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Seed7 2008-04-20 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: documentation improvements, gcd and modInverse functions for the bigint.s7i library, memory leak fixes, new example programs, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-04-06 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: support for bitLength, lowestSetBit, <<, <<:=, >> and >>:= for the integer and bigInteger types; a change in the priority of the << and >> operators; documentation updates; a new constructor for complex numbers from a float; updates to the BASIC interpreter example program; bug fixes; and other changes.

Sleep 2.1-beta 21 has been released. Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C.

This release includes: a ? command to evaluate predicates in the Sleep console, &skip and &consume refer to the same function; the addition of &readAsObject and &writeAsObject to read and write serialized Java objects; changes to the semantics of fork; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-19 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: the addition of functions to the scanstri.s7i library, improved support for the itf_eq and itf_ne primitive actions, improved handling of bitsets with negative elements, improvements to the BASIC interpreter example program, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-03-02 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: documentation updates; the addition of skipComment, getComment, skipLineComment, getLineComment and getNumber functions to the scanstri.s7i library; memory leak fixes; bug fixes; and other changes.

Seed7 2008-02-17 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: documentation improvements, new primitive actions, an update to the bas7.sd7 example program, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-02-03 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: compiler improvements, the renaming of the scanner.s7i library to scanfile.s7i, new libraries, updated example programs, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-01-20 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: string function optimizations, documentation updates, new and updated library functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2008-01-06 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improved documentation, better avoidance of multiple includes, new library functions, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-12-27 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: documentation improvements, the addition of the rpos function for performing a reverse search for a character in a string, new and improved examples, library improvements, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-12-10 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improved interpreter error reporting, improvements to the graphics.s7i library, new polyLine and fpolyLine functions in the draw.s7i library, compiler improvements, plus other changes.

Seed7 2007-11-25 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: updated example programs, new functions, interpreter improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-11-10 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: updates to the scanner.s7i library, documentation updates, improved timezone handling, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-10-25 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: a new example program, compiler and interpreter improvements, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-10-10 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: new date-related library functions, improved documentation, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-09-25 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improved compiler support for fil_tell, hsh_contains, hsh_excl, and str_idx; documentation improvements; improved example programs; and other changes.

Seed7 2007-09-09 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improvements to the interpreter stacktrace for uncaught exceptions, the addition of a gtk-server connection library, documentation updates, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-08-23 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improved support for nested exceptions, example program improvements, an include file containing the names and coordinates of stars, improvements to the intParse and socRecv functions, plus other changes.

Seed7 2007-08-07 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: improved handling of local functions, the renaming of the 'option' function to 'configValue', and other changes.

Seed7 2007-07-23 has been released. Seed7 is a strongly-typed, general-purpose language, offering object-oriented capabilities, exception handling, user-defined statements and operators, plus more.

This release includes: support for local functions, support for arrays with indices of any type, a new example program, optimizations, the addition of the *:= operator and the sqrAbs function, support for the conversion of integers to an enumeration type, plus other changes.