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May 12, 2008

GNU Guile 1.8.5 Released

Posted: 2008-05-12 05:57:14
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GNU Guile 1.8.5 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: improved I/O performance, an object-based traps infrastructure, bug fixes, and other changes.

May 01, 2008

Next Scheme UK Meeting on May 28

Posted: 2008-05-01 06:13:43
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It has been announced that the next Scheme UK meeting will be held on May 28, 2008.

CHICKEN 3.2.0 Released

Posted: 2008-05-01 06:10:31
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CHICKEN 3.2.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: new srfi-69 and data-structures units factored out from the extras unit, the addition of 'file-copy' and 'file-move' to the utils unit, and other changes.

Scheme2Js 20080430 Released

Posted: 2008-05-01 06:08:05
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Scheme2Js 20080430 has been released. It is a Scheme compiler that emits JavaScript.

This release includes: runtime and compiler bug fixes.

April 29, 2008

Wraith Scheme 1.32 Released

Posted: 2008-04-29 06:17:41
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Wraith Scheme 1.32 has been released. It is an R5RS Scheme implementation for Mac OS X.

This release includes bug fixes.

April 27, 2008

SigScheme 0.8.3 Released

Posted: 2008-04-27 09:52:47
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SigScheme 0.8.3 has been released. It is a small Scheme interpreter, suitable for embedded use.

This release includes test-related changes.

April 15, 2008

Gambit-C v4.2.6 Released

Posted: 2008-04-15 06:13:42
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Gambit-C v4.2.6 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: improved inlining of eqv?, support for inlining equal?, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 08, 2008

SigScheme 0.8.2 Released

Posted: 2008-04-08 06:20:55
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SigScheme 0.8.2 has been released. It is a small Scheme interpreter, suitable for embedded use.

This release includes fixes so that 'make check' does not pass all tests even if some fail.

Scheme2Js 20080407 Released

Posted: 2008-04-08 06:18:51
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Scheme2Js 20080407 has been released. It is a Scheme compiler that emits JavaScript.

This release includes new runtime functions and bug fixes.

March 30, 2008

SigScheme 0.8.1 Released

Posted: 2008-03-30 14:23:14
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SigScheme 0.8.1 has been released. It is a small Scheme interpreter, suitable for embedded use.

This release includes: the removal of the "\|" escape sequence, support for OpenBSD PowerPC and x86_64 in libgcroots, build fixes, memory leak and alignment fixes, and other changes.

March 24, 2008

CHICKEN 3.1.0 Released

Posted: 2008-03-24 06:19:04
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CHICKEN 3.1.0 has been released. CHICKEN is a portable Scheme compiler that emits C code.

This release includes: improved MinGW support, the use of PCRE 7.6 by the regex unit, additions and fixes to the posix unit, additions and fixes to the hashtable functions in the extras unit, and other changes.

March 20, 2008

Gambit-C v4.2.5 Released

Posted: 2008-03-20 21:25:19
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Gambit-C v4.2.5 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: build system improvements, working -prelude and -postlude options, the removal of a non-ASCII character from lib/_num.scm, and other changes.

March 13, 2008

Gambit-C v4.2.4 Released

Posted: 2008-03-13 06:15:13
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Gambit-C v4.2.4 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: improved handling of command-line parameters on Windows, bug fixes, and other changes.

February 21, 2008

GNU Guile 1.8.4 Released

Posted: 2008-02-21 06:16:27
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GNU Guile 1.8.4 has been released. Guile is a Scheme interpreter available as a library, designed for embedding within other applications.

This release includes: a number of bug fixes, SRFI 69 support, documentation updates, and other changes.

February 14, 2008

Gauche 0.8.13 Released

Posted: 2008-02-14 06:12:55
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Gauche 0.8.13 has been released. Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation.

This release includes: support for R6RS-style line breaking of string literals, new procedures, improved cross-compilation support, bug fixes, library improvements, and other changes.

February 11, 2008

dfsch 0.2.0 Released

Posted: 2008-02-11 21:39:37
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dfsch 0.2.0 has been released. It is a programming language drawing mainly from R5RS Scheme and Common Lisp.

This release includes: a unified module loading system, an object system based on generic functions, ports, regular expression support, a threading module, and other changes.

February 08, 2008

Gambit-C 4.2.1 Released

Posted: 2008-02-08 06:09:20
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Gambit-C 4.2.1 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: REPL command history persistence, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scheme 48 1.8 Released

Posted: 2008-02-08 06:06:00
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Scheme 48 1.8 has been released. Scheme 48 is an implementation of Scheme based on a bytecode interpreter.

This release includes: the addition of an experimental framework for asynchronous events from external code, 64-bit support, bug fixes, and other changes.

February 06, 2008

SCM 5e5 Released

Posted: 2008-02-06 06:22:56
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SCM 5e5 has been released. SCM is a portable, open source R5RS- and IEEE P1178-conformant Scheme implementation.

This release includes: the addition of bytes-append, bytes->string, and string->bytes; installation and build system improvements; support for SRFI-96; and other changes.

February 04, 2008

Gambit-C 4.2.0 Released

Posted: 2008-02-04 06:14:49
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Gambit-C 4.2.0 has been released. Gambit-C includes a Scheme interpreter, and a Scheme compiler that emits portable C code.

This release includes: Mac OS X installer fixes, support for foreign object types with multiple tags, a splitting of the compiler's -debug option into -debug-source and -debug-environments, line-editor improvements, documentation updates, improved (sqrt x) precision in some cases, bug fixes, and other changes.