1 //! The change log. 2 3 /// Release 0.7.0 (2021-01-31) 4 /// 5 /// ## Breaking changes 6 /// 7 /// ### Loading functions are now `unsafe` 8 /// 9 /// A number of associated methods involved in loading a library were changed to 10 /// be `unsafe`. The affected functions are: [`Library::new`], [`os::unix::Library::new`], 11 /// [`os::unix::Library::open`], [`os::windows::Library::new`], 12 /// [`os::windows::Library::load_with_flags`]. This is the most prominent breaking change in this 13 /// release and affects majority of the users of `libloading`. 14 /// 15 /// In order to see why it was necessary, consider the following snippet of C++ code: 16 /// 17 /// ```c++ 18 /// #include <vector> 19 /// #include <iostream> 20 /// 21 /// static std::vector<unsigned int> UNSHUU = { 1, 2, 3 }; 22 /// 23 /// int main() { 24 /// std::cout << UNSHUU[0] << UNSHUU[1] << UNSHUU[2] << std::endl; // Prints 123 25 /// return 0; 26 /// } 27 /// ``` 28 /// 29 /// The `std::vector` type, much like in Rust's `Vec`, stores its contents in a buffer allocated on 30 /// the heap. In this example the vector object itself is stored and initialized as a static 31 /// variable – a compile time construct. The heap, on the other hand, is a runtime construct. And 32 /// yet the code works exactly as you'd expect – the vector contains numbers 1, 2 and 3 stored in 33 /// a buffer on heap. So, _what_ makes it work out, exactly? 34 /// 35 /// Various executable and shared library formats define conventions and machinery to execute 36 /// arbitrary code when a program or a shared library is loaded. On systems using the PE format 37 /// (e.g. Windows) this is available via the optional `DllMain` initializer. Various systems 38 /// utilizing the ELF format take a sightly different approach of maintaining an array of function 39 /// pointers in the `.init_array` section. A very similar mechanism exists on systems that utilize 40 /// the Mach-O format. 41 /// 42 /// For the C++ program above, the object stored in the `UNSHUU` global variable is constructed 43 /// by code run as part of such an initializer routine. This initializer is run before the entry 44 /// point (the `main` function) is executed, allowing for this magical behaviour to be possible. 45 /// Were the C++ code built as a shared library instead, the initialization routines would run as 46 /// the resulting shared library is loaded. In case of `libloading` – during the call to 47 /// `Library::new` and other methods affected by this change. 48 /// 49 /// These initialization (and very closely related termination) routines can be utilized outside of 50 /// C++ too. Anybody can build a shared library in variety of different programming languages and 51 /// set up the initializers to execute arbitrary code. Potentially code that does all sorts of 52 /// wildly unsound stuff. 53 /// 54 /// The routines are executed by components that are an integral part of the operating system. 55 /// Changing or controlling the operation of these components is infeasible. With that in 56 /// mind, the initializer and termination routines are something anybody loading a library must 57 /// carefully evaluate the libraries loaded for soundness. 58 /// 59 /// In practice, a vast majority of the libraries can be considered a good citizen and their 60 /// initialization and termination routines, if they have any at all, can be trusted to be sound. 61 /// 62 /// Also see: [issue #86]. 63 /// 64 /// ### Better & more consistent default behaviour on UNIX systems 65 /// 66 /// On UNIX systems the [`Library::new`], [`os::unix::Library::new`] and 67 /// [`os::unix::Library::this`] methods have been changed to use 68 /// <code>[RTLD_LAZY] | [RTLD_LOCAL]</code> as the default set of loader options (previously: 69 /// [`RTLD_NOW`]). This has a couple benefits. Namely: 70 /// 71 /// * Lazy binding is generally quicker to execute when only a subset of symbols from a library are 72 /// used and is typically the default when neither `RTLD_LAZY` nor `RTLD_NOW` are specified when 73 /// calling the underlying `dlopen` API; 74 /// * On most UNIX systems (macOS being a notable exception) `RTLD_LOCAL` is the default when 75 /// neither `RTLD_LOCAL` nor [`RTLD_GLOBAL`] are specified. The explicit setting of the 76 /// `RTLD_LOCAL` flag makes this behaviour consistent across platforms. 77 /// 78 /// ### Dropped support for Windows XP/Vista 79 /// 80 /// The (broken) support for Windows XP and Windows Vista environments was removed. This was 81 /// prompted primarily by a similar policy change in the [Rust 82 /// project](https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/378) but also as an acknowledgement 83 /// to the fact that `libloading` never worked in these environments anyway. 84 /// 85 /// ### More accurate error variant names 86 /// 87 /// Finally, the `Error::LoadLibraryW` renamed to [`Error::LoadLibraryExW`] to more accurately 88 /// represent the underlying API that's failing. No functional changes as part of this rename 89 /// intended. 90 /// 91 /// [issue #86]: https://github.com/nagisa/rust_libloading/issues/86 92 /// [`Library::new`]: crate::Library::new 93 /// [`Error::LoadLibraryExW`]: crate::Error::LoadLibraryExW 94 /// [`os::unix::Library::this`]: crate::os::unix::Library::this 95 /// [`os::unix::Library::new`]: crate::os::unix::Library::new 96 /// [`os::unix::Library::open`]: crate::os::unix::Library::new 97 /// [`os::windows::Library::new`]: crate::os::windows::Library::new 98 /// [`os::windows::Library::load_with_flags`]: crate::os::windows::Library::load_with_flags 99 /// [`RTLD_NOW`]: crate::os::unix::RTLD_NOW 100 /// [RTLD_LAZY]: crate::os::unix::RTLD_LAZY 101 /// [RTLD_LOCAL]: crate::os::unix::RTLD_LOCAL 102 /// [`RTLD_GLOBAL`]: crate::os::unix::RTLD_GLOBAL 103 pub mod r0_7_0 {} 104 105 /// Release 0.6.7 (2021-01-14) 106 /// 107 /// * Added a [`os::windows::Library::open_already_loaded`] to obtain a handle to a library that 108 /// must already be loaded. There is no portable equivalent for all UNIX targets. Users who do not 109 /// care about portability across UNIX platforms may use [`os::unix::Library::open`] with 110 /// `libc::RTLD_NOLOAD`; 111 /// 112 /// [`os::windows::Library::open_already_loaded`]: crate::os::windows::Library::open_already_loaded 113 /// [`os::unix::Library::open`]: crate::os::unix::Library::open 114 pub mod r0_6_7 {} 115 116 /// Release 0.6.6 (2020-12-03) 117 /// 118 /// * Fix a double-release of resources when [`Library::close`] or [`os::windows::Library::close`] 119 /// is used on Windows. 120 /// 121 /// [`Library::close`]: crate::Library::close 122 /// [`os::windows::Library::close`]: crate::os::windows::Library::close 123 pub mod r0_6_6 {} 124 125 /// Release 0.6.5 (2020-10-23) 126 /// 127 /// * Upgrade cfg-if 0.1 to 1.0 128 pub mod r0_6_5 {} 129 130 /// Release 0.6.4 (2020-10-10) 131 /// 132 /// * Remove use of `build.rs` making it easier to build `libloading` without cargo. It also 133 /// almost halves the build time of this crate. 134 pub mod r0_6_4 {} 135 136 /// Release 0.6.3 (2020-08-22) 137 /// 138 /// * Improve documentation, allowing to view all of the os-specific functionality from 139 /// documentation generated for any target; 140 /// * Add [`os::windows::Library::this`]; 141 /// * Added constants to use with OS-specific `Library::open`; 142 /// * Add [`library_filename`]. 143 /// 144 /// [`os::windows::Library::this`]: crate::os::windows::Library::this 145 /// [`library_filename`]: crate::library_filename 146 pub mod r0_6_3 {} 147 148 /// Release 0.6.2 (2020-05-06) 149 /// 150 /// * Fixed building of this library on Illumos. 151 pub mod r0_6_2 {} 152 153 /// Release 0.6.1 (2020-04-15) 154 /// 155 /// * Introduced a new method [`os::windows::Library::load_with_flags`]; 156 /// * Added support for the Illumos triple. 157 /// 158 /// [`os::windows::Library::load_with_flags`]: crate::os::windows::Library::load_with_flags 159 pub mod r0_6_1 {} 160 161 /// Release 0.6.0 (2020-04-05) 162 /// 163 /// * Introduced a new method [`os::unix::Library::get_singlethreaded`]; 164 /// * Added (untested) support for building when targetting Redox and Fuchsia; 165 /// * The APIs exposed by this library no longer panic and instead return an `Err` when it used 166 /// to panic. 167 /// 168 /// ## Breaking changes 169 /// 170 /// * Minimum required (stable) version of Rust to build this library is now 1.40.0; 171 /// * This crate now implements a custom [`Error`] type and all APIs now return this type rather 172 /// than returning the `std::io::Error`; 173 /// * `libloading::Result` has been removed; 174 /// * Removed the dependency on the C compiler to build this library on UNIX-like platforms. 175 /// `libloading` used to utilize a snippet written in C to work-around the unlikely possibility 176 /// of the target having a thread-unsafe implementation of the `dlerror` function. The effect of 177 /// the work-around was very opportunistic: it would not work if the function was called by 178 /// forgoing `libloading`. 179 /// 180 /// Starting with 0.6.0, [`Library::get`] on platforms where `dlerror` is not MT-safe (such as 181 /// FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD or NetBSD) will unconditionally return an error when the underlying 182 /// `dlsym` returns a null pointer. For the use-cases where loading null pointers is necessary 183 /// consider using [`os::unix::Library::get_singlethreaded`] instead. 184 /// 185 /// [`Library::get`]: crate::Library::get 186 /// [`os::unix::Library::get_singlethreaded`]: crate::os::unix::Library::get_singlethreaded 187 /// [`Error`]: crate::Error 188 pub mod r0_6_0 {} 189 190 191 /// Release 0.5.2 (2019-07-07) 192 /// 193 /// * Added API to convert OS-specific `Library` and `Symbol` conversion to underlying resources. 194 pub mod r0_5_2 {} 195 196 /// Release 0.5.1 (2019-06-01) 197 /// 198 /// * Build on Haiku targets. 199 pub mod r0_5_1 {} 200 201 /// Release 0.5.0 (2018-01-11) 202 /// 203 /// * Update to `winapi = ^0.3`; 204 /// 205 /// ## Breaking changes 206 /// 207 /// * libloading now requires a C compiler to build on UNIX; 208 /// * This is a temporary measure until the [`linkage`] attribute is stabilised; 209 /// * Necessary to resolve [#32]. 210 /// 211 /// [`linkage`]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29603 212 /// [#32]: https://github.com/nagisa/rust_libloading/issues/32 213 pub mod r0_5_0 {} 214 215 /// Release 0.4.3 (2017-12-07) 216 /// 217 /// * Bump lazy-static dependency to `^1.0`; 218 /// * `cargo test --release` now works when testing libloading. 219 pub mod r0_4_3 {} 220 221 222 /// Release 0.4.2 (2017-09-24) 223 /// 224 /// * Improved error and race-condition handling on Windows; 225 /// * Improved documentation about thread-safety of Library; 226 /// * Added `Symbol::<Option<T>::lift_option() -> Option<Symbol<T>>` convenience method. 227 pub mod r0_4_2 {} 228 229 230 /// Release 0.4.1 (2017-08-29) 231 /// 232 /// * Solaris support 233 pub mod r0_4_1 {} 234 235 /// Release 0.4.0 (2017-05-01) 236 /// 237 /// * Remove build-time dependency on target_build_utils (and by extension serde/phf); 238 /// * Require at least version 1.14.0 of rustc to build; 239 /// * Actually, it is cargo which has to be more recent here. The one shipped with rustc 1.14.0 240 /// is what’s being required from now on. 241 pub mod r0_4_0 {} 242 243 /// Release 0.3.4 (2017-03-25) 244 /// 245 /// * Remove rogue println! 246 pub mod r0_3_4 {} 247 248 /// Release 0.3.3 (2017-03-25) 249 /// 250 /// * Panics when `Library::get` is called for incompatibly sized type such as named function 251 /// types (which are zero-sized). 252 pub mod r0_3_3 {} 253 254 /// Release 0.3.2 (2017-02-10) 255 /// 256 /// * Minimum version required is now rustc 1.12.0; 257 /// * Updated dependency versions (most notably target_build_utils to 0.3.0) 258 pub mod r0_3_2 {} 259 260 /// Release 0.3.1 (2016-10-01) 261 /// 262 /// * `Symbol<T>` and `os::*::Symbol<T>` now implement `Send` where `T: Send`; 263 /// * `Symbol<T>` and `os::*::Symbol<T>` now implement `Sync` where `T: Sync`; 264 /// * `Library` and `os::*::Library` now implement `Sync` (they were `Send` in 0.3.0 already). 265 pub mod r0_3_1 {} 266 267 /// Release 0.3.0 (2016-07-27) 268 /// 269 /// * Greatly improved documentation, especially around platform-specific behaviours; 270 /// * Improved test suite by building our own library to test against; 271 /// * All `Library`-ies now implement `Send`. 272 /// * Added `impl From<os::platform::Library> for Library` and `impl From<Library> for 273 /// os::platform::Library` allowing wrapping and extracting the platform-specific library handle; 274 /// * Added methods to wrap (`Symbol::from_raw`) and unwrap (`Symbol::into_raw`) the safe `Symbol` 275 /// wrapper into unsafe `os::platform::Symbol`. 276 /// 277 /// The last two additions focus on not restricting potential usecases of this library, allowing 278 /// users of the library to circumvent safety checks if need be. 279 /// 280 /// ## Breaking Changes 281 /// 282 /// `Library::new` defaults to `RTLD_NOW` instead of `RTLD_LAZY` on UNIX for more consistent 283 /// cross-platform behaviour. If a library loaded with `Library::new` had any linking errors, but 284 /// unresolved references weren’t forced to be resolved, the library would’ve “just worked”, 285 /// whereas now the call to `Library::new` will return an error signifying presence of such error. 286 /// 287 /// ## os::platform 288 /// * Added `os::unix::Library::open` which allows specifying arbitrary flags (e.g. `RTLD_LAZY`); 289 /// * Added `os::windows::Library::get_ordinal` which allows finding a function or variable by its 290 /// ordinal number; 291 pub mod r0_3_0 {} 292