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-Version 0.9.6 released
-=================================
-
-.. container:: metadata
-
-  Posted by Andreas Rumpf on 19/10/2014
-
-**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to
-Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.**
-
-This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has
-the new features and exciting developments.
-
-
-Changes affecting backwards compatibility
------------------------------------------
-
-- ``spawn`` now uses an elaborate self-adapting thread pool and as such
-  has been moved into its own module. So to use it, you now have to import
-  ``threadpool``.
-- The symbol binding rules in generics changed: ``bar`` in ``foo.bar`` is
-  now considered for implicit early binding.
-- ``c2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
-- ``pas2nim`` moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
-- ``system.$`` for floating point types now produces a human friendly string
-  representation.
-- ``uri.TUrl`` as well as the ``parseurl`` module are now deprecated in favour
-  of the new ``TUri`` type in the ``uri`` module.
-- The ``destructor`` pragma has been deprecated. Use the ``override`` pragma
-  instead. The destructor's name has to be ``destroy`` now.
-- ``lambda`` is not a keyword anymore.
-- **system.defined has been split into system.defined and system.declared**.
-  You have to use ``--symbol`` to declare new conditional symbols that can be
-  set via ``--define``.
-- ``--threadanalysis:on`` is now the default. To make your program compile
-  you can disable it but this is only a temporary solution as this option
-  will disappear soon!
-
-
-Compiler improvements
----------------------
-
-- Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for
-  pathological cases.
-
-
-Language Additions
-------------------
-
-- This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used
-  to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames.
-- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data
-  flow variable of the wrapped return type.
-
-
-Library Additions
------------------
-
-- Added module ``cpuinfo``.
-- Added module ``threadpool``.
-- ``sequtils.distnct`` has been renamed to ``sequtils.deduplicate``.
-- Added ``algorithm.reversed``
-- Added ``uri.combine`` and ``uri.parseUri``.
-- Some sockets procedures now support a ``SafeDisconn`` flag which causes
-  them to handle disconnection errors and not raise them.