1 We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.8.0. It can be
4 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
8 22462680feeda1e5400195c01dee666162503d66 guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
10 We already know about some issues with 1.8.0, please check the mailing
13 http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/mail/mail.html
15 The NEWS file is quite long. Here are the most interesting entries:
19 * Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License.
21 * The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License.
23 * We now use GNU MP for bignums.
25 * We now have exact rationals, such as 1/3.
27 * We now use native POSIX threads for real concurrent threads.
29 * There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile
30 from threads that have not been created by Guile.
32 * Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair. A recursive
33 mutex must be requested explicitly.
35 * The low-level thread API has been removed.
37 * There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and
38 mutation-sharing substrings.
40 * A new family of functions for converting between C values and
41 Scheme values has been added that is future-proof and thread-safe.
43 * The INUM macros like SCM_MAKINUM have been deprecated.
45 * The macros SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_LENGTH,
46 SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, and SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH have been deprecated.
48 * There is a new way to deal with non-local exits and re-entries in
49 C code, which is nicer than scm_internal_dynamic_wind.
51 * There are new malloc-like functions that work better than
54 * There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from
55 C that is efficient and thread-safe.
57 * The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation
58 barriers and dynamic states.
60 See NEWS and the manual for more details.