Release Notes

2.x Versions

Version 2.9.0

• Add gul14::variant, a backport of std::variant from C++17
• Add gul14::remove_cvref and gul14::void_t, backports of metaprogramming functions from C++20 and C++17, respectively.

Version 2.8.0

• Add gul14::expected, a backport of std::expected from C++23

Version 2.7.1

• Released with DOOCS 22.10.0-23.3.0
• within_orders(0.0, 0.0, 10) results now in true

Version 2.7

• Add repeat()
• Add gcd() and lcm()
• Add Howard Hinnant's date.h header

Version 2.6

• Released with DOOCS 21.12.0–22.6.1
• Add safe_string()
• Add hex_string()
• Add IsContainerLike<>

Version 2.5

• Released with DOOCS 21.3.0–21.7.1
• Add support for more container types as return type of split() and tokenize()
• Add SmallVector

Version 2.4

• Add SlidingBuffer::pop_front() and SlidingBuffer::pop_back()

Version 2.3

• Released with DOOCS 20.6.0–20.10.1
• Allow join() to accept arbitrary containers and add a two-iterator interface

Version 2.2

• Released with DOOCS 20.5.0
• Add minimum() and maximum()

Version 2.1

• Released with DOOCS 20.2.0 and DOOCS 20.3.0
• Add equals_nocase()

Version 2.0

• Released with DOOCS 20.1.0
• Rename GUL to GUL14 (applies to namespace, include directory, library name)
• Make SlidingBufferIterator random access instead of bidirectional

1.x Versions

Version 1.9

• Add gul14::span, a backport of std::span from C++20

Version 1.8

• Released with DOOCS 19.11.0
• Add bit_set(), bit_reset(), bit_flip(), bit_test()
• Make to_number() unconditionally noexcept

Version 1.7

• Released with DOOCS 19.10.0
• Add contains_nocase(), starts_with_nocase(), ends_with_nocase()
• Bugfix in within_ulp() for subnormal numbers
• Fix SlidingBuffer{} constructor for non-trivial elements
• Improve precision of to_number()
• Improve usability with MSVC

Version 1.6

• Released with DOOCS 19.8.2
• Add to_number()

Version 1.5

• Released with DOOCS 19.8.0
• Add gul14::optional, a backport of std::optional from C++17

Version 1.4

• escape() & unescape(): Change argument type from const std::string & to gul14::string_view
• within_orders() can now be used with integer arguments

Version 1.3

• SlidingBuffer: Add push_back(), ShrinkBehavior
• Minor bugfixes for SlidingBuffer
• GUL can be built with Visual C++/Visual Studio 2019 using Meson/Ninja

Version 1.2

• Add lowercase_ascii(), lowercase_ascii_inplace(), uppercase_ascii(), uppercase_ascii_inplace()
• Bugfixes for SlidingBuffer: clear() did not work with variable-sized buffers, empty() was not const

Version 1.1

• Add FinalAction and finally

Version 1.0

• Released with DOOCS 19.5.0
• First release version of GUL