LME Extensions Release Notes

LME 5.1

• SQLite upgraded to version 3.5.8
• Libpng in ImageIO upgraded to version 1.2.29
• with an output argument, dir returns now a structure array instead of a list of structures
• support for structure arrays in extensions: type k_lme_obj_structarray, new callbacks LMECB_GetFieldFromStructArrayObject and LMECB_ConvertStructListToStructArray, and number of fields retrieved with LMECB_ObjectLength

Mac OS X

• ioplatformserialnumber.so: function ioplatformserialnumber to get the serial number of the Mac
• power.so: idletime for Mac OS X

LME 5.0

Minor changes

• SQLite upgraded to version 3.5.2
• Libpng in ImageIO upgraded to version 1.2.23
• audio.so for Mac: frequency is ignored if it cannot be set

Mac OS X

• use of Lapack is disabled by default because of a bug in the Accelerate framework of Mac OS X

LME 4.7.1

Bug fixes

• on some Windows platforms, serialdevname crashed; fixed

LME 4.6

Minor changes

• SQLite upgraded to version 3.3.7
• Libpng in ImageIO upgraded to version 1.2.10
• lapack.so: scalar multiplication with operands of type single have now a result of type single, like built-in operators

Bug fixes

• serialdev.so on Mac OS X: timeout value hasn't been used since LME 4.4; fixed
• serialdev.so on Mac OS X: word size wasn't always set correctly, which caused corruption in the data transmitted; fixed
• lapack.so: qr with three output arguments and an input argument with more rows than columns sometimes crashed; fixed

LME 4.5.2

New features

• LaunchURL for Linux
• Image Capture (for Mac): new functions ic_capture, ic_delete_one, ic_delete_all, ic_sync_clock, length
• ImageIO: in addition to a file descriptor, imageread also accepts a vector of bytes
• Posix: setenv

Minor changes

• SQLite upgraded to version 3.2.8

Bug fixes

• Lapack, Matfile, and ImageIO functions weren't accepted in sandbox; fixed
• SerialDev for Mac: in some cases, the byte size and the parity weren't set correctly; fixed

LME 4.5.1

New features

• LaunchURL for Mac OS X

LME 4.5

New features

• WebServices (high-level client and low-level client/server functions for XML-RPC and SOAP)
• socket: new functions gethostname and gethostbyname
• syslog (output to system log for Mac OS X)
• zlib upgraded to 1.2.3, libpng to 1.2.8

Minor changes

• MatFile: support for 64-bit integers
• MatFile: option for matfiledecode to ignore unsupported data types
• In LME_Ext.h, definition WIN32 is replaced with _WIN32 to support Windows CE
• socket: reading returns immediately without error if there isn't anything available instead of returning an end-of-file error
• socket: better error messages
• imageio, zlib, mysql, sqlite: versions of zlib, libpng, jpeglib, MySQL and SQLite are displayed when the extensions are loaded

Bug fixes

• MatFile: the message displayed when the extension was loaded referred to functions encodematfile and decodematfile instead of matfileencode and matfiledecode; fixed
• MatFile: encoding arrays with an odd number of dimensions led to a crash; fixed
• MatFile: MAT-files v4 with mixed types weren't always decoded correctly; fixed
• Lapack: inv([]), lu([]), svd([]), rcond([]), rank([]), orth([]), null([]), eig([]), eig([],[]), schur([]), qr([]), chol([]), hess([]), and balance([]) made the application quit; fixed (rcond([]) gives 1, rank([]) 0, other ones [])
• socket: in some cases, socketaccept threw an error when it shouldn't; fixed
• OSAScript: osascript doesn't give an error anymore when there is no result that can be coerced to a string, unless an output is requested