v2.0.0

Highlights

• Complete rewrite in modern C++17 — still a single header, same public API
• Removed the legacy C parser (malloc/fgets/char buffers) and C API (ini_parse*, ini_handler, INI_* macros)
• Zero-copy parsing with std::string_view; numeric conversion via std::from_chars (auto-fallback on older compilers)

Performance (GCC 13, -O2)

• Parse: 2.2× faster
• Get<int> / Get<std::string>: ~100× faster (old version copied the whole section map on every call)
• GetVector<double>: ~20× faster
• Peak memory: +8%

Changes

• No more 2000-char line limit or 49-char section name truncation
• Breaking: C API removed; duplicate keys with empty first value now throw
• Fixed: uninitialized _error on default construction; UpdateEntry no longer creates empty entries on failure
• Tests: 13 → 27 (BOM, CRLF, comment rules, error messages, numeric edge cases, FILE* ctor, writer overwrite)
• Verified on GCC 7.5–13, Clang 17, MSVC 2019+
• Docs: API reference added to README; doxygen docs regenerated warning-free; CI bumped to checkout@v4

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v2.0.0

What's Changed

• fix: suppress unused variable by @SSARCandy in #23
• Allow optionally overwriting to an ini file by @NotAFreak in #24

New Contributors

• @NotAFreak made their first contribution in #24

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

• With the new INIReader::InsertEntry() and INIReader::UpdateEntry(), it is easy to modify the content of a reader.
• Introduce to new INIWriter, which can dump reader's content to an .ini file.

• feat: make key case sensitive.
• fix: header guard bug.