From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Guile 1.6.5 has been released. Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:47:44 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87mzz19hvj.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096998579 30997 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 17:49:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 19:49:22 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEtRB-0001L6-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:49:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtXo-0003nZ-S8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtXi-0003n4-F0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtXh-0003md-JU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEtXh-0003ma-HB; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:56:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CEtQz-0007br-Vp; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:49:10 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04323FC9; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:49:08 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 15BC9410A1; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:47:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: gnu-announce@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4211 gmane.lisp.guile.user:3512 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4211 We are pleased to announce the availability of a new Guile release. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.6 stable series. You can find it here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.5.tar.gz. Guile is Project GNU's extension language library, an interpreter for Scheme, packaged as a library that you can link into your applications to give them their own scripting language. Guile should eventually support other languages as well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages. This is primarily a bugfix release. Highlights include: - Various architecture (and compiler optimization) related bugs have been fixed: these changes should improve the situation on at least ia64, arm, m68k, alpha, and powerpc. - SRFI-31 has been added (special form `rec' for recursive evaluation). Try (use-modules (srfi srfi-31)). - SRFI-39 has been added (parameter objects) - SRFI-19 has been fixed: date-week-number now correctly respects the requested day of week starting the week. - SRFI-4 has been overhauled. Bugs have been fixed, and performance may be improved in certain situations. Among other things, large values in 64-bit homogeneous vectors should print correctly now. - In the srfi-1 module's delete and delete! functions, the order of the arguments to the "=" procedure now matches the SRFI-1 specification. - Bugs have been fixed that prevented the (re)generation of psyntax.pp. - The use of scm_must_realloc() for memory which is scanned by GC could trigger a GC scan of a free()d block of memory. This has been fixed. - array-map! and array-map-in-order! now require at least one source array. Previously a call without any source arrays like (array-map! array proc) would cause a segfault. Now such calls are properly rejected. - gethost no longer causes an exception when trying to throw an exception. - call-with-output-string won't segv on a closed port. Now an exception is raised. - open-pipe, open-input-pipe and open-output-pipe used to leave an extra copy of their pipe file descriptor in the child, which was normally harmless, but could prevent the parent seeing eof or a broken pipe immediately. This has been fixed. - Properties set with set-source-properties! can now be read back correctly with source-properties. - Guile is now compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing when gcc is detected. - The --enable-htmldoc option has been removed from 'configure', because support for translating the documentation into HTML is now always provided. Use 'make html'. The Guile WWW page is located at http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ It contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists, among other things. Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.6.*. The next stable Guile release with significant functional improvements will be version 1.8.0. In between 1.6.x and 1.8.x, you can follow Guile development in CVS and in the Guile mailing lists (see ANON-CVS and HACKING). Guile builds from the development branch of CVS will have version number 1.7.0. Guile versions with an odd middle number, i.e. 1.5.* are unstable development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions. This has been the case since the 1.3.* series. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel