v1.7.3-locke-7

This release focuses on stability, without notable new features.

changes since locke-6:

• GraphPlugin #134
  • removed showgraph due to no longer maintained JGraph 5 dependency
  • upgraded JGraphT dependency from from 1.1.0 to 1.5.2, addressing various deprecations / breaking changes
• VersionInfo
  • major rewrite, to support postfix containing - and remove arbitrary limitation MAX_VALUE = 9999
  • store Engine version in coreasm.engine.build.properties file, instead of having it hardcoded #31
• dependency updates
  • upgrade from Java 11 to Java 17, also tested with Java 21 and experimentally with Java 23
  • various dependency updates
  • various GitHub Actions and Maven Plugin dependency updates
• a lot of minor code style updates
  • those should not change functionality
  • often to increase consistency and readability, esp. to reduce code complexity by using new Java language features
• started work on restoring Eclipse modules, but not yet completed
  • applied breaking changes, mainly #21 and 369391f
  • applied codestyle changes for consistency, mainly import order
  • prepared inclusion with parent-pom structure and aligned versions
  • currently targets Eclipse 2018-09 as more recent releases require additional work
  • initial testing satisfying
  • open work:
    • proper testing
    • publishing
    • a versioning approach that does not conflict upstream's versioning

v1.7.3-locke-6

changes since locke-5:

• added UUID-Plugin 0e50096
  • UUID background
  • nilUUID() returns the null UUID-element "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" (new java.util.UUID(0L, 0L))
  • randomUUID() returns a new random UUID-element (java.util.UUID.randomUUID())
• restored Graph plugin #10
  • add tests for the graph plugin
• improve interrupt handling #25
  • fix crash that occurs with (spurious) interrupts while waiting #19
• reworked Exception handling #21
  • avoid Error, use RuntimeException
  • handle Exception, not all Throwable
  • rename CompilerException to CompilationException, add parenting CoreASMCompilerException for CompilationException, CommandLineException etc.
• Engine: add prefix "enqueue" to methods which add EngineCommands 369391f
• many dependency updates, major ones being:
  • org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 1.7.32 to 2.0.4
  • from net.sf.jgrapht:jgrapht 0.8.3 to org.jgrapht:jgrapht-core 1.1.0
    • a newer version is available, but has some breaking changes
  • JUnit from 4.13.2 to 5.9.1
  • restored dependency of logback-classic for tests
  • tune some dependencies to be only used in test-scope
• Carma: don't rename jar, conflicts with deploy #30
  • if the fat jar is needed, it can be downloaded with the "jar-with-dependencies" classifier
• restored tests #2 #3
  • increase CI matrix, add coverage and checkstyle
  • compiler tests deactivated, as they are failing
    • started to improve the compiler, e.g. with system-independent separators (File.separator instead of \\)
• reworked tests #23
  • harmonize engine tests with compiler tests, add common TestUtils class
  • move message creation logic to TestReport class
  • add TestEngineStates to perform detailed in-depth tests in between engine steps
• many codestyle changes and fixes #1 #11 #20 #22, for example:
  • harmonized formatting, mainly regarding whitespaces
    • see .gitattributes, .editorconfig and checkstyle.xml
  • removed unused imports, sort imports
  • add @Override
  • some syntax improvements introduced with newer Java versions, e.g.:
    • since Java 5: for-each loops
    • since Java 5: StringBuilder instead of StringBuffer
    • since Java 7: try-with-resources

locke-5

changes since locke-4:

• coreasm-engine:
  • reduced jar size (remove doc folder; no "fat" jar, this is a library and not an application)
  • remove dependency of logback-classic
• updated dependencies
  • update slf4j & logback to address CVE-2021-42550
• publishing: change flattenMode from resolveCiFriendliesOnly to ossrh
  • each pom now has the versions explicitly specified and also additional metadata like developers

locke-4

changes since locke-3:

• custom groupid de.athalis.coreasm for independent publishing
• removed compiler related changes that were added in locke-3
  • the compiler needs much more work than I expected

locke-3

changes since locke-2:

• updated to require Java 11, also updated some dependencies
  • more codestyle improvements, esp. List.of from Java 9 and List.copyOf from Java 10
• more detailed execution stats
• selected improvements of exception messages / logging
• restore compiler tests / fixes hardcoded path with version number in it
• fix ConcurrentModificationException in compiler
  • warning: some compiler tests are still failing, not sure why, and if they fail also on upstream

locke-2

• based on upstream commit 7c119d9
• jParsec 3.1
• ForkJoinPool
• various changes from the branches codestyle, fixes and locke

locke-1

• based on upstream commit 7c119d9, which already includes the nanoTime, test-jar and avoid-yield branches
• jParsec 3.0
• ForkJoinPool
• various changes from the branches fixes and locke