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This page lists all changes to my web site in 2019, except for new journal entries, along with a brief description. For more recent changes and the current RSS feed, see the current changes page. For older changes, see the changes for 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.
Review of Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.
Review of Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer.
Review of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers.
Review of Super Pumped by Mike Isaac.
Review of On the Clock by Emily Guendelsberger.
Review of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson.
Review of Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett.
Increase the minimum supported Perl version to 5.8. Fix warning when outputing without a PerlIO layer. Fix behavior of S<> in Pod::Text with Unicode input. Remove an ancient workaround for Solaris in Pod::Text::Termcap that sets TERMPATH. Remove the fallback to ECMA-048 escape sequences in Pod::Text::Termcap. Further improve the test suite.
Review of The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher.
Review of Swordheart by T. Kingfisher.
Review of Once Broken Faith by Seanan McGuire.
Review of Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells.
Review of Rift in the Sky by Julie E. Czerneda.
Review of Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.
Review of Happy Ever After by Paul Dolan.
Review of Cold Steel by Kate Elliott.
Add the 2019 winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel (Witchmark, by C.L. Polk).
Review of Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews.
Add support for Python 3. Modernize the Python code and deprecate passing in commands as anything other than an iterable of str or bytes. Add -t flag to the remctl client to specify a network timeout. Fix NULL pointer dereference after memory allocation failure in the client library. Add GCC attributes to the declarations of libremctl client functions. Fix various issues with the build system.
Add the 2019 winner of the British Fantasy award for best fantasy novel (the Robert Holdstock award): The Bitter Twins, by Jen Williams.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.
Add the winner of the 2019 Mythopoeic Award for best adult novel (Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik).
Test::RRA must now be included before Test::More and handles a missing Test::More. is_file_contents in Test::RRA now handles a missing diff program. Fix RRA_LIB_KRB5_OPTIONAL probing when libkrb5 is not available but libcom_err is. Fine-tune the files checked by t/style/strict.t. Include Build.PL files in SPDX license checks. Check for legacy "see LICENSE" statements in the SPDX license check even in short files. Ignore Changes when checking Perl files for obsolete strings. Build and test the Perl tests as part of the rra-c-util build.
Add new bcalloc_type and breallocarray_type macros to the TAP library that take a type instead of a size as their third argument and cast the return value. The code can now be compiled natively with a C++ compiler.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente.
Review of A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.
Review of The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Add the winner of the 2019 Hugo award for best novel (The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal).
Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Review of Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse.
Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik.
Add the winner of the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke award for best SF novel (Rosewater, by Tade Thompson).
Add nominees for the 2019 World Fantasy award for best novel.
Review of All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders.
Also run make check-cppcheck for Autoconf packages, and make check-valgrind for packages that support Valgrind. Allow the path to Perl to be configured in App::DocKnot::Dist. Fix several test suite problems.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Add shortlist and winner (Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller) of the John W. Campbell Memorial award for best novel.
Add 2019 winners of the Locus Award for best science fiction novel (The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal) and fantasy novel (Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik).
Refactor command handling to make it more extensible and to improve module structure. Add a new docknot dist command to generate a distribution tarball. Support orphaned packages in README and README.md. Add bug tracker links for CPAN RT to the thread output.
Review of Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey.
Add the 2019 nominees for the Arthur C. Clarke award.
Fix test suite failure if Encode is loaded before the test suite runs.
Review of Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.
Review of Nimona by N.D. Stevenson.
Review of Finnish Nightmares by Karoliina Korhonen.
Review of Cold Fire by Kate Elliott.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie.
Add the winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for best novel (The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal).
Add the winner of the BSFA Award for best novel in 2018 (Embers of War, by Gareth L. Powell).
Review of Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers.
Add nominees for the 2019 Hugo award for best novel.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Review of Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey.
Review of The Love Song of Numo and Hammerfist by Maddox Hahn.
Another periodic cleanup of broken links.
Add basic support for pagination when retrieving users and integrations. Update tests, documentation, and supporting files. Mark this package as orphaned.
Review of Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall.
Review of Cold Magic by Kate Elliott.
Review of Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.
Add nominees for best novel for the Nebula Award to be given in 2019 (which is technically called the 2018 Nebula Award).
Support Python 3 in embedded filtering and authentication hooks. Fix selection of elliptic curves for TLS. New inn.conf configuration parameter to fine-tune cipher suite selection for TLS 1.3. Return the error message from Python and Perl filter hook rejects to CHECK and TAKETHIS commands. Better logging of failed connection requests.
Her last name is Arsenault or Arsenault Rivera, since her name uses the Spanish last name convention.
Remove the changes from December 2018 from the Recent changes page.
Review of New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Review of Aerial Magic Season 1 by walkingnorth.
Review of The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher.
Move docknot functionality to new docknot generate command, change the arguments, and add defaults. Add new generate-all command. Move generate functionality to a new App::DocKnot::Generate module. Add a separate TESTING section for Perl modules, and always add Lancaster documentation even to custom TESTING sections.
Review of Bright Earth by Philip Ball.
Add the nominees for the 2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. (The winner was previously added elsewhere, but not the nominees.)
Add James Nicoll's 100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year, published on Tor.com, with links to reviews and ratings where I've read the book.
Add the winner of the 2017 BSFA Award for best novel (awarded in 2018, and thus marked as 2018 for my purposes): The Rift, by Nina Allan. Add the winner of the 2018 Prix Aurora Award for best novel: Jade City, by Fonda Lee. Add the winner of the 2018 Sunburst Award for adult fiction: The Bone Mother, by David Demchuk.
Move all web site changes from 2018 to a separate page and remove all entries older than December of 2018 from the current changes page.
Add an overview of my 2018 reading, main book recommendations, and reading statistics.
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