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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.
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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
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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)