Re-add 0.6.0 release notes.

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* New in this release
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** API changes
For sre's, BOW, EOW, WORD, and WORD+ (which were already unsupported
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Most of the the known bugs of version 0.6.0 have been fixed. See the
project page on SourceForge for a list of the remaining known bugs.
* New in 0.6.0
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** Scsh is now based on Scheme 48 0.53
With the move from Scheme 48 version 0.36 to version 0.53 in this
release the underlying system received a massive update. The most
significant changes include:
User level threads
Advanced garbage collector
Improved foreign function interface to C
The most significant change for Scsh users is the addition of a
user-level thread system. Scsh provides various features to deal
with this new power in a system programming environment: An event
based interface to interrupts, thread local process state and
thread-safe system calls.
** A manual for Scheme 48 has been included
Richard Kelsey, the author of Scheme 48, has graciously allowed us
to retrofit the current Scheme 48 manual for inclusion in this scsh
release.
** Interfaces to dot-locking, crypt and syslog
Scsh now provides advisory file locking via the dot-locking scheme
and a direct binding to the crypt function. Furthermore we added
a complete, system-independent and thread-safe interface to syslog.
** API changes
Some features of the previous releases are currently not
supported as we did not have the time to implement them. Please tell
us, if you can't get along without them. Here is a listing of these
currently dereleased features:
select
select!
ODBC support
bufpol/line
The following procedures received new names in this release:
sleep (now process-sleep)
sleep-until (now process-sleep-until)
network-info, service-info and protocol-info now return #f on non-success.
The default directory for creating temporary files has changed: It's
now the value of $TMPDIR if set and /var/tmp otherwise.
The nth procedure is still there but is now officially obsolete. It
will go away in a future release.
** HTML version of the manual
There is now a HTML version of the scsh manual generated by tex2page
** Bugfixes
Most of the known bugs of version 0.5.3 have been fixed. See the
project page on SourceForge for a list of the remaining known bugs.
* Thanks
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