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Version 2.3.0 (2021-02-25)

  • remove HASH_FCN; the HASH_FUNCTION and HASH_KEYCMP macros now behave similarly

  • remove uthash_memcmp (deprecated in v2.1.0) in favor of HASH_KEYCMP

  • silence -Wswitch-default warnings (thanks, Olaf Bergmann!)

Version 2.2.0 (2020-12-17)

  • add HASH_NO_STDINT for platforms without C99 <stdint.h>

  • silence many -Wcast-qual warnings (thanks, Olaf Bergmann!)

  • skip hash computation when finding in an empty hash (thanks, Huansong Fu!)

  • rename oom to utarray_oom, in utarray.h (thanks, Hong Xu!)

  • rename oom to utstring_oom, in utstring.h (thanks, Hong Xu!)

  • remove MurmurHash/HASH_MUR

Version 2.1.0 (2018-12-20)

  • silence some Clang static analysis warnings

  • add LL_INSERT_INORDER and LL_LOWER_BOUND etc (thanks, Jeffrey Lovitz and Mattias Eriksson!)

  • add uthash_bzero for platforms without <string.h>

  • fix a missing HASH_BLOOM_ADD in HASH_SELECT (thanks, Pawel Veselov!)

  • permit malloc failure to be recoverable via HASH_NONFATAL_OOM (thanks, Pawel Veselov!)

  • avoid repeated calls to uthash_strlen in HASH_FIND_STR

  • rename uthash_memcmp to HASH_KEYCMP, leaving the old name for compatibility

  • add utstack.h

  • remove libut

Version 2.0.2 (2017-03-02)

  • fix segfault in HASH_ADD_INORDER etc (thanks, Yana Kireyonok!)

  • remove spurious cast to unsigned in utstring_len (thanks, Michal Sestrienka!)

  • add uthash_memcmp and uthash_strlen for platforms without <stdlib.h> (thanks, Pawel Veselov!)

  • fix a C++ incompatibility in utringbuffer

Version 2.0.1 (2016-07-05)

  • in-order insertion macros HASH_ADD_INORDER etc (thanks, Thilo Schulz!)

  • by-hashvalue insertion macros HASH_ADD_BYHASHVALUE etc

  • during key comparison, check hashvalue before doing a full memcmp

  • add utringbuffer.h

Version 1.9.9.1 (2014-11-18)

  • inclusion of experimental libut bundle with utvector in opt/

  • use shift in Bernstein hash instead of multiply (thanks, Jimmy Zhuo!)

  • switch ssize_t types in utarray/utstring to size_t (thanks, Hong Xu!)

  • fix utstring pointer math on >4GB strings (thanks, Thomas Bottesch!)

  • change FNV hash to FNV-1a varation (thanks, dwest1975!)

  • fix bug in HASH_REPLACE_STR (thanks, Ilya Kaliman!)

Version 1.9.9 (2014-02-25)

  • made HASH_ADD_STR compatible with char* or char[] (thanks, Samuel Thibault!)

  • fixed header inclusion of sys/types.h for ssize_t (thanks, Fernando Campos!)

  • added LL_COUNT/DL_COUNT/CDL_COUNT (thansk, Paul Praet!)

  • added LRU cache example in tests/lru_cache (thanks, Oliver Lorenz!)

  • fix LL_DELETE2 for VS2008 (thanks, Greg Davydouski!)

  • fix missing argument in HASH_REPLACE_STR (thanks, Alex!)

  • bump version number in source files to match docs (thanks, John Crow!)

  • add HASH_OVERHEAD macro to get overhead size for hash table

Version 1.9.8 (2013-03-10)

  • HASH_REPLACE now in uthash (thanks, Nick Vatamaniuc!)

  • fixed clang warnings (thanks wynnw!)

  • fixed utarray_insert when inserting past array end (thanks Rob Willett!)

  • you can now find uthash on GitHub

  • there’s a uthash Google Group

  • uthash has been downloaded 29,000+ times since 2006 on SourceForge

Version 1.9.7 (2012-10-09)

  • utstring now supports substring search using utstring_find (thanks, Joe Wei!)

  • utlist now supports element prepend and replace (thanks, Zoltán Lajos Kis!)

  • utlist element prev/next fields can now have any names (thanks, Pawel S. Veselov!)

  • uthash cast quiets a clang warning (thanks, Roman Divacky and Baptiste Daroussin!)

  • uthash userguide example shows how to check key uniqueness (thanks, Richard Cook!)

  • uthash HASH_MUR compiles under MSVC++ 10 in C mode (thanks, Arun Kirthi Cherian!)

  • utstring_printf now supports format checking (thanks, Donald Carr!)

Version 1.9.6 (2012-04-28)

  • add utarray_prev (thanks, Ben Hiett!)

  • add parens/casts for greater compatibility (thanks, Atis, Debasis Ganguly, and Steve McClellan!)

  • added ifndef to uthash_malloc and related hooks (thanks, Holger Machens!)

  • edit examples so they do not leak memory (thanks, 任晶磊!)

Version 1.9.5 (2011-11-16)

  • added utarray_renew

  • fixed memory leak in uthash_clear when using Bloom filter (thanks, Jan Hättig!)

  • utarray now copies the UT_icd on array creation rather than storing a pointer

  • add parentheses to HASH_ADD to fix preprocessing of certain arguments (thanks, Aaron Rosen!)

  • more parenthesizations for greater macro argument flexibility

Version 1.9.4 (2011-06-05)

  • uthash now supports MurmurHash v3

  • utlist now includes concatenation macros (LL_CONCAT and DL_CONCAT)

  • utarray now supports binary search (utarray_find)

  • utstring now supports a new-or-clear-existing macro (utstring_renew)

  • documented technique for a multi-level hash table

  • clarified scope requirements for UT_icd in the utarray documentation

  • fixed termination when utstring_clear is followed by utstring_body

  • fixed utarray_inserta macro when used with complex arguments

  • on Visual Studio define missing type uint8_t

  • Debian/Ubuntu include uthash in the package uthash-dev.

  • uthash has been downloaded 16,211 times.

Thanks to Yu Feng, Richard Cook, Dino Ciuffetti, Chris Groer, and Arun Cherian for feedback and fixes in this release!

Version 1.9.3 (2010-10-31)

  • fix an ifdef for compatibility with Intel compiler (thanks, degski!)

  • fix HASH_ITER macro to satisfy C++ casting rules (thanks, Erik Bai!)

Version 1.9.2 (2010-10-04)

  • new HASH_ITER macro for more convenient deletion-safe iteration

  • hashscan can now run on FreeBSD 8.1 and later (thanks, Markus Gebert!)

  • More parens to evaluate complex macro arguments properly (thanks, ngg!)

  • Add sz parameter to the uthash_free hook for platforms that do their own memory management. Hopefully this minor API change doesn’t cause too much breakage for people. (thanks, Niall Douglas!)

  • uthash has been downloaded 12,294 times

Version 1.9.1 (2010-05-15)

  • Fix a redefinition warning when using uthash.h and utstring.h together

  • Fix a bug in utstring_init

  • Added HASH_FIND_PTR and HASH_ADD_PTR (thanks, Niall Douglas!)

Version 1.9 (2010-03-31)

  • uthash now supports Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 in C or C++ code!

  • new headers utarray.h and utstring.h are now included. These implement dynamic arrays and strings using macros

  • utlist.h now has deletion-safe iterators and search macros

  • the test suite now runs under Visual Studio (thanks again degski!)

  • special thanks for suggesting utarray and utlist features to Charalampos P.!

  • uthash has been downloaded 9,616 times

Version 1.8 (2009-09-08)

  • Added the hashscan utility that can report on the size and quality of hash tables in a running process (Linux-only)

  • Added Bloom filter support. This has the potential to speed up certain types of programs that look up non-existant keys in sufficient numbers.

  • Restored the MurmurHash, which can once again be used, if an additional symbol is defined. This is a "safety" by which the user declares they understand that -fno-strict-aliasing flag must be used if they are using MurmurHash under gcc with optimization.

  • Unified the bucket/table malloc hooks; now there is only one malloc hook

  • Re-organized the manual into a main section and advanced topics section

  • Fixed a bug in utlist.h where sorting a singly-linked list threw a compile-time error.

  • Fixed a bug in utlist.h where a doubly-linked list that is sorted did not maintain the special head->prev pointer back to the list tail.

Version 1.7 (2009-06-11)

  • The MurmurHash has been removed, and Jenkin’s hash is once again the default. While MurmurHash performed well, it’s unsafe with regard to the strict aliasing rule. This results in incorrect code when compiled with optimization. It’s not possible to enable -fno-strict-aliasing from within a header file.

  • The linked list macros in utlist.h now comply with the strict-aliasing rule so they generate correct code under high optimization levels (O2 or O3). The use of the __typeof__ extension, which was originally a GNU extension, may reduce portability to other compilers that do not support this extension. This extension is used in the singly-linked list macros and the sort macros.

Version 1.6 (2009-05-08)

Special thanks to Alfred Heisner for contributing several enhancements:

  • Support for two new hash functions:

    • the Paul Hsieh hash function (HASH_SFH)

    • Austin Appleby’s MurmurHash function (HASH_MUR)

  • Because of its excellent performance, MurmurHash is now the default hash function.

  • keystats now has much better elapsed time accuracy under Cygwin and MinGW

  • fixed casting in HASH_FNV, HASH_SAX and HASH_OAT for non-char keys

This release also includes:

  • a new HASH_CLEAR operation clears a hash table in one step.

  • a new HASH_SELECT operation inserts those elements from one hash that satisfy a given condition into another hash. The selected items have dual presence in both hash tables. For example a game could select the visible polygons from a hash of all polygons.

  • fixed a compile-time error which occurred if the final argument to HASH_ADD_KEYPTR was a pointer to an array member like &a[i]

  • added another test script tests/all_funcs which executes the test suite using every supported hash function

And lastly,

  • a new, separate header called utlist.h is included which provides linked list macros for C structures, similar in style to the uthash macros

Version 1.5 (2009-02-19)

  • now thread-safe for concurrent readers

  • use scratch variables on stack rather than in table (thanks, Petter Arvidsson!). This change made HASH_FIND about 13% faster and enabled reader concurrency.

  • made BSD license terms even more permissive

  • added PDF version of User Guide

  • added update news (RSS)

Version 1.4 (2008-09-23)

  • Add HASH_COUNT for counting items in the hash

  • Compatibility with C++. Satisfy additional casting requirements. Also in the tests/ directory, running make cplusplus now compiles all the test programs with the C++ compiler.

  • Eliminate elmt pointer from the UT_hash_handle. Calculate elmt from hash handle address by subtracting hho (hash handle offset).

  • Contributed by L.S.Chin: Cast void* to char* before pointer arithmetic to suppress compiler warnings. We assume compilers abide to C standards which impose requirement that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(char*).

  • Return meaningful exit status from do_tests per Tiago Cunha, so that package manager-based install can verify tests are successful

Version 1.3 (2008-07-27)

  • use integer-only math-- no floating point! Support FPU-less CPU’s.

  • eliminate hash_q metric, which measured the fraction of items with non-ideal chain positions. We only need to know if this fraction is below 0.5. This is now determined using fast bitwise tests.

  • when an item is added to the hash, calculate the key’s hash value upfront and store it, instead of recomputing it as needed. This hashv is stored in the hash handle. Potentially major speed benefit for bucket expansion algorithm. Deleting is marginally improved too.

  • fixed a minor bug in the calculation of the max ideal chain length; line 446 in v1.2 erroneously calculated a/b*2 instead of a/(b*2). The effect of this bug was that bucket expansion could occur more readily because the per-bucket max chain length multiplier factor (which delays bucket expansion when certain buckets are overused) was set to a lower, expansion-favoring value than intended.

  • improved source commenting and improved variable names in structures

  • remove HASH_JSW. Lengthy random number array made code less readable

  • add HASH_SRT(hh,hash,cmp) as a generalized HASH_SORT(hash,cmp). It was an omission in uthash 1.2 that there was no sort macro for hash handles with names other than hh.

  • Corrected HASH_FSCK so it works with any name for the hash handle.

  • behave properly in pathological HASH_DEL(a,a) case where the same variable references the head and the deletee (advancing the head then loses the correct reference to the deletee); fix by using scratch area in the hash table to store deletee hash handle.

  • made tests runnable on MinGW

  • 3000+ downloads since uthash-1.0

Version 1.2 (2006-11-22)

  • new HASH_SORT macro

  • Cygwin support

  • User Guide now features a clickable Table of Contents. (The technique for generating the TOC on the browser was contributed back to the AsciiDoc project and incorporated into AsciiDoc v8.1.0).

Version 1.1 (2006-06-28)

  • uthash-1.1 released

  • supports several built-in user-selectable hash functions

  • new keystats utility quantifies performance of hash functions

Version 1.0 (2006-06-02)

  • Initial release