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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.

Seed7 2007-07-10 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 socket support, the addition of a 'pos' function and 'not in' operator for the type ref_list, the renaming of the 'var_conv' operator to 'varConv', and other changes.

Seed7 2007-06-24 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 a sockets library, new example programs, the addition of the popen function, compiler improvements, improved heap management, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-06-07 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: the addition of an explanation of multiple dispatch to the FAQ, compiler and interpreter improvements, compiler support for writing a message when an uncaught exception is raised, plus other changes.

Seed7 2007-05-24 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: changes relating to the use of constant types, makefile changes, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-05-07 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: changes to the searching for include files, makefiles for compilation using MinGW, changes to bigInteger to use Karatsuba multiplication for bigger integers, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-04-19 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: improved compiler support for result variables, library improvements, new test cases, performance improvements, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-04-04 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 bigRational and bigInteger libraries; updates to the example programs; improved support and documentation for the split, join, log2, and bitLength functions; improved compiler support for the raise, log2 and split functions; plus other changes and bug fixes.

Seed7 2007-03-19 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: changes to the interpreter to only execute programs when they have no errors, the addition of the *:= operator, improved compile-time error messages, updated example programs, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-03-05 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: floating-point changes, changes to the exponentiation operator, basic support for exceptions in compiled programs, documentation updates, improved compiler code generation, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-02-19 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: support for hash tables, sets and console output in compiled programs; better primitive action code generation; support for multiple dispatch of interface functions; and other changes.

Seed7 2007-02-04 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 an abstract data type to create interface types, improved Unicode support, better handling of enumeration types, plus other changes.

Seed7 2007-01-18 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 support for interfaces, improvements to the X11 keyboard driver, and other changes.

Seed7 2007-01-04 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 support for 'in var' parameters, hashing changes, support for complex numbers, new functions, and other changes.

Seed7 2006-12-19 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: support for local constant declarations, improvements to the array comparison operators, improved support for arrays, exception handling that works with hash objects, plus other changes and fixes.