Release 1.12.14

[1.12.14] - 2024-04-16

Added

• functions get-request-parameter, and get-request-long-parameter to
  :ring-util module
• more HTTP status codes with short names and short description

Improved

• SSE WebApp example to demonstrate explicit connection closing on the
  server side
• REST WebApp example to demonstrate the use of query parameters

Fixed

• HTTP client SSL requests

Release 1.12.13

[1.12.13] - 2024-04-14

Added

• custom type support for Venice persistent collections
• more options to slurp a HTTP client's JSON response

Fixed

• the HTTP client to gracefully react on interrupted exceptions and close
  the streams
• the HTTP client debug mode to print authorization header values as "******"
• the :ring debug mode to print authorization header values as "******"
• an edge case with function str/equals-ignore-case?

Release 1.12.12

[1.12.12] - 2024-04-11

Added

• options :async-support and :load-on-startup to tomcat/tc-start
  servlet options
• :ring support for asynchronous handlers. See example "async-webapp.venice".
• :ring support for Server-Side-Events. See example "sse-webapp.venice".
• content encoding (gzip, deflate) support for http client response processing
• support for server-side-events processing in the http client

Release 1.12.11

[1.12.11] - 2024-04-08

Added

• support for multiple url mappings for a servlet in the :ring module.
  See example "rest-webapp.venice"
• a :ring example with a 2 servlet configuration
• the effective url (the url after a redirect) to the response map in the http client
• http status code helpers:
  • http-client-j8/status-ok-range?
  • http-client-j8/status-redirect-range?
  • http-client-j8/status-client-range?
  • http-client-j8/status-server-error-range?

Changed

• the http client to provide the name of the HTTP status code in the response
  map. E.g.: HTTP_OK for status code 200

Release 1.12.10

[1.12.10] - 2024-04-07

Added

• support for module :http-client-j8 to ungzip a response data stream
  with the content encoding 'gzip'
• function io/wrap-is-with-gzip-input-stream to gzip data sent to the stream
• function io/wrap-os-with-gzip-output-stream to ungzip data read from the stream
• improvements to the :multipart parser. The parsers is now more robust in
  parsing the part headers and returns all part headers in its raw form in
  parsed data map.

Fixed

• the multipart parser's mimetype handling for content type headers

Release 1.12.9

[1.12.9] - 2024-04-06

Added

• module :http-client-j8. A handy HTTP client based on the JDK HttpUrlConnection.
  The HttpClient can be used to send requests and retrieve their responses. It supports
  sending multi-part requests. The HTTP client does not depend on 3rd party libraries!
  There are REST and file upload examples in the Venice script examples directory.
• module :multipart that supports the subtype multipart/form-data. Renders and parses multi-part binary buffers
• support for multi-part requests to :ring module and improved the request/response
  dump functions
• function bytebuf-merge to merge byte buffers
• function bytebuf-index-of for searching patterns in byte buffers using
  the Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) pattern matching algorithm

Fixed

• the return status handling in the :ring module

Release 1.12.8

[1.12.8] - 2024-04-02

Added

• function io/file-normalize-utf. This is useful to make it easier to process
  MacOS filenames with umlauts.
• thread type support to the function thread to allow spawning daemon or user
  threads
• support for tracing exceptions in trace/trace-var
• math function rand-bigint. Venice uses this function to create unique
  boundary strings for multipart HTTP requests.
• function mimetypes/probe-content-type to get mimetypes for file names.

Release 1.12.7

[1.12.7] - 2024-03-26

Added

• function str/normalize-utf. This comes in handy when MacOS filenames
  with umlauts have to be normalized for easier filename processing
• a pure ascii version of the Venice cheatsheet to feed it as embeddings
  to LLMs
• improvements to markdown to ascii text renderer to allow the Venice
  Github flavoured markdown documentation to be converted to pure ascii
  to feed it as embeddings to LLMs
• :cargo-qdrant module to install/start/stop Qdrant Vector DB docker
  containers

Changed

• the :docker module to support now multiple port publish definitions

Fixed

• a markdown parser edge case when a table block is immediately followed
  by a list block with no empty line in between

Release 1.12.6

[1.12.6] - 2024-03-19

Added

• function zip-folder to zipvault
• support italic font style (module :ansi)

Changed

• the function maven/download to accept a single artifact as well as a
  list of multiple artifacts

Fixed

• :maven module (a bug has been added with V1.12.0 refactoring)

Release 1.12.5

[1.12.5] - 2024-03-13

Added

• math function clamp
• basic authentication support for io/download
• follow redirects supports for io/download, if the protocol does not change
  for the requested redirect

Changed

• the geoip module to use basic authentication to access the MaxMind databases.
  This is mandatory starting from May 1st, 2024 with MaxMind's effort to
  improve security and reliability on its services.