Balau uses a continuous integration methodology, with a Jenkins build running on Bora's servers. Use of the head of the master branch should thus provide a stable library. Release tags are also created periodically in order to provide reference versions to link against.

V2020.2.1

New features in this release:

• new injector get methods that supply a default value via a supplied function;
• injector post-construction and pre-destruction callback registration;
• injector static singleton registration (useful for rearchitecting non-DI based code);
• custom deleters for unique_ptr and shared_ptr injector bindings;
• other miscellaneous injector improvements;
• test runner improvements;
• error recovery support in the language parsing framework;
• new utility functions (Containers::contains, Strings::simplify);
• new App utility functions (getUserApplicationDataDirectory, getGlobalApplicationDataDirectory, getUserApplicationConfigDirectory, getGlobalApplicationConfigDirectory, getApplicationRuntimeDataDirectory);
• dependency graph improvements;
• improved Balau build options and introduced BalauConfig.hpp options switches header;
• separate Balau CMake default build configuration for use in dependent projects;
• changed BALAU_ENABLE_CURL option to default on;
• relaxed required Boost version to allow all Boost versions from 1.61.0 onwards (disables HTTP components for Boost < 1.68.0);
• Maven based build, test, and assembly using Balau Maven plugins;
• new "isA" test assertion;
• to-string functions for complex numbers.

V2019.6.1

New features in this release:

• XML based test report generation;
• test runner now uses SSV style command line options;
• command line parser supports multiple final values in SSV mode.

V2019.5.3

New features in this release:

• corrected compilation with BALAU_ENABLE_CURL option off;
• changed BALAU_ENABLE_CURL option to default off;
• added build option documentation.

V2019.5.2

New features in this release:

• HTTP server implementation refinements;
• use ASIO strand in HttpSession instances to close sessions;
• manual ignore method in unit test framework test group class;
• test runner main threads named as current test;
• further refinements for GCC 6 support;
• CMake options to disable zlib/libzip/curl functionalities;
• other miscellaneous refinements.

Pending features not yet in this release:

• HTTP client implementation incomplete;
• WebSocket application framework and documentation;
• WebSocket client;
• HTTP client keep alive;
• tutorial application example.

V2019.5.1

New features in this release:

• modifications to support GCC 6 (for RHEL DTS6).

V2019.3.1

New features in this release:

• singleton test runner;
• automatic instantiation and registration of test groups;
• test runner run methods that parse argc/argv;
• selective test running via globbed test name lists.

V2019.2.1

New features in this release:

• UTF-8 URL decoding;
• added try-catch block for sending internal server error responses on HTTP webapp errors;
• moved HTTP server listener onAccept method to header file in order to facilitate application debugging;
• added integer fromString functions that accept a numeric base;
• support for Fedora 28 / 29;
• support for RHEL 7.6 with GCC 7;
• documentation corrections and updates.

V2019.1.1

New features in this release:

• hierarchical property format and parser;
• environment configuration framework integrated with injector;
• logging system now uses hierarchical properties configuration format;
• client sessions in HTTP server connections;
• new redirections HTTP web application;
• new toString<Allocator> functions;
• optional thread local logger allocator using toString<Allocator> functions;
• optional stacktrace support in exceptions;
• unified fromString function with std::basic_string_view API;
• support for CentOS 7.6 with GCC 7;
• draft tutorial added to documentation.

Pending features not yet in this release:

• log rotation;
• WebSocket application framework and documentation;
• WebSocket client;
• HTTP client keep alive;
• tutorial application example.

V2018.9.1

Initial import into GitHub repository. Main features in the initial import:

• dependency injection framework;
• logging system;
• test framework;
• unified to-string functions;
• unified from-string functions;
• Unicode character and string utilities;
• Unified resource identification and resource access;
• data structures (ObjectTrie, DependencyGraph, BlockingArrayQueue);
• shared memory data structures (SharedMemoryQueue, SharedMemoryObject);
• hand written language parser utilities;
• HTTP clients and server;
• utilities (system, compression, files, hashing, streams, strings, etc.).