Major Milestones

• Moved to CMake build system
• Current release of CsString

2017

February 2017

• Initial design and development of the CsString library

March 2017

• Continued work on CsString
• Create unit tests

April 2017

• Create DoxyPress documentation for CsString library
• Add additional unit tests

May 2017

• Initial release of CsString 1.0.0
• CppNow 2017 presentation on our new CsString library

June 2017

• Convert readme file to markdown
• Minor changes to work with MSVC

August 2017

• Move to C++14

September 2017

• CsString 1.1.0 released

• Attended CppCon in Seattle, Washington
• Presented a talk on CsString and libGuarded at CppCon

December 2017

• Add CsStringView class and relevant methods
• Add new constructor in CsString which takes a CsStringView
• Update library documentation

2018

January 2018

• Update copyright
• Add new methods to CsStringView
• Enhanced test suite

May 2018

• Added hash function for CsChar
• Add find_fast() and rfind_fast() in CsString which both take iterators and return an iterator

July 2018

• Optimize CsString basic classes
• Added new assignment method for CsString
• Optimized subtraction of iterators

November 2018

• Standardize library name, remove suffix
• Remove export from templates
• Optimize resize methods

2019

January 2019

• Update copyright
• Enhance string encoding

February 2019

• CsString 1.2.0 released

August 2019

• Add lvalue reference qualifier to prevent in place modification of a string

2020

January 2020

• Update copyright

• Drop support for Autotools build system for CsString
• Add CMake build files for CsString
• Move to C++17

• CsString 1.2.1 released

August 2020

• Add copy constructor for CsChar
• Delete the constructor in CsBasicStringView which accepted a temporary string
• Use a structured binding for improved readability

September 2020

• Correct CsString when using a compare operator
• Improve processing of string literals and treat as utf-8

• CsString 1.3.0 released

2021

January 2021

• Update copyright
• Improve processing of string literals and treat as UTF-8

• CsString 1.3.1 released

May 2021

• Move unit tests to Catch2

• Add utf8 string literal support for MSVC in CMake
• Improve CMake build files

• Use const iterators
• Add storage iterators

• Optimize comparison operators for utf8 and utf16
• Add new constructors for char16_t and char32_t
• Refactor constructors and methods which called fromUtf8()
• Add fromUtf16()

• Add new constructors to CsChar and CsBasicString to support char8_t added in C++20
• Improvements when C++20 is enabled

• Update library documentation

July 2021

• CsString 1.3.2 released

2022

January 2022

• Update copyright
• Move from CMake 3.8 to 3.16

Match 2022

• Add CMake export files

November 2022

• Modify CsString CMake build files to support exporting targets
• Define CsString_INCLUDE_DIR variable, this is the export location where the include files are installed

• Add 150 new unit tests

December 2022

• Correct export syntax

2023

January 2023

• Update copyright
• CsString 1.4.0 released

2024

January 2024

• Change copyright
• Improve build file for catch tests

July 2024

• Add new unit tests
• Refactor CsString iterator, add advance_storage() method to improve performance

September 2024

• Update minimum version to CMake 3.18

• CsString 1.4.1 release

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