Class curl supports three new options: verbose, stderr and maxfilesize.

Added constructor ^date::today[] that creates date object for today's midnight (00:00:00).

Method ^date.sql-string[] supports options “datetime”, “date” and “time”. It returns date + time, date only and time only respectively.

Constructor ^file::create[...] supports binary format as well.

Constructor ^file::create[...] now also supports another format: ^file::create[string or file[;$.name[file name] $.mode[text|binary] $.content-type[...] $.charset[...]]].

Constructor ^file::create[text;...;content] normalizes end of lines (EOLs) in the content. While creating binary objects the EOLs normalization does not occur.

Methods ^file:dirname[filespec], ^file:basename[filespec], ^file:justname[filespec] and ^file:justext[filespec] handle filespecs in windows format.

Methods ^file:dirname[filespec] and ^file:basename[filespec] work exactly as *nix commands of the same names.

Constructor ^file::load[...;http://...] parses incoming cookies and stores them in a field cookies–table with columns name, value, expires, max-age, domain, path, httponly and secure.

Constructor ^file::base64[encoded;options] and method ^string:base64[encoded;options] accept an option $.strict(true). If the option is specified the exception will be thrown if decoding all characters is not possible. Without this option they return the only characters that were decoded successfully. While base64-decoding memory usage is reduced.

In the body of ^hash.foreach method it is possible to call some methods of iterated hash (such as ^hash._count[], ^hash._keys[], ^hash.contains[key] and ^hash._at[...]). It does not cause an exception “hash flocked” any longer.

Method ^json:string[object;options] searches method that was specified using $.class-name[$method] option through all the ancestors as well.

Method ^json:string[object;options] can serializes objects of class xdoc. Parameters for converting xdoc into string can be passed into $.xdoc[] option.

Method ^json:string[object;options] accepts value stat in addition to values text and base64 as a content of $.file[] option.

Method ^json:string[object;options] accepts an option $._default[$method]. Using this option you can specify user-defined method that will be used for serializing all objects of user-defined classes.

Method ^json:parse[json-string;options] accepts an option $.array[$method] that will be used for processing all arrays.

Method ^json:parse[json-string;options] accepts an option $.taint[transformation type]. The specified transformation type will be applied for every string in resulting hash.

Method ^json:parse[json-string;options] parses all numbers as double.

The range for ^math:convert[...] has been increased. Overflowing during convertion causes an exception.

Parser has native memcached servers support (using libmemcached library).

Added method ^reflection:uid[object] that returns a unique object's identifier.

Added method ^reflection:delete[class or object;field name] that can be used for deleting object's field (the method has the same functionality as ^hash.delete[key], but works with user-defined classes and objects).

Methods ^reflection:method[class or object;method name] and ^reflection:field[class or object;field name] are added. Using these methods you can access method or field of class or object.

Method ^string.match[] handles unicode properties in character classes \w etc if worked in UTF8.

Method ^string.replace[...] can be called with two parameters: “search string” and “replace string”.

Method ^table.count[] accepts options. Called with an option columns it returns a number of columns in the named table (works as: $c[^table.columns[]]^c.count[]). Called with an option cells it returns a number of cells in the current row. Called with an option rows it returns a number of rows in the table (works exactly as ^table.count[]).

Method ^table.select(expression)[options] accepts negative values in $.offset option. In this case the rows are counted from the end of the table (-1 means the last row).

DOM-methods createElement, createElementNS, createAttribute, createAttributeNS, createEntityReference, getAttribute, getAttributeNS, setAttribute, setAttributeNS, removeAttribute, removeAttributeNS, getAttributeNode, getAttributeNodeNS, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, getElementById, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS validate incoming parameters.

Method ^xdoc.file[options] accepts a new option $.name[file name].

Methods ^xdoc.string[options] and ^xdoc.file[options] accept a new option $.charset[] that works exactly as an option $.encoding[]. You can not specify both of these options however.

If a ^switch or a ^case have bool value they will be compared as bool (they were compared as double before).

Calling operators ^break[] and ^continue[] outside of cycles throws exceptions «parser.break» and «parser.continue» respectively instead of «parser.runtime».

By specifying $STRICT-VARS(true) in configuration method of MAIN (@conf[]) you can switch strict vars mode on. In this mode the access to uninitialized variables will cause an exception.

Transformation type file-spec does not replace “'” (apostrophe) character any longer (it was replaced by “_26” before).

MySQL driver accepts a new option local_infile=1 that can be used for switching on the support of LOAD DATA LOCAL if MySQL server was compiled without --enable-local-infile option (more details).

The latest versions of libraries are included: PCRE (8.30) and libxml2 (2.8.0).

A number of bugs were fixed.