STLSoft 1.10.1 (beta 16) released

The latest beta of STLSoft 1.10.1 is available, at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/tree/beta-16.

Getting the beta

As usual, there are two ways to obtain the latest beta:

1. Select one of the release archives (.zip, .tar.gz) at https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10/releases/tag/1.10.1-beta16; or
2. Clone the repo https://github.com/synesissoftware/STLSoft-1.10 and checkout the beta-16 branch (as in "$ git checkout -b beta-10 origin/beta-16").

Changes

The substantive changes are:

• added stlsoft_C_environment_variable_exists_a() / environment_variable_exists() (from STLSoft 1.10-alpha)
• added stlsoft::count_bits(int) overload
• added cbegin(), cend(), crbegin(), crend() to platformstl::environment_map
• significant additions and removals of WinSTL file creation functions
• added WinSTL security functions (from STLSoft 1.10-alpha)
• automatic recognising Mac OSX architecture as UNIX
• canonicalising '\file' description sections
• suppresses deprecation warning from reporting use of deprecated functions inside other deprecated functions.

I'll describe some these changes in future blog posts.