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diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index b956386fb..fa1c532e8 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -12,11 +12,15 @@ The Nimrod development community is proud to announce the release of version considered beta quality! Lots of new features have been implemented but most do not fullfill our quality standards.** +This release can be downloaded from `github <https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod>`_. +Prebuilt binaries will be available soon. + This release includes about 1300 changes in total including various bug fixes, new languages features and standard library additions and improvements. This release brings with it support for user-defined type classes, a brand new VM for executing Nimrod code at compile-time and new symbol binding rules for clean templates. + It also introduces support for the brand new `Babel package manager <https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel>`_ which has itself seen its first release recently. Many of the wrappers that were @@ -117,6 +121,8 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility of sockets given to it. - The ``noStackFrame`` pragma has been renamed to ``asmNoStackFrame`` to ensure you only use it when you know what you're doing. +- Many of the wrappers that were present in the standard library have been + moved to separate repositories and should now be installed using Babel. Compiler Additions @@ -140,7 +146,6 @@ Compiler Additions - Arrays can be annotated to be ``unchecked`` for easier low level manipulations of memory. - Support for the new Babel package manager. -- Added support for builtin ``spawn`` for easy thread pool usage. Language Additions @@ -162,6 +167,7 @@ Language Additions of an outer proc. - The experimental ``strongSpaces`` parsing mode has been implemented. - You can annotate pointer types with regions for increased type safety. +- Added support for the builtin ``spawn`` for easy thread pool usage. Tools improvements |