1=============================================================================== 2Welcome to the C# port of Google Protocol Buffers, written by Jon Skeet 3(skeet@pobox.com) based on the work of many talented people. 4 5=============================================================================== 6RELEASE NOTES - Code imported into Google's main protobuf repository 7=============================================================================== 8 9Everything below note this represents history of protobuf-csharp-port project 10before the code was merged into csharp/ subtree of GitHub google/protobuf 11repository. 12Frozen legacy version of the original project is available in 13https://github.com/jskeet/protobuf-csharp-port. 14 15=============================================================================== 16RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.555 17=============================================================================== 18 19Changes: 20- Upgrade solution format to Visual Studio 2012. 21- Add the ability to print a builder (not just a message) 22- TextGenerator introduces a new overload of PrintTo 23- Munge protoc's error format into a VS-C#-compatible output format. 24- Work to make ProtoGen clone that acts as a protoc.exe plugin. 25- Added the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute 26- Optimized enum parsing. 27 28Fixes: 29- Fix for bug in limited input stream's Position, Introduced Position on 30 output stream 31- Fix for writing a character to a JSON output overflows allocated buffer 32- Optimize FromBase64String to return Empty when presented with empty string. 33- Use string.Concat instead of operator to avoid potential import problems 34- Issue 81: quoting for NUnit parameters. 35- Issue 56: NuGet package is noisy 36- Issue 70: Portable library project has some invalid Nunit-based code. 37- Issue 71: CodedInputStream.ReadBytes go to slow path unnecessarily 38- Issue 84: warning CS0219: The variable `size' is assigned but never used 39 40=============================================================================== 41RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.521 42=============================================================================== 43 44Changes: 45- Add generated_code_attributes option, defaulted to false 46- Added support for Portable library 47- Added 'Unsafe' static type in ByteString to allow direct buffer access 48 49Fixes: 50- Issue 50: The XML serializer will fail to deserialize a message with empty 51 child message 52- Issue 45: Use of 'item' as a field name causes AmbiguousMatchException 53- Issue 49: Generated nested static Types class should be partial 54- Issue 38: Disable CLSCompliant warnings (3021) 55- Issue 40: proto_path does not work for command-line file names 56- Issue 54: should retire all bytes in buffer (bufferSize) 57- Issue 43: Fix to correct identical 'umbrella_classname' options from trying 58 to write to the same filename. 59 60=============================================================================== 61RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.4.1.473 62=============================================================================== 63 64Features: 65- Added option service_generator_type to control service generation with 66 NONE, GENERIC, INTERFACE, or IRPCDISPATCH 67- Added interfaces IRpcDispatch and IRpcServerStub to provide for blocking 68 services and implementations. 69- Added ProtoGen.exe command-line argument "--protoc_dir=" to specify the 70 location of protoc.exe. 71- Extracted interfaces for ICodedInputStream and ICodedOutputStream to allow 72 custom implementation of writers with both speed and size optimizations. 73- Addition of the "Google.ProtoBuffers.Serialization" assembly to support 74 reading and writing messages to/from XML, JSON, IDictionary<,> and others. 75- Several performance related fixes and tweeks 76- Issue 3: Add option to mark generated code with attribute 77- Issue 20: Support for decorating classes [Serializable] 78- Issue 21: Decorate fields with [deprecated=true] as [System.Obsolete] 79- Issue 22: Reusable Builder classes 80- Issue 24: Support for using Json/Xml formats with ICodedInputStream 81- Issue 25: Added support for NuGet packages 82- Issue 31: Upgraded protoc.exe and descriptor to 2.4.1 83 84Fixes: 85- Issue 13: Message with Field same name as message causes uncompilable .cs 86- Issue 16: Does not integrate well with other tooling 87- Issue 19: Support for negative enum values 88- Issue 26: AddRange in GeneratedBuilder iterates twice. 89- Issue 27: Remove XML documentation output from test projects to clear 90 warnings/errors. 91- Issue 28: Circular message dependencies result in null default values for 92 Message fields. 93- Issue 29: Message classes generated have a public default constructor. You 94 can disable private ctor generation with the option generate_private_ctor. 95- Issue 35: Fixed a bug in ProtoGen handling of arguments with trailing \ 96- Big-endian support for float, and double on Silverlight 97- Packed and Unpacked parsing allow for all repeated, as per version 2.3 98- Fix for leaving Builder a public ctor on internal classes for use with 99 generic "where T: new()" constraints. 100 101Other: 102- Changed the code signing key to a privately held key 103- Reformatted all code and line-endings to C# defaults 104- Reworking of performance benchmarks to produce reliable results, option /v2 105- Issue 34: Silverlight assemblies are now unit tested 106 107=============================================================================== 108RELEASE NOTES - Version 2.3.0.277 109=============================================================================== 110 111Features: 112- Added cls_compliance option to generate attributes indicating 113 non-CLS-compliance. 114- Added file_extension option to control the generated output file's extension. 115- Added umbrella_namespace option to place the umbrella class into a nested 116 namespace to address issues with proto files having the same name as a 117 message it contains. 118- Added output_directory option to set the output path for the source file(s). 119- Added ignore_google_protobuf option to avoid generating code for includes 120 from the google.protobuf package. 121- Added the LITE framework (Google.ProtoBuffersLite.dll) and the ability to 122 generate code with "option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME;". 123- Added ability to invoke protoc.exe from within ProtoGen.exe. 124- Upgraded to protoc.exe (2.3) compiler. 125 126Fixes: 127- Issue 9: Class cannot be static and sealed error 128- Issue 12: default value for enumerate fields must be filled out 129 130Other: 131- Rewrite of build using MSbuild instead of NAnt 132- Moved to NUnit Version 2.2.8.0 133- Changed to using secure .snk for releases 134 135=============================================================================== 136RELEASE NOTES - Version 0.9.1 137=============================================================================== 138 139Fixes: 140- issue 10: Incorrect encoding of packed fields when serialized 141 142=============================================================================== 143RELEASE NOTES - Version 0.9.0 144=============================================================================== 145 146- Initial release 147 148===============================================================================