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@vyzo vyzo released this 27 Feb 16:53
· 2496 commits to master since this release
v0.12
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This is a big release, with over 1500 commits, which brings many new features, libraries and fixes.
It requires Gambit v4.8.9.

Release highlights:

  • gxpkg: the Gerbil package manager has arrived, and with it gerbil.pkg for implicit package declarations.
  • gxtags: emacs TAGS for Gerbil sources.
  • gxprof: the gerbil profiler
  • there is an fast embedded http server in the stdlib.
  • there is a pure Gerbil PostgreSQL driver and the MySQL driver is now threaded.
  • the generics library has been rewritten to do type-based dispatch with a polymorphic cache.
  • the actor RPC subsystem has been rewritten for greatly improved performance and syncing for streams.
  • there is a extensive support for programming with raw devices and sockets.
  • there is a network repl.
  • std/misc has been populated with a zoo of utility libraries.

For the full details refer to the ChangeLog

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