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Neko 1.7.0 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes: reduced debug information memory size, a threaded interpreter, the addition of performance statistics hooks, bug fixes, and other changes.

Neko 1.6.0 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes: improved C stack overflow prevention, library improvements, bug fixes, optimizations, and other changes.

Neko 1.5.3 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes: a change in the $version format, changes to the bootable VM implementation, plus bug fixes and other changes.

Neko 1.5.2 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes: a new builtin $varargs, changes in mod_neko, bug fixes and other changes.

Neko 1.5 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

This release includes a new threading API, and bug fixes.

It has been announced that x86 just-in-time compilation support has been added to Neko. Neko is a high-level, dynamically typed intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages.

Neko 1.3 has been released. Neko is a high-level, dynamically-typed programming language, designed to offer a common runtime for different languages. NekoVM is a lightweight, embeddable virtual machine for executing Neko code.

This release includes: a number of bugfixes, API improvements, and other changes.

Neko 1.2 has been released. Neko is an intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages. NekoVM is a lightweight, embeddable virtual machine for executing Neko code.

This release includes: support for linking multiple .n bytecode files together into a single .n file, support for creating standalone executables from a single bytecode file, tail recursion optimizations, plus other changes. Neko is now released under the LGPL, rather than the GPL.

Neko 1.1 has been released. Neko is an intermediate language designed to offer a common runtime for different languages. NekoVM is a lightweight, embeddable virtual machine for executing Neko code.

This release includes: both Neko and NekoML compilers written in NekoML and available as bytecode libraries, thus being usable at runtime; an interactive console mode; the addition of $goto and switches to the Neko specification; rewritten and completed standard libraries; support for big-endian and 64-bit architectures; VM speed improvements; plus other changes.

Nicolas Cannasse has written an article discussing the NekoML programming language. NekoML is a "programming language with an ML type system using type inference and unification," and an implementation which generates Neko source code.

Future plans include rewriting the NekoML compiler in NekoML and reorganising and completing the standard libraries, in preparation for a Neko 1.1 release that does not use O'Caml.

NekoVM 1.0 has been released. Neko is an intermedia programming language, designed to offer a common runtime for different languages. NekoVM is a lightweight, embeddable virtual machine for executing Neko code.

Nicolas Cannasse has also announced NekoML, an O'Caml-like language and implementation that generates Neko code.