0.14 (up to commit 9ed00a6, 2020/04/14)
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Deprecated and removed features:
--------------------------------
* bits.h has been removed
* lh_abort() has been removed
* lh_table_lookup() has been removed, use lh_table_lookup_ex() instead.
* Remove TRUE and FALSE defines, use 1 and 0 instead.
Build changes:
--------------
## Deprecated and removed features:
* bits.h has been removed
* lh_abort() has been removed
* lh_table_lookup() has been removed, use lh_table_lookup_ex() instead.
* Remove TRUE and FALSE defines, use 1 and 0 instead.
* autoconf support, including autogen.sh, has been removed. See details about cmake, below.
* With the addition of json_tokener_get_parse_end(), access to internal fields of json_tokener, as well as use of many other symbols and types in json_tokener.h, is deprecated now.
* The use of Android.configure.mk to build for Android no longer works, and it is unknown how (or if) the new cmake-based build machinery can be used.
* Reports of success, or pull requests to correct issues are welcome.
## Notable improvements and new features
### Builds and documentation
* Build machinery has been switched to CMake. See README.md for details about how to build.
* TL;DR: `mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/some/path ../json-c ; make all test install`
* To ease the transition, there is a `cmake-configure` wrapper that emulates the old autoconf-based configure script.
* This has enabled improvements to the build on Windows system; also all public functions have been fixed to be properly exported. For best results, use Visual Studio 2015 or newer.
* The json-c style guide has been updated to specify the use of clang-format, and all code has been reformatted.
* Since many lines of code have trivial changes now, when using git blame, be sure to specify -w
* Numerous improvements have been made to the documentation including function effects on refcounts, when passing a NULL is safe, and so on.
### json_tokener changes
* Added a json_tokener_get_parse_end() function to replace direct access of tok->char_offset.
* The char_offset field, and the rest of the json_tokener structure remain exposed for now, but expect a future release to hide it like is done with json_object_private.h
* json_tokener_parse_ex() now accepts a new JSON_TOKENER_VALIDATE_UTF8 flag to validate that input is UTF8.
* If validation fails, json_tokener_get_error(tok) will return json_tokener_error_parse_utf8_string (see enum json_tokener_error).
### Other changes and additions
* Add support for unsigned 64-bit integers, uint64_t, to gain one extra bit of magnitude for positive ints.
* json_tokener will now parse values up to UINT64_MAX (18446744073709551615)
* Existing methods returning int32_t or int64_t will cap out-of-range values at INT32_MAX or INT64_MAX, preserving existing behavior.
* The implementation includes the possibility of easily extending this to larger sizes in the future.
* A total of 7 new functions were added:
* json_object_get_uint64 ( struct json_object const* jso )
* json_object_new_uint64 ( uint64_t i )
* json_object_set_uint64 ( struct json_object* jso, uint64_t new_value )
* json_parse_uint64 ( char const* buf, uint64_t* retval )
* See description of uint64 support, above.
* json_tokener_get_parse_end ( struct json_tokener* tok )
* See details under "json_tokener changes", above.
* json_object_from_fd_ex ( int fd, int in_depth )
* Allows the max nesting depth to be specified.
* json_object_new_null ( )
* Simply returns NULL. Its use is not recommended.
* The size of struct json_object has decreased from 96 bytes to 88 bytes.
### Testing
* Many updates were made to test cases, increasing code coverage.
* There is now a quick way (JSONC_TEST_TRACE=1) to turn on shell tracing in tests.
* To run tests, use `make test`; the old "check" target no longer exists.
## Significant bug fixes
For the full list of issues and pull requests since the previous release, please see issues_closed_for_0.14.md
* [Issue #389](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/389): Add an assert to explicitly crash when _ref_count is corrupted, instead of a later "double free" error.
* [Issue #407](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/407): fix incorrect casts in calls to ctype functions (isdigit and isspace) so we don't crash when asserts are enabled on certain platforms and characters > 128 are parsed.
* [Issue #418](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/418): Fix docs for json_util_from_fd and json_util_from_file to say that they return NULL on failures.
* [Issue #422](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/422): json_object.c:set errno in json_object_get_double() when called on a json_type_string object with bad content.
* [Issue #453](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/453): Fixed misalignment in JSON serialization when JSON_C_TO_STRING_SPACED and JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY are used together.
* [Issue #463](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/463): fix newlocale() call to use LC_NUMERIC_MASK instead of LC_NUMERIC, and remove incorrect comment.
* [Issue #486](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/486): append a missing ".0" to negative double values to ensure they are serialized as floating point numbers.
* [Issue #488](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/488): use JSON_EXPORT on functions so they are properly exported on Windows.
* [Issue #539](https://github.com/json-c/json-c/issues/539): use an internal-only serializer function in json_object_new_double_s() to avoid potential conflicts with user code that uses the json_object_userdata_to_json_string serializer.
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0.13.1 (up to commit 0f814e5, 2018/03/04)
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* Bump the major version of the .so library generated up to 4.0 to avoid
conflicts because some downstream packagers of json-c had already done
their own bump to ".so.3" for a much older 0.12 release.
* Add const size_t json_c_object_sizeof()
* Avoid invalid free (and thus a segfault) when ref_count gets < 0
* PR#394: fix handling of custom double formats that include a ".0"
* Avoid uninitialized variable warnings in json_object_object_foreach
* Issue #396: fix build for certain uClibc based systems.
* Add a top level fuzz directory for fuzzers run by OSS-Fuzz
0.13 (up to commit 5dae561, 2017/11/29)
=================================
This release, being three and a half years after the 0.12 branch (f84d9c),
has quite a number of changes included. The following is a sampling of
the most significant ones.
Since the 0.12 release, 250 issues and pull requests have been closed.
See issues_closed_for_0.13.md for a complete list.
Deprecated and removed features:
--------------------------------
* All internal use of bits.h has been eliminated. The file will be removed.
Do not use: hexdigit(), error_ptr(), error_descrition() and it_error()
* lh_abort() is deprecated. It will be removed.
Behavior changes:
-----------------
* Tighten the number parsing algorithm to raise errors instead of truncating
the results. For example 12.3.4 or 2015-01-15, which now return null.
See commit 99d8fc
* Use size_t for array length and size. Platforms where sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(int) may not be backwards compatible
See commits 45c56b, 92e9a5 and others.
* Check for failue when allocating memory, returning NULL and errno=ENOMEM.
See commit 2149a04.
* Change json_object_object_add() return type from void to int, and will return -1 on failures, instead of exiting. (Note: this is not an ABI change)
New features:
-------------
* We're aiming to follow RFC 7159 now.
* Add a couple of additional option to json_object_to_json_string_ext:
JSON_C_TO_STRING_PRETTY_TAB
JSON_C_TO_STRING_NOSLASHESCAPE
* Add a json_object_object_add_ex() function to allow for performance
improvements when certain constraints are known to be true.
* Make serialization format of doubles configurable, in two different ways:
Call json_object_set_serializer with json_object_double_to_json_string and a custom
format on each double object, or
Call json_c_set_serialization_double_format() to set a global or thread-wide format.
* Add utility function for comparing json_objects - json_object_equal()
* Add a way to copy entire object trees: json_object_deep_copy()
* Add json_object_set_<type> function to modify the value of existing json_object's
without the need to recreate them. Also add a json_object_int_inc function to
adjust an int's value.
* Add support for JSON pointer, RFC 6901. See json_pointer.h
* Add a json_util_get_last_err() function to retrieve the string describing the
cause of errors, instead of printing to stderr.
* Add perllike hash function for strings, and json_global_set_string_hash() 8f8d03d
* Add a json_c_visit() function to provide a way to iterate over a tree of json-c objects.
Notable bug fixes and other improvements:
-----------------------------------------
* Make reference increment and decrement atomic to allow passing json objects between threads.
* Fix json_object_object_foreach to avoid uninitialized variable warnings.
* Improve performance by removing unneeded data items from hashtable code and reducing duplicate hash computation.
* Improve performance by storing small strings inside json_object
* Improve performance of json_object_to_json_string by removing variadic printf. commit 9ff0f49
* Issue #371: fix parsing of "-Infinity", and avoid needlessly copying the input when doing so.
* Fix stack buffer overflow in json_object_double_to_json_string_format() - commit 2c2deb87
* Fix various potential null ptr deref and int32 overflows
* Issue #332: fix a long-standing bug in array_list_put_idx() where it would attempt to free previously free'd entries due to not checking the current array length.
* Issue #195: use uselocale() instead of setlocale() in json_tokener to behave better in threaded environments.
* Issue #275: fix out of bounds read when handling unicode surrogate pairs.
* Ensure doubles that happen to be a whole number are emitted with ".0" - commit ca7a19
* PR#331: for Visual Studio, use a snprintf/vsnprintf wrapper that ensures the string is terminated.
* Fix double to int cast overflow in json_object_get_int64.
* Clamp double to int32 when narrowing in json_object_get_int.
* Use strtoll() to parse ints - instead of sscanf
* Miscellaneous smaller changes, including removing unused variables, fixing warning
about uninitialized variables adding const qualifiers, reformatting code, etc...
Build changes:
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* Add Appveyor and Travis build support
* Switch to using CMake when building on Windows with Visual Studio.
A dynamic .dll is generated instead of a .lib
config.h is now generated, config.h.win32 should no longer be manually copied
* Add support for MacOS through CMake too.
* Enable silent build by default
* Link against libm when needed
* Add support for building with AddressSanitizer
* Add support for building with Clang
* Add a --enable-threading configure option, and only use the (slower) __sync_add_and_fetch()/__sync_sub_and_fetch() function when it is specified.
List of new functions added:
----------------------------
### json_object.h
* array_list_bsearch()
* array_list_del_idx()
* json_object_to_json_string_length()
* json_object_get_userdata()
* json_object_set_userdata()
* json_object_object_add_ex()
* json_object_array_bsearch()
* json_object_array_del_idx()
* json_object_set_boolean()
* json_object_set_int()
* json_object_int_inc()
* json_object_set_int64()
* json_c_set_serialization_double_format()
* json_object_double_to_json_string()
* json_object_set_double()
* json_object_set_string()
* json_object_set_string_len()
* json_object_equal()
* json_object_deep_copy()
### json_pointer.h
* json_pointer_get()
* json_pointer_getf()
* json_pointer_set()
* json_pointer_setf()
### json_util.h
* json_object_from_fd()
* json_object_to_fd()
* json_util_get_last_err()
### json_visit.h
* json_c_visit()
### linkhash.h
* json_global_set_string_hash()
* lh_table_resize()
### printbuf.h
* printbuf_strappend()
0.12.1
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* Minimal changes to address compile issues.
0.12
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* Address security issues:
* CVE-2013-6371: hash collision denial of service
* CVE-2013-6370: buffer overflow if size_t is larger than int
* Avoid potential overflow in json_object_get_double
* Eliminate the mc_abort() function and MC_ABORT macro.
* Make the json_tokener_errors array local. It has been deprecated for
a while, and json_tokener_error_desc() should be used instead.
* change the floating point output format to %.17g so values with
more than 6 digits show up in the output.
* Remove the old libjson.so name compatibility support. The library is
only created as libjson-c.so now and headers are only installed
into the ${prefix}/json-c directory.
* When supported by the linker, add the -Bsymbolic-functions flag.
* Various changes to fix the build on MSVC.
* Make strict mode more strict:
* number must not start with 0
* no single-quote strings
* no comments
* trailing char not allowed
* only allow lowercase literals
* Added a json_object_new_double_s() convenience function to allow
an exact string representation of a double to be specified when
creating the object and use it in json_tokener_parse_ex() so
a re-serialized object more exactly matches the input.
* Add support NaN and Infinity
0.11
====
* IMPORTANT: the name of the library has changed to libjson-c.so and
the header files are now in include/json-c.
The pkgconfig name has also changed from json to json-c.
You should change your build to use appropriate -I and -l options.
A compatibility shim is in place so builds using the old name will
continue to work, but that will be removed in the next release.
* Maximum recursion depth is now a runtime option.
json_tokener_new() is provided for compatibility.
json_tokener_new_ex(depth)
* Include json_object_iterator.h in the installed headers.
* Add support for building on Android.
* Rewrite json_object_object_add to replace just the value if the key already exists so keys remain valid.
* Make it safe to delete keys while iterating with the json_object_object_foreach macro.
* Add a json_set_serializer() function to allow the string output of a json_object to be customized.
* Make float parsing locale independent.
* Add a json_tokener_set_flags() function and a JSON_TOKENER_STRICT flag.
* Enable -Werror when building.
* speed improvements to parsing 64-bit integers on systems with working sscanf
* Add a json_object_object_length function.
* Fix a bug (buffer overrun) when expanding arrays to more than 64 entries.
0.10
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* Add a json_object_to_json_string_ext() function to allow output to be
formatted in a more human readable form.
* Add json_object_object_get_ex(), a NULL-safe get object method, to be able
to distinguish between a key not present and the value being NULL.
* Add an alternative iterator implementation, see json_object_iterator.h
* Make json_object_iter public to enable external use of the
json_object_object_foreachC macro.
* Add a printbuf_memset() function to provide an effecient way to set and
append things like whitespace indentation.
* Adjust json_object_is_type and json_object_get_type so they return
json_type_null for NULL objects and handle NULL passed to
json_objct_object_get().
* Rename boolean type to json_bool.
* Fix various compile issues for Visual Studio and MinGW.
* Allow json_tokener_parse_ex() to be re-used to parse multiple object.
Also, fix some parsing issues with capitalized hexadecimal numbers and
number in E notation.
* Add json_tokener_get_error() and json_tokener_error_desc() to better
encapsulate the process of retrieving errors while parsing.
* Various improvements to the documentation of many functions.
* Add new json_object_array_sort() function.
* Fix a bug in json_object_get_int(), which would incorrectly return 0
when called on a string type object.
Eric Haszlakiewicz
* Add a json_type_to_name() function.
Eric Haszlakiewicz
* Add a json_tokener_parse_verbose() function.
Jehiah Czebotar
* Improve support for null bytes within JSON strings.
Jehiah Czebotar
* Fix file descriptor leak if memory allocation fails in json_util
Zachary Blair, zack_blair at hotmail dot com
* Add int64 support. Two new functions json_object_net_int64 and
json_object_get_int64. Binary compatibility preserved.
Eric Haszlakiewicz, EHASZLA at transunion com
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, rms at 1407 dot org
* Fix subtle bug in linkhash where lookup could hang after all slots
were filled then successively freed.
Spotted by Jean-Marc Naud, j dash m at newtraxtech dot com
* Make json_object_from_file take const char *filename
Spotted by Vikram Raj V, vsagar at attinteractive dot com
* Add handling of surrogate pairs (json_tokener.c, test4.c, Makefile.am)
Brent Miller, bdmiller at yahoo dash inc dot com
* Correction to comment describing printbuf_memappend in printbuf.h
Brent Miller, bdmiller at yahoo dash inc dot com
0.9
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* Add README.html README-WIN32.html config.h.win32 to Makefile.am
Michael Clark, <michael@metaparadigm.com>
* Add const qualifier to the json_tokener_parse functions
Eric Haszlakiewicz, EHASZLA at transunion dot com
* Rename min and max so we can never clash with C or C++ std library
Ian Atha, thatha at yahoo dash inc dot com
* Fix any noticeable spelling or grammar errors.
* Make sure every va_start has a va_end.
* Check all pointers for validity.
Erik Hovland, erik at hovland dot org
* Fix json_object_get_boolean to return false for empty string
Spotted by Vitaly Kruglikov, Vitaly dot Kruglikov at palm dot com
* optimizations to json_tokener_parse_ex(), printbuf_memappend()
Brent Miller, bdmiller at yahoo dash inc dot com
* Disable REFCOUNT_DEBUG by default in json_object.c
* Don't use this as a variable, so we can compile with a C++ compiler
* Add casts from void* to type of assignment when using malloc
* Add #ifdef __cplusplus guards to all of the headers
* Add typedefs for json_object, json_tokener, array_list, printbuf, lh_table
Michael Clark, <michael@metaparadigm.com>
* Null pointer dereference fix. Fix json_object_get_boolean strlen test
to not return TRUE for zero length string. Remove redundant includes.
Erik Hovland, erik at hovland dot org
* Fixed warning reported by adding -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wold-style-definition to the compilatin flags.
Dotan Barak, dotanba at gmail dot com
* Add const correctness to public interfaces
Gerard Krol, g dot c dot krol at student dot tudelft dot nl
0.8
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* Add va_end for every va_start
Dotan Barak, dotanba at gmail dot com
* Add macros to enable compiling out debug code
Geoffrey Young, geoff at modperlcookbook dot org
* Fix bug with use of capital E in numbers with exponents
Mateusz Loskot, mateusz at loskot dot net
* Add stddef.h include
* Patch allows for json-c compile with -Werror and not fail due to
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
Geoffrey Young, geoff at modperlcookbook dot org
0.7
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* Add escaping of backslash to json output
* Add escaping of foward slash on tokenizing and output
* Changes to internal tokenizer from using recursion to
using a depth state structure to allow incremental parsing
0.6
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* Fix bug in escaping of control characters
Johan Björklund, johbjo09 at kth dot se
* Remove include "config.h" from headers (should only
be included from .c files)
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
0.5
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* Make headers C++ compatible by change *this to *obj
* Add ifdef C++ extern "C" to headers
* Use simpler definition of min and max in bits.h
Larry Lansing, llansing at fuzzynerd dot com
* Remove automake 1.6 requirement
* Move autogen commands into autogen.sh. Update README
* Remove error pointer special case for Windows
* Change license from LGPL to MIT
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
0.4
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* Fix additional error case in object parsing
* Add back sign reversal in nested object parse as error pointer
value is negative, while error value is positive.
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
0.3
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* fix pointer arithmetic bug for error pointer check in is_error() macro
* fix type passed to printbuf_memappend in json_tokener
* update autotools bootstrap instructions in README
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
0.2
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* printbuf.c - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Added a Win32/Win64 compliant implementation of vasprintf
* debug.c - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Removed usage of vsyslog on Win32/Win64 systems, needs to be handled
by a configure script
* json_object.c - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Added scope operator to wrap usage of json_object_object_foreach, this
needs to be rethought to be more ANSI C friendly
* json_object.h - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Added Microsoft C friendly version of json_object_object_foreach
* json_tokener.c - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Added a Win32/Win64 compliant implementation of strndup
* json_util.c - C. Watford (christopher.watford@gmail.com)
Added cast and mask to suffice size_t v. unsigned int conversion
correctness
* json_tokener.c - sign reversal issue on error info for nested object parse
spotted by Johan Björklund (johbjo09 at kth.se)
* json_object.c - escape " in json_escape_str
* Change to automake and libtool to build shared and static library
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
0.1
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* initial release
Mr. DellatioNx196 GaLers xh3LL Backd00r 1.0, Coded By Mr. DellatioNx196 - Bogor BlackHat