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Dao 1.0 Preview has been released. Dao is a dynamically-typed, multithreaded, object-oriented scripting language.

This preview release includes: a new type system and new data types, a macro system, improved support for concurrent and distributed programming, plus other changes.

Dao 1.0 beta has been released. Dao is a dynamically-typed, multithreaded, object-oriented scripting language.

This release includes: a change to the syntax of multiline comments, the organization of built-in functions into basic libraries, bit operations, and other changes.

Dao 0.9.6-beta has been released. Dao is a dynamically typed, object-oriented, embedable scripting language. It offers built-in numeric types and operations, as well as support for string regular expressions.

This release includes: support for multithreading; a concurrent, reference counting garbage collector; Unicode support; support for writing scripts in non-English languages; plus other changes.