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+Changes in 1.9.0:
-* Changes to the distribution
-* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
-* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
-* Changes to the C interface
+* New modules (see the manual for details)
-\f
-Changes in 1.9.XXXXXXXX:
+** 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
-** A new 'memoize-symbol evaluator trap has been added. This trap can
+** 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.
+** Functions for handling `scm_option' now no longer require an argument
+indicating length of the `scm_t_option' array.
+
+
+\f
+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).
+
+* New modules (see the manual for details)
+
+** `(srfi srfi-69)'
+
+* Changes to the distribution
+
+** 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):