Congratz on the release ! It's very nice to see the continued involvement in Factor :) Jon
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 6:30 PM John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - > Confucius > > I’m very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.99! You can find download > links on the Factor website: > > https://factorcode.org > > This release is brought to you with over 4,100 commits by the following > individuals: > > Abtin Molavi, Ales Huzik, Alex null Maestas, Alexander Ilin, Alexandre > Rousseau, Aleksander Sabak, Arnaut Daniel, Ashish Kurmi, Benjamin Pollack, > Cat Stevens, Cecilia Knäbchen, Chris Double, Craig Allen, Dave Carlton, > David Flores, David Mindlin, Doug Coleman, Dusk Banks, Fred Alger, > Giftpflanze, Ikko Ashimine, Jack Lucas, John Benediktsson, Jon Harper, > Justin Hill, KUSUMOTO Norio, Keldan Chapman, Kevin Cope, Konrad Hinsen, > Kye > Shi, Mark Sweeney, Mohamed Akram, Nandeeka Nayak, Niklas Larsson, Raghu > Ranganathan, Rudi Grinberg, Samuel Tardieu, Sebastian Strobl, Sergii > Fesenko, Silvio Mayolo, Steve Ayerhart, Zoltán Kéri, @Capital-EX, > @inivekin, @mariari, @nicolas-p, @nomennescio, @timor > > Besides some bug fixes and library improvements, I want to highlight the > following changes: > > * Added a Guided Tour of Factor > * Upgraded to Unicode 15 > * The fixups vocabulary makes upgrading easier when words are renamed > * Windows binaries now include OpenSSL 3.1.2 and SQLite 3.42.0 for > convenience > * Re-added some support for FreeBSD > * Improved non-English text entry on macOS > * Removed support for 32-bit macOS > * File editors are now specified using EDITOR: syntax > * Switched to newer ucrtbase.dll on Windows > * Support disassembly using Capstone in addition to Udis86 > * String literals must be separated by whitespace — "hello"length and > "foo""bar"append are no longer accepted by the parser > * The fry and locals syntax words are now in syntax for use in all > vocabularies > * Any word can be referred to by it’s fully-qualified name (e.g., math:+ or > xml.writer:pprint-xml) > * The Emacs “FUEL” and VIM plugins have been updated > > Some possible backwards compatibility issues: > > * Moved colors.constants and colors.hex to colors vocabulary > * Merged io.binary.fast into io.binary > * Merged io.directories.{hierarchy,search} into io.directories > * Merged io.encodings.utf16n into io.encodings.utf16 > * Renamed math.ranges to ranges > * Renamed ranges words from [a,b] to [a..b] > * Changed FUNCTION: syntax to not require a semi-colon at the end > * Renamed exists? to file-exists? > * Renamed vector dot product from v. to vdot > * Renamed short to index-or-length > * Renamed various sorting words to be more simple > * Improved icons and other UI images on retina displays > * URL query strings only split on ampersand (?a=b&c=d) not semi-colon > (?a=b;c=d) > * Renamed some words in interval-sets to prefix interval-… > * Renamed contents to read-contents > * Renamed lines to read-lines > * Renamed selections to all-selections > * Renamed intersection to intersect-all > * Merged json.reader and json.writer into json vocabulary > * Merged bson.reader and bson.writer into bson vocabulary > * Moved talks to separate factor-talks repository > * Renamed ui.backend.gtk to ui.backend.gtk2 to prepare for newer GTK support > > For more details, please see the full announcement at: > > https://re.factorcode.org/2023/08/factor-0-99-now-available.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
