docs/Writerside/topics/about.md

# Overview

Welcome to the UAP Common Extensions.

With this library we provide useful data structures and algorithms for common
programmatic tasks in the C language. Using the build files you can create
a static and a shared lib containing all units, but you may also use the UCX
sources in your project and compile specific units by yourself.

If you want to use this library, you can [download and install](install.md)
the recent version.
The source code is also available as Mercurial repository [at our site][1] and
on [Source Forge][2].

[1]: https://develop.uap-core.de/hg/ucx/
[2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/ucx/code/

### Authors

Mike Becker [&lt;universe@uap-core.de&gt;](mailto:universe@uap-core.de)

Olaf Wintermann
[&lt;olaf.wintermann@gmail.com&gt;](mailto:olaf.wintermann@gmail.com)

Changelog
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### Version 3.0 - 2023-07-09 {collapsible="true"}

* complete redesign from scratch
* collections can now store copies of objects and not just pointers
* collections are now dynamically implemented
* users of the library can specify own implementations of collections that work with the UCX API
* low level API for custom lists that do not use the UCX structures
* various fixes and improvements
* drops some other, rarely used, features
* removes testing implementation from the lib

### Version 2.1 - 2019-12-30 {collapsible="true"}

* adds string replace functions
* adds set operations for ` UcxList` and `UcxMap`
* adds `sstrcaseprefix()` and `sstrcasesuffix()`
* improves Doxygen documentation in ucx/string.h
* adds `UcxArray` data type
* adds support for CMake builds, but main build system is still autotools

### Version 2.0 - 2018-12-28 {collapsible="true"}

* some uncritical bug fixes
* overflow of `sstrnlen` now returns `SIZE_MAX` instead of zero
* adds `scstr_t` - a `const char*` variant for sstr_t
* renames utility compare functions

### Version 1.1 - 2018-05-14 {collapsible="true"}

* adds missing 32 bit support to integer overflow checks
* adds `ucx_buffer_to_sstr()` macro
* adds `ucx_avl_free_content()`
* adds some more compare and distance functions in utils.h
* adds `SFMT()` and `PRIsstr` convenience macros
* destructor functions for `*_free_content()` functions are now optional

### Version 1.0.1 - 2018-01-21 {collapsible="true"}

* some bug fixes
* adds integer overflow checks

### Version 1.0 - 2017-10-28 {collapsible="true"}

* first stable version of UCX released