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* Notable changes
-** New guile.m4
+** New guile.m4.
The `guile.m4' autoconf macros have been rewritten to use `guild' and
`pkg-config' instead of the deprecated `guile-config' (which itself
the version of Guile that they want to compile against. See "Autoconf
Macros" in the manual, for more information.
-** Better Windows support
+** Better Windows support.
Guile now correctly identifies absolute paths on Windows (MinGW), and
creates files on that platform according to its path conventions. See
should not be setting these macros in public API, so this interface was
removed on those plaforms (basically only MinGW).
-** Gnulib update
+** Gnulib update.
-Guile's copy of Gnulib was updated to XXX. The following modules were
-imported from Gnulib: select, times, pipe-posix, fstat, getlogin, and
-poll.
+Guile's copy of Gnulib was updated to v0.0-7865-ga828bb2. The following
+modules were imported from Gnulib: select, times, pipe-posix, fstat,
+getlogin, and poll.
-** Optimizations
+** New optimizations.
There were a number of improvements to the partial evaluator, allowing
-complete reduction of forms like:
+complete reduction of forms such as:
((let ((_ 10)) (lambda () _)))
((lambda _ _))
- (apply (lambda _) 1 2 3 4)
+ (apply (lambda _ _) 1 2 3 '(4))
(call-with-values (lambda () (values 1 2)) (lambda _ _))
A number (ahem) of numeric operations on have been made faster, among
them GCD and logarithms.
-Finally, `array-ref' and `array-set!' on arrays of rank 1 or 2 is now
-faster, because it avoids building a rest list.
+Finally, `array-ref', `array-set!' on arrays of rank 1 or 2 is now
+faster, because it avoids building a rest list. Similarly, the
+one-argument case of `array-for-each' and `array-map!' has been
+optimized, and `array-copy!' and `array-fill!' are faster.
-** `include' relative file names relative to including file
+** `include' resolves relative file names relative to including file.
Given a relative file name, `include' will look for it relative to the
directory of the including file. This harmonizes the behavior of
`include' with that of `load'.
-** SLIB compatibility restored
+** SLIB compatibility restored.
Guile 2.0.8 is now compatible with SLIB. You will have to use a
development version of SLIB, however, until a new version of SLIB is
released.
-** Better ,trace REPL command
+** Better ,trace REPL command.
Sometimes the ,trace output for nested function calls could overflow the
terminal width, which wasn't useful. Now there is a limit to the amount
of space the prefix will take. See the documentation for ",trace" for
more information.
-** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2
+** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2.
+
+** GMP 4.2 or later required
+
+Guile used to require GMP at least version 4.1 (released in May 2002),
+and now requires at least version 4.2 (released in March 2006).
* Manual updates
-** Better SXML documentation
+** Better SXML documentation.
The documentation for SXML modules was much improved, though there is
still far to go. See "SXML" in manual.
-** Style updates
+** Style updates.
Use of "iff" was replaced with standard English. Keyword arguments are
now documented consistently, along with their default values.
-** An end to the generated-documentation experiment
+** An end to the generated-documentation experiment.
When Guile 2.0 imported some modules from Guile-Lib, they came with a
system that generated documentation from docstrings and module
improving them manually over time, as is the case with SXML. Help is
appreciated.
-** New documentation
+** New documentation.
There is now documentation for `scm_array_type', and `scm_array_ref', as
well as for the new `array-length' / 'scm_c_array_length' /
* New deprecations
-** Deprecate generalized vector interface
+** Deprecate generalized vector interface.
The generalized vector interface, introduced in 1.8.0, is simply a
redundant, verbose interface to arrays of rank 1. `array-ref' and
`scm_generalized_vector_ref', `scm_generalized_vector_set_x', and
`scm_generalized_vector_to_list' are now deprecated.
-** Deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit
+** Deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit.
These constants were defined to 256, which is not the highest codepoint
supported by Guile. Given that they were useless and incorrect, they
have been deprecated.
-** Deprecate `http-get*'
+** Deprecate `http-get*'.
The new `#:streaming?' argument to `http-get' subsumes the functionality
-of `http-get*'. Also, the `#:extra-headers' argument is deprecated in
-favor of `#:headers'.
+of `http-get*' (introduced in 2.0.7). Also, the `#:extra-headers'
+argument is deprecated in favor of `#:headers'.
-** Deprecate (ice-9 mapping)
+** Deprecate (ice-9 mapping).
This module, present in Guile since 1996 but never used or documented,
has never worked in Guile 2.0. It has now been deprecated and will be
removed in Guile 2.2.
+** Deprecate undocumented array-related C functions.
+
+These are `scm_array_fill_int', `scm_ra_eqp', `scm_ra_lessp',
+`scm_ra_leqp', `scm_ra_grp', `scm_ra_greqp', `scm_ra_sum',
+`scm_ra_product', `scm_ra_difference', `scm_ra_divide', and
+`scm_array_identity'.
+
+
* New interfaces
-** round-ash
+** `round-ash', a bit-shifting operator that rounds on right-shift.
-"Bitwise Operations"
+See "Bitwise Operations".
-** GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+** New environment variables: `GUILE_STACK_SIZE', `GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE'.
-"Environment Variables"
+See "Environment Variables".
-** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+** New procedure `sendfile'.
-"Environment Variables"
+See "File System".
-** file names
+** New procedures for dealing with file names.
-system-file-name-convention, file-name-separator?,
-absolute-file-name? file-name-separator-string
+See "File System" for documentation on `system-file-name-convention',
+`file-name-separator?', `absolute-file-name?', and
+`file-name-separator-string'.
-missing docs
+** Escape continuations with `call/ec' and `let/ec'
-** array-length
+See "Prompt Primitives".
-Array Procedures
+** `array-length', an array's first dimension.
-** add hash-count for native tables
+See "Array Procedures".
-Hash Tables
+** `hash-count', for hash tables.
-** Add foreign types: ssize_t and ptrdiff_t.
-
-Foreign Types
+See "Hash Tables".
-** Add scm_from_ptrdiff_t and scm_to_ptrdiff_t.
+** New foreign types: `ssize_t', `ptrdiff_t'.
+
+See "Foreign Types".
-Integers
+** New C helpers: `scm_from_ptrdiff_t', `scm_to_ptrdiff_t'.
-** much more capable xml->sxml
+See "Integers".
-namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, literal strings... see
-"Reading and Writing XML"
+** Much more capable `xml->sxml'
-** add --language argument to guile
+See "Reading and Writing XML" for information on how the `xml->sxml'
+parser deals with namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, and literal
+strings. Incidentally, `current-ssax-error-port' is now a parameter
+object.
-needs docs
+** New command-line argument: `--language'.
-** current-language is a parameter in boot-9
+See "Command-line Options" in the manual.
-Compiler Tower; repl, compile-and-load default to current language
+** `current-language' in default environment.
-** add fluid->parameter
+Previously defined only in `(system base language)', `current-language'
+is now defined in the default environment, and is used to determine the
+language for the REPL, and for `compile-and-load'.
-Parameters in manual
+** New procedure: `fluid->parameter'
-** add read-string and read-string! to (ice-9 rdelim)
+See "Parameters", for information on how to convert a fluid to a
+parameter.
-Line/Delimited in manual
+** New procedures to read all characters from a port
-** http-head, http-post, http-put, http-delete, http-trace http-options
+See "Line/Delimited" in the manual for documentation on `read-string'
+ and `read-string!'.
-"Web Client"
+** New HTTP client procedures.
-** add bytevector->string and string->bytevector in new (ice-9 iconv) module
+See "Web Client" for documentation on the new `http-head', `http-post',
+`http-put', `http-delete', `http-trace', and `http-options' procedures,
+and also for more options to `http-get'.
-"Representing Strings as Bytes"
+** New procedures for converting strings to and from bytevectors.
-** add repl-option for customized print
+See "Representing Strings as Bytes" for documention on the new `(ice-9
+iconv)' module and its `bytevector->string' and `string->bytevector'
+procedures.
-"REPL Commands" in the manual (,option print ...)
+** New `print' REPL option.
-** current-ssax-error-port is a parameter
+See "REPL Commands" in the manual for information on the new
+user-customizable REPL printer.
-** %site-ccache-dir
+** New variable: %site-ccache-dir.
-"Installing Site Packages", "Build Config"
+The "Installing Site Packages" and "Build Config" manual sections now
+refer to this variable to describe where users should install their
+`.go' files.
* Build fixes
** Fix cross-compilation of `c-tokenize.o'.
** Fix warning when compiling against glibc 2.17.
** Fix documentation build against Texinfo 5.0.
-** Fix building Guile from a directory with non-ASCII characters
-** Fix native MinGW build
-** Fix MinGW builds with networking, POSIX, and thread support
+** Fix building Guile from a directory with non-ASCII characters.
+** Fix native MinGW build.
+** Fix --disable-posix build.
+** Fix MinGW builds with networking, POSIX, and thread support.
* Bug fixes
-** warn on multithreaded fork
-
-** allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait
+** SRFI-37: Fix infinite loop when parsing optional-argument short options
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13176)
+** web: Support non-GMT date headers in the HTTP client
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13544)
+** Avoid stack overflows with `par-map' and nested futures in general
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13188)
+** A fork when multiple threads are running will now print a warning.
+** Allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/10641)
-** fix psyntax vs autoload
+** Warn and ignore module autoload failures.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/12202)
-** use chmod portably in (system base compile)
-** fix response-body-port for responses without content-length
-** allow case-lambda expressions with no clauses
+** Use chmod portably in (system base compile).
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/10474)
+** Fix response-body-port for HTTP responses without content-length.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13857)
+** Allow case-lambda expressions with no clauses.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/9776)
** Improve standards conformance of string->number.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/11887)
-** support calls and tail-calls with more than 255 formals
-** ,option evaluates its right-hand-side
+** Support calls and tail-calls with more than 255 formals.
+** ,option evaluates its right-hand-side.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13076)
-** structs with tail arrays are not simple
+** Structs with tail arrays are not simple.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/12808)
** Make `SCM_LONG_BIT' usable in preprocessor conditionals.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13848)
** Fix thread-unsafe lazy initializations.
-** Allow the SMOB mark procedures to be called when libgc uses parallel markers.
+** Allow SMOB mark procedures to be called from parallel markers.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13611)
** Fix later-bindings-win logic in with-fluids.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13843)
** Fix duplicate removal of with-fluids.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13838)
** Support calling foreign functions of 10 arguments or more.
-** Let reverse! accept arbitrary types as second argument (new_tail)
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13809)
+** Let reverse! accept arbitrary types as second argument.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13835)
** Recognize the `x86_64.*-gnux32' triplet.
** Check whether a triplet's OS part specifies an ABI.
** Recognize mips64* as having 32-bit pointers by default.
-** remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm
-** random_state_of_last_resort doesn't rely on HAVE_POSIX
-** copy-file, load-objcode, mkstemp use O_BINARY
-** fix compilation of functions with more than 255 local variables.
+** Remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/10622)
+** Use O_BINARY in `copy-file', `load-objcode', `mkstemp'.
+** Fix compilation of functions with more than 255 local variables.
** Fix `getgroups' for when zero supplementary group IDs exist.
-** allow (define-macro name (lambda ...))
-** (texinfo): add a command-spec for @math{}.
-** (texinfo docbook): informaltable is a block element.
-** (texinfo plain-text): Pass @math{} through as-is.
-** (texinfo serialize): don't break words when wrapping
+** Allow (define-macro name (lambda ...)).
+** Various fixes to the (texinfo) modules.
** guild: Gracefully handle failures to install the locale.
-** Fix argument count for various format string escape sequences (in warning pass)
+** Fix format string warnings for ~!, ~|, ~/, ~q, ~Q, and ~^.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13485)
** Fix source annotation bug in psyntax 'expand-body'.
-** ecmascript: Fix conversion to boolean for non-numbers.
-** fix try-module-autoload, which did not detect failure to find the file
-
-file not found vs failure to load module.
-
-** Many (oop goops save) fixes
-** http-get: don't shutdown write end of socket
-** Avoid signed integer overflow in scm_product
-** http: read-response-body always returns bytevector or #f (not EOF in one case)
+** Ecmascript: Fix conversion to boolean for non-numbers.
+** A failure to find a module's file does not prevent future loading.
+** Many (oop goops save) fixes.
+** `http-get': don't shutdown write end of socket.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13095)
+** Avoid signed integer overflow in scm_product.
+** http: read-response-body always returns bytevector or #f, never EOF.
** web: Correctly detect "No route to host" conditions.
** `system*': failure to execvp no longer leaks dangling processes
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13166)
** More sensible case-lambda* dispatch
- (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929; see "Case-Lambda" in the manual)
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929)
** Do not defer expansion of internal define-syntax forms.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13509)
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