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-Changes in 2.0.8 (since 2.0.7):
+Changes in 2.0.11 (since 2.0.10):
-* TODO
+This release fixes an embarrassing regression introduced in the C
+interface to SRFI-4 vectors. See
+<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-03/msg00047.html>
+for details.
-Reorder points in order of importance and make comprehensible
-
-Assemble thanks
+\f
+Changes in 2.0.10 (since 2.0.9):
* Notable changes
-** guile.m4 allows selection of guile 2.0, 1.8, etc.
+** New GDB extension to support Guile
-Also GUILE_PKG; see "Autoconf Macros" in manual
+Guile now comes with an extension for GDB 7.8 or later (unreleased at
+the time of writing) that simplifies debugging of C code that uses
+Guile. See "GDB Support" in the manual.
-** more efficient scm_gcd of inums
+** Improved integration between R6RS and native Guile exceptions
- Optimize and simplify fractions code.
-
- Simplify and improve scm_i_big2dbl
-
- Optimize logarithms
+R6RS exception handlers, established using 'with-exception-handler' or
+'guard', are now able to catch native Guile exceptions, which are
+automatically converted into appropriate R6RS condition objects.
- Reimplement 'inexact->exact' to avoid mpq functions.
+** Support for HTTP proxies
-** mingw
+Guile's built-in web client now honors the 'http_proxy' environment
+variable, as well as the new 'current-http-proxy' parameter. See
+"Web Client" in the manual for details.
-many, many bugs.
+** Lexical syntax improvements
-remove special ifdefs, given gnulib
+*** Support |...| symbol notation.
-windows file names handled correctly
+Guile's core reader and printer now support the R7RS |...| notation
+for writing symbols with arbitrary characters, as a more portable and
+attractive alternative to Guile's native #{...}# notation. To enable
+this notation by default, put one or both of the following in your
+~/.guile:
-don't provide scm_std_select on mingw and similar platforms
-
-If we do not have sys/select.h, don't provide scm_std_select,
-SELECT_TYPE, FD_SET, FD_ZERO, FD_ISSET, or FD_CLR. Guile should not be
-setting these macros in public API. This is an incompatible change on
-mingw, but oh well.
+ (read-enable 'r7rs-symbols)
+ (print-enable 'r7rs-symbols)
-** gnulib imports
+*** Support '#true' and '#false' notation for booleans.
-select, times, pipe-posix, fstat, getlogin, poll
+The booleans '#t' and '#f' may now be written as '#true' and '#false'
+for improved readability, per R7RS.
-** optimize access to arrays of rank 1 or 2
+*** Recognize '#\escape' character name.
-** peval improvements
+The escape character '#\esc' may now be written as '#\escape', per R7RS.
-inlining of ((let ((_ 10)) (lambda () _)))
+*** Accept "\|" in string literals.
-inlining of ((lambda _ _))
+The pipe character may now be preceded by a backslash, per R7RS.
-inlining of (apply (lambda _) 1 2 3 4)
+** Custom binary input ports now support 'setvbuf'.
-inlining of (call-with-values (lambda () (values 1 2)) (lambda _ _))
+Until now, ports returned by 'make-custom-binary-input-port' were always
+full-buffered. Now, their buffering mode can be changed using 'setvbuf'.
-** `include' relative paths relative to including file
+** SRFI-4 predicates and length accessors no longer accept arrays.
-Local Inclusion
+Given that the SRFI-4 accessors don't work for arrays, the fact that the
+predicates and length accessors returned true for arrays was a bug.
-** slib compatibility
+** GUILE_PROGS now supports specifying a minimum required version.
-** warn on multithreaded fork
+The 'GUILE_PROGS' autoconf macro in guile.m4 now allows an optional
+argument to specify a minimum required Guile version. By default, it
+requires Guile >= 2.0. A micro version can also be specified, e.g.:
+GUILE_PROGS([2.0.10])
-** trace: limit length of "| | | "... prefix
+** Error reporting improvements
-see docs for ",trace"
+*** Improved run-time error reporting in (ice-9 match).
-** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2
+If no pattern matches in a 'match' form, the datum that failed to match
+is printed along with the location of the failed 'match' invocation.
-* Manual updates
+*** Print the faulty object upon invalid-keyword errors.
+*** Improved error reporting of procedures defined by define-inlinable.
+*** Improved error reporting for misplaced ellipses in macro definitions.
+*** Improved error checking in 'define-public' and 'module-add!'.
+*** Improved error when 'include' form with relative path is not in a file.
+
+** Speed improvements
+
+*** 'scm_c_read' on ISO-8859-1 (e.g. binary) unbuffered ports is faster.
+*** New inline asm for VM fixnum multiply, for faster overflow checking.
+*** New inline asm for VM fixnum operations on ARM and 32-bit x86.
+*** 'positive?' and 'negative?' are now compiled to VM primitives.
+*** Numerical comparisons with more than 2 arguments are compiled to VM code.
+*** Several R6RS bitwise operators have been optimized.
+
+** Miscellaneous
+
+*** Web: 'content-disposition' headers are now supported.
+*** Web: 'uri-encode' hexadecimal percent-encoding is now uppercase.
+*** Size argument to 'make-doubly-weak-hash-table' is now optional.
+*** Timeout for 'unlock-mutex' and SRFI-18 'mutex-unlock!' may now be #f.
+
+** Gnulib update
+
+Guile's copy of Gnulib was updated to v0.1-92-g546ff82. The following
+modules were imported from Gnulib: copysign, fsync, isfinite, link,
+lstat, mkdir, mkstemp, readlink, rename, rmdir, and unistd.
+
+* New interfaces
+
+** Cooperative REPL servers
+
+This new facility supports REPLs that run at specified times within an
+existing thread, for example in programs utilizing an event loop or in
+single-threaded programs. This allows for safe access and mutation of
+a program's data structures from the REPL without concern for thread
+synchronization. See "Cooperative REPL Servers" in the manual for
+details.
+
+** SRFI-43 (Vector Library)
+
+Guile now includes SRFI-43, a comprehensive library of vector operations
+analogous to the SRFI-1 list library. See "SRFI-43" in the manual for
+details.
+
+** SRFI-64 (A Scheme API for test suites)
-** excise use of "iff" in the manual
+Guile now includes SRFI-64, a flexible framework for creating test
+suites. The reference implementation of SRFI-64 has also been updated
+to fully support earlier versions of Guile.
-** Improve keyword notation of Texinfo function definitions.
+** SRFI-111 (Boxes)
-** arrays
+See "SRFI-111" in the manual.
-Document scm_array_type(), scm_array_ref(), array-length,
-scm_array_length(), scm_c_array_length().
+** 'define-values'
-Fix wording of documentation for array-in-bounds?
+See "Binding multiple return values" in the manual.
-** better sxml docs
+** Custom ellipsis identifiers using 'with-ellipsis' or SRFI-46.
-"SXML" in manual
+Guile now allows macro definitions to use identifiers other than '...'
+as the ellipsis. This is convenient when writing macros that generate
+macro definitions. The desired ellipsis identifier can be given as the
+first operand to 'syntax-rules', as specified in SRFI-46 and R7RS, or by
+using the new 'with-ellipsis' special form in procedural macros. With
+this addition, Guile now fully supports SRFI-46.
-** updates
+See "Specifying a Custom Ellipsis Identifier" and "Custom Ellipsis
+Identifiers for syntax-case Macros" in the manual for details.
-scm_new_smob instead of SCM_NEWSMOB / SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB.
-procedural interface to vectors (scm_c_vector_ref et al).
+** R7RS 'syntax-error'
-replace old foreign->bytevector and bytevector->foreign with the new
-procedure names using pointer.
+Guile now supports 'syntax-error', as specified by R7RS, allowing for
+improved compile-time error reporting from 'syntax-rules' macros. See
+"Reporting Syntax Errors in Macros" in the manual for details.
-** an end to the generated-documentation experiment
+** New procedures to convert association lists into hash tables
-** document program-arguments-alist and program-lambda-list
+Guile now includes the convenience procedures 'alist->hash-table',
+'alist->hashq-table', 'alist->hashv-table', and 'alist->hashx-table'.
+See "Hash Table Reference" in the manual.
-** update GOOPS class hierarchy diagram in web and pdf
+** New predicates: 'exact-integer?' and 'scm_is_exact_integer'
+
+See "Integers" in the manual.
+
+** 'weak-vector-length', 'weak-vector-ref', and 'weak-vector-set!'
+
+These should now be used to access weak vectors, instead of
+'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!'.
+
+* Manual updates
+
+** Improve docs for 'eval-when'.
+
+Each 'eval-when' condition is now explained in detail, including
+'expand' which was previously undocumented. (expand load eval) is now
+the recommended set of conditions, instead of (compile load eval).
+See "Eval When" in the manual, for details.
+
+** Update the section on SMOBs and memory management.
+
+See "Defining New Types (Smobs)" in the manual.
+
+** Fixes
+
+*** GOOPS: #:dsupers is the init keyword for the dsupers slot.
+*** 'unfold-right' takes a tail, not a tail generator.
+*** Clarify that 'append!' and 'reverse!' might not mutate.
+*** Fix doc that incorrectly claimed (integer? +inf.0) => #t.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16356)
+*** Document that we support SRFI-62 (S-expression comments).
+*** Document that we support SRFI-87 (=> in case clauses).
+*** Document 'equal?' in the list of R6RS incompatibilities.
+*** Remove outdated documentation of LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH.
+*** Fix 'weak-vector?' doc: Weak hash tables are not weak vectors.
+*** Fix 'my-or' examples to use let-bound variable.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14203)
* New deprecations
-** (ice-9 mapping)
+** General 'uniform-vector' interface
+
+This interface lacked both generality and specificity. The general
+replacements are 'array-length', 'array-ref', and friends on the scheme
+side, and the array handle interface on the C side. On the specific
+side of things, there are the specific bytevector, SRFI-4, and bitvector
+interfaces.
+
+** Use of the vector interface on arrays
+** 'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!' on weak vectors
+** 'vector-length', 'vector-ref', and 'vector-set!' as primitive-generics
+
+Making the vector interface operate only on a single representation will
+allow future versions of Guile to compile loops involving vectors to
+more efficient native code.
+
+** 'htons', 'htonl', 'ntohs', 'ntohl'
+
+These procedures, like their C counterpart, were used to convert numbers
+to/from network byte order, typically in conjunction with the
+now-deprecated uniform vector API.
+
+This functionality is now covered by the bytevector and binary I/O APIs.
+See "Interpreting Bytevector Contents as Integers" in the manual.
+
+** 'gc-live-object-stats'
+
+It hasn't worked in the whole 2.0 series. There is no replacement,
+unfortunately.
+
+** 'scm_c_program_source'
+
+This internal VM function was not meant to be public. Use
+'scm_procedure_source' instead.
+
+* Build fixes
+
+** Fix build with Clang 3.4.
+
+** MinGW build fixes
+*** Do not add $(EXEEXT) to guild or guile-tools.
+*** tests: Use double quotes around shell arguments, for Windows.
+*** tests: Don't rely on $TMPDIR and /tmp on Windows.
+*** tests: Skip FFI tests that use `qsort' when it's not accessible.
+*** tests: Remove symlink only when it exists.
+*** tests: Don't rely on `scm_call_2' being visible.
+
+** Fix computation of LIBLOBJS so dependencies work properly.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14193)
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+** Web: Fix web client with methods other than GET.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15908)
+** Web: Add Content-Length header for empty bodies.
+** Web: Accept "UTC" as the zone offset in date headers.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14128)
+** Web: Don't throw if a response is longer than its Content-Length says.
+** Web: Write out HTTP Basic auth headers correctly.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14370)
+** Web: Always print a path component in 'write-request-line'.
+** Fix 'define-public' from (ice-9 curried-definitions).
+** psyntax: toplevel variable definitions discard previous syntactic binding.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/11988)
+** Fix thread-unsafe lazy initializations.
+** Make (ice-9 popen) thread-safe.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15683)
+** Make guardians thread-safe.
+** Make regexp_exec thread-safe.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14404)
+** vm: Gracefully handle stack overflows.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15065)
+** Fix 'rationalize'.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14905)
+** Fix inline asm for VM fixnum operations on x32.
+** Fix 'SCM_SYSCALL' to really swallow EINTR.
+** Hide EINTR returns from 'accept'.
+** SRFI-19: Update the table of leap seconds.
+** Add missing files to the test-suite Makefile.
+** Make sure 'ftw' allows directory traversal when running as root.
+** Fix 'hash-for-each' for weak hash tables.
+** SRFI-18: Export 'current-thread'.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16890)
+** Fix inlining of tail list to apply.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15533)
+** Fix bug in remqueue in threads.c when removing last element.
+** Fix build when '>>' on negative integers is not arithmetic.
+** Fix 'bitwise-bit-count' for negative arguments.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14864)
+** Fix VM 'ash' for right shifts by large amounts.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14864)
+** Fix rounding in scm_i_divide2double for negative arguments.
+** Avoid lossy conversion from inum to double in numerical comparisons.
+** Fix numerical comparison of fractions to infinities.
+** Allow fl+ and fl* to accept zero arguments.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14869)
+** flonum? returns false for complex number objects.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14866)
+** flfinite? applied to a NaN returns false.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14868)
+** Flonum operations always return flonums.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14871)
+** min and max: NaNs beat infinities, per R6RS errata.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14865)
+** Fix 'fxbit-count' for negative arguments.
+** 'gcd' and 'lcm' support inexact integer arguments.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14870)
+** Fix R6RS 'fixnum-width'.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14879)
+** tests: Use shell constructs that /bin/sh on Solaris 10 can understand.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14042)
+** Fix display of symbols containing backslashes.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15033)
+** Fix truncated-print for uniform vectors.
+** Define `AF_UNIX' only when Unix-domain sockets are supported.
+** Decompiler: fix handling of empty 'case-lambda' expressions.
+** Fix handling of signed zeroes and infinities in 'numerator' and 'denominator'.
+** dereference-pointer: check for null pointer.
+** Optimizer: Numerical comparisons are not negatable, for correct NaN handling.
+** Compiler: Evaluate '-' and '/' in left-to-right order.
+ (for more robust floating-point arithmetic)
+** snarf.h: Declare static const function name vars as SCM_UNUSED.
+** chars.c: Remove duplicate 'const' specifiers.
+** Modify SCM_UNPACK type check to avoid warnings in clang.
+** Arrange so that 'file-encoding' does not truncate the encoding name.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16463)
+** Improve error checking in bytevector->uint-list and bytevector->sint-list.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15100)
+** Fix (ash -1 SCM_I_FIXNUM_BIT-1) to return a fixnum instead of a bignum.
+** i18n: Fix null pointer dereference when locale info is missing.
+** Fix 'string-copy!' to work properly with overlapping src/dest.
+** Fix hashing of vectors to run in bounded time.
+** 'port-position' works on CBIPs that do not support 'set-port-position!'.
+** Custom binary input ports sanity-check the return value of 'read!'.
+** bdw-gc.h: Check SCM_USE_PTHREAD_THREADS using #if not #ifdef.
+** REPL Server: Don't establish a SIGINT handler.
+** REPL Server: Redirect warnings to client socket.
+** REPL Server: Improve robustness of 'stop-server-and-clients!'.
+** Add srfi-16, srfi-30, srfi-46, srfi-62, srfi-87 to %cond-expand-features.
+** Fix trap handlers to handle applicable structs.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15691)
+** Fix optional end argument in `uniform-vector-read!'.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15370)
+** Fix brainfuck->scheme compiler.
+** texinfo: Fix newline preservation in @example with lines beginning with @
+
+** C standards conformance improvements
+
+Improvements and bug fixes were made to the C part of Guile's run-time
+support (libguile).
+
+*** Don't use the identifier 'noreturn'.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/15798)
+*** Rewrite SCM_I_INUM to avoid unspecified behavior when not using GNU C.
+*** Improve fallback implemention of SCM_SRS to avoid unspecified behavior.
+*** SRFI-60: Reimplement 'rotate-bit-field' on inums to be more portable.
+*** Improve compliance with C standards regarding signed integer shifts.
+*** Avoid signed overflow in random.c.
+*** VM: Avoid signed overflows in 'add1' and 'sub1'.
+*** VM: Avoid overflow in ASM_ADD when the result is most-positive-fixnum.
+*** read: Avoid signed integer overflow in 'read_decimal_integer'.
+
+
+\f
+Changes in 2.0.9 (since 2.0.7):
+
+Note: 2.0.8 was a brown paper bag release that was never announced, but
+some mirrors may have picked it up. Please do not use it.
+
+* Notable changes
+
+** New keyword arguments for procedures that open files
+
+The following procedures that open files now support keyword arguments
+to request binary I/O or to specify the character encoding for text
+files: `open-file', `open-input-file', `open-output-file',
+`call-with-input-file', `call-with-output-file', `with-input-from-file',
+`with-output-to-file', and `with-error-to-file'.
+
+It is also now possible to specify whether Guile should scan files for
+Emacs-style coding declarations. This scan was done by default in
+versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.7, but now must be explicitly requested.
+
+See "File Ports" in the manual for details.
+
+** Rewritten guile.m4
+
+The `guile.m4' autoconf macros have been rewritten to use `guild' and
+`pkg-config' instead of the deprecated `guile-config' (which itself
+calls pkg-config).
+
+There is also a new macro, `GUILE_PKG', which allows packages to select
+the version of Guile that they want to compile against. See "Autoconf
+Macros" in the manual, for more information.
+
+** Better Windows support
+
+Guile now correctly identifies absolute paths on Windows (MinGW), and
+creates files on that platform according to its path conventions. See
+"File System" in the manual, for all details.
+
+In addition, the new Gnulib imports provide `select' and `poll' on
+Windows builds.
+
+As an incompatible change, systems that are missing <sys/select.h> were
+previously provided a public `scm_std_select' C function that defined a
+version of `select', but unhappily it also provided its own incompatible
+definitions for FD_SET, FD_ZERO, and other system interfaces. Guile
+should not be setting these macros in public API, so this interface was
+removed on those plaforms (basically only MinGW).
+
+** Numerics improvements
+
+`number->string' now reliably outputs enough digits to produce the same
+number when read back in. Previously, it mishandled subnormal numbers
+(printing them as "#.#"), and failed to distinguish between some
+distinct inexact numbers, e.g. 1.0 and (+ 1.0 (expt 2.0 -52)). These
+problems had far-reaching implications, since the compiler uses
+`number->string' to serialize numeric constants into .go files.
+
+`sqrt' now produces exact rational results when possible, and handles
+very large or very small numbers more robustly.
+
+A number (ahem) of operations involving exact rationals have been
+optimized, most notably `integer-expt' and `expt'.
+
+`exact->inexact' now performs correct IEEE rounding.
+
+** New optimizations
+
+There were a number of improvements to the partial evaluator, allowing
+complete reduction of forms such as:
+
+ ((let ((_ 10)) (lambda () _)))
+
+ ((lambda _ _))
+
+ (apply (lambda _ _) 1 2 3 '(4))
+
+ (call-with-values (lambda () (values 1 2)) (lambda _ _))
+
+`string-join' now handles huge lists efficiently.
+
+`get-bytevector-some' now uses buffered input, which is much faster.
+
+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.
+
+** `peek-char' no longer consumes EOF
+
+As required by the R5RS, if `peek-char' returns EOF, then the next read
+will also return EOF. Previously `peek-char' would consume the EOF.
+This makes a difference for terminal devices where it is possible to
+read past an EOF.
+
+** Gnulib update
+
+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, poll, and c-strcase.
+
+** `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
+
+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
+
+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.
+
+** Better docstring syntax supported for `case-lambda'
+
+Docstrings can now be placed immediately after the `case-lambda' or
+`case-lambda*' keyword. See "Case-lambda" in the manual.
+
+** Improved handling of Unicode byte order marks
+
+See "BOM Handling" in the manual for details.
+
+** 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
+
+The documentation for SXML modules was much improved, though there is
+still far to go. See "SXML" in manual.
+
+** 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
+
+When Guile 2.0 imported some modules from Guile-Lib, they came with a
+system that generated documentation from docstrings and module
+commentaries. This produced terrible documentation. We finally bit the
+bullet and incorporated these modules into the main text, and will be
+improving them manually over time, as is the case with SXML. Help is
+appreciated.
+
+** 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' /
+`scm_array_length' functions. `array-in-bounds?' has better
+documentation as well. The `program-arguments-alist' and
+`program-lambda-list' functions are now documented, as well as `and=>',
+`exit', and `quit'. The (system repl server) module is now documented
+(see REPL Servers). Finally, the GOOPS class hierarchy diagram has been
+regenerated for the web and print output formats.
+
+* New deprecations
** Deprecate generalized vector interface
-scm_generalized_vector_p, scm_generalized_vector_length,
-scm_generalized_vector_ref, scm_generalized_vector_set_x,
-scm_generalized_vector_to_list
+The generalized vector interface, introduced in 1.8.0, is simply a
+redundant, verbose interface to arrays of rank 1. `array-ref' and
+similar functions are entirely sufficient. Thus,
+`scm_generalized_vector_p', `scm_generalized_vector_length',
+`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
+
+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*'
+
+The new `#:streaming?' argument to `http-get' subsumes the functionality
+of `http-get*' (introduced in 2.0.7). Also, the `#:extra-headers'
+argument is deprecated in favor of `#:headers'.
-** deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit
+** Deprecate (ice-9 mapping)
-** deprecate http-get*
+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.
-The #:streaming? argument subsumes the functionality of http-get*. Also
-deprecate #:extra-headers argument in favor of #:headers.
+** 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
+** SRFI-41 Streams
+
+See "SRFI-41" in the manual.
-"Bitwise Operations"
+** SRFI-45 exports `promise?'
-** GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+SRFI-45 now exports a `promise?' procedure that works with its promises.
+Also, its promises now print more nicely.
-"Environment Variables"
+** New HTTP client procedures
-** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+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'.
-"Environment Variables"
+** Much more capable `xml->sxml'
-** file names
+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.
-system-file-name-convention, file-name-separator?,
-absolute-file-name? file-name-separator-string
+** New procedures for converting strings to and from bytevectors
-missing docs
+See "Representing Strings as Bytes" for documention on the new `(ice-9
+iconv)' module and its `bytevector->string' and `string->bytevector'
+procedures.
-** array-length
+** Escape continuations with `call/ec' and `let/ec'
-Array Procedures
+See "Prompt Primitives".
-** add hash-count for native tables
+** New procedures to read all characters from a port
-Hash Tables
+See "Line/Delimited" in the manual for documentation on `read-string'
+ and `read-string!'.
-** Add foreign types: ssize_t and ptrdiff_t.
-
-Foreign Types
+** New procedure `sendfile'
+
+See "File System".
+
+** New procedure `unget-bytevector'
+
+See "R6RS Binary Input".
+
+** New C helper: `scm_c_bind_keyword_arguments'
-** Add scm_from_ptrdiff_t and scm_to_ptrdiff_t.
+See "Keyword Procedures".
-Integers
+** New command-line arguments: `--language' and `-C'
-** much more capable xml->sxml
+See "Command-line Options" in the manual.
-namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, literal strings... see
-"Reading and Writing XML"
+** New environment variables: `GUILE_STACK_SIZE', `GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE'
-** add --language argument to guile
+See "Environment Variables".
-needs docs
+** New procedures for dealing with file names
-** current-language is a parameter in boot-9
+See "File System" for documentation on `system-file-name-convention',
+`file-name-separator?', `absolute-file-name?', and
+`file-name-separator-string'.
-Compiler Tower; repl, compile-and-load default to current language
+** `array-length', an array's first dimension
-** add fluid->parameter
+See "Array Procedures".
-Parameters in manual
+** `hash-count', for hash tables
-** add read-string and read-string! to (ice-9 rdelim)
+See "Hash Tables".
-Line/Delimited in manual
+** `round-ash', a bit-shifting operator that rounds on right-shift
-** http-head, http-post, http-put, http-delete, http-trace http-options
+See "Bitwise Operations".
-"Web Client"
+** New foreign types: `ssize_t', `ptrdiff_t'
+
+See "Foreign Types".
+
+** New C helpers: `scm_from_ptrdiff_t', `scm_to_ptrdiff_t'
+
+See "Integers".
+
+** Socket option `SO_REUSEPORT' now available from Scheme
-** add bytevector->string and string->bytevector in new (ice-9 iconv) module
+If supported on the platform, `SO_REUSEPORT' is now available from
+Scheme as well. See "Network Sockets and Communication".
-"Representing Strings as Bytes"
+** `current-language' in default environment
-** add repl-option for customized print
+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'.
-"REPL Commands" in the manual (,option print ...)
+** New procedure: `fluid->parameter'
-** current-ssax-error-port is a parameter
+See "Parameters", for information on how to convert a fluid to a
+parameter.
-** %site-ccache-dir
+** New `print' REPL option
+
+See "REPL Commands" in the manual for information on the new
+user-customizable REPL printer.
+
+** 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
-** Use accessors instead of symbols deprecated in libgc 7.3.
+** Fix compilation against libgc 7.3.
** Fix cross-compilation of `c-tokenize.o'.
-** tests: Avoid missing missing-prototype warning with <fenv.h> on glibc 2.17.
-** doc: Fix build with Texinfo 5.0.
-** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 during build
- (http://bugs.gnu.org/12887)
-** if we have threads on windows, we have pthreads; inform bdw-gc of that
+** 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 --disable-posix build.
+** Fix MinGW builds with networking, POSIX, and thread support.
* Bug fixes
-** allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait
+** Fix inexact number printer.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13757)
+** Fix infinite loop when parsing optional-argument short options (SRFI-37).
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13176)
+** web: Support non-GMT date headers in the HTTP client.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13544)
+** web: support IP-literal (IPv6 address) in Host header.
+** Avoid stack overflows with `par-map' and nested futures in general.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/13188)
+** Peek-char no longer consumes EOF.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/12216)
+** Avoid swallowing multiple EOFs in R6RS binary-input procedures.
+** 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.
+** Use portable sed constructs.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/14042)
+** Remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/10622)
+** Use O_BINARY in `copy-file', `load-objcode', `mkstemp'.
+** Use byte-oriented functions in `get-bytevector*'.
+** Fix abort when iconv swallows BOM from UTF-16 or UTF-32 stream.
+** 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.
+** Use case-insensitive comparisons for encoding names.
+** Add missing cond-expand feature identifiers.
+** 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
+** `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)
+** More sensible case-lambda* dispatch.
+ (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929)
** Do not defer expansion of internal define-syntax forms.
(http://bugs.gnu.org/13509)
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