In this video, I'll be going over the new Zig 0.13.0 Release Notes! There are many interesting things to talk about today: CVE mitigations, environment variable drama, an incredible-looking CLI progress indicator, and more!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Platform Support
0:40 Standard Library
4:33 Build System
5:57 Compiler
6:40 Bugs
7:00 Toolchain
7:19 Roadmap
7:54 Project Info
References:
1. TuxCare BatBadBut article: https://tuxcare.com/blog/batbadbut-vulnerability-exposes-windows-systems-to-attacks/
2. Rust Blog - CVE-2024-24576 security advisory: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html
3. PR for BatBadBut mitigation patch: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/19698
4. Old CRC implementation:
1. Crc: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L26
2. Polynomial: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L110
3. Crc32WithPoly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L118
4. Crc32SmallWithPoly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L196
5. New CRC implementation:
1. Crc: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L20
2. Compile errors: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L104
6. Algorithm: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/hash/crc/impl.zig#L10
7. StaticStringMap: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L7
1. initComptime: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L71
2. keys() and values(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L251
3. init(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L106
4. deinit(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L134
5. getLongestPrefix(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L225
6. getLongestPrefixIndex(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/static_string_map.zig#L236
7. performance benchmarks: https://github.com/travisstaloch/comptime-string-map-revised/issues/1
8. PriorityQueue:
1. Old len field: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/priority_queue.zig#L22
2. New cap field: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/priority_queue.zig#L22
3. ArrayList: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/array_list.zig#L14
4. New allocatedSlice() function: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/priority_queue.zig#L133
9. std.process.child:
1. createNullDelimitedEnvMap(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/f47824f24d1b20c276a797df8cf99066c08203b6/lib/std/process.zig#L1793
2. createWindowsEnvBlock(): https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/f47824f24d1b20c276a797df8cf99066c08203b6/lib/std/process.zig#L1844
10. CLI progress:
1. Simple example: https://asciinema.org/a/gDna9RnicwYjDRIDn4e07NFSc
2. Music player example: https://asciinema.org/a/661404
3. Andrew Kelley blog post: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-new-cli-progress-bar-explained.html
11. iovec:
1. before: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/posix.zig#L175
2. after: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/posix.zig#L175
12. std.zip: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/zip.zig
13. Step.Run global lock:
1. Comment referencing the lock: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/Build/Step/Run.zig#L31
2. New global lock functions: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blame/master/lib/std/debug.zig#L80
3. Usage in Step.Run: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/Build/Step/Run.zig#L1251
14. Step.ObjCopy API change:
1. Old interface: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/0.12.x/lib/std/Build/Step/ObjCopy.zig#L36
2. New interface: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/Build/Step/ObjCopy.zig#L36
15. Windows DLLs:
1. Related PR: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/19743
2. New behavior example: https://ziglang.org/download/0.13.0/release-notes.html#Install-Windows-DLLs-to-codeltprefixgtbincode-by-default
3. CMake artifact kinds: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/install.html#artifact-kind
16. CLI color environment variables:
1. Bixense: https://bixense.com/clicolors/
2. BSD (2000) - ls: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&manpath=FreeBSD+4.1.1-RELEASE
17. loongaarch64 fails to build Hello World: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/93894
18. Bug reports closed: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+milestone%3A0.13.0