Gauche

Various minor feature enhancements and bugfixes were made in this release. New features include Unicode case-mapping support, a utility for atomic execution, a convenient benchmarking utility, and a public API for C code generation routines. The Windows binary installer now comes as an MS installer file, generated by WiX.

This release adds many new features, including:
efficient records, an enhanced module mechanism with renaming and prefixing, extended formals for optional and keyword arguments, partial continuations, thread pools, better Windows support, JSON parsing, Blowfish password hashing, and more.

Major feature enhancements were made. Incompatible changes were made to the C API. The rfc.zlib and rfc.sha modules were added. The util.sparse module backs up sparse vectors with a space-efficient trie and hash-tables. The gauche.threads module has new procedures. The gauche.termios module provides a common high-level API for both POSIX and Windows. The gauche.net module provides low-level socket operations. Uninterned symbols are officially supported. A build problem on Mac OS X 10.6 was fixed. A precompiled binary installer for Windows is now available.

This is a maintenance release, including cumulative bugfixes and numerous small enhancements. Part of the VM has been rewritten for better performance and maintainability.

This is a maintenance release. Quite a few small bugfixes and tiny feature enhancements are included.