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+Changes in 2.0.8 (since 2.0.7):
+
+* TODO
+
+Reorder points in order of importance and make comprehensible
+
+Assemble thanks
+
+* Notable changes
+
+** guile.m4 allows selection of guile 2.0, 1.8, etc.
+
+Also GUILE_PKG; see "Autoconf Macros" in manual
+
+** more efficient scm_gcd of inums
+
+    Optimize and simplify fractions code.
+    
+    Simplify and improve scm_i_big2dbl
+    
+    Optimize logarithms
+
+    Reimplement 'inexact->exact' to avoid mpq functions.
+
+** mingw
+
+many, many bugs.
+
+remove special ifdefs, given gnulib
+
+windows file names handled correctly
+
+don't provide scm_std_select on mingw and similar platforms
+    
+If we do not have sys/select.h, don't provide scm_std_select,
+SELECT_TYPE, FD_SET, FD_ZERO, FD_ISSET, or FD_CLR.  Guile should not be
+setting these macros in public API.  This is an incompatible change on
+mingw, but oh well.
+
+** gnulib imports
+
+select, times, pipe-posix, fstat, getlogin, poll
+
+** optimize access to arrays of rank 1 or 2
+
+** peval improvements
+
+inlining of ((let ((_ 10)) (lambda () _)))
+
+inlining of ((lambda _ _))
+
+inlining of (apply (lambda _) 1 2 3 4)
+
+inlining of (call-with-values (lambda () (values 1 2)) (lambda _ _))
+
+** `include' relative paths relative to including file
+
+Local Inclusion
+
+** slib compatibility
+
+** warn on multithreaded fork
+
+** trace: limit length of "| | | "... prefix
+
+see docs for ",trace"
+
+** Update predefined character sets to Unicode 6.2
+
+* Manual updates
+
+** excise use of "iff" in the manual
+
+** Improve keyword notation of Texinfo function definitions.
+
+** arrays
+
+Document scm_array_type(), scm_array_ref(), array-length,
+scm_array_length(), scm_c_array_length().
+
+Fix wording of documentation for array-in-bounds?
+
+** better sxml docs
+
+"SXML" in manual
+
+** updates
+
+scm_new_smob instead of SCM_NEWSMOB / SCM_RETURN_NEWSMOB.
+procedural interface to vectors (scm_c_vector_ref et al).
+
+replace old foreign->bytevector and bytevector->foreign with the new
+procedure names using pointer.
+
+** an end to the generated-documentation experiment
+
+** document program-arguments-alist and program-lambda-list
+
+** update GOOPS class hierarchy diagram in web and pdf
+
+* New deprecations
+
+** (ice-9 mapping)
+
+** Deprecate generalized vector interface
+
+scm_generalized_vector_p, scm_generalized_vector_length,
+scm_generalized_vector_ref, scm_generalized_vector_set_x,
+scm_generalized_vector_to_list
+
+** deprecate SCM_CHAR_CODE_LIMIT and char-code-limit
+
+** deprecate http-get*
+
+The #:streaming? argument subsumes the functionality of http-get*.  Also
+deprecate #:extra-headers argument in favor of #:headers.
+
+* New interfaces
+
+** round-ash
+
+"Bitwise Operations"
+
+** GUILE_STACK_SIZE
+
+"Environment Variables"
+
+** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE
+
+"Environment Variables"
+
+** file names
+
+system-file-name-convention, file-name-separator?,
+absolute-file-name? file-name-separator-string
+
+missing docs
+
+** array-length
+
+Array Procedures
+
+** add hash-count for native tables
+
+Hash Tables
+
+** Add foreign types: ssize_t and ptrdiff_t.
+    
+Foreign Types
+
+** Add scm_from_ptrdiff_t and scm_to_ptrdiff_t.
+
+Integers
+
+** much more capable xml->sxml
+
+namespaces, processed entities, doctypes, literal strings... see
+"Reading and Writing XML"
+
+** add --language argument to guile
+
+needs docs
+
+** current-language is a parameter in boot-9
+
+Compiler Tower; repl, compile-and-load default to current language
+
+** add fluid->parameter
+
+Parameters in manual
+
+** add read-string and read-string! to (ice-9 rdelim)
+
+Line/Delimited in manual
+
+** http-head, http-post, http-put, http-delete, http-trace http-options
+
+"Web Client"
+
+** add bytevector->string and string->bytevector in new (ice-9 iconv) module
+
+"Representing Strings as Bytes"
+
+** add repl-option for customized print
+
+"REPL Commands" in the manual (,option print ...)
+
+** current-ssax-error-port is a parameter
+
+** %site-ccache-dir
+    
+"Installing Site Packages", "Build Config"
+
+* Build fixes
+
+** Use accessors instead of symbols deprecated in libgc 7.3.
+** Fix cross-compilation of `c-tokenize.o'.
+** tests: Avoid missing missing-prototype warning with <fenv.h> on glibc 2.17.
+** doc: Fix build with Texinfo 5.0.
+** GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 during build
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/12887)
+** if we have threads on windows, we have pthreads; inform bdw-gc of that
+
+* Bug fixes
+
+** allow for spurious wakeups from pthread_cond_wait
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/10641)
+** fix psyntax vs autoload
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/12202)
+** use chmod portably in (system base compile)
+** fix response-body-port for responses without content-length
+** allow case-lambda expressions with no clauses
+** Improve standards conformance of string->number.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/11887)
+** support calls and tail-calls with more than 255 formals
+** ,option evaluates its right-hand-side
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13076)
+** structs with tail arrays are not simple
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/12808)
+** Make `SCM_LONG_BIT' usable in preprocessor conditionals.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13848)
+** Fix thread-unsafe lazy initializations.
+** Allow the SMOB mark procedures to be called when libgc uses parallel markers.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13611)
+** Fix later-bindings-win logic in with-fluids.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13843)
+** Fix duplicate removal of with-fluids.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13838)
+** Support calling foreign functions of 10 arguments or more.
+** Let reverse! accept arbitrary types as second argument (new_tail)
+** Recognize the `x86_64.*-gnux32' triplet.
+** Check whether a triplet's OS part specifies an ABI.
+** Recognize mips64* as having 32-bit pointers by default.
+** remove language/glil/decompile-assembly.scm
+** random_state_of_last_resort doesn't rely on HAVE_POSIX
+** copy-file, load-objcode, mkstemp use O_BINARY
+** fix compilation of functions with more than 255 local variables.
+** Fix `getgroups' for when zero supplementary group IDs exist.
+** allow (define-macro name (lambda ...))
+** (texinfo): add a command-spec for @math{}.
+** (texinfo docbook): informaltable is a block element.
+** (texinfo plain-text): Pass @math{} through as-is.
+** (texinfo serialize): don't break words when wrapping
+** guild: Gracefully handle failures to install the locale.
+** Fix argument count for various format string escape sequences (in warning pass)
+** Fix source annotation bug in psyntax 'expand-body'.
+** ecmascript: Fix conversion to boolean for non-numbers.
+** fix try-module-autoload, which did not detect failure to find the file
+
+file not found vs failure to load module.
+
+** Many (oop goops save) fixes
+** http-get: don't shutdown write end of socket
+** Avoid signed integer overflow in scm_product
+** http: read-response-body always returns bytevector or #f (not EOF in one case)
+** web: Correctly detect "No route to host" conditions.
+** `system*': failure to execvp no longer leaks dangling processes
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13166)
+** More sensible case-lambda* dispatch
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/12929; see "Case-Lambda" in the manual)
+** Do not defer expansion of internal define-syntax forms.
+   (http://bugs.gnu.org/13509)
+
+
+
 Changes in 2.0.7 (since 2.0.6):
 
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