Merge branch 'master' into msvc/cachefix

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt
index c021a40..aed58b8 100755
--- a/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/RELEASE.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ NOTE: If you build with Python 3.10.0 and then rebuild with 3.10.1 (or higher),
 NEW FUNCTIONALITY
 -----------------
 
-- List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
 - Added MSVC_USE_SCRIPT_ARGS variable to pass arguments to MSVC_USE_SCRIPT.
+- Added Configure.CheckMember() checker to check if struct/class has the specified member.
+
 
 DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
 ------------------------
@@ -32,8 +33,13 @@ CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
   "Application Data" subdirectory here.
 - Action._subproc() can now be used as a python context manager to ensure that the
   POpen object is properly closed.
-- SCons help (-H) no longer prints the "ignored for compatibility" options
-  to save some space (these are still listed in the manpage).
+- SCons help (-H) no longer prints the "ignored for compatibility" options,
+  which are still listed in the manpage.
+- Help is now sensitive to the size of the terminal window: the width of the
+  help text will scale to wider (or narrower) terminals than 80 characters.
+- Ninja: Changed generated build.ninja file to run SCons only build Actions via
+  a SCons Deamon. Added logic for starting and connecting to SCons daemon (currently
+  only used for ninja)
 - The change to "content" and "content-timestamp" Decider names is reflected
   in the User Guide as well, since the hash function may be other than md5
   (tidying up from earlier change)
@@ -50,9 +56,15 @@ FIXES
 
 - Fix a number of Python ResourceWarnings which are issued when running SCons and/or it's tests
   with python 3.9 (or higher)
+- Ninja: Fix issue where Configure files weren't being properly processed when build run
+  via ninja.
 - Fixed crash in C scanner's dictify_CPPDEFINES() function which happens if
   AppendUnique is called on CPPPATH. (Issue #4108).
-
+- Added default values for source and target arguments to _defines() function. This
+  is used to expand CPPDEFINES (and others). Previous change added those arguments
+  with no defaults, so old usage where _defines() was called without source and target
+  arguments would yield an exception. This issue was found via qt4 and qt5 tools in
+  scons-contrib https://github.com/SCons/scons-contrib/issues/45
 
 IMPROVEMENTS
 ------------
@@ -60,6 +72,7 @@ IMPROVEMENTS
 - Verify that a user specified msvc script (via MSVC_USE_SCRIPT) exists and raise an
   exception immediately when the user specified msvc script does not exist.
 - Add cache-debug messages for push failures.
+- Added ninja mingw support and improved ninja CommandGeneratorAction support.
 - Command-line help is now sensitive to the size of the terminal window: the
   width of the help text will scale for terminals other than 80 chars wide.
 
@@ -85,4 +98,4 @@ Thanks to the following contributors listed below for their contributions to thi
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-    git shortlog --no-merges -ns 4.0.1..HEAD
+    git shortlog --no-merges -ns 4.3.0..HEAD