| Release Notes for Thrift 20080411 | 
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 | .equals and .hashCode() for Java scturcts (developed by dreiss). | 
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 | Improvments to the C++ TSocketPool (developed by akhil). | 
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 | PHP (de)serialization extension (developed by dweatherford). | 
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 | Add fb303 to contrib (developed by Facebook). | 
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 | TJSONProtocol for C++ and Java (contributed by Chad Walters of Powerset). | 
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 | Support for "make check" and better tests (contributed by Nitay). | 
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 | Smalltalk support (contributed by Patrick Collison). | 
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 | Dave Simpson <dave@powerset.com> | 
 | Better support for connection tracking in the C++ server (contributed by | 
 | Dave Simpson of Powerset). | 
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 | Perl HttpClient (contributed by Igor Afanasyev of Evernote). | 
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 | C# support (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem). | 
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 | MinGW port of the compiler (contributed by Todd Berman of imeem). | 
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 | Tons of small improvements and bug fixes. | 
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 | Release Notes for Thrift 20070917 | 
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 | TBinaryProtocol now includes a protocol version number in messaged. | 
 | This is a non-backwards-compatible change.  Please see the | 
 | TBinaryProtocol constructor for strictRead_ and strictWrite_. | 
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 | Add binary type to support non-text "strings" in Java. | 
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 | TSocketPool for C++ (developed by jsobel). | 
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 | Syntax highlighting for vim and emacs (developed by hzhao and martin). | 
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 | Perl support (contributed by Jake Luciani). | 
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 | Erlang support (developed by cpiro). | 
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 | Ruby API overhaul (contributed by Kevin Clark of Powerset). | 
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 | IPv6 support in C++ and Python (contributed by Paul Saab of Powerset). | 
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 | Read/Write locks (developed by boz). | 
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 | OCaml support (developed by iproctor). | 
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 | Human-readable strings from Thrift structures in C++ (developed by dreiss). | 
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 | Haskell support (developed by iproctor). | 
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 | Support for optional fields in C++ (contributed by Andy Lutomirsky). | 
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 | Support for operator== for Thrift structures (contributed by Andy Lutomirsky). | 
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 | Python/C module for fast (de)serialization (contributed by Ben Maurer). | 
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 | Limited reflection for C++ services (developed by dreiss). | 
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 | Python library installation defaults to /usr, override with PY_PREFIX. | 
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 | Support for Javabean-style Java classes (contributed by Dave Engberg). | 
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 | TDenseProtocol for C++ (experimental way to shrink structures) | 
 | (developed by dreiss). | 
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 | Cocoa/Objective C support (contributed by Andrew McGeachie). | 
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 | Thrift now builds without libevent. | 
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 | TZlibTransport for C++ (compress serialized structures) (developed by dreiss). | 
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 | Tons of small improvements and bug fixes. |