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Ion C 1.4.0 Released
09 February 2021

New features:

• Added support for writing 32-bit floats via existing APIs.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed long strings concatenation failures when components were separated by comments.
• Correctly interpret newline characters within text clob literals.
• Allowed text writer to write timestamps with high-precision fractional seconds.
• Fixed ion_timestamp_to_time_t on Windows.
• Changed globals to use thread-local storage (TLS).
• Fixed an issue causing lobs to skip some bytes when doing partial reads of ion-text.
• Fail early when a numeric value is terminated by an invalid character.
• Made ion_reader_get_type behavior consistent between text and binary writers.
• Fixed an infinite loop that occurred when writing to a fixed-size buffer with insufficient space.
• Fixed integer overflow bugs in ion_int_from_long and ion_int_to_int64.

Tweaks:

• Removed the CLI’s dependency on docopt in favor of argtable3.
• Added a space after a field name’s colon when pretty-printing.
• Added static build targets.
• Removed googletest from all target.
• Various CLI fixes and improvements.
• Integrated ion-test-driver support into GitHub Actions.

Release Notes v1.4.0

Ion C

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