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Release20130715
===============

This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20130715.

== Changes since the last public release ==

// * New platforms.
// ** ???
* Compiler.
** Cosmetic improvements to type-error messages.
** Removed features:
*** Bytecode codegen: The bytecode codegen had not seen significant use and it was not well understood by any of the active developers.
*** Support for `.cm` files as input: The <:MLBasis:ML Basis system> provides much better infrastructure for "programming in the very large" than the (very) limited support for CM.  The `cm2mlb` tool (available in the source distribution) can be used to convert CM projects to MLB projects, preserving the CM scoping of module identifiers.
** Bug fixes: see <!RawGitFile(mlton,on-20130715-release,doc/changelog)>
* Runtime.
** Bug fixes: see <!RawGitFile(mlton,on-20130715-release,doc/changelog)>
* Language.
** Interpret `(*#line line:col "file" *)` directives as relative file names.
** <:MLBasisAnnotations:ML Basis annotations>.
*** Added: `resolveScope`
* Libraries.
** <:BasisLibrary:Basis Library>.
*** Improved performance of `String.concatWith`.
*** Use bit operations for `REAL.class` and other low-level operations.
*** Support additional variables with `Posix.ProcEnv.sysconf`.
*** Bug fixes: see <!RawGitFile(mlton,on-20130715-release,doc/changelog)>
** <:MLtonStructure:MLton structure>.
*** Removed: `MLton.Socket`
** Other libraries.
*** Updated: <:CKitLibrary:ckit library>, <:MLRISCLibrary:MLRISC library>, <:SMLNJLibrary:SML/NJ library>
*** Added: <:MLLPTLibrary:MLLPT library>
* Tools.
** `mllex`
*** Generate `(*#line line:col "file.lex" *)` directives with simple (relative) file names, rather than absolute paths.
** `mlyacc`
*** Generate `(*#line line:col "file.grm" *)` directives with simple (relative) file names, rather than absolute paths.
*** Fixed bug in comment-handling in lexer.

For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since
<:Release20100608:>, see the
<!RawGitFile(mlton,on-20130715-release,doc/changelog)> and
<:Bugs20100608:>.

== 20130715 binary packages ==

* AMD64 (aka "x86-64" or "x64")
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-macports.tgz[Darwin (.tgz)] 11.4 (Mac OS X Lion), dynamically linked against <:GnuMP:> in `/opt/local/lib` (suitable for http://macports.org[MacPorts] install of <:GnuMP:>)
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-darwin.gmp-static.tgz[Darwin (.tgz)] 11.4 (Mac OS X Lion), statically linked against <:GnuMP:> (but requires <:GnuMP:> for generated executables)
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-linux.tgz[Linux], glibc 2.15
// ** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.amd64-linux.static.tgz[Linux], statically linked
// ** Windows MinGW 32/64 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/MLton-20130715-1.exe[self-extracting] (28MB) or http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/MLton-20130715-1.msi[MSI] (61MB) installer
* X86
// ** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.x86-cygwin.tgz[Cygwin] 1.7.5
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.x86-linux.tgz[Linux], glibc 2.15
// ** http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715-1.x86-linux.static.tgz[Linux], statically linked
// ** Windows MinGW 32/64 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/MLton-20130715-1.exe[self-extracting] (28MB) or http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/MLton-20130715-1.msi[MSI] (61MB) installer

== 20130715 source packages ==

 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlton/files/mlton/20130715/mlton-20130715.src.tgz[mlton-20130715.src.tgz]

== Downstream packages ==

 * http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mlton&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all[Debian]
 * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mlton&stype=all[FreeBSD]
 * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mlton[Fedora]
 * http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=mlton[Ubuntu]

== Also see ==

* <:Bugs20130715:>
* http://www.mlton.org/guide/20130715/[MLton Guide (20130715)].
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