CHANGELOG.md

1.7.13 (Apr 2, 2020)

Features:

• add new API of cJSON_ParseWithLength without breaking changes. Thanks @caglarivriz, see #358
• add new API of cJSON_GetNumberValue. Thanks @Intuition, see#385
• add uninstall target function for CMake. See #402
• Improve performance of adding item to array. Thanks @xiaomianhehe, see #430, #448
• add new API of cJSON_SetValuestring, for changing the valuestring safely. See #451
• add return value for cJSON_AddItemTo... and cJSON_ReplaceItem... (check if the operation successful). See #453

Fixes:

• Fix clang -Wfloat-equal warning. Thanks @paulmalovanyi, see #368
• Fix make failed in mac os. See #405
• Fix memory leak in cJSONUtils_FindPointerFromObjectTo. Thanks @andywolk for reporting, see #414
• Fix bug in encode_string_as_pointer. Thanks @AIChangJiang for reporting, see #439

1.7.12 (May 17, 2019)

Fixes:

• Fix infinite loop in cJSON_Minify (potential Denial of Service). Thanks @Alanscut for reporting, see #354
• Fix link error for Visual Studio. Thanks @tan-wei, see #352.
• Undefine true and false for cJSON_Utils before redefining them. Thanks @raiden00pl, see #347.

1.7.11 (Apr 15, 2019)

Fixes:

• Fix a bug where cJSON_Minify could overflow it's buffer, both reading and writing. This is a security issue, see #338. Big thanks @bigric3 for reporting.
• Unset true and false macros before setting them if they exist. See #339, thanks @raiden00pl for reporting

1.7.10 (Dec 21, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix package config file for libcjson. Thanks @shiluotang for reporting #321
• Correctly split lists in cJSON_Utils's merge sort. Thanks @andysCaplin for the fix #322

1.7.9 (Dec 16, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix a bug where cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive would pass a nullpointer to strcmp when called on an array, see #315. Thanks @yuweol for reporting.
• Fix error in cJSON_Utils where the case sensitivity was not respected, see #317. Thanks @yuta-oxo for fixing.
• Fix some warnings detected by the Visual Studio Static Analyzer, see #307. Thanks @bnason-nf

1.7.8 (Sep 22, 2018)

Fixes:

• cJSON now works with the __stdcall calling convention on Windows, see #295, thanks @zhindes for contributing

1.7.7 (May 22, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix a memory leak when realloc fails, see #267, thanks @AlfieDeng for reporting
• Fix a typo in the header file, see #266, thanks @zhaozhixu

1.7.6 (Apr 13, 2018)

Fixes:

• Add SONAME to the ELF files built by the Makefile, see #252, thanks @YanhaoMo for reporting
• Add include guards and extern "C" to cJSON_Utils.h, see #256, thanks @daschfg for reporting

Other changes:

• Mark the Makefile as deprecated in the README.

1.7.5 (Mar 23, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix a bug in the JSON Patch implementation of cJSON Utils, see #251, thanks @bobkocisko.

1.7.4 (Mar 3, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix potential use after free if the string parameter to cJSON_AddItemToObject is an alias of the string property of the object that is added,see #248. Thanks @hhallen for reporting.

1.7.3 (Feb 8, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix potential double free, thanks @projectgus for reporting #241

1.7.2 (Feb 6, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fix the use of GNUInstallDirs variables and the pkgconfig file. Thanks @zeerd for reporting #240

1.7.1 (Jan 10, 2018)

Fixes:

• Fixed an Off-By-One error that could lead to an out of bounds write. Thanks @liuyunbin for reporting #230
• Fixed two errors with buffered printing. Thanks @liuyunbin for reporting #230

1.7.0 (Dec 31, 2017)

Features:

• Large rewrite of the documentation, see #215
• Added the cJSON_GetStringValue function
• Added the cJSON_CreateStringReference function
• Added the cJSON_CreateArrayReference function
• Added the cJSON_CreateObjectReference function
• The cJSON_Add...ToObject macros are now functions that return a pointer to the added item, see #226

Fixes:

• Fix a problem with GNUInstallDirs in the CMakeLists.txt, thanks @yangfl, see #210
• Fix linking the tests when building as static library, see #213
• New overrides for the CMake option BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, see #207

Other Changes:

• Readme: Explain how to include cJSON, see #211
• Removed some trailing spaces in the code, thanks @yangfl, see #212
• Updated Unity and json-patch-tests

1.6.0 (Oct 9, 2017)

Features:

• You can now build cJSON as both shared and static library at once with CMake using -DBUILD_SHARED_AND_STATIC_LIBS=On, see #178
• UTF-8 byte order marks are now ignored, see #184
• Locales can now be disabled with the option -DENABLE_LOCALES=Off, see #202, thanks @Casperinous
• Better support for MSVC and Visual Studio

Other Changes:

• Add the new warnings -Wswitch-enum, -Wused-but-makred-unused, -Wmissing-variable-declarations, -Wunused-macro
• More number printing tests.
• Continuous integration testing with AppVeyor (semi automatic at this point), thanks @simon-p-r

1.5.9 (Sep 8, 2017)

Fixes:

• Set the global error pointer even if return_parse_end is passed to cJSON_ParseWithOpts, see #200, thanks @rmallins

1.5.8 (Aug 21, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix make test in the Makefile, thanks @YanhaoMo for reporting this #195

1.5.7 (Jul 13, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix a bug where realloc failing would return a pointer to an invalid memory address. This is a security issue as it could potentially be used by an attacker to write to arbitrary memory addresses, see #189, fixed in 954d61e, big thanks @timothyjohncarney for reporting this issue
• Fix a spelling mistake in the AFL fuzzer dictionary, see #185, thanks @jwilk

1.5.6 (Jun 28, 2017)

Fixes:

• Make cJSON a lot more tolerant about passing NULL pointers to its functions, it should now fail safely instead of dereferencing the pointer, see #183. Thanks @msichal for reporting #182

1.5.5 (Jun 15, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix pointers to nested arrays in cJSON_Utils, see 9abe
• Fix an error with case sensitivity handling in cJSON_Utils, see b9cc911
• Fix cJSON_Compare for arrays that are prefixes of the other and objects that are a subset of the other, see 03ba72f and #180, thanks @zhengqb for reporting

1.5.4 (Jun 5, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix build with GCC 7.1.1 and optimization level -O2, see bfbd8fe

Other Changes:

• Update Unity to 3b69beaa58efc41bbbef70a32a46893cae02719d

1.5.3 (May 23, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix cJSON_ReplaceItemInObject not keeping the name of an item, see #174

1.5.2 (May 10, 2017)

Fixes:

• Fix a reading buffer overflow in parse_string, see a167d9e
• Fix compiling with -Wcomma, see 186cce3
• Remove leftover attribute from tests, see b537ca7

1.5.1 (May 6, 2017)

Fixes:

• Add gcc version guard to the Makefile, see #164, thanks @juvasquezg
• Fix incorrect free in cJSON_Utils if custom memory allocator is used, see #166, thanks @prefetchnta

1.5.0 (May 2, 2017)

Features:

• cJSON finally prints numbers without losing precision, see #153, thanks @DeboraG
• cJSON_Compare recursively checks if two cJSON items contain the same values, see #148
• Provide case sensitive versions of every function where it matters, see #158 and #159
• Added cJSON_ReplaceItemViaPointer and cJSON_DetachItemViaPointer
• Added cJSON_free and cJSON_malloc that expose the internal configured memory allocators. see 02a05ee

Enhancements:

• Parse into a buffer, this will allow parsing \u0000 in the future (not quite yet though)
• General simplifications and readability improvements
• More unit tests
• Update unity testing library to 2.4.1
• Add the json-patch-tests test suite to test cJSON_Utils.
• Move all tests from test_utils.c to unit tests with unity.

Fixes: