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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2016-09-14 11:27:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2016-09-14 11:27:52 +0200 |
| commit | 6745b9b2bd579656ad8d44cc2488e2a3ff589bea (patch) | |
| tree | c5171f4b5d7e3494c89c7e7ffbdc238f2ab8ca60 /NEWS | |
| parent | 0290b0594a2fa40db0de87703efad47e8981e728 (diff) | |
Update NEWS.
* NEWS: Update.
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 42 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1996-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1996-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. @@ -9,13 +9,34 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. Changes in 2.1.4 (changes since the 2.1.3 alpha release): * Notable changes +** C99 required + +Following Emacs, you must use a C99-capable compiler when building +Guile. In the future we also expect require C99 to use Guile's C +interface, at least for `stdint' support. + * New interfaces +** Implement R6RS custom binary input/output ports + +See "Custom Ports" in the manual. ** Implement R6RS output-buffer-mode -** Implement R6RS custom binary input/output ports ** Implement R6RS bytevector->string, string->bytevector -* New deprecations +See "R6RS Transcoders" in the manual. + +** Thread-safe atomic boxes (references) + +See "Atomics" in the manual. + +** File descriptor finalizers + +See "Ports and File Descriptors" in the manual. + +* Performance improvements +** Added unboxing support for `logxor' +** Better integer unboxing + * Incompatible changes ** Statically scoped module duplicate handlers @@ -30,12 +51,27 @@ specifies #:duplicates, of course we use that. The handlers of the current module, instead of some global value. * Bug fixes +** Better MinGW support + +`system*' is now supported on MinGW targets. + +** Avoid flushing buffers on ftell + +Fixes regression relative to Guile 2.0. + +** HTTP library does not require ETag lists to be qstrings + ** Fix bug importing specific bindings with #:select It used to be that if #:select didn't find a binding in the public interface of a module, it would actually grovel in the module's unexported private bindings. This was not intended and is now fixed. +** Stronger thread-safety guarantees for port implementations + +See "I/O Extensions" in the manual for notes on threads and port +implementations. + ** Fix fixnum-range checks in R6RS fixnum bitops (http://bugs.gnu.org/14917) |