yyjson 0.9.0
A high performance C JSON library.
Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

0.9.0 (2024-04-08)

Added

  • Add YYJSON_WRITE_NEWLINE_AT_END flag for JSON writer: #147

Changed

  • Add auto-type conversion (uint<->sint) to yyjson_ptr_get_uint/sint(): #152

Fixed

  • Fix incorrect output in environments lacking native bool type support: #161

0.8.0 (2023-09-13)

Added

  • Add YYJSON_SUBTYPE_NOESC subtype to mark strings that do not need to be escaped.
  • Add YYJSON_DISABLE_UTF8_VALIDATION flag to allow disable UTF-8 validation at compile-time.
  • Add dynamic allocator API: yyjson_alc_dyn_new(), yyjson_alc_dyn_free().
  • Add the missing yyjson_mut_obj_add_arr/obj() API: #140

Changed

  • Improve the write performance of strings with YYJSON_SUBTYPE_NOESC.

Fixed

  • Fix clang-16 valgrind fail: #134
  • Fix compile break when both FAST_FP and READER are disabled

0.7.0 (2023-05-25)

Added

  • Add YYJSON_WRITE_PRETTY_TWO_SPACES option to allow 2 spaces instead of 4 spaces when writing pretty JSON: #99
  • Add YYJSON_READ_BIGNUM_AS_RAW option to read big numbers as raw strings: #124
  • Add yyjson_get_num() function to convert and return any number value as double: #108
  • Add support for Loongarch: #112
  • Add functions to get type-specific values specified by JSON Pointer: #116
  • Add functions to read/write JSON with file pointer FILE *: #122
  • Add functions to support modifying memory pool size of yyjson_mut_doc.
  • Add convenience functions iter_with() for creating iterator.
  • Add functions to modify JSON using JSON Pointer, such as ptr_set() and ptr_remove().
  • Add support for JSON Patch (RFC 6902).

Changed

  • BREAKING CHANGE: Change the allocator's realloc function signature, add old_size parameter for custom allocator: #100
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Change yyjson_read_number() function, add alc parameter.
  • DEPRECATED: Deprecate get_pointer() functions, rename to ptr_get().
  • Improve performance of yyjson_mut_write() function.

Fixed

  • Fix inaccurate error code for truncated JSON: #103

0.6.0 (2022-12-12)

Added

Fixed

  • Fix quite NaN on MIPS and HPPA arch.
  • Fixed compile error before GCC 4.5, which doesn't support empty optional extended asm label.
  • When the built-in floating point conversion is disabled, the sprintf() output for floating point numbers is missing a decimal point, for example 123 should be 123.0.

0.5.1 (2022-06-17)

Fixed

  • Fix run-time error when compiling as cpp and 32-bit (g++-5 -m32 -fPIC) #85
  • Fix incurrect output number format, remove unnecessary digits (e.g. 2.0e34 -> 2e34).

0.5.0 (2022-05-25)

Added

Changed

  • Change yyjson_mut_obj_remove() return type from bool to yyjson_mut_val *.
  • Rewrite string serialization function, validate unicode encoding by default.
  • Rewrite the JSON Pointer implementation, remove internal malloc() calls.

Fixed

  • Make the code work correctly with setlocale() function and -ffast-math flag: #54
  • Fix negative infinity literals read error: #64
  • Fix non null-terminated string write error.
  • Fix incorrect behavior of YYJSON_DISABLE_NON_STANDARD flag: #80

0.4.0 (2021-12-12)

Added

Changed

  • Replace YYJSON_DISABLE_COMMENT_READER and YYJSON_DISABLE_INF_AND_NAN_READER with YYJSON_DISABLE_NON_STANDARD compile-time flag.
  • Replace YYJSON_DISABLE_FP_READER and YYJSON_DISABLE_FP_WRITER with YYJSON_DISABLE_FAST_FP_CONV compile-time flag.

Fixed

  • Fix compiler warning with -Wconversion
  • Fix compiler error for GCC 4.4 (#53) and MSVC 6.0 (#55)

0.3.0 (2021-05-25)

Added

  • Add JSON Pointer support.
  • Add CMake install target.

Changed

  • Improve performance for some architectures that don't support unaligned memory access.

Fixed

  • Fix some compiler warnings for GCC and Clang.
  • Fix MSVC build error on UWP (uninitialized local variable).
  • Fix stream file reading error on some platforms.

0.2.0 (2020-12-12)

Added

  • Add swift package manager support.

Changed

  • Improve JSON reader performance for gcc.
  • Improve double number reader performance with a fast path.
  • Rewrite double number writer with Schubfach algorithm: #4.
  • Strict UTF-8 validation for JSON reader.

Removed

  • Remove YYJSON_READ_FASTFP compile-time flag.

Fixed

  • Fix a compile error for old version gcc on linux: #7.

0.1.0 (2020-10-26)

Added

  • Initial release.
  • Add the basic JSON reader and writer (RFC 8259).
  • Add CMake support.
  • Add GitHub CI workflow.
  • Add test code and test data.
  • Add sanitizer and valgrind memory checker.
  • Add API and DataStructure documentation.