We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.8.8. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.
Note that development effort is currently spent on the 1.9 unstable series, which will lead to the 2.0 stable series within a couple of months. The 1.9 series provides many new noteworthy features, most notably the addition of a compiler and virtual machine. Users are encouraged to test it and provide feedback to `[email protected]'. The Guile web page is located at http://gnu.org/software/guile/, and among other things, it contains a link to the Guile FAQ and pointers to the mailing lists. Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments. In addition to implementing the R5RS Scheme standard, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls, networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function call interface, and powerful string processing. Guile can run interactively or as a script interpreter, and is also packaged as a library so that applications can easily incorporate a complete Scheme interpreter. An application can use Guile as an extension language, a clean and powerful configuration language, or as multi-purpose "glue" to connect primitives provided by the application. It is easy to call Scheme code from C code and vice versa. Applications can add new functions, data types, control structures, and even syntax to Guile, to create a domain-specific language tailored to the task at hand. Here are the compressed sources: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz (3.8MB) Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz.sig To reduce load on the main server, use a mirror listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 18661a8fdfef13e2fcb7651720aa53f3 guile-1.8.8.tar.gz 548d6927aeda332b117f8fc5e4e82c39a05704f9 guile-1.8.8.tar.gz [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify guile-1.8.8.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys EA52ECF4 and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.68 Automake 1.11.1 Libtool 2.4 This is a bugfix release. Here are the highlights, taken from the `NEWS' file: * Bugs fixed ** Fix possible buffer overruns when parsing numbers ** Fix random number generator on 64-bit platforms Previously the `scm_c_random' function would crash or return only 32-bit worth of randomness. In addition, the new `scm_c_random64' function explicitly returns 64 bits of randomness. ** Add missing range checks in `vector-move-left!' and `vector-move-right!' Previously these procedures could write past the end of a vector. ** Avoid clash with system setjmp/longjmp on IA64 ** Don't dynamically link an extension that is already registered ** Fix `wrong type arg' exceptions with IPv6 addresses ** Fix typos in `(srfi srfi-19)' ** Have `(srfi srfi-35)' provide named struct vtables ** Fix C documentation extraction ("snarfing") with recent GCC versions ** Fix some Interix build problems ** Fix Tru64 build problems ** Fix GC-related build issues on Solaris 10 x86 with Sun Studio 12 ** Several small documentation fixes Any bugs found in this release will be addressed by further bugfix releases numbered 1.8.*. You can follow Guile development in the Git repository and on the Guile mailing lists. Guile builds from the `master' branch of Git have version number 1.9.x and will eventually lead to the 2.0 stable series. Guile versions with an odd middle number, e.g., 1.9.*, are unstable development versions. Even middle numbers indicate stable versions. This has been the case since the 1.3.* series. Please report bugs through the Savannah bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=guile Alternatively, bug reports can be sent to `[email protected]'. We also welcome reports of successful builds, which can be sent to the same email address. Ludovic Courtès, on behalf of the Guile team.
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