More compilation fixes with Sun CC (bug #21378).

[bpt/guile.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.  Note that you
@@ -26,11 +26,52 @@ 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 1.8.4 (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.
+
+* 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)
 
@@ -46,7 +87,8 @@ Changes in 1.8.3 (since 1.8.2)
 ** 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
-** Build problems on Solaris fixed
+** A threading issue that showed up at least on NetBSD was fixed
+** Build problems on Solaris and IRIX fixed
 
 * Implementation improvements