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Release 1.3.2

2022-09-11

  • Internal maintenance.

Release 1.3.1

2020-01-28

  • Performance improvements for dot syntax (.).

Release 1.3.0

2019-11-03

  • Hex syntax extension: The new string macro allows arbitrary text content inside quotes like "foo bar" which produces a UTF-8 encoded byte sequence representing the quoted string content.
  • Hex syntax extension: In repetition macros, multiplicative suffixes may now be added to quantifiers like (00){2M}, producing 2 MiB of NULL bytes.

Release 1.2.1

2019-09-29

  • Performance improvements for range macros.

Release 1.2.0

2019-06-24

  • The hex macro syntax has been extended to make random byte sequences possible: An alternative macro like (00|ff|3333) randomly produces one of 00, ff or 3333. A range macro like (0c-0f) randomly produces one of 0c, 0d, 0e or 0f. The special range macro . produces one random byte.

Release 1.1.0

2018-10-21

  • With the new CLI option --plain (or -p), hex code without surrounding Markdown is accepted as input, allowing quick tests like this:

    $ echo '(00ff){42} 0a' | lb --plain

  • The new CLI option --version prints the current version number.

  • It is now possible to create really large files. For example, hex code like (41){5368709000}, resulting in 5 GB of data, can be compiled regardless of the available RAM. (It may take some time though.) Prior to this release, this would cause memory errors.

  • Error messages have been improved.

Release 1.0.0

2018-09-05

  • Initial release.

Versioning Policy

The lb tool uses semantic versioning which is summarized as follows:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

  1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
  2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
  3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Semantic versioning requires software to declare a public API. The public API of lb is defined by two components:

  1. The command line interface syntax (switches, options, arguments).
  2. The hex string language understood by lb (hex characters, macros, comments).