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+Changes in 1.9.0:
+
+* New modules (see the manual for details)
+
+** The `(ice-9 i18n)' module provides internationalization support
* Changes to the distribution
+
+** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid
+
* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
-* Changes to the C interface
+
+** A new 'memoize-symbol evaluator trap has been added. This trap can
+be used for efficiently implementing a Scheme code coverage.
+
+** Duplicate bindings among used modules are resolved lazily.
+This slightly improves program startup times.
+
+** New thread cancellation and thread cleanup API
+See `cancel-thread', `set-thread-cleanup!', and `thread-cleanup'.
+
+* Changes to the C interface
+
+** Functions for handling `scm_option' now no longer require an argument
+indicating length of the `scm_t_option' array.
+
\f
-Changes in 1.9.XXXXXXXX:
+Changes in 1.8.4 (since 1.8.3)
+
+* Bugs fixed
+
+** CR (ASCII 0x0d) is (again) recognized as a token delimiter by the reader
+** Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when displaying the
+backtrace of a stack with a promise object (made by `delay') in it.
+** Make `accept' leave guile mode while blocking
+** `scm_c_read ()' and `scm_c_write ()' now type-check their port argument
+** Fixed a build problem on AIX (use of func_data identifier)
+** Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when hashx-ref or hashx-set! was
+called with an associator proc that returns neither a pair nor #f.
+** Secondary threads now always return a valid module for (current-module).
+** Avoid MacOS build problems caused by incorrect combination of "64"
+system and library calls.
+** Fixed build with Sun Studio (Solaris 9)
+** Fixed wrong-type-arg errors when creating zero length SRFI-4
+uniform vectors on AIX.
+** Fixed a deadlock that occurs upon GC with multiple threads.
+** Fixed compile problem with GCC on Solaris and AIX (use of _Complex_I)
+
+* New modules (see the manual for details)
+
+** `(srfi srfi-69)'
* Changes to the distribution
-* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
-* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
-* Changes to the C interface
+
+** Corrected a few files that referred incorrectly to the old GPL + special exception licence
+
+In fact Guile since 1.8.0 has been licensed with the GNU Lesser
+General Public License, and the few incorrect files have now been
+fixed to agree with the rest of the Guile distribution.
+
+** Removed unnecessary extra copies of COPYING*
+
+The distribution now contains a single COPYING.LESSER at its top level.
+
+\f
+Changes in 1.8.3 (since 1.8.2)
+
+* New modules (see the manual for details)
+
+** `(srfi srfi-35)'
+** `(srfi srfi-37)'
+
+* Bugs fixed
+
+** The `(ice-9 slib)' module now works as expected
+** Expressions like "(set! 'x #t)" no longer yield a crash
+** Warnings about duplicate bindings now go to stderr
+** A memory leak in `make-socket-address' was fixed
+** Alignment issues (e.g., on SPARC) in network routines were fixed
+** A threading issue that showed up at least on NetBSD was fixed
+** Build problems on Solaris and IRIX fixed
+
+* Implementation improvements
+
+** The reader is now faster, which reduces startup time
+** Procedures returned by `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' are faster
+
+
+\f
+Changes in 1.8.2 (since 1.8.1):
+
+* New procedures (see the manual for details)
+
+** set-program-arguments
+** make-vtable
+
+* Bugs fixed
+
+** Fractions were not `equal?' if stored in unreduced form.
+(A subtle problem, since printing a value reduced it, making it work.)
+** srfi-60 `copy-bit' failed on 64-bit systems
+** "guile --use-srfi" option at the REPL can replace core functions
+(Programs run with that option were ok, but in the interactive REPL
+the core bindings got priority, preventing SRFI replacements or
+extensions.)
+** `regexp-exec' doesn't abort() on #\nul in the input or bad flags arg
+** `kill' on mingw throws an error for a PID other than oneself
+** Procedure names are attached to procedure-with-setters
+** Array read syntax works with negative lower bound
+** `array-in-bounds?' fix if an array has different lower bounds on each index
+** `*' returns exact 0 for "(* inexact 0)"
+This follows what it always did for "(* 0 inexact)".
+** SRFI-19: Value returned by `(current-time time-process)' was incorrect
+** SRFI-19: `date->julian-day' did not account for timezone offset
+** `ttyname' no longer crashes when passed a non-tty argument
+** `inet-ntop' no longer crashes on SPARC when passed an `AF_INET' address
+** Small memory leaks have been fixed in `make-fluid' and `add-history'
+** GOOPS: Fixed a bug in `method-more-specific?'
+** Build problems on Solaris fixed
+** Build problems on HP-UX IA64 fixed
+** Build problems on MinGW fixed
\f
Changes in 1.8.1 (since 1.8.0):
-* Changes to the distribution
+* LFS functions are now used to access 64-bit files on 32-bit systems.
-** New primitive-_exit giving the _exit() system call.
+* New procedures (see the manual for details)
-* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
+** primitive-_exit - [Scheme] the-root-module
+** scm_primitive__exit - [C]
+** make-completion-function - [Scheme] (ice-9 readline)
+** scm_c_locale_stringn_to_number - [C]
+** scm_srfi1_append_reverse [C]
+** scm_srfi1_append_reverse_x [C]
+** scm_log - [C]
+** scm_log10 - [C]
+** scm_exp - [C]
+** scm_sqrt - [C]
+
+* New `(ice-9 i18n)' module (see the manual for details)
+
+* Bugs fixed
+
+** Build problems have been fixed on MacOS, SunOS, and QNX.
+
+** `strftime' fix sign of %z timezone offset.
+
+** A one-dimensional array can now be 'equal?' to a vector.
-** A one-dimenisonal array can now be 'equal?' to a vector.
** Structures, records, and SRFI-9 records can now be compared with `equal?'.
-* Changes to the C interface
+** SRFI-14 standard char sets are recomputed upon a successful `setlocale'.
+
+** `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' now have strict type checks.
+
+Record accessor and modifier procedures now throw an error if the
+record type of the record they're given is not the type expected.
+(Previously accessors returned #f and modifiers silently did nothing).
+
+** It is now OK to use both autoload and use-modules on a given module.
+
+** `apply' checks the number of arguments more carefully on "0 or 1" funcs.
+
+Previously there was no checking on primatives like make-vector that
+accept "one or two" arguments. Now there is.
+
+** The srfi-1 assoc function now calls its equality predicate properly.
+
+Previously srfi-1 assoc would call the equality predicate with the key
+last. According to the SRFI, the key should be first.
+
+** A bug in n-par-for-each and n-for-each-par-map has been fixed.
+
+** The array-set! procedure no longer segfaults when given a bit vector.
+
+** Bugs in make-shared-array have been fixed.
+
+** string<? and friends now follow char<? etc order on 8-bit chars.
+
+** The format procedure now handles inf and nan values for ~f correctly.
+
+** exact->inexact should no longer overflow when given certain large fractions.
+
+** srfi-9 accessor and modifier procedures now have strict record type checks.
-** New function scm_c_locale_stringn_to_number.
+This matches the srfi-9 specification.
-* Bug fixes.
+** (ice-9 ftw) procedures won't ignore different files with same inode number.
-** array-set! with bit vector.
-** make-shared-array fixes, including examples in the manual which failed.
-** string<? and friends follow char<? etc order on 8-bit chars.
-** n-par-for-each, n-for-each-par-map for "futures" variable.
-** module autoload and explicit use-modules cooperate.
-** ice-9 format ~f with infs and nans.
-** exact->inexact overflows on fractions with big num/den but small result.
-** srfi-1 assoc "=" procedure argument order.
-** Build problems on MacOS, SunOS, QNX.
+Previously the (ice-9 ftw) procedures would ignore any file that had
+the same inode number as a file they had already seen, even if that
+file was on a different device.
\f
-Changes since the 1.6.x series:
+Changes in 1.8.0 (changes since the 1.6.x series):
* Changes to the distribution
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