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Arena 0.9.13 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: bug fixes, and a Markov chain example program.

Arena 0.9.12 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: changes to the system() library function to return the raw exit code of the invoked program.

Arena 0.9.11 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: support for retrieving the original function name from a function value.

Arena 0.9.10 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: documentation updates, more flexible functions for handling strings stored in memory resources, and support for calling external C functions that expect arguments of type float.

Arena 0.9.9 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: a new is_null library function, new example scripts, documentation improvements, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Arena 0.9.8 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes bugfixes and documentation improvements.

Arena 0.9.7 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax and core, also offering automated memory management, runtime polymorphism, exceptions, and anonymous functions.

This release includes: support for testing function values for equality; the addition of the memcpy, memmove, memcmp, memchr, and memset functions to the library; plus bugfixes.

Arena 0.9.6 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes the addition of a realloc() function, and allows for the use of 'resource' as a function return type.

Arena 0.9.5 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes: improved support for calling external C functions, a fix for division-by-zero handling, plus other changes.

Arena 0.9.4 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes: PCRE support, changes to the handling of fatal errors, plus fixes and other changes.

Arena 0.9.3 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes: a resource datatype for representing operating system resources, improved memory management for arrays, initial support for dynamically loading and calling into C libraries, plus other changes.

Arena 0.9.1 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.

This release includes fixes for bugs relating to the 'continue' and 'for' statements.

Arena 0.9.0 has been released. Arena is a scripting language with a C-like syntax.