https://drobilla.net/Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:40:00 -0500https://drobilla.net/2025/11/12/zix-0-8-0.html<p><a href="https://download.drobilla.net/zix-0.8.0.tar.xz">Zix 0.8.0</a> has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.</p> <p>Changes:</p> <ul> <li>Add ZIX_REALTIME and ZIX_NONBLOCKING attributes</li> <li>Add warning suppression macros</li> <li>Annotate count and size parameters of allocator API</li> <li>Avoid "deprecated" POSIX functions on Windows</li> <li>Avoid over-use of yielding meson options</li> <li>Clean up attribute documentation</li> <li>Gracefully handle failed allocation in path and filesystem functions</li> <li>Reduce empty BTree memory requirements</li> <li>Strengthen zix_file_equals()</li> <li>Use getenv() instead of environ to avoid issues on FreeBSD</li> </ul>drobillaWed, 12 Nov 2025 18:40:00 -0500tag:drobilla.net,2025-11-12:/2025/11/12/zix-0-8-0.htmlmiscSoftwareCLADZixhttps://drobilla.net/2025/01/18/zix-0-6-2.html<p><a href="https://download.drobilla.net/zix-0.6.2.tar.xz">Zix 0.6.2</a> has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.</p> <p>Changes:</p> <ul> <li>Fix documentation build with sphinxygen fallback wrap</li> </ul>drobillaSat, 18 Jan 2025 23:53:00 -0500tag:drobilla.net,2025-01-18:/2025/01/18/zix-0-6-2.htmlmiscSoftwareCLADZixhttps://drobilla.net/2025/01/18/zix-0-6-0.html<p><a href="https://download.drobilla.net/zix-0.6.0.tar.xz">Zix 0.6.0</a> has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.</p> <p>Changes:</p> <ul> <li>Add ZIX_NODISCARD attribute</li> <li>Add option to build for older Windows versions</li> <li>Add zix_expand_environment_strings()</li> <li>Add zix_string_view_equals()</li> <li>Avoid fdatasync() on Darwin</li> <li>Fix build on POSIX systems without PATH_MAX defined</li> <li>Fix library current_version on MacOS</li> <li>Fix nullability annotations for zix_canonical_path() and friends</li> <li>Fix ring unit test when mlock() is unavailable</li> <li>Improve documentation</li> <li>Support building for UWP</li> <li>Support building for Windows with or without UNICODE</li> </ul>drobillaSat, 18 Jan 2025 21:49:00 -0500tag:drobilla.net,2025-01-18:/2025/01/18/zix-0-6-0.htmlmiscSoftwareCLADZixhttps://drobilla.net/2023/10/22/zix-0-4-2.html<p><a href="https://download.drobilla.net/zix-0.4.2.tar.xz">Zix 0.4.2</a> has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.</p> <p>Changes:</p> <ul> <li>Clean up documentation build</li> <li>Fix documentation build in a virtualenv</li> <li>Improve test suite code coverage</li> </ul>drobillaSun, 22 Oct 2023 18:56:00 -0400tag:drobilla.net,2023-10-22:/2023/10/22/zix-0-4-2.htmlmiscSoftwareCLADZixhttps://drobilla.net/2023/08/23/zix-0-4-0.html<p><a href="https://download.drobilla.net/zix-0.4.0.tar.xz">Zix 0.4.0</a> has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.</p>drobillaWed, 23 Aug 2023 23:25:00 -0400tag:drobilla.net,2023-08-23:/2023/08/23/zix-0-4-0.htmlmiscSoftwareCLADZix