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-2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released
-==================================
-
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-  Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 09/02/2012
-
-Version 0.8.14 has been released!
-
-Bugfixes
---------
-
-- Fixed a serious memory corruption concerning message passing.
-- Fixed a serious bug concerning different instantiations of a generic proc.
-- Fixed a newly introduced bug where a wrong ``EIO`` exception was raised for
-  the end of file for text files that do not end with a newline.
-- Bugfix c2nim, c2pas: the ``--out`` option has never worked properly.
-- Bugfix: forwarding of generic procs never worked.
-- Some more bugfixes for macros and compile-time evaluation.
-- The GC now takes into account interior pointers on the stack which may be
-  introduced by aggressive C optimizers.
-- Nimrod's native allocator/GC now works on PowerPC.
-- Lots of other bugfixes: Too many to list them all.
-
-
-Changes affecting backwards compatibility
------------------------------------------
-
-- Removed deprecated ``os.AppendFileExt``, ``os.executeShellCommand``,
-  ``os.iterOverEnvironment``, ``os.pcDirectory``, ``os.pcLinkToDirectory``,
-  ``os.SplitPath``, ``os.extractDir``, ``os.SplitFilename``,
-  ``os.extractFileTrunk``, ``os.extractFileExt``, ``osproc.executeProcess``,
-  ``osproc.executeCommand``.
-- Removed deprecated ``parseopt.init``, ``parseopt.getRestOfCommandLine``.
-- Moved ``strutils.validEmailAddress`` to ``matchers.validEmailAddress``.
-- The pointer dereference operator ``^`` has been removed, so that ``^``
-  can now be a user-defined operator.
-- ``implies`` is no keyword anymore.
-- The ``is`` operator is now the ``of`` operator.
-- The ``is`` operator is now used to check type equivalence in generic code.
-- The ``pure`` pragma for procs has been renamed to ``noStackFrame``.
-- The threading API has been completely redesigned.
-- The ``unidecode`` module is now thread-safe and its interface has changed.
-- The ``bind`` expression is deprecated, use a ``bind`` declaration instead.
-- ``system.raiseHook`` is now split into ``system.localRaiseHook`` and
-  ``system.globalRaiseHook`` to distinguish between thread local and global
-  raise hooks.
-- Changed exception handling/error reporting for ``os.removeFile`` and
-  ``os.removeDir``.
-- The algorithm for searching and loading configuration files has been changed.
-- Operators now have diffent precedence rules: Assignment-like operators
-  (like ``*=``) are now special-cased.
-- The fields in ``TStream`` have been renamed to have an ``Impl`` suffix
-  because they should not be used directly anymore.
-  Wrapper procs have been created that should be used instead.
-- ``export`` is now a keyword.
-- ``assert`` is now implemented in pure Nimrod as a template; it's easy
-  to implement your own assertion templates with ``system.astToStr``.
-
-
-Language Additions
-------------------
-
-- Added new ``is`` and ``of`` operators.
-- The built-in type ``void`` can be used to denote the absence of any type.
-  This is useful in generic code.
-- Return types may be of the type ``var T`` to return an l-value.
-- The error pragma can now be used to mark symbols whose *usage* should trigger
-  a compile-time error.
-- There is a new ``discardable`` pragma that can be used to mark a routine
-  so that its result can be discarded implicitly.
-- Added a new ``noinit`` pragma to prevent automatic initialization to zero
-  of variables.
-- Constants can now have the type ``seq``.
-- There is a new user-definable syntactic construct ``a{i, ...}``
-  that has no semantics yet for built-in types and so can be overloaded to your
-  heart's content.
-- ``bind`` (used for symbol binding in templates and generics) is now a
-  declarative statement.
-- Nimrod now supports single assignment variables via the ``let`` statement.
-- Iterators named ``items`` and ``pairs`` are implicitly invoked when
-  an explicit iterator is missing.
-- The slice assignment ``a[i..j] = b`` where ``a`` is a sequence or string
-  now supports *splicing*.
-
-
-Compiler Additions
-------------------
-
-- The compiler can generate C++ code for easier interfacing with C++.
-- The compiler can generate Objective C code for easier interfacing with
-  Objective C.
-- The new pragmas ``importcpp`` and ``importobjc`` make interfacing with C++
-  and Objective C somewhat easier.
-- Added a new pragma ``incompleteStruct`` to deal with incomplete C struct
-  definitions.
-- Added a ``--nimcache:PATH`` configuration option for control over the output
-  directory for generated code.
-- The ``--genScript`` option now produces different compilation scripts
-  which do not contain absolute paths.
-- Added ``--cincludes:dir``, ``--clibdir:lib`` configuration options for
-  modifying the C compiler's header/library search path in cross-platform way.
-- Added ``--clib:lib`` configuration option for specifying additional
-  C libraries to be linked.
-- Added ``--mainmodule:file`` configuration options for specifying the main
-  project file. This is intended to be used in project configuration files to
-  allow commands like ``nimrod c`` or ``nimrod check`` to be executed anywhere
-  within the project's directory structure.
-- Added a ``--app:staticlib`` option for creating static libraries.
-- Added a ``--tlsEmulation:on|off`` switch for control over thread local
-  storage emulation.
-- The compiler and standard library now support a *taint mode*. Input strings
-  are declared with the ``TaintedString`` string type. If the taint
-  mode is turned on it is a distinct string type which helps to detect input
-  validation errors.
-- The compiler now supports the compilation cache via ``--symbolFiles:on``.
-  This potentially speeds up compilations by an order of magnitude, but is
-  still highly experimental!
-- Added ``--import:file`` and ``--include:file`` configuration options
-  for specifying modules that will be automatically imported/incluced.
-- ``nimrod i`` can now optionally be given a module to execute.
-- The compiler now performs a simple alias analysis to generate better code.
-- The compiler and ENDB now support *watchpoints*.
-- The compiler now supports proper compile time expressions of type ``bool``
-  for ``on|off`` switches in pragmas. In order to not break existing code,
-  ``on`` and ``off`` are now aliases for ``true`` and ``false`` and declared
-  in the system module.
-- The compiler finally supports **closures**. This is a preliminary
-  implementation, which does not yet support nestings deeper than 1 level
-  and still has many known bugs.
-
-
-Library Additions
------------------
-
-- Added ``system.allocShared``, ``system.allocShared0``,
-  ``system.deallocShared``, ``system.reallocShared``.
-- Slicing as implemented by the system module now supports *splicing*.
-- Added explicit channels for thread communication.
-- Added ``matchers`` module for email address etc. matching.
-- Added ``strutils.unindent``, ``strutils.countLines``,
-  ``strutils.replaceWord``.
-- Added ``system.slurp`` for easy resource embedding.
-- Added ``system.running`` for threads.
-- Added ``system.programResult``.
-- Added ``xmltree.innerText``.
-- Added ``os.isAbsolute``, ``os.dynLibFormat``, ``os.isRootDir``,
-  ``os.parentDirs``.
-- Added ``parseutils.interpolatedFragments``.
-- Added ``macros.treeRepr``, ``macros.lispRepr``, ``macros.dumpTree``,
-  ``macros.dumpLisp``, ``macros.parseExpr``, ``macros.parseStmt``,
-  ``macros.getAst``.
-- Added ``locks`` core module for more flexible locking support.
-- Added ``irc`` module.
-- Added ``ftpclient`` module.
-- Added ``memfiles`` module.
-- Added ``subexes`` module.
-- Added ``critbits`` module.
-- Added ``asyncio`` module.
-- Added ``actors`` module.
-- Added ``algorithm`` module for generic ``sort``, ``reverse`` etc. operations.
-- Added ``osproc.startCmd``, ``osproc.execCmdEx``.
-- The ``osproc`` module now uses ``posix_spawn`` instead of ``fork``
-  and ``exec`` on Posix systems. Define the symbol ``useFork`` to revert to
-  the old implementation.
-- Added ``intsets.assign``.
-- Added ``system.astToStr`` and ``system.rand``, ``system.doAssert``.
-- Added ``system.pairs`` for built-in types like arrays and strings.