Release 1.12.15

[1.12.15] - 2024-04-27

Improved

• the REPL setup. Maven will now be installed locally to the REPL to allow
  on demand installation of modules like Tomcat, LangChain4J, ... with its
  dependencies.

Fixed

• the REPL setup for Gitpod.io instances regarding the sourcing of environment
  variables from repl.env.

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)