Slava, you accidentally left out extra/shufflers, though it's not
really important since it doesn't do much.

On 9/1/07, Slava Pestov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Factor 0.90 is now available from http://factorcode.org.
>
> Lots of changes:
>
> Core
> -  New module system. (Eduardo Cavazos)
> -  Tuple constructors are defined differently now.
> -  Mixin classes implemented; these are essentially extensible unions.
> -  New float-array data type implements a space-efficient sequence of
> floats.
> -  Moved <file-appender>, delete-file, make-directory, delete-
> directory words from libs/io into the core, and fixed them to work on
> more platforms.
> -  New host-name word.
> -  The directory word now outputs an array of pairs, with the second
> element of each pair indicating if that entry is a subdirectory. This
> saves an unnecessary stat call when traversing directory hierarchies,
> which speeds things up.
> -  IPv6 is now supported, along with Unix domain sockets (the latter
> on Unix systems only). The stack effects of <client> and <server>
> have changed, since they now take generic address specifiers; see
> Networking.
> -  The stage 2 bootstrap process is more flexible, and various
> subsystems such as help, tools and the UI can be omitted by supplying
> command line switches; see Command line switches for bootstrap.
> -  The -shell command line switch has been replaced by a -run command
> line switch; see Command line switches for general usage.
> -  Variable usage inference has been removed; the infer word no
> longer reports this information.
>
> Tools
> -  Stand-alone image deployment in tools.deploy vocabulary .
> -  Stand-alone application bundle deployment on Mac OS X in
> tools.deploy.app vocabulary.
> -  New vocabulary browser tool in the UI.
> -  New profiler tool in the UI.
>
> Extras
> Most existing libraries were improved when ported to the new module
> system; the most notable changes include:
> -  asn1: ASN1 parser and writer. (Elie Chaftari)
> -  benchmarks: new set of benchmarks.
> -  cfdg: Context-free design grammar implementation; see http://
> www.chriscoyne.com/cfdg/. (Eduardo Cavazos)
> -  cryptlib: Cryptlib library binding. (Elie Chaftari)
> -  cryptlib.streams: Streams which perform SSL encryption and
> decryption. (Matthew Willis)
> -  hints: Give type specialization hints to the compiler.
> -  inverse: Invertible computation and concatenative pattern
> matching. (Daniel Ehrenberg)
> -  ldap: OpenLDAP library binding. (Elie Chaftari)
> -  locals: Efficient lexically scoped locals, closures, and local words.
> -  mortar: Experimental message-passing object system. (Eduardo Cavazos)
> -  openssl: OpenSSL library binding. (Elie Chaftari)
> -  pack: Utility for reading and writing binary data. (Doug Coleman)
> -  pdf: Haru PDF library binding. (Elie Chaftari)
> -  qualified: Refer to words from another vocabulary without adding
> the entire vocabulary to the search path. (Daniel Ehrenberg)
> -  roman: Reading and writing Roman numerals. (Doug Coleman)
> -  scite: SciTE editor integration. (Clemens Hofreither)
> -  smtp: SMTP client with support for CRAM-MD5 authentication. (Elie
> Chaftari, Dirk Vleugels)
> -  tuple-arrays: Space-efficient packed tuple arrays. (Daniel Ehrenberg)
> -  unicode: major new functionality added. (Daniel Ehrenberg)
>
> A big thank you to all the contributors and testers who made this
> release possible.
>
> Slava
>
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