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Release 0.3.5

briantrice — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:17:50 +0000

Release 0.3.5 is now in the downloads area. This release’s focus has been on new features, fixes, and cleanups, including single-process event-loop concurrency with promises, a platform information/control plugin, online help for the REPL and Debugger, use of an extended define: form to replace the addPrototype:/addSlot: hassles, additional higher-order collection and stream manipulation facilities, slot-observer pattern support, and support for logical directory locations such as the home or current directory, resolved dynamically on use.

Release 0.3.4

briantrice — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:21:51 +0000

Release 0.3.4 is now in the downloads area. This release’s focus has been on new features, fixes, and cleanups, including some online help, improved portability and platform support, more powerful debugging, smarter allocation of delegation slots and code blocks, optimized argument-currying support, and protocol querying. Many new methods were added to numerics, strings, sequences, and streams. There is also now an extensible AutoLoader feature which transparently loads common features as they are first used.

Release 0.3.3

briantrice — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:22:35 +0000

Release 0.3.3 is now in the downloads area. This release’s focus has been on new features including improved cascading and macro semantics, support for startup and shutdown actions, persistent external connections over re-starts (for files, sockets, linked libraries), REPL control and history, SDL input handling and general improvements, structured file directory access, and support for additional datatypes and safety features.

Release 0.3.2

briantrice — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:24:11 +0000

Release 0.3.2 is now in the downloads area. This release’s focus has been on new features including improved dynamic C library access, smart console-based editing, UTF-16 encoding, socket access, and greater support for functional-style programming. There is also now greater control over inheritance issues, beyond basic multiple inheritance graph control.

Release 0.3.1

briantrice — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:25:20 +0000

Release 0.3.1 is now in the downloads area. It provides a number of important bug-fixes and minor features that should enhance usability. We urge anyone using the 0.3 release to begin using 0.3.1 instead.

Release 0.3: Bootstrap to self-hosted VM

briantrice — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:25:56 +0000

We are fully bootstrapped! The much-anticipated release 0.3 is out, featuring a tiny VM buildable with C-toolchain and many simple optimizations, and kernel images from which work can be done. Again, many bugs were fixed and libraries enhanced. See the downloads area and announcement for details.

Release 0.2.1

briantrice — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:29:11 +0000

Release 0.2.1 is out, in the usual place. This is a maintenance update, consisting of many bug-fixes and polishing of the libraries, as well as new work which is not yet complete towards 0.3. See downloads area and announcement for details.

Release 0.2

briantrice — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:29:56 +0000

Release 0.2 is official. See the downloads area for details. Source is provided, but no binaries. This release is the last major point release for Slate under Lisp. Full details are provided in the mailing list announcement.

Release 0.1

briantrice — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:31:23 +0000

Release 0.1 is official. We will provide it in the downloads area initially as a source-based archive. The latest snapshots will be available separately.