1.0.3 / 2010-12-28¶ ↑

• Re-add support for ruby 1.8.x

1.0.0 / 2010-11-30¶ ↑

• Major improvements

  • Better handling of non-ruby thread callbacks

  • Support for releasing the GIL during C function calls

• Minor improvements

  • code cleanups

0.5.0 / 2009-10-06¶ ↑

• Major improvements

  • New Function class

  • Structs can be passed and returned by value

  • Implement a custom trampoline for x86_64, resulting in roughly 30% speedup

  • Improve dispatch of functions which take (0..6) char/short/int/long/pointer arguments by between 50% and 200% on x86_64

  • Callbacks are now approximately 100% faster on x86_64

• Minor improvements

  • Add support for MacOSX Snow Leopard

  • Improve support for Windows releasing fat binaries on rubyforge

  • Better introspection in structs:

    • Add StructLayout::Field#type, size, offset, alignment and name methods

    • Add StructLayout#fields which returns an array of StructLayout::Field objects

  • Add automagic deducing of library name from module name. Idea and prototype implementation from Matt Hulse

  • Callback fields in structs can now be both read and written

  • Add a bunch of new benchmarks

  • Lots of refactoring

• Experimental features

  • blocking functions (i.e. native code that blocks the thread) support

• Bug fixes

  • Fix RUBY-FFI_43 (rake gem dependency)

0.4.0 / 2009-08-05¶ ↑

• Major improvements

  • Add support for boolean types

  • Add support for methods as callbacks

  • Add FFI::IO.read as described in JRUBY-3636

• Minor improvements

  • Add Pointer::NULL constant

  • Add AbstractMemory#get_array_of_string()

  • Implement Pointer.new(address) and Pointer.new(:type, address)

• Bug fixes

  • Fix RUBY_FFI-38

  • Fix issues related to 1.9.1 build

  • Fix issues related to OSX build

  • Fix issues related to FreeBSD build

  • Fix issues related to OpenSolaris build

0.3.5 / 2009-05-08¶ ↑

• Bug fixes

  • Fix RUBY_FFI-17

  • Fix RUBY_FFI-21

0.3.4 / 2009-05-01¶ ↑

• Minor improvements

  • Add return statements to functions that call rb_raise(), in case rb_raise is not declared noreturn, to avoid gcc warnings.

0.3.3 / 2009-04-27¶ ↑

• Minor improvements

  • Implement RUBY_FFI-16 - Add support for anonymous callbacks

  • Add support for callback parameters in callbacks

  • Add support for function pointer return values

  • Callbacks can now coerce proc objects into function pointers for return values.

  • Implement FFI::Type and FFI::Type::Builtin

  • Add support for enumerations

• Bug fixes

  • Fix RUBY_FFI-19

  • Fix RUBY_FFI-15

0.3.2 / 2009-05-01¶ ↑

• Bug fixes

  • Fix JRUBY-3527 by passing RTLD_GLOBAL instead of RTLD_LOCAL

0.3.1 / 2009-03-23¶ ↑

• Bug fixes

  • Correctly save errno/GetLastError after each call.

0.3.0 / 2009-03-19¶ ↑

• Switch compilation to rake-compiler

  • Makes cross-compilation from linux -> win32 super easy

  • win32 support is available now, but highly experimental

• Performance improvements

  • struct field access approx 3x faster than 0.2.0

  • function invocation approx 20% faster than 0.2.0

• A bunch of minor improvements

  • Struct instances can now be passed as :pointer parameters without calling Struct#pointer

  • Support for array struct members

  • Structs are now padded correctly to the alignment of the struct’s

    largest field

  • Global library variables

  • Callbacks in global library variables

  • Strings passed in as :string arguments are scrubbed to avoid poison-null-byte attacks.

  • Union support

  • nil can be passed as a :string argument (passed as NULL)

  • Structs can now be fields inside another struct

  • Lots of internal cleanups and refactorings.