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NEWS

@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ array creation has been deprecated.  See the manual for more details.
 Some non-compatible changes have been made: 
  - characters can no longer be stored into byte arrays.
  - strings and bit vectors are no longer considered to be uniform vectors.
+ - array-rank throws an error for non-arrays instead of returning zero.
+ - array-ref does no longer accept non-arrays when no indices are given.
 
 There is the new notion of 'generalized vectors' and corresponding
 procedures like 'generalized-vector-ref'.  Generalized vectors include
@@ -827,16 +829,19 @@ Use scm_is_keyword and scm_keyword_to_symbol instead, but note that
 the latter returns the true name of the keyword, not the 'dash name',
 as SCM_KEYWORDSYM used to do.
 
-** The old uniform vector implementation has been unceremoniously
-   removed.
+** The old uniform vector and bitvector implementations have been
+   unceremoniously removed.
 
 This implementation exposed the detailes of the tagging system of
 Guile.  Use the new C API explained in the manual in node "Uniform
-Vectors".
+Numeric Vectors" and "Bit Vector", respectively.
 
 The following macros are gone: SCM_UVECTOR_BASE, SCM_SET_UVECTOR_BASE,
 SCM_UVECTOR_MAXLENGTH, SCM_UVECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_MAKE_UVECTOR_TAG,
-SCM_SET_UVECTOR_LENGTH.
+SCM_SET_UVECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_BITVECTOR_P, SCM_BITVECTOR_BASE,
+SCM_SET_BITVECTOR_BASE, SCM_BITVECTOR_MAX_LENGTH,
+SCM_BITVECTOR_LENGTH, SCM_MAKE_BITVECTOR_TAG,
+SCM_SET_BITVECTOR_LENGTH.
 
 ** SCM_CELL_WORD_LOC has been deprecated.
 

THANKS

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Contributors since the last release:
 	    Rob Browning
          Stefan Jahn
            Neil Jerram
+        Antoine Mathys
       Thien-Thi Nguyen
         Han-Wen Nienhuys
          Jose A Ortega Ruiz

ice-9/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+2004-12-22  Marius Vollmer  <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
+
+	* boot-9.scm (module-make-local-var!): When creating a new
+	variable, initialize it to the value of any imported variable with
+	the given name.  This allows code like (define round round) to
+	work as expected.
+
+        From Antoine Mathys <tonigonenstein@users.sourceforge.net>:
+
+	* popen.scm: Support bidirectional communication by making
+	open-pipe support OPEN_BOTH as second argument and in that case
+	return a soft input-output port which uses two pipes internally.
+	Provide open-pipe* to execute programs without using the shell
+	(and actually base open-pipe on it) and the obvious
+	open-input-output-pipe.
+
 2004-12-14  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>
 
 	* boot-9.scm: (string-any, string-every): Use a scheme wrapper around