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The Erlang eXchange Conference has been announced. It will be held on June 26 and 27, 2008, in London, UK.

tinypy 1.0 has been released. It is a small implementation of a subset of Python.

Ch 6.0 and Embedded Ch 6.0 have been released. Ch is a portable C and C++ interpreter, while Embedded Ch allows for the Ch interpreter to be embedded within other applications.

This release includes: the addition of debugging features in Ch Professional Edition and Embedded Ch, a new Ch IDE in Ch Professional Edition, new plotting features, and other changes.

PyCon Italia Due has put out a call for papers. The conference will be held from May 9 to 11, 2008, in Florence, Italy.

NASM 2.02 has been released. NASM is a portable x86-32 and x86-64 assembler, supporting a variety of platforms and object file formats.

This release includes: support for the XSAVE instruction group, %iftoken and %ifempty support, improved warnings, experimental support for DWARF in ELF64, bug fixes, and other changes.

The February 27, 2008 edition of Tcl-URL! is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Tcl community.

The February 26, 2008 edition of Python-URL! is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Python community.

IKVM 0.36 Update 1 Release Candidate 4 has been released. IKVM is a Java implementation running on Mono and the .NET Framework.

This release includes: code generation optimizations, support for loading Java types with assembly qualified type names, spport for removing assertions during compilation, bug fixes, and other changes.

Scala 2.7.0-final has been released. Scala is a statically typed, extensible, multi-paradigm language, offering object-oriented and functional support.

This release includes bug fixes.

Blue 1.4.2 has been released. Blue is a portable, high-level, dynamic programming language.

This release includes: improvements to the backtrace mechanism, and bug fixes.

CLIS has been announced. It is an interpreted, C-like programming language.

Kaffe 1.1.9 has been released. Kaffe is an open source, clean room Java virtual machine implementation.

This development release includes: build system improvements, support for JSR 166, a simplified threading subsystem interface, the removal of some bundled software, and other changes.

The February 19 to 26, 2008 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of OCaml 3.10.2 release candidate 1, OCamlcore Planet, other OCaml-related software releases, and more.

OCamlcore Planet has been announced. It is a feed aggregator, collecting OCaml-related news and blog postings.

haXe 1.18 has been released. haXe is a high-level, object-oriented language for developing Web sites and Web applications.

This release includes: improved ActiveScript 3 code generation, library additions and improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP 9.3.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new IPv6 compile flavours for Linux, Mac OS X and BSD; the reporting of roundtrip time from 'net-ping' in microseconds; and other changes.

SWI-Prolog 5.6.51 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: CHR and clp(fd) updates, a new toplevel prompting style, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Java Embedded Python 2.3 has been released. It allows for embedding CPython within Java applications.

This release includes improved array handling.

JCPP 1.0.7 has been released. It is a C preprocessor implemented in Java.

This release includes: improved error handling, support for #line directives, and bug fixes.

Shed Skin 0.0.27 has been released. Shed Skin is an experimental Python compiler which emits C++ code.

This release includes: support for more standard library modules, improved Mac OS X support, optimization of some builtins, bug fixes, and other changes.