--- gforth/NEWS	2007/09/25 20:29:37	1.25
+++ gforth/NEWS	2008/11/02 17:38:44	1.32
@@ -1,39 +1,49 @@
+User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
 
-
-User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2007-09-12):
-
+Requirements:
+  At run-time requires libtool and gcc (for the libcc C interface) and
+                       gdb (for the disassembler (SEE)) on some platforms.
 Installation:
   support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT
-  report performance and functionality problems at end of "make"  
+  automatic performance tuning on building (--enable-force-reg unnecessary)
+  report performance and functionality problems at end of "make"
+  autogen.sh now exists
+License:
+  Changed to GPLv3
 Bug fixes
   Now works with address-space randomization.
   The single-step debugger works again in some engines.
   Many others.
 Ports:
   AMD64, ARM, IA-64 (Itanium): better performance
-  PPC: disassembler and assembler (32-bit)
-  Gforth EC: R8C, Lego NXT (complete?)
+  PPC, PPC64: disassembler and assembler
+  Gforth EC: R8C, 4stack, misc, 8086 work
+  MacOS X: better support
 Invocation:
   New flags --ignore-async-signals, --vm-commit (default overcommit)
+            --print-sequences
 Forth 200x:
-  extension queries (produce true for all implemented extensions)
-  REQUIRED etc. (not new)
-  [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED]
-  PARSE-NAME (new name)
-  deferred words (new: DEFER@ DEFER! ACTION-OF)
+  X:extension-query: produce true for all implemented extensions
+  X:required REQUIRED etc. (not new)
+  X:defined: [DEFINED] and [UNDEFINED]
+  X:parse-name: PARSE-NAME (new name)
+  X:deferred: deferred words (new: DEFER@ DEFER! ACTION-OF)
   X:structures: +FIELD FIELD: FFIELD: CFIELD: etc.
   X:ekeys: new: EKEY>FKEY K-SHIFT-MASK K-CTRL-MASK K-ALT-MASK K-F1...K-F12
-Unicode support (incomplete, documentation probably not up-to-date):
-  added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters
-  provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars
+  X:fp-stack (not new)
+  X:number-prefixes (partially new, see below)
 Number prefixes:
   0x is a hex prefix: 0xff and 0XfF now produces (decimal) 255
   # is a decimal prefix: #10 now produces (decimal) 10
   Signs after the number prefix are now accepted, e.g, #-50.
   ' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, 
                                        'a' now produces (decimal) 97
+Unicode support (currently supports only uniform encoding):
+  added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters
+  provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars
 New words:
-  \C C-FUNCTION (libcc C interface)
+  \C C-FUNCTION C-LIBRARY END-C-LIBRARY C-LIBRARY-NAME (libcc C interface)
+  LIB-ERROR (complements OPEN-LIB)
   OUTFILE-EXECUTE INFILE-EXECUTE BASE-EXECUTE (limited change of global state)
   16-bit and 32-bit memory acces: UW@ UL@ SW@ SL@ W! L! W@ L@ /W /L
   NEXT-ARG SHIFT-ARGS (OS command-line argument processing)
@@ -43,6 +53,7 @@ New words:
 Improvements/changes of existing words:
   S\", .\" now support \l, \m, \z, and limits hex and octal character specs.
   OPEN-FILE with W/O no longer creates or truncates files (no compat. file)
+  OPEN-LIB now understands ~ at the start, like OPEN-FILE.
   TRY...ENDTRY changed significantly, compatibility files available (see docs).
   The disassembler (DISCODE) can now use gdb to disassemble code
   Uninitialized defered words now give a warning when executed
@@ -58,8 +69,8 @@ Newly documented words:
 Environment variable GFORTHSYSTEMPREFIX (used by word SYSTEM and friends)
 C interface:
   exported symbols now start with "gforth_" (for referencing them from C code)
-  support for use of libffi (supplied with gcc) (undocumented) and
-  a C-compiler-based approach (requires C compiler at run-time) (incomplete).
+  libcc C function call interface (requires libtool and gcc at run-time)
+    alternative: undocumented libffi-based interface
 Libraries:
   depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation
   ans-report.fs now reports CfV extensions
@@ -77,6 +88,7 @@ Libraries:
  compat library:
   compat/execute-parsing.fs
 Speed improvements:
+  automatic performance tuning on building
   static stack caching (good speedup on PPC)
   mixed-precision division is now faster
   support for int128 types on AMD64
@@ -323,13 +335,13 @@ $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretva
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
 
 -----
-Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2006,2007,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Gforth.
 
 Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -338,8 +350,7 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
+along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
 
 
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