[Guile-commits] 06/06: Update NEWS.

2022-07-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
civodul pushed a commit to branch main
in repository guile.

commit 8c976c6a1fda4ca0ff909e7ee801f7ba48ecebae
Author: Ludovic Courtès 
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 4 11:52:02 2022 +0200

Update NEWS.

* NEWS: Update.
---
 NEWS | 10 ++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8668f0332..a3bfbdff2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ It is now possible to create an AF_UNIX socket with a 
leading zero byte
 in its file name to create an abstract Unix-domain socket.  See
 "man 7 unix" for information on abstract Unix-domain sockets.
 
+** New socket-related constants defined
+
+The `IN6ADDR_ANY' and `IN6ADDR_LOOPBACK' are now defined on systems with
+IPv6 support; they can be used with `bind'.
+
+Likewise, the `IPPROTO_IPV6' and `IPV6_V6ONLY' constants are defined,
+for use with `setsockopt'.
+
 * Bug fixes
 
 ** Type sizes are correctly determined when cross-compiling
@@ -33,6 +41,8 @@ in its file name to create an abstract Unix-domain socket.  
See
 ** 'coverage-data->lcov' accepts a #:modules argument as documented
(https://bugs.gnu.org/54911)
 ** 'connect' returns #f upon EAGAIN, not just EINPROGRESS
+** (web http) capitalizes the "Basic" authorization header
+** (web http) terminates chunked encoding with an extra \r\n
 
 
 Changes in 3.0.8 (since 3.0.7)



[Guile-commits] 06/06: Update NEWS.

2020-06-21 Thread Ludovic Court�
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.

commit 3523ad1326b0f374e82d6b5428997e3a38fd821d
Author: Ludovic Courtès 
AuthorDate: Sun Jun 21 15:11:43 2020 +0200

Update NEWS.

* NEWS: Update.
---
 NEWS | 4 
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f489e3e..591eb8b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ These replace the wonky "bit-set*!" procedure.
 Previously statprof would show strings like "anon #x1234" for primitives
 written in C.
 
+** JIT bugs on ARMv7 have been fixed
+   (,
+)
+
 ** 'http-get', 'http-post', etc. now honor #:verify-certificates?
()
 



[Guile-commits] 06/06: Update NEWS.

2020-01-13 Thread Ludovic Court�
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.

commit 10fdd88cb807c4299ce5eb4403c4c29db2b52a00
Author: Ludovic Courtès 
AuthorDate: Mon Jan 13 11:21:09 2020 +0100

Update NEWS.

* NEWS (Changes in alpha 2.9.x): Add (web client) news.
---
 NEWS | 13 +
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 27c9efd..a561c85 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ would return an empty list for negative count. Now there 
is only one
 `iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1.  Note that as an
 incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count.
 
+** Improved Transport Layer Security (TLS) support in (web client)
+
+`http-request', `http-get', and related procedures from (web client) are
+able to access content over TLS ("HTTPS") since Guile 2.2.  However,
+that support lacked important facilities, which are now available.
+
+First, these procedures now have a #:verify-certificates?  parameter to
+enable or disable the verification of X.509 server certificates.  The
+new `x509-certificate-directory' SRFI-39 parameter specifies X.509
+certificates are searched for.  Second, HTTPS proxies are now supported
+(in addition to HTTP proxies) and the new `current-https-proxy'
+parameter controls that.  See "Web Client" in the manual for details.
+
 * New deprecations
 
 ** scm_t_uint8, etc deprecated in favor of C99 stdint.h