--- gforth/NEWS	2003/03/09 15:16:45	1.13
+++ gforth/NEWS	2007/06/02 13:22:31	1.22
@@ -1,39 +1,142 @@
-User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:
 
-added words: EDIT-LINE ID. .ID CONST-DOES> K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE
-  SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED]
-  PARSE-WORD S\" .\" \"-PARSE STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX? EXECUTE-PARSING
-  EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP
 
-Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more
-  than 2GB on 32-bit machines).
+User-visible changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.9 (up to 2006-05-07):
 
-Gforth can now deal with well with broken pipes in most situations.
+Installation:
+  support for DESTDIR, POST_INSTALL, INSTALL_SCRIPT
+  report performance and functionality problems at end of "make"  
+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?)
+Invocation:
+  New flags --ignore-async-signals, --vm-commit (default overcommit)
+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)
+Unicode support (incomplete):
+  added xchars words for dealing with variable-width multi-byte characters
+  provide 8bit (ISO Latin 1) and UTF-8 support for xchars
+Number prefixes:
+  0x is a hex prefix: 0xff and 0XfF now produces (decimal) 255
+  # is a decimal prefix: #10 now produces (decimal) 10
+  ' now only handles a single (x)char: 'ab is no longer accepted, 
+                                       'a' now produces (decimal) 97
+New words:
+  \C C-FUNCTION (C interface)
+  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)
+  NOTHROW (for backtrace control)
+  FTRUNC FMOD (undocumented)
+Improvements/changes of existing words:
+  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
+  Division is floored (disable with "configure --enable-force-cdiv")
+  Gforth (not gforth-fast) reports division by zero and overflow on division
+    on all platforms.
+Newly documented words:
+  S>NUMBER? S>UNUMBER?
+  EKEY keypress names: K-LEFT K-RIGHT K-UP K-DOWN K-HOME K-END K-PRIOR
+    K-NEXT K-INSERT K-DELETE K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 K10 K11 K12
+    S-K1 S-K2 S-K3 S-K4 S-K5 S-K6 S-K7 S-K8 S-K9 S-K10 S-K11 S-K12
+  CLEARSTACKS
+  FORM
+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) and
+  a C-compiler-based approach (requires C compiler at run-time) (incomplete).
+Libraries:
+  depth-changes.fs: report stack depth changes during interpretation
+  ans-report.fs now reports CfV extensions
+  fsl-util.4th: FSL support files (undocumented)
+  regexp.fs for regular expressions (undocumented)
+  complex.fs for complex numbers (undocumented)
+  fft.fs for Fast Fourier Transform (undocumented)
+  wf.fs, a Wiki implementation (undocumented)
+  httpd.fs, a web server (undocumented)
+  status.fs, show interpreter status in separate xterm (undocumented)
+  profile.fs for profiling (undocumented, incomplete)
+  endtry-iferror.fs, recover-endtry.fs to ease the TRY change transition
+ compat library:
+  compat/execute-parsing.fs
+Speed improvements:
+  static stack caching (good speedup on PPC)
+  mixed-precision division is now faster
+  support for int128 types on AMD64
+  workarounds for gcc performance bugs (in particular, PR 15242)
+
+
+User-visible changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
+
+Bug fixes (in particular, gforth-0.6.2 compiles with gcc-3.3)
+New words: LATEST, LATESTXT (LASTXT deprecated)
+Operating environment: Added optional support for a C interface built
+  on the ffcall libraries (more portable and powerful than the old
+  one, but still not documented).  To use it, the ffcall libraries
+  have to be installed before building Gforth (see INSTALL).
+Miscellaneous: Gforth-fast now uses static superinstructions (some
+  speedup on some platforms); generally this is transparent (apart
+  from the speedup), but there are lots of command-line options for
+  controlling the static superinstruction generation.
 
-Default dictionary size is now 4MB.
 
-vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs).
+User-visible changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
 
-gforth.el mostly rewritten.
+Bug fixes (installation on big-endian machines sometimes did not work)
 
-S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE).
 
-Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
-  the header format).
+User-visible changes between 0.5.0 and 0.6.0:
 
-Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
-  new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
-  stack and instruction stream).
+Changes in behaviour:
 
+S": interpreted use now ALLOCATEs the string (they live until BYE).
+Long word names (512MB on 32-bit systems) are now supported (change to
+  the header format).
 New threaded code execution method: primitive-centric (allows the
   following), hybrid direct/indirect threaded (easier portability),
   with dynamic superinstructions (typical speedup on Athlon: factor
   2).  New engine gforth-itc for dealing with some potential
-  backwards-compatibility problems (see "Invoking Gforth" in the
-  manual).
+  backwards-compatibility problems (see "Direct or Indirect Threaded?"
+  in the manual).
 
+Operating environment:
+
+Default dictionary size is now 4MB.
+Large file support on OSs that support them (i.e., files with more
+  than 2GB on 32-bit machines).
+Gforth can now deal well with broken pipes in most situations.
+vi tags files can be built with tags.fs (usage like etags.fs).
+gforth.el mostly rewritten.
 New image file format.
 
+New words:
+
+Keyboard input: EDIT-LINE K-PRIOR K-NEXT K-DELETE
+File input: SLURP-FILE SLURP-FID 
+Programming tools: ID. .ID WORDLIST-WORDS SIMPLE-SEE
+Conditional execution: [DEFINED] [UNDEFINED]
+Defining Words: CONST-DOES> ]]
+Input stream: PARSE-WORD EXECUTE-PARSING EXECUTE-PARSING-FILE
+String comparison: STR= STR< STRING-PREFIX?
+String literals: S\" .\" \"-PARSE
+Floating point output: F.RDP F>STR-RDP F>BUF-RDP
+
+Miscellaneous:
+
+Generalized prims2x.fs into Vmgen (see README.vmgen etc.); used the
+  new capabilities in prims (e.g., automatic handling of the return
+  stack and instruction stream).
+
 
 User-visible changes between 0.4.0 and 0.5.0:
 
@@ -212,7 +315,7 @@ $?)  added (SYSTEM) ( c_addr u -- wretva
 ' and ['] now give an error for compile-only words.
 
 -----
-Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,2000,2003,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of Gforth.