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 Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes.  -*- text -*-
-Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
@@ -46,13 +46,51 @@ in backtraces.
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
-** New function provided?
+** The function `dynamic-link' now takes optional keyword arguments.
+   The only keyword argument that is currently defined is `:global
+   BOOL'.  With it, you can control whether the shared library will be
+   linked in global mode or not.  In global mode, the symbols from the
+   linked library can be used to resolve references from other
+   dynamically linked libraries.  In non-global mode, the linked
+   library is essentially invisible and can only be accessed via
+   `dynamic-func', etc.  The default is now to link in global mode.
+   Previously, the default has been non-global mode.
+
+   The `#:global' keyword is only effective on platforms that support
+   the dlopen family of functions.
+
+** New function `provided?'
 
  - Function: provided? FEATURE
      Return true iff FEATURE is supported by this installation of
      Guile.  FEATURE must be a symbol naming a feature; the global
      variable `*features*' is a list of available features.
 
+** Changes to the module (ice-9 expect):
+
+*** The expect-strings macro now matches `$' in a regular expression
+    only at a line-break or end-of-file by default.  Previously it would
+    match the end of the string accumulated so far. The old behaviour
+    can be obtained by setting the variable `expect-strings-exec-flags'
+    to 0.
+
+*** The expect-strings macro now uses a variable `expect-strings-exec-flags'
+    for the regexp-exec flags.  If `regexp/noteol' is included, then `$'
+    in a regular expression will still match before a line-break or
+    end-of-file.  The default is `regexp/noteol'.
+
+*** The expect-strings macro now uses a variable 
+    `expect-strings-compile-flags' for the flags to be supplied to
+    `make-regexp'.  The default is `regexp/newline', which was previously
+    hard-coded.
+
+*** The expect macro now supplies two arguments to a match procedure:
+    the current accumulated string and a flag to indicate whether
+    end-of-file has been reached.  Previously only the string was supplied.
+    If end-of-file is reached, the match procedure will be called an
+    additional time with the same accumulated string as the previous call
+    but with the flag set.
+
 ** New module (ice-9 format), implementing the Common Lisp `format' function.
 
 This code, and the documentation for it that appears here, was
@@ -908,6 +946,13 @@ forms instead of the result of the last body form.  In contrast to
 Read/write command line history from/to file.  Returns #t on success
 and #f if an error occured.
 
+** `ls' and `lls' in module (ice-9 ls) now handle no arguments.
+
+These procedures return a list of definitions available in the specified
+argument, a relative module reference.  In the case of no argument,
+`(current-module)' is now consulted for definitions to return, instead
+of simply returning #f, the former behavior.
+
 * Changes to the gh_ interface
 
 ** gh_scm2doubles