| | 1 | We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.7.2. This is a |
| | 2 | 'technology preview' for the upcoming Guile 1.8. It can be found |
| | 3 | here: |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.7.2.tar.gz |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | Its MD5 checksum is |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | 7fabb64198993e971f65a27846202388 guile-1.7.2.tar.gz |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | This version is guaranteed to contain serious bugs, and the publically |
| | 12 | visible interfaces will almost certainly change before 1.8 is |
| | 13 | released. The 1.7 releases might be termed "selected snapshots". |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | Specifically, libguile has not yet been reviewed for thread-safeness. |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | We are releasing it anyway to start testing the new features, and to |
| | 18 | get feedback about how well Guile actually behaves in a multi-threaded |
| | 19 | setting. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | The shared library major versions have been bumped compared to the 1.6 |
| | 22 | series, but they will not be bumped on binary incompatible changes |
| | 23 | within the 1.7 series. |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | The NEWS file is quite long. Here are the most interesting entries: |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | Changes since 1.7.1: |
| | 29 | |
| | 30 | * There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile |
| | 31 | from threads that have not been created by Guile. |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | * Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair. A recursive |
| | 34 | mutex must be requested explicitely. |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | * The low-level thread API has been removed. |
| | 37 | |
| | 38 | * There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from |
| | 39 | C that is efficient and thread-safe. |
| | 40 | |
| | 41 | * The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation |
| | 42 | barriers and dynamic states. |
| | 43 | |
| | 44 | See NEWS and the manual for more details. |
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