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Sasa v0.9 Released

Sasa v0.9 has been released. See the changelog for a detailed description of the changes. Here is the original release description for Sasa v0.8. This post will describe only changes from v0.8.

Backwards-incompatible changes:
  • Renamed Sasa.Collections.List to Sasa.Collections.Seq to avoid clashes with System.Collections.Generic.List

  • Restructured the list operators to better support chaining

Useful additions include:
  • Sasa.Weak<T> which wraps WeakReference

  • Additional string processing functions, like StringExt.SliceEquals

  • Array-processing combinators under Sasa.Collections.Arrays (Slice, Dup, etc.)

  • Stream functions under Sasa.IO (CopyTo, ToArray)

  • Support for MIME decoding and encoding for MailMessage parsing

Bugfixes:
  • Better conformance to RFCs for Pop3Client and MailMessage parsing

  • Concurrency bugfix in Sasa.Lazy.

MIME MailMessage parsing and the Pop3Client are already in use in production code, and conformance appears adequate after hundreds of processed messages.

Experimental Additions


There are a few components of this release that I would deem "experimental".

Sasa.Dynamics is intended as a "safe reflection" facility. Basically, this is a "type-case" construct as found in the "intensional type analysis" literature. Any reflective algorithm should be implementable via ITypeFunc<R>, and you cannot forget to handle a particular case. This interface basically factors out object traversal from the actual reflection algorithm.

Under Sasa.Web and Sasa.Web.Asp, I've included a URL-safe Base64 encoder/decoder, Sasa.Web.Url64, and a generic ASP.NET Page base class that is immune to clickjacking and CSRF.

I first proposed this idea on the capability security mailing list. I'm not completely satisfied with the current incarnation, but it's an interesting idea I'm still toying with.
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