|  | 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. |