First version of the notes for 0.6.2.

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Scsh 0.6.1 Release notes -*- outline -*-
Scsh 0.6.2 Release notes -*- outline -*-
We are pleased to release scsh version 0.6.1. This release fixes most
of the known bugs of the previous version. Users of version 0.6.0 are
strongly encouraged to upgrade to the new version.
We are pleased to release scsh version 0.6.2. This release
incorporates many SRFIs into scsh. The enhanced module language of the
recent Scheme 48 releases is now part of scsh. In addition most of the
known bugs of the previous version have been fixed.
The text below gives a general description of scsh, instructions for obtaining
it, pointers to discussion forums, and a description of the new features in
release 0.6.1. (Emacs should display this document is in outline mode. Say
release 0.6.2. (Emacs should display this document is in outline mode. Say
c-h m for instructions on how to move through it by sections (e.g., c-c c-n,
c-c c-p).)
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New in this release
API changes
Bugfixes
New in 0.6.1
New in 0.6.0
Thanks
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We manage the project using SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scsh/
* New in this release
=====================
* New in 0.6.2
** API changes
In addition to SRFI 1, 8, 13, 14 and 23 scsh now features SRFI 2,
5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16, 17 and 19. See http://srfi.schemers.org/ for a
detailed description. The SRFIs are available in packages srfi-X
where X is the number of the SRFI.
New procedure port->socket to turn a port into a socket object was
added to the network code.
The module language supports the new forms modify, subset and
with-prefix from Scheme 48 version 0.57.
Fork, fork/pipe, fork/pipe+ take an optional argument
continue-threads? to determine whether all threads should continue
to run in the child.
** Bugfixes
- Added default argument to tty-info as described in the manual
- Conversion to s48_value in tty1.c
- Fixed another hygiene problem in SRE
- Plugged space leak in bind-listen-accept-loop
- Aligned CWD and umask in various file operations
- Better releasing of port locks
- Corrected exception of time
- Set-cloexec to #t for unrevealed ports.
- Include scsh paper in the distribution.
* New in 0.6.1
==============
** API changes
For sre's, BOW, EOW, WORD, and WORD+ (which were already unsupported
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Underground everywhere for bug reports, bug fixes, design review and comments
that were incorporated into this release. We really appreciate their help,
particularly in the task of porting scsh to new platforms.
Friedrich Dominicus
Jay Nietling
Tim Bradshaw
Robert Brown
Eric Marsden
Paul Emsley
Pawel Turnau
Hannu Koivisto
Andy Gaynor
Francisco Vides Fernandez
Tim Burgess
Brian Denheyer
Harvey Stein
Eric Hilsdale
Andreas Bernauer
Reini Urban
Peter Biber
Roland Weiss
Richard Günther
Dirk Staneker
Johannes Hirche
Brought to you by the Scheme Underground. Go forth and write elegant systems