From b55a20fa2c669b181f47ea9219b8e74d1263da19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "xiaofeng@google.com" Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:40:50 +0000 Subject: Down-integrate from internal branch --- CHANGES.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) (limited to 'CHANGES.txt') diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 737f8659..a21e956c 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -1,3 +1,61 @@ +2012-09-19 version 2.5.0: + + General + * New notion "import public" that allows a proto file to forward the content + it imports to its importers. For example, + // foo.proto + import public "bar.proto"; + import "baz.proto"; + + // qux.proto + import "foo.proto"; + // Stuff defined in bar.proto may be used in this file, but stuff from + // baz.proto may NOT be used without importing it explicitly. + This is useful for moving proto files. To move a proto file, just leave + a single "import public" in the old proto file. + * New enum option "allow_alias" that specifies whether different symbols can + be assigned the same numeric value. Default value is "true". Setting it to + false causes the compiler to reject enum definitions where multiple symbols + have the same numeric value. + + C++ + * New generated method set_allocated_foo(Type* foo) for message and string + fields. This method allows you to set the field to a pre-allocated object + and the containing message takes the ownership of that object. + * Added SetAllocatedExtension() and ReleaseExtension() to extensions API. + * Custom options are now formatted correctly when descriptors are printed in + text format. + * Various speed optimizations. + + Java + * Comments in proto files are now collected and put into generated code as + comments for corresponding classes and data members. + * Added Parser to parse directly into messages without a Builder. For + example, + Foo foo = Foo.getParser().ParseFrom(input); + Using Parser is ~25% faster than using Builder to parse messages. + * Added getters/setters to access the underlying ByteString of a string field + directly. + * ByteString now supports more operations: substring(), prepend(), and + append(). The implementation of ByteString uses a binary tree structure + to support these operations efficiently. + * New method findInitializationErrors() that lists all missing required + fields. + * Various code size and speed optimizations. + + Python + * Added support for dynamic message creation. DescriptorDatabase, + DescriptorPool, and MessageFactory work like their C++ couterparts to + simplify Descriptor construction from *DescriptorProtos, and MessageFactory + provides a message instance from a Descriptor. + * Added pickle support for protobuf messages. + * Unknown fields are now preserved after parsing. + * Fixed bug where custom options were not correctly populated. Custom + options can be accessed now. + * Added EnumTypeWrapper that provides better accessibility to enum types. + * Added ParseMessage(descriptor, bytes) to generate a new Message instance + from a descriptor and a byte string. + 2011-05-01 version 2.4.1: C++ -- cgit v1.2.3