Release 1.30.0

1 Announcement

---

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.30.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects. For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.30.0'

• Library version changed from 1.29 to 1.30

• autogsdoc (and many source/header files) updated for ObjC-2 support

• gdnc gspath spelling error fixes

• GSFileHandle remove handle from run loop when -dealloc is called

• GSHTTPURLHandle close socket if we end loading with I/O in
  progress.

• GSMimeDocimnet optimisations

• GSPrivateSymbolPath() portability improvements

• GSVersionMacros add GS_UNIMPLEMENTED to mark unimplemented methods

• HTMLLinker man page groff warning fixed

• Make GSTcpTune options available to streams as well as file handles
  and improve debug logging for stream operations.

• NSBundle improvements in librarym bundle lookup

• NSCache thread safety fix

• NSData caching data of file URLs and OSX consistency tweak to
  permissions when writing file atomically

• NSDate implements +now constructor.

• NSDecimalNumber fix possible coimparison bug for zero values

• NSError -description and -localizedDescription formats match OSX

• NSException portability improvments

• NSFileManager makeed safety fix and make enumerating a file URL
  return URLs rather than paths.

• NSIndexSet implements enumerateRangesInRange convenience methods.

• NSISO8601DateFormatter.m: bugfix for date/time string generation

• NSJSONSerialization fix memory leak, fix issue with unicode
  surrogate pairs.

• NSKeyValueObserving Add methods to remove observers

• NSLocale Fix -countryCode incorrectly returning language code, fix
  for hyphen and underscore in locale identifier

• NSMessagePort remove restriction on Distributed Objects message
  length

• NSNotificationCenter fix for memory leak, minor bugfixes (use
  before initialise)

• NSNull fix for -valueForUndefinedKey: to return singleton

• NSNumberFormatter make minimum/maximum properties NSNumbers

• NSObject optimise allocation with new runtime library

• NSOperation fix occasional scheduling bug

• NSOrderedSet Fix keyed encoding to match Apple platforms.

• NSPathUtilities fix intialisation order deadlock.

• NSPredicate fix for array access keywords

• NSProcessInfo android support

• NSString correct class used when loading empty string from
  file/URL, implements regular expression search methods.

• NSTask return an error if the path to launch in is bad, use _exit
  to terminate forked process if needed, use closefrom() to close
  descriptors in child process if possible

• NSTimer wrap call to block in exception handler (bug #289)

• NSTimeZone improvements

• NSURL Fix NSURL path on Windows for UNC paths.

• NSURLRequest: Support deleting using setValue:forHTTPHeaderField:
  with nil value.

• NSURLSession many bugfixes and improvements

• NSUserDefaults fix potential deadlock

• NSXMLElement bugfix to remove previous attributes when setting
  attributes.

• NSXMLNode returns NSError on failure to evaluate xpath expression.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?

The gnustep-base-1.30.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core.

It is accompanied by gnustep-base-1.30.0.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
using:

 gpg --verify gnustep-base-1.30.0.tar.gz.sig

Signature has been created using the key with the following
fingerprint:

 83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679

Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
instructions.

1.4 Where do I send bug reports?

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep or send bug reports to
[email protected].

1.5 Obtaining GNUstep Software

Check out the GNUstep web site. (http://www.gnustep.org/) and the GNU
web site. (http://www.gnu.org/)

base-1_29_0

1 Announcement

---

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.29.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects. For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

This is a bugfix release increasing the library version number to
reflect ABI change that should have been included when the previous
release was made.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.29.0'

• Library version changed from 1.28 to 1.29

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?

The gnustep-base-1.29.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core.

It is accompanied by gnustep-base-1.29.0.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
using:

 gpg --verify gnustep-base-1.29.0.tar.gz.sig

Signature has been created using the key with the following
fingerprint:

 83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679

Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
instructions.

1.4 Where do I send bug reports?

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep or send bug reports to
[email protected].

base-1_28_1

1 Announcement

---

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.28.1, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects. For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

This is a release focussing more on portability improvements and
bugfixes, though it does contain some new features.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.28.1'

• Many changes to make building and testcases work on ms-windows
  (particularly with the MSVC target and when using a strict C99
  compiler).
• Support for native locking on ms-windows.
• Support for overlapped I/O on ms-windows.
• New timezone handling code to deal with v2+ of the timezone format.
• TLS support for secure Distributed Objects connections.
• Masking of sensitive information in http/https debug logs.
• a variety of bugfixes.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?

The gnustep-base-1.28.1.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core.

It is accompanied by gnustep-base-1.28.1.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
using:

 gpg --verify gnustep-base-1.28.1.tar.gz.sig

Signature has been created using the key with the following
fingerprint:

 83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679

Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
instructions.

1.4 Where do I send bug reports?

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep or send bug reports to
[email protected].

base-1_28_0: Release 1.28.0.

1 Announcement
**************

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.28.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.28.0'
==========================================

Aside from an assortment of bugfixes, this release includes a lot of
improvements for Windows support as well as numerous new classes and
methods.

   Not every bugfix, improvement or a new feature will be listed here.

   * Reading and setting File Creation Date attribute on Windows.
   * Added new 'ASSIGNMUTABLECOPY()' macro for consistency with
     'ASSIGNCOPY()'.
   * Replaced character set data headers for URLs with loading these
     from a standard data source, and updated bitmap representation to
     use much less space for character sets residing wholly in the base
     plane, such as the URL charsets (given they are purely ASCII).
   * Updated character set data with newer Unicode data set.
   * '[NSURLProtocol -initWithRequest:cachedResponse:client:]' will now
     retain the client up until the last message is sent to it, which
     improves compatibility with OS X.
   * Percent-escaping code in 'NSURL' simplified.
   * Removed mixed ABI support.
   * Use of Apple runtime now assumes non-fragile ABI (which is true on
     modern systems).
   * Improve typing on method implementation pointers in some classes.
   * In 'NSHTTPCookie', rewritten code for extracting individual cookies
     from the HTTP header.
   * In 'NSKeyedArchiver', implement secure coding methods.
   * New methods in 'NSDateComponents'.
   * Improvements in 'NSCalendar' and 'NSLocale' for calendar locale and
     'NSDateComponents'.
   * In 'NSFileManager', use 'utimensat()' to set file modification
     date, if available.
   * Correctly stop parsing number being decoded in
     'NSJSONSerialization' when encountering a number with an invalid
     exponent.
   * Improve OS X compatibility for 'NSURLQueryItem' initializers.
   * For 'NSFileManager', in 'changeFileAttributes', implement setting
     creation date for Unix-like systems.  Implement reading the
     creation date if a supported method was detected.
   * Support reading Android assets from the main bundle in
     'NSInputStream'.
   * Support Android assets directories in 'NSBundle' and
     'NSFileManager'.
   * Implement '-[NSXMLParser initWithStream:]'.
   * Allow clearer choice between 'sloppy' 'GSSloppyXMLParser' used in
     'NSXMLParser' and the libxml2-based 'GSStrictXMLParser'.
   * Fix building Win32 implementations for 'GSFileHandle' and
     'NSMessagePort' with nonfragile ABI.
   * Use 'NSNumber' and not 'NSString' in '-[NSUserDefaults
     setBool:forKey:]'.
   * Posting notification before 'NSThread' exit.
   * Actually declare optional 'NSFilePresenter' methods as optional.
   * In 'NSConcreteMapTable', fix replacing existing values in a weak
     objects map table.
   * Fix leaks in 'NSOperation'.
   * Various compat fixes for various MSYS systems, particularly around
     sockets code.
   * In 'NSData', 'NSFileManager' and more, various improvements when
     overwriting and creating files with respect to file attributes
     (owners, creation timestamp, etc).
   * Improve 'NSLog' output on Android.
   * Use 'instancetype' in 'NSURLRequest' header.
   * Define 'NSAttributedStringKey' and 'NSNotificationName'.
   * Add new 'NSURL' methods.
   * In 'GSMime', have '-contentFile' check the 'Content-Type' header
     before checking 'Content-Disposition'.
   * Fix a bug linking with WEAK symbols where binutils 2.3.5 would fail
     to link due to not all expected symbols being exported.
   * New 'plutil' utility.
   * Implementation of '[NSData rangeOfData:options:range:]' which finds
     the 'NSRange' in which the passed data occurs.
   * Change 'ENTER_POOL'/'LEAVE_POOL' so they no longer wrap the
     enclosed code in a loop, enabling use in some loops.
   * New 10.5 methods in 'NSRunLoop'/'NSURLConnection'.
   * Improve compatibility when building with ICU 68.
   * Fix compiling libdispatch integration of 'NSRunLoop' on Windows.
   * Add support for building on Windows with MSVC's Clang by passing
     the 'configure' flag '--host=x86_64-pc-windows'.  Use of an MSYS2
     shell without '-devel' packages is recommended.
   * Implementation of 'NSURLSession' and related classes.  This adds
     some dependencies on more recent versions of 'libcurl',
     'libdispatch' etc.
   * Fix initializing 'NSUUID' from a string.
   * Disable use of 'libcurl' if its headers are not found.
   * In 'NSURLProtocol', continue writing data if not all of it was
     written.
   * Fix use of GnuTLS under MinGW by using 'send/recv' rather than
     'read/write'.
   * Add support for libobjc2 runtime on Windows.
   * Fix BOM insertion when generating data from a string using one of
     the Unicode encodings.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
=================================================

The gnustep-base-1.28.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core>.

   It is accompanied by gnustep-base-1.28.0.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature
which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and
using:

     gpg --verify gnustep-base-1.28.0.tar.gz.sig

   Signature has been created using the key with the following
fingerprint:

     83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8  3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679

   Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation
instructions.

1.4 Where do I send bug reports?
================================

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep> or send bug reports to
<[email protected]>.

1.5 Obtaining GNUstep Software
==============================

Check out the GNUstep web site.  (<http://www.gnustep.org/>) and the GNU
web site.  (<http://www.gnu.org/>)

base-1_27_0: Release 1.27.0.

1 Announcement
**************

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.27.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.27.0'
==========================================

Aside from an assortment of bugfixes, this release includes a lot of
improvements for Android support as well as numerous new classes and
methods.

   * Expose GNU TLS wrappers and add methods to get certificate expiry.
   * Improve thread safety when using zombies, particularly on
     statup/shutdown.
   * Improvements for Ukrainian localization.
   * Decreased ICU requirements to 49 to support Windows 2000.
   * Simplifications and fixes in GSPrivateSymbolPath().
   * GSMime improvements (word encoding specifier, utf-8 improvements
     encoding quoted words with multibyte characters)
   * NSJSONSerialization fixes for codepoints over 0x7f.
   * NSCharacterSet support for URL*AllowedCharacterSet and declarations
     for new character sets.
   * NSString implementations for new methods
     stringByRemovingPercentEncoding/
     stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacterSet:.
   * Fixed a crash in gdomap when an invalid hostname is given for the
     -M option.
   * In NSString.m, removed functions urldecode() and ishex() which were
     mistakenly neither namespaced nor declared static and thus could
     have conflicted with non-library code.
   * Fixed libdispatch configuration switch so -enable-libdispatch works
     correctly; correctly checking for HAVE_LIBDISPATCH_RUNLOOP.
   * Updated libdispatch runloop integration so it is compatible with
     Swift's corelibs libdispatch release (from
     github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch).  The libdispatch must
     be compiled with INSTALL_PRIVATE_HEADERS=YES.
   * In NSThread, spinlocks implemented using builtins to be able to
     target platforms without pthread_spin_lock(), such as Android
     targeting API level < 24.
   * In NSLog on Android, send logs to syslog.
   * Implementation of NSOrderedSet.
   * When ./configuring, link against libandroid on Android.
   * In NSBundle, allow integrating with Android asset manager using
     +[NSBundle setJavaAssetManager:withJNIEnv:], enabling use of
     mainBundle's pathForResource:ofType:, -URLForResource:ofType: and
     similar; referencing Info.plist if it exists in Android assets; use
     of NSFileManager's fileExistsAtPath: et al and
     isReadableFileAtPath:; reading files using NSFileHandle APIs; use
     of NSDirectoryEnumerator to enumerate Android assets from the main
     bundle.
   * In NSBundle, localization support on Android.
   * In NSProcessInfo, automatic initialization on Android using a fake
     executable path (/data/data/<app identifier>/Resources).
   * In NSData, improvements in reading Android assets.
   * Various improvements in the mechanism to report memory usage of
     individual objects.
   * Skeletal implementation of NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore.
   * Implementation of NSByteCountFormatter.
   * Fixes to writing large HTTPS requests (GSSocketStream,
     NSURLProtocol).
   * In gdomap.c, fix detection of local networks.
   * In NSArray's -removeObjectsInArray:, prevent some crashes.
   * In GSTLS, avoid setting session priority twice.
   * In NSFileHandle, fix so that setting certificate information does
     not discard any other options already set.
   * In GSXML's -fatalErrorFunction, use the correct function to get the
     line number.
   * In NSOperation's _execute, ensure lock gets released on an error by
     surrounding with NS_DURING.
   * Generics support in NSHashTable.
   * Implementation of NSProgress.
   * Skeleton implementation of NSURLComponents.
   * In NSSortDescriptor, added
     -sortDescriptorWithKey:ascending:descending:.
   * In NSOperationQueue, added -addOperationWithBlock.
   * In NSFileManager, added
     -URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: and
     -enumeratorAtURL:includingPropertiesForKeys:options:errorHandler:.
     Also added NSItemReplacementDirectory constant, and updated stub
     implementation for -URLForDirectory:shouldCreate:error:.  Added
     -initWithDirectoryPath:...  with additional parameters skipHidden
     and errorHandler.
   * In NSDictionary, fixed keysSortedByValueUsingComparator:.
   * Moved NSFileWrapper from -gui to -base.
   * Added NSFilePresenter, NSFileVersion and NSFileCoordinator.
   * Added NSPersonComponents and NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter.
   * Added units of measurement classes such as NSUnit, NSMeasurement,
     NSMeasurementFormatter, NSEnergyFormatter, NSLengthFormatter,
     NSMassFormatter.
   * In NSUnit, support for NSUnitArea, NSUnitConcentrationMass,
     NSUnitDispersion, NSUnitElectricCharge, NSUnitIlluminance,
     NSUnitElectricCurrent, NSUnitElectricPotentionDifference,
     NSElectricResistance, NSUnitMass, NSUnitEnergy, NSUnitFrequency,
     NSUnitPower, NSUnitSpeed, NSUnitFuelEfficiency, NSUnitPressure,
     NSUnitVolume, NSUnitLength.
   * Support for data directory on Android introduces
     GSInitializeProcessAndroid and makes use of the path returned by
     Context.getFilesDir() as the basis for storing data (e.g.
     NSUserDefaults) and when querying for directory paths
     (NSLibraryDirectory, NSApplicationSupportDirectory, etc.).
   * Placeholder NSScript* classes.  Added NSUserActivity,
     NSObjectScripting, NSHFSFileTypes, NSAppleEventManager and
     NSAppleEventDescriptor.
   * Added NSDateInterval intersectionWithDateInterval:.
   * Added NSBackgroundActivityScheduler.
   * Added NSISO8601DateFormatter and NSMetadataAttributes.
   * Added NSOrtogrpahy and NSLinguisticTagger.
   * Added NSExtensionItem, NSExtensionContext,
     NSExtensionRequestHandling, and NSItemProvider and
     NSItemProviderReadingWriting.
   * Updated timezone info for NSTimeZones.
   * On Android, support for NSTemporaryDirectory to use
     Context.getCacheDir(), and cleaning it up in
     GSInitializeProcessAndroid() given there is no support for temp
     directory before Android API 26.  Also used with NSCachesDirectory
     + NSUserDomainMask.
   * NSXPCConnection fixes.
   * NSException symbolication support using libunwind (used when
     backtrace() is unavailable).
   * Travis build improvements to use new runloop integration and
     gnustep-2.0 runtime.
   * In NSKeyValueObserving, implement two missing methods for NSArray:
     -addObserver:options:context: and
     -removeObserver:fromObjectsAtIndexes:forKeyPath:.
   * Updated NSUUID to use instancetype.
   * Added support for NSDate constants in NSPredicate.
   * Fixed a NSTimer bug with blocks.
   * In GSTLS, do not put password in the hash key of the credentials,
     and to avoid logging it when debugging is on.
   * Improvements in NSConcreteHashTable and NSConcreteMapTable.
   * In various places, switch away from deprecated
     CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL() to use the ARC-compatible ENTER_POOL and
     LEAVE_POOL macros.
   * When building the list of hosts to be probed to see if they have
     gdomap servers, fix code to include those explicitly defined in the
     config file.  Add -S option to list the addresses of the known
     gdomap servers.
   * Backward compatibility fix for ICU 65.
   * Update GSPrivateSymbolPath() so that, on the path where
     LINKER_GETSYMBOL is not available, we attempt to lookup classes
     using the prefix ._OBJC_CLASS_ for the 2.0 ABI (earlier ABIs use a
     prefix of __objc_class_name_ for the class definition.
   * Fix parsing of NSURLResponse content type header.
   * Fix for class lookup when using the 2.0 ABI.
   * Fixed NSURLComponents setURL: throwing exceptions when URL didn't
     have all expected parts caused by rangeOfString: throwing for nil
     values.
   * Added NSURLQueryItem implementation.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
=================================================

The gnustep-base-1.27.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core>.

   Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep> or send bug reports to
<[email protected]>.

base-1_26_0: Release 1.26.0.

1 Announcement
**************

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.26.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.26.0'
==========================================

   * Improve utf8 validity checks.
   * Make point and size subclasses for NSValue interchangable.
   * Add support for TLS SNI. Always request certificate from client and
     update certificates after 5 minutes.
   * Don't write deprecated fields to desktop link file.
   * Use NSLock instead of GSLazyLock and other improvements for
     multithreaded processes.
   * Clean up of NSString cluster.
   * Update NSAssert() and NSCAssert() to handle variable arguments (as
     OSX has done) and mark the numbered macros as obsolete.
   * Various improvements in tests.
   * Require ICU >= 50.
   * ICU is now detected using pkg-config.
   * Improve XML parsing.
   * Make NSXMLNode ivar a union representing different types, instead
     of assuming it will contain different underlying class types in
     different contexts.  This is important for the new libobjc2 ABI.
   * OSX compatibility changes to NSURL.
   * NSFileManager call error handle on missing file.
   * Dummy spinlock implementation for platforms that don't support it.
   * Internationalization improvements: Japanese translation, Turkish
     translation, Polish translation.
   * Various improvements for new libobjc2 "v2 ABI", including things
     like a new NSConstantString implementation, making
     GS_REPLACE_CONSTANT_STRING a noop with the new ABI, etc.
   * Improvements for stack traces, exception handling and dead lock
     detection.
   * Other more minor bugfixes and cleanups.  Many found by Coverity
     scan results.
   * As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most
     recent international timezone data.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
=================================================

The gnustep-base-1.26.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core>.

   Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep> or send bug reports to
<[email protected]>.

base-1_25_1: Release 1.25.1.

1 Announcement
**************

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.25.1, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
'http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version '1.25.1'
==========================================

   * Unicode fixes for characters outside the base plane
   * Stubs for some new OSX methods
   * Various new OSX compatibility macro and type definitions
   * NSFileManager fixes and tweaks to match OSX implementation
   * NSDistributedLock bugfix for pre-existing lock directories
   * Alternative sort algorithms selectable at runtime
   * Compatibility-related changes for environments not supporting weak
     symbols
   * Other more minor bugfixes and cleanups.
   * As usual, this release also contains an update to include the most
     recent international timezone data.

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
=================================================

The gnustep-base-1.25.1.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core>.

   Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep> or send bug reports to
<[email protected]>.