0.9.3 (2009-06-01)

• added ternary conditional expression operator ?:
• added catch, finally and throw to try
• added 'new' to control behaviour of object constructor functions
• fixed odbc data retrieval
• added string.itoa and string.atoi function pair
• added foreach (x in y) loops
• added \0 to string<->character mapping
• added 'this' between local and global var lookups to create a transparent illusion of oo support
• moved 'this' from the last function argument to the first to fix bug with missing args
• added === operator for strict comparisons
• fixed explicit variable declaration of locals when matching globals exist

0.9.2 (2008-06-05)

• added basic signal handling to allow shutdown requests in multithreaded environments, etc.
• fixed broken eval of break and exit values
• fixed output of large values in printvar()
• added simple MIME parser able to digest e-mails (and probably HTTP MIME POST data)
• added quoted-printable and rfc2047 header decoding for MIME
• added support for libssh2 (sftp and shell support)
• added crude support for reading from and writing to pipes
• added file.append(), file.mkdir(), tcp.info()
• added DNS query code to libtcp
• added tcp ftp helper functions to upload/download files and list dirs
• fixed io.flush to not cause an error when being used to report an error

0.9.1 (2007-11-07)

• updated xyssl lib to support v0.8
• fixed redefinition of an existing function
• fixed cases where function existence was evaled to 0 (should be true if exists, or false)
• added AES encryption to the source tree
• added password prompt form to win32 api
• added eval()
• added line number tracking during tokenizing phase
• added support for string multiplication ('x'*5 is equal to 'xxxxx')
• added dirhash, factorial, and sqrt examples
• fixed memory leaks caused by error trapping
• fixed segfaults caused by error calls in c functions and subsequent attempts to free the base pointer of script functions
• fixed display limit of numbers larger than 2 billion (kinda)

0.9.0 (2007-09-05)

• all time functions are now grouped in a single table
• major xmlread rewrite, including an optional tree trimmer
• added sha1 hash algorithm to libcrypto
• fixed returned strings defaulting to zero length in string.sub()
• added ival() to compliment iname()
• added extension module to convert source to html
• added popsync.nes - a working pop3/pop3s client
• added httpd.nes - a working http server (with and without ssl)
• added tcp server support for xyssl and openssl
• added support for xyssl encryption lib (aes, md5 and sha1 sums, tcp, etc...)
• fixed broken table comparisons
• added 'try' to trap errors within scripts
• added regex lib based on code by Henry Spencer

0.8.0 (2007-08-08)

• added 'this' object for that object-oriented stuff some people like
• functions can now be declared inside a statement
• x=x+1 no longer clobbers x before evaluating the expression
• all extension libraries can now be built as shared objects (except for the one that adds shared object support)
• added native postgresql support
• values are now completely destroyed when setting them to null
• mixed string and number math now works as expected
• evaluating expressions is now more than twice as fast as before
• major overhaul of the internal binary format of scripts
• variable assignment inside an expression now works
• fixed several cases of bogus return values from mixed object type comparisons
• fixed the use of direct table declarations inside function parameters
• added dl extension lib for dynamic module loading
• added gmtime(), localtime(), string.tolower(), string.toupper() and string.join() to core lib
• added winapi extension lib
• changed type() and size() to typeof() and sizeof()
• += now works for strings
• rewrote the extension makefiles in pure nesla

0.7.0 (2007-07-13)

• added md5 support
• added native mysql support
• added native sqlite v3 support
• numerous inprovements to the windows tray host including improved forms, and process spawning
• fixed bad sorting of numeric indexes
• improved documentation
• added stat and unlink to file functions
• added zlib support for reading and decompressing tgz files
• added api function to sort tables by subkeys
• readded api function to sort tables

0.6.0 (2007-06-05)

• 'else if' is no longer evaluated after a previous comparison returns true
• added a simple dependency tester written in nesla
• added support for Windows ODBC and unixODBC (tested with mysql and mdb)
• added working tcp functions, i.e. open, close, read, write, bind, accept ...
• basic ssl client and server code is now working
• added working demos of raw http, ftp, pop3, etc... controlled entirely by nesla code
• added working management for externally defined c structures
• added a very basic ldap.search() function
• changed nes_tostr from macro to function. it was making my binaries look fat.
• minor improvements to the Win32 taskbar host
• added support for c comments

0.5.0 (2007-04-25)

• Added a Win32 taskbar host for primitive desktop scripting
• fixed several possible segfaults triggered by random or malicious data being fed to the parser
• fixed the limited output size in print()
• Added a CGI host to serve Nesla scripts via web servers
• numbers can now be appended directly to strings using + (without tonumber())
• tostring() now allows an optional decimal precision for numbers
• core lib can now be used without libm
• added do loops
• fixed mixed references to function pointers and data pointers (i think some compilers just like to whine)
• documentation is 1% less cryptic, and even has a couple examples
• if, for and while loops no longer require braces for single statements
• values now hold their own attributes, not the vars that point to them
• fixed the hugely defective operator precedence resolution stuff (new and improved with 10% less defectiveness)

0.4.0 (2007-04-18)

• All major core language issues resolved (i think). Next release will either be the last alpha, or the first beta.
• added primitive file.read() and file.write() functions
• added string.split() to turn strings into tables
• fixed bug declaring signed numbers and functions as vals in new tables
• nesla now understands the concept of operator precedence
• functions can now return tables (or just subtables)
• variables and values are now completely separate from each other. now multiple vars can point to the address of the same val without conflict
• minor tweaks to fix cygwin compatibility
• xml parsing code can now more-or-less read html documents
• complete rewrite of the http client makes it almost useful
• fixed a minor mem leak in string comparisons (valgrind rocks)
• old string vals are freed _after_ the new val has been set
• escape char processing is now done when the string is read, not on output

0.3.0 (2007-04-04)

• fixed segfault caused by unsafe longjmp in n_error
• table autosorting can now be toggled (on by default)
• passing a table as a function arg no longer makes the sky catch fire
• added NST_LINK as a flag for static var links
• added nes_readtable and nes_readtablef to api
• added nes_eval to api
• blank loop conditions (for(;->this<-;)) fixed
• fixed free table references (free = anything not enslaving table refs to vars)
• added a basic http client

0.2.0 (2007-03-09)

• replaced most libc string functions with portable (and faster) substitutes
• added working boolean var handling
• added internal output buffering system (much faster than standard buffering)
• added minimal and portable snprintf
• added simple(minded) xml parsing
• added _VARS[] and _ARGS[] table initialization to the cli
• added string math and comparisons using basic ops
• new vars are automatically alphabetized
• added rot13 to the extension lib

0.1.0 (2007-02-15)

• initial release