20250315

BREAKING CHANGES

• continue deprecating use with JRE 8; the main engine and functionality is now only JRE >= 21 compatible

Generic

• Due to changes for JRE 21 on pre-compiled classes added compilation logic to check version and recompile if necessary automatically.
• Fix script generation logic to handle parameter shifting and improve help display conditions
• $path new functions: to_numSpace, from_numSpace
• $path better handling of date conversion using Java (to_isoDate and to_date)
• New "--py" option and "pyoaf" script to run Python scripts with OpenAF extensions
• "ojob -syntax" besides including new oJob functionality has been increased in contents
• New "ojob -i" for ojob assisted argument prompt.
• New $pyExec function to start a Python script in "standalone" mode (as the main process but still connected to OpenAF)
• New logFlush function to ensure when logging is asynchronous it's flushed.
• Improvements on askChoose and askChooseMultiple functions to improve console output formatting and enhance line length handling
• Fix double type handling in map output visualization
• Increase support for oJob* functions to return results to code when using ow.oJob.output or $o
• Improvements to SLON and nLinq language parsing.
• Enhance SQL to NLinq conversion by adding missing support for NOT LIKE condition.
• Bump nLinq with new attachBy, attachNotBy, and attachByEmpty.
• Several security and performance improvements to the internal nwu (http server) functionality
• Fix fo #1255
• Improvements on shell completion generation performance.
• Enhance printTree function to support mono and color options in output formatting (new output modes "btree" and "mtree")
• Enhancements on printTable with focus on value type formatting.
• Optimizations on URLClassLoader management with better loader caching
• Upgraded to Mozilla Rhino 1.8.0

Libs bump

• commons-io, commons-codec, commons-csv, commons-codec, commons-logging, gson, postgresql, Jackson, kotlin, kotlin-stdlib, jetty, jna, semver4j, okio, jsch, dns-java, snmp4j, snmp4j-agent, slf4j

AF

• Function af.fromObj2XML now supports attribute prefixes when converting a JSON object to XML
• New setInteractiveTerminal and unsetInteractiveTerminal functions to manage unix tty settings
• Several improvements to fromJSSLON including YAML detection and parsing
• Add handling for raw string input in fromJSSLON function in openaf.js ("$raw$")
• Fix regex pattern in toYAML function to ensure proper key matching

oPack

• Added support for multiple packages install, update and erase
• Better install, update and erase operation summaries
• New dependency ordering algorithm for installing, updating and erasing packages
• Enhance to preinstall, postinstall, preerase, and posterase to accept arrays of shell commands with new environment variables (OAF_PATH, JAVA_HOME, OAF_HOME, OAF_VERSION, OAF_DIST and OJOB_HOME)
• For preinstall, postinstall, preerase, and posterase javascript text based code the variables OAF_PATH, JAVA_HOME, OAF_HOME, OAF_VERSION, OAF_DIST and OJOB_HOME available on the args map.
• Improved error handling on pre and post code actions.
• New OAF_OPACKS environment variable (comma separated) with file paths or URLs to remote oPack repositories.

ow.oJob

• Improvements to Go "lang" jobs
• Small improvements on embedded shortcut jobs
• #1225

ow.format

• New toNumberSpacing and _fromNumberSpacing functions
• New fromISODate function
• Improvements to the fromTimeAbbreviation function

ow.obj

• New ow.obj.syncMap.forEach for thread-safe forEach

ow.server

• Improved MIME type handling and add support for additional file extensions
• Improve error messages in ow.server.httpd.route
• Improve Mermaid library loading logic to check for file existence before loading

ow.template

• Added markdown code block copy button functionality (feature flag MD_CODECLIP)
• Added support for trigger extras in Markdown to HTML conversion
• Refactor helper and partial management to utilize syncMap for improved performance and consistency
• Added support for forced or automated dark mode on HTML output (flag MD_DARKMODE ("auto", "true" and "false"))
• Dark mode support on nJSMap
• Better UTF-8 support on markdown HTML generation.
• Refactor nJSMap function to handle nested arrays and improve output rendering.

ow.python

• New alone mode letting you start a Python script, as the main process, and embedding OpenAF code on it
• New functions execStandalone

ow.java

• The getLocalJavaPIDs now allows specifying where is the temporary folder

ow.ai

• Support for Google Gemini LLMs
• Support for Anthropic LLMs

ow.metrics

• Improvements on timestamp handling on fromOpenMetrics2Array

HTTPServer

• Enhance error logging in JSResponse to include stack trace and exception class
• New thread handling in nwu with flag HTTPD_THREADS
• Enhance data handling in JSResponse to support multiple data types and improve error logging

SNMP

• Enhance SNMP class to manage transport mapping and add close method for resource cleanup

20241117

BREAKING CHANGES

• deprecating use with JRE 8; some functionality will still work in JRE8 but recommended to use JRE 21
• ask functions now use stderr*

Generic

• Support for bash and zsh completion (oaf, opack, ojob and oafp)
• load now supports providing the indication of the oPack to use (e.g. @my-opack/my.js)
• merge function updated to improve performance when handling undefined objects
• performance improvements on pForEach
• getEnvsDef now parses SLON as well as JSON
• askChoose improvements to support different terminals
• console type detection improvements
• new $fetch to mimic missing fetch with $rest functionality
• $path new functions: if, at, random, srandom

Flags

• OAF_FLAGS allows for a JSON/SLON map to change flags values

Libs bumps

• commons-cli
• commons-compress
• commons-civ
• commons-io
• commons-logging
• commons-lang3
• dnsjava
• jackson
• kotlin
• postgresql
• jetty upgrade to 12
• jna
• jsch
• okio
• semver4j

AF

• Improvements to fromJSSLON format detection
• Support for colored YAML in toYAML

IO

• new io.zip and io.unzip
• Support lenient in readStreamJSON

ZIP

• Add support for concurrent file system access in ZIP plugin

ow.ojob

• Support 'cyaml' output format

ow.obj

• http: support options.followSslRedirects and options.followRedirects

ow.sec

• new $sec.procMap to process options from a map

ow.server

• improvements to replyFile

ow.net

• new getIP2ASNCache and getIP2ASN functions
• getDNS with new extended data option

ow.ai

• gpt: initial support for tools
• gpt: support for custom headers in openai API wrapper

20240812

Generic

• New Rhino javascript runtime (1.7.15)
• Added functions to programmatically access oafp functionality
• new $path functions: to_toml, from_toml, range, ranges, inc, dec, unset, getc, search_keys, search_values, k2a, geta, sql_format, sort_semver, sort_by_semver, progress, ch, path, opath, to_ms, env, envs, oafp
• New OAF_CONSOLE boolean environment variable to force ansi color rendering in capable terminals (for example when using oafp with pipes)
• New askChooseMultiple and improvements to askChoose with new color format theme options
• New pForEach function for parallel forEach equivalent.
• New askStruct function to make a questionnaire based on a provided map over using other “ask*” functions.
• New filter capability for askChoose and askChooseMultiple
• New byPopularity behaviour for $cache when maxSize is defined
• For non javascript, json and yaml extensions the ‘—sb’ option will generate a oafp shebang addition
• Support for oafp shebang as oafp-sb
• Fixes and performance improvements on printTable
• Improvements to parallel automatic load balancing
• Performances improvements in printTree

Flags

• New SH.prefixLog flag to control if $sh().prefix should use, by default, log or print functions
• New HTTP_DEFAULT_HEADERS flag to control if default headers (e.g. Accept) should be included.
• New HTTP_USE_MEDIA_TYPE flag to control the use of OkHttp media type functionality.
• isJavaArray function to better determine if the Java object provided is an array
• New PATH_CNF flag to allow for the inclusion of custom $path functions
• New ALTERNATIVES.listFilesRecursive feature flag to use the new listFilesRecursive implementation
• New ALTERNATIVES.colorify feature flag to use the new colorify implementation

Libs bumps

• Commons-Cli, Commons-Codec, Commons-Compress, Commons-CSV, Commons-Logging, Commons-IO, Commons-Net
• GSON
• Jetty
• Jackson
• JSCH
• JJWT
• Kotlin
• H2
• PostgreSQL
• SNMP4J
• DNSJava
• SLF4J

oJob

• New native “ojob llm” (https://docs.openaf.io/docs/guides/ojob/llm-shortcut)
• New native “ojob oafp” (https://docs.openaf.io/docs/guides/ojob/oafp-shortcut.html)
• Support for the Swift language
• Improvements to “ojob query”
• New output options “-json” and “-gb64json” (gzip base64 json) if oJob uses ow.oJob.output / “(output)”

IO

• Performance improvements and new mode, permissions and linkName fields to io.listFilesTAR

SSH

• New getSession, isConnected and sendKeepAlive functions

ow.format

• New sqlFormat to beautify SQL statements for different databases
• “string.wordWrap” improvements
• New semVer for semantic versioning handling

ow.obj

• Improvements to rest functions character enconding
• New syncMap for synchronized javascript Map functionality
• New key2array to return the values of filtered keys
• Fix #1017

ow.ch

• Small improvements to server
• New option multifile for type file

ow.ai

• GPT getModels
• Improvements on normalize.withSchema
• New normalize.denormalizeWithSchema to denormalize previously normalized data given a schema
• New gpt.promptImgGen function to support image generation transformation models
• New normalize.softMax and normalize.quantitize
• Improvements to GPT external models API requests
• Support for brainjs with new network types: neuralnetwork, rnntimestep, lstmtimestep, grutimestep, rnn, lstm, gru, feedforward and recurrent

ow.java

• cipher.getCert4String function to obtain a Java certificate object from a string certificate representation (X509)
• parseHSPerf improved to be able to read dumps right after shutdown of the original java process
• withMD as new color theme options for better customization (specially for light and dark terminals)

ow.template

• new helper function oafp

20240318

Generic

• New oafp tool (from https://openaf.io/openaf/oafp)
• Refactor "merge" to better handle arrays and maps
• Improvements on ask and askChoose
• $path: several new custom functions
• Fix SQL query method auto determination when functions are used
• $sql improved to have a configurable sample of records for column type detection
• Fixes to oJobRunFile and $job
• #913
• #920
• new conReset function
• Refactor and fixes to af.fromXML2Obj
• Refactor of sortMapKeys to handle nested maps and arrays
• Fix ansi colors and performance improvements on printTree
• Fixes and improvements on $o/$output
• Fix ignoreNonJson option on the jsonParse function
• Improvements to the isJavaObject function
• Improvement on print buffer stream size
• Remove logback library
• Refactor $$ get and set functions
• Stringify corrected to handle null elements on arrays
• New "splitBySepWithEnc" function
• New af.fromJSSLON function
• Improvements to printChart function to support dec4, hSize and vSize
• Improvements on splitKVBySeperator
• Bump libraries: jackson, slf4j, jsch, jjwt, commons-codec, okio, jetty, postgresql, commons-compress, diff, kotlin and others
• Improvements to color render for printMap
• Support for oafp opack libraries extensions
• printBars support for custom space characters
• genscript (--install) now checks for Java runtime module support
• new OAF_LEVEL environment variable to influence the Rhino compile level (default is 9)
• Adding Open wrapper oBook (promoted from ow.dev)
• Add the javascript chart.js library

oJob

• Corrected missing parallel shortcuts args and considering only defined args in shortcut definitions
• Fix job sec get secEnv boolean parsing
• job.check._in and job.check._out for checks above the from/to scope
• Improvements on listing global jobs
• Refactor stdout handling
• Fix console initialisation
• New ojob ask included job

oPack

• Install and erase operation now tries to remove old files

ow.format

• New string.pauseString function
• New string.tabExpand function
• Add ANSI scroll up/down function
• withMD function now removes HTML tags and script code adding horizontal line support
• grid support for md and text types and corresponding word wrapping
• Refactor progress bar to dynamically determine size

ow.obj

• Fixes and improvements to fromArray2DB and fromObj2DBTableCreate
• filterKeys was refactored for faster execution

ow.ch

• Refactor of the 'simple' type for a much faster and lighter implementation

ow.sec

• Support for SLON based bucket environment variable data

ow.java

• New jcmd, pidSystemProperties and pidThreadDump functions
• Added support for using the BouncyCastle opack when generating certificates with Java 21
• Fix SSL certificate verification for custom domains to allow "insecure" like access in development situations

ow.ai

• LLM json output parameter support
• LLM support for custom like OpenAI APIs
• GPT keep conversation functionality

ow.metrics

• Fixed fromObj2OpenMetrics labels of map arrays
• Fix on round method call

ow.test

• Test functions can now receive a data argument

ow.template

• Support UTF-9 in parseMD2HTML
• Added OpenAF helper $pchart, $pbars and $pbar

CSV

• Fix CSV parsing logic

JMX

• Refactor to be also used with JRE setups

20231222

Breaking Changes: SNMP.trap changed it's signature to include time

Generic

• traverse, merge and extend were refactored for performance (you can control the use of the new version with __flags.ALTERNATIVES)
• new $output/$o function equivalent to the functionality provided by ow.oJob.output
• the $sql method now defaults to automatic determination if it should use nlinq or H2 to achieve the desire result and supports multiple tables
• printChart now supports "-min" and "-max" to specify the chart scale
• performance improvements in printTree
• jsonParse: improved ignoreNonJson detection
• $llm/$gpt shortcut for ow.ai.gpt functionality
• new option on getNumberOfCores to return the real number of cores independently of multiply factor applied
• new $await.notifyAll
• new askChoose function
• removal of logback for security reasons
• bump of jjwt, okhttp, commons-io, jsch, commons-cli, kotlin-stdlib, dnsjava, postgresql, commons-compress, commons-io, commons-lang3, Jackson-annotations, commons-logging, jna, slf4j-api, jQuery, +materialize2 and commons-email

oJob

• better support for escaping double-quotes in args (requires regenerating the ojob script with oaf --install)
• new typeArgs.eachThreads to establish the number of threads use with "each" jobs
• new typeArgs.pwd for all langs except openaf, js, python and ssh

DB

• better support for date and timestamp dates with changes across several functions

ZIP

• new streamCreate and streamCreateFolder functions

SNMP

• change to SNMP.trap to allow to specify the time parameter

ow.obj

• fromObj2TableCreate better detection of boolean, number and timestamps

ow.format

• bool shortcut for string.bool
• string.grid improvements
• withMD: better italic and bold support
• new percentile function

ow.ai

• new ow.ai.gpt to support Generate Propose Transformer models and Large Language Models (LLM)
• support for LLM using APIs from Ollama and OpenAI

ow.metrics

• improvement of performance in ow.metrics.fromObj2OpenMetrics

20231014

IMPORTANT: GIT plugin has been moved to an external plugin-git

Generic

• Support for ojob shebang (detected by the extension of the provided file)
• Bump libraries: h2, commons-lang3, handlebars, nLinq, jetty, commons-compress, commons-net, jackson, kotlin-stdlib, jjwt, jsch, okio, okio-jvm and kotlin-stdlib
• #612
• Added af.toCSLON and changed lprint* functions to optionally use it
• Added ansiMove function
• printTable word-wrap functionality
• Improved table color settings
• Thread pool factor is now, by default, 2
• Sigil lib added $$.unset + support for “or” and dotted key strings.
• clone function improved for arrays
• Generated scripts improvements
• “includeOPack” function will try to avoid interactive questions
• Performance improvements on sortMapKeys
• New object query method using simple SQL (af.fromSQL, af.fromSQL2NLinq and $sql)
• New option on af.toYAML to “sanitize” an object that contains java objects
• New option on af.fromObj2XML to “sanitize” an object that contains java objects
• printTable support for banded rows for easier reading
• Small performance improvements on printTree
• New option on jsonParse to ignore non json prefixes and suffixes

oJob

• New “-syntax” option to display all oJob yaml based entry combinations for reference
• The included ojob jobs now also have shortcuts reference for each
• New output options: stable, ctable
• New output querying arg: __sql
• #613
• #653
• Langs support for argsFn, returnRE, returnFn and pre & pos code to handle args
• New langs support for node.
• Improvements to oJob debug
• Option to output the original markdown for “ojob print md”
• Improvements to avoid duplicated shortcut/job
• New include ojob shortcuts: “run”, “convert” and “debug”
• “ojob query” now also supports SQL
• New option to skip the load of jobs in loadJSON

ow.format

• withMD: support dash separator, side line, code blocks, bullets, numbered lists, word wrap tables and links
• New string.wordWrapArray
• New side line themes: closedOneSpace, simpleOneSpace, doubleOneSpace, openCurvedSpace, blockCurvedSpace
• New option for streamSHPrefix to allow handling of output after prefix printing

ow.obj

• #624
• Performance improvements on filterKeys

ow.template

• Added OpenAF helpers: $pass, $sline, $startsWith, $endsWith, $match, $concat and $set
• #638
• Support for custom js libs for static html gen (with Mermaid in mind)

ow.server

• https now reuses previous httpd objects by port
• Improvements on httpd.replyData

ow.java

• #633

ow.test

• Including assert stats

ow.ai

• Added +convertBools option to normalize

20230704

Generic

• new "-v" option to display the OpenAF version and distribution
• improved color cache for ansiColor
• bump on jetty, nlinq, jQuery, dnsjava, jjwt, kotlin, commons-csv, jackson, jna, commons-io, snmp4j, commons-cli, commons-compress, commons-lang3, ojdbc, okhttp, okio, postgresql, commons-codec
• $path - added custom functions: count_by, unique, to_map, flat_map, delete, substring, groupBy, search_keys and search_values
• new printChart, printBars, print, ansiLength function
• new $t shortcut for templify
• new getEnvsDef and improvements on getEnvs
• $csv improvements to handle dates, maps and arrays
• new $sh.getYaml
• new force exit option
• automated ocli update support
• improvements on njsmap to display correctly missing properties on tables
• improvements on exceptions handling on compileToClasses
• new flags to control precompile level
• changed colors and template for ask* functions
• genUUID alternative implementation

AF

• new fromSLON parser function
• new fromNLinq parser function

IO

• io.writeFileTARStream now adds the modified date
• new flag to change the default buffer size used

oPack

• indicates when an operation is done
• small improvements on new line logs
• ensure sorting of files in metadata package generation

ow.oJob

• new color theme with console logs going to stderr now by default
• new ojob shortcuts functionality
• faster includeOJob that now happens by default
• new options for nolog/ignoreNoLog specially for ojob shortcuts
• new ojob.depsOnFail option
• new ojob pass (handling nulls in args) and print md job (several improvements on existing included ojobs)
• improvements to todo args passing
• delayed the automatic oaf::global creation to allow to define the channel with a different type and options
• several small improvements including for subjoins
• support for templateArgs in individual oJob using typeArgs
• output: new csv, key and html output
• correction on inPM
• support for changing OpenAF flags on startup
• support multi map checks in jobs[].check
• disabled new feature to test warnings for jobs changes and removal

ow.format

• new string.dataLineChart, dataClean, lineChart, updateLine and bool
• fromTimeAbbreviation now includes "w" (week)
• added toBase32, fromBase32, toBase16, fromBase16 and hmacSHA1
• improvements to string.grid including support for charts, area and bar
• improved unicode syms
• improve printWithWaiting to support suffixes
• new toCSLON function

ow.server

• support for external js libs like mermaid

ow.template

• new acolor, toJSON, from, ptable, tree, cjson, cslon, pmap, jsmap, $t, data, isoDate, number, boolean, string, keys, values, __, alen, len, repeat, a2m, a4m, m2a, m4a and helper
• parseMD2HTML now can have default and specific showdown options

ow.java

• updates to oDoc
• new getCCPU, getLinuxUptime and getLinuxCPUInfo functions
• new getLatestversionString function

SSH

• support ssh urls without passwords
• bump jsch library

20230325

Generic

• Improvements on the fnDef4Help
• sigil: support java objects
• updated libs: jetty, gson, Jackson, jsch, okhttp,
• new OAF_HOME env variable

oJob

• Setting ojob.includeOJob adds the embedded ojob.yaml from oJob-common that it's now include in this distro
• new ojob.poolThreadFactor to enable better control on the number of threads used
• new ojob.owraps to automatically load ow.load*
• jobhelp improvements
• support in printTable & printTree for background color
• better support of args in from/to jobs
• new output format 'cjson'

ow.format

• string.wildcardRE to generate the regular expression that implements the wildcard filtering
• new fromSIAbbreviaton function
• correction of word-wrap in withSideLine

ow.debug

• new types: tree, block and table

ow.sec

• $sec.encSKey enables retrieving the encrypted version of a sbucket with the current main secret for the repo
• fixing encryption or plain text secret files

ow.net

• new functions sendUDPPacket and sendTCPPacket

ow.ch

• ensure lock assignments are sync

ow.java

• function cipher.getCert4File to retrieve a certificate object from a file

ow.template

• added the $$ template helper
• added $switch, $case and $default template helpers

ow.python

• new _g (equivalent to $get) and _s functions (equivalent to $set)

20221216

Generic

• New functions: splitKVBySeparator, nowE, nowNanoE
• New flags: OJOB_SHAREARGS, HTTP_TIMEOUT, HTTP_CON_TIMEOUT
• When generating scripts (install) adds the env variable OAF_JARGS to make it easier to pass JVM args like memory limits
• oJobRunFile defaults for running with shareArgs disabled
• $path extended to support function: ends_with
• visibleLength improved to be faster and support a broader set of characters (e.g. including Asian)
• Updated libs
• Apache commons-text lib was removed
• Fixed $csv.fromInFn not properly using setStreamFormat

oJob

• Performance improvements on startup
• oJob.output support for types: res, args, ndjson, xml, map and set_ (which uses $set)
• oJob.output now supports arg __path to filter results
• Fixed previewFile to better handle includes
• Fixes on ojob.
• Better support, on jobs.check, for using references to global variables
• Supports integrity check using ow.java.checkDigest

oPack

• List sorting ignoring case

IO

• writeFileGzipStream now supports appending

ow.format

• New functions: wildcardTest
• Improvements on string.closest

ow.obj

• signVerify now supports ow.java.checkDigest
• ow.obj.filter now supports both $from and $path

ow.template

• Fixed OpenAFHelper get

ow.net

• New functions: ipv4SubNetInfo, getAddressInfo, ipv4SubNetInRange

ow.metrics

• fromObj2OpenMetrics now avoids using “_” as the first char in a label

ow.java

• New functions: getDigestAlgs, digestAsHex and checkDigest
• Improvements on getJarVersion

ow.dev

• obook: fixed support for mac keyboards

20220822

Breaking changes

• ow.template: built-in helpers now use “$” as a prefix
• okhttp makes all headers low-case

Generic

• HTTP libs moved from Apache HTTPComponents to OKHTTP
• range function (equivalent to python)
• Improvements on core code isolation
• “-c” option with better code separation
• Installation scripts try to determine where they are installed
• Improvements to includeOPack
• load/require: several improvements
• $doA2B improvements
• isJavaClass: to determine if value is a Java class
• $$ .getI: same as $$.get but case-insensitive
• nowTZ: same as now but adjusted to local time one
• $a4m: builds a map of maps from an array of maps (shortcut to ow.obj.fromArray2Obj)
• $m4a: builds an array of maps from a map of maps (shortcut to ow.obj.fromObj2Array)
• Sigil: corrected greater and greaterEquals
• $ch now supports not including the “compress” legacy first argument
• newFn: creates a new function supporting ow.debug
• printTree: new function to represent maps and arrays
• $csv: new shortcut to encapsulate CSV handling
• If a password starts with “$raw$” no check if it’s encrypted will be performed.
• Included nLinq for browser support
• All configuration files written are fallback to the current tmp directory if it’s not possible to write on the user home directory

Console

• Better handling of java exceptions
• Better handling of byte arrays
• Better handling of nulls
• Support for printTree faster representation by default (tree off to disable it)

oJob

• oJobRunJob correctly inherits ojob settings
• Supports template OpenAF, Format and Conditional helpers and “_state” helper (controlled by typeArgs.noTemplateArgs)
• jobsInclude will now not include any existing help legacy jobs
• Fixed handling of from/to and checks with different langs
• Support for JSON log (when OJOB_JSONLOG env variable is set to true or ojob.logOjob = true)
• Supports running local oJobs stored in __flags.OJOB_LOCALPATH directly (“-global” will list these oJobs)
• “-which” new option to determine from where an oJob will be executed (path)
• When ojob.sequential = true each job execution return (stored in $get(“res”)) will be included in the receiving rags.

oPack

• improvements on directory removal
• when retrieving from oPack server with authentication will try to keep credentials with $sec
• Repack improvements

AF

• compile now uses better optimization and language settings
• visibleLength: function to calculate aString visible length independently of string size (e.g. emoticons)
• parse: parses javascript code to an array of javascript lines
• Improvements on the handling of input in sh.
• support to work with older gson libs

IO

• readStreamJSON: reading a JSON file as a stream with a callback function to enable the parsing of large JSON files
• readFileBytesRO: reads a file’s bytes enforcing read-only mode if the file is locked.
• Several new functions to support TAR handling (https://docs.openaf.io/docs/guides/medium/reading-listing-writing-tar-files.html)
• pipeLn: supports waiting for stdin and calling a callback function to handle lines
• pipeCh: supports waiting for stdin and calling a callback function to handle characters
• createTempDir: creates a temporary directory that will be deleted upon execution end (similar to createTempFile)

SSH

• library upgraded to mwiede/jsch

SNMP

• Supports for traps with decimal values (#379)
• Better handling java objects

XML

• fromNodes2XML: converts the result of XML.find* into a E4X object

ow.format

• withSideLines: cosmetic improvements
• elapsedTime4ms: improvements
• getTmpDir: retrieves the system temporary directory
• getUserName: retrieves the current perceive user name
• string.chart: produces simple ascii based charts
• fromTimeAbbreviation: reverts to ms time from elapsed time
• New func type for string.grid
• Support for abbreviations in time ago
• Support for decimal values in fromBytesAbbreviation
• streamHandle: helper function to be used as an $sh callback to provide similar functionality to Unix’s expect.

ow.ch

• utils.getMirrorSubscriber: aFunc also provides the operation that triggers callback
• utils.poolChanges: supports triggering subscribe on channels by pooling for value changes (for small channels that don’t support value change notification)
• mvs: improvements
• elasticsearch: supports timeout option
• file: supports gzip and tmp (for temporary file usage) option
• buffer: several improvements on time option

ow.obj

• filter: allows to query arrays/maps with a map of options equivalent to $from

ow.server

• passive telemetry now supports option for json or openmetrics output

ow.net

• host4URL: given an URL will return host:port
• path4URL: given an URL will return the URI
• Include isIPv4, isIPv6, isURL and isHost
• getDNS: retrieves DNS information using dnsjava lib
• getCAStoredCertificates: get the current Java CA certificates
• getJSSECAStoredCertificates: get the current Java JSSE CA certificates
• getStoredCertificates: lists the certificates included in a file

ow.template

• adding OpenAF helpers $get and $getObj
• __flags.MD_NOMAXWIDTH controls if generated markdown should have a max width or not
• md.fromTable: converts a markdown table into a javascript array
• $dateDiff helper (from nAttrMon)

ow.metrics

• improvements to fromObj2OpenMetrics
• __flags.OPENMETRICS_LABEL_MAX restricts the maximum label length to the recommended 128 characters.
• added metrics from cgroup memory usage when running on Linux containers
• added metrics for hotspot VM performance
• Solved currency issue that would trigger “Cannot find function map in object [object Object]”

ow.test

• setKeepStackTrace to keep java exceptions on tests
• test results can now be stored

ow.java

• getCMemory: on Linux containers retrieves the current cgroup memory usage
• getLocalJavaPIDs: retrieves the current local Java running process PIDs
• parseHSPerf: for HotSpot based JVMs parses the performance data stored in the temporary folder
• encodeCert: encodes a certificate into a base64 PEM representation
• encodeKey: encodes a public or private key into a base64 PEM representation
• decodeKey: decodes a key encoded with encodeKey
• Ini: support for windows like “ini” files

ow.debug

• adding debug comment based optional debug features

ow.dev

• improvements on multi-line code support

Updated libs

• H2
• Jackson-*
• Logback
• Rhino
• PostgreSQL
• Jetty*
• Showdown
• FuseJS
• JQuery
• Lodash
• Highlight
• GSON
• nLinq
• Materialize

Other bugs & improvements

• #319
• #321
• #325
• #369
• #370