2024 or later.
Nothing is planned for it at this time.
arsd.pixmappresenter and arsd.pixmappaint were added.
Diagnostics
lld-link: error: undefined symbol: _MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx@20
>>> referenced by core.obj:(__D4arsd4core27CoreEventLoopImplementation7runOnceMFZv)
Indicates a missing user32.lib in the link. This should generally be automatic but if not, you can simply mention it on the dmd command line (like dmd yourfile.d user32.lb) or add it to an explicit dub config libs.
Errors like:
lld-link: error: undefined symbol: _D4arsd4core21AsyncOperationRequest5startMFZv
>> referenced by yourfile.obj:(_D4arsd4core21AsyncOperationRequest6__vtblZ)
Generally, any symbol that starts with _D4arsd4core indicates a missing core.d in the build. Make sure you have it downloaded and included.
Still coming
11.0 focused on getting breaking changes in before the deadline. Some additive features that had to be deferred will be coming in 11.1 and beyond, including, but not limited to:
* simpleaudio synthesis
* game.d reorganization (11.0 marks it broken, then it will restablize later)
* minigui drag and drop
* simpledisplay touch
* ssl server for cgi.d
* tui helpers
* database improvements if I can do it without breakage, if it has major breakage, I'll leave it to 12.0.
* click and drag capture behavior in minigui and the terminal emulator widget in particular
* more dox
* i should prolly rewrite the script.d parser someday but maybe that will be a 12.0 thing
10.0
Released: May 2021
minigui 2.0 came out with deprecations on some event properties, moved style properties, and various other changes. See http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.minigui.html#history for details.
database.d now considers null strings as NULL when inserting/updating. before it would consider it “ to the database. Empty strings are still “.
9.0
Released: December 2020
simpledisplay’s OperatingSystemFont, which is also used by terminalemulator.d (which is used by terminal.d’s -version=TerminalDirectToEmulator function) would previously only load X Core Fonts. It now prefers TrueType fonts via Xft. This loads potentially different fonts and the sizes are interpreted differently, so you may need to adjust your preferences there. To restore previous behavior, prefix your font name strings with “core:”.
http2.d’s “connection refused” handler used to throw an exception for any pending connection. Now it instead just sets that connection to aborted and carries on with other ones. When you are doing a request, be sure to check response.code. It may be < 100 if connection refused and other errors. You should already have been checking the http response code, but now some things that were exceptions are now codes, so it is even more important to check this properly.
Prehistory:
8.0 Released: June 2020
7.0 and 6.0 Released: March 2020 (these were changes to the terminal.d virtual methods, tag 6.0 was a mistake, i pressed it too early)
5.0 Released: January 2019
4.0 and 3.0 Released: July 2019 and June 2019, respectively. These had to do with dub subpackage configuration changes IIRC.
2.0 Released (first use of semver tagging, before this I would only push to master): March 2018
April 2016: simpledisplay and terminal renamed to arsd.simpledisplay and arsd.terminal
September 2015: simpledisplay started to depend on color.d instead of being standalone
Joined dub (tagged 1.0): June 2015
Joined github: July 2011
Started project on my website: 2008
Credits
Thanks go to Nick Sabalausky, Trass3r, Stanislav Blinov, ketmar, maartenvd, and many others over the years for input and patches.
Several of the modules are also ports of other C code, see the comments in those files for their original authors.