ANNOUNCE

GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.8
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This is a point release to the ninth official release of the GNUstep
Objective-C runtime (a.k.a.  libobjc2).  This runtime was designed to support
the features of modern dialects of Objective-C for use with GNUstep and other
Objective-C programs.  Highlights of this release include:

- Added API for tracing, allowing interposition on all message sends matching a
  given selector.

You may obtain the code for this release from subversion at the following
subversion branch:

svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/releases/1.8

Alternatively, a tarball is available from:

http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.8.txz
http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.8.tar.bz2
http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.8.tgz

The runtime library is responsible for implementing the core features of the
object model, as well as exposing introspection features to the user.  The
GNUstep runtime implements Apple's Objective-C Runtime APIs, and a small number
of GCC APIs for legacy compatibility.

This library is based on the Étoilé Objective-C Runtime, an earlier research
prototype, and includes support for non-fragile instance variables,
type-dependent dispatch, and object planes.  It is fully backwards compatible
with the FSF's GCC 4.2.1 Objective-C ABI and also implements a new ABI that is
supported by Clang and Étoilé's LanguageKit and is required for some of the
newer features.

If you come across any problems, please report them to the GNUstep Developer
mailing list <gnustep-dev@gnu.org>.