[svn:parrot] r42390 - trunk
barney at svn.parrot.org
barney at svn.parrot.org
Mon Nov 9 20:35:39 UTC 2009
Author: barney
Date: Mon Nov 9 20:35:36 2009
New Revision: 42390
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/42390
Log:
Added very first draft for 'New in 1.8.0'.
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Modified: trunk/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- trunk/NEWS Mon Nov 9 18:34:20 2009 (r42389)
+++ trunk/NEWS Mon Nov 9 20:35:36 2009 (r42390)
@@ -2,11 +2,36 @@
New in 1.8.0 (to be released on 2009-11-19)
- Functionality
+ + Added the new API-function 'Parrot_ext_call' for calling into C-land.
+ + Improvements to the fixed-size allocator.
+ + libjit frame builder
+ + The files installed by 'make install-dev' are now installed by 'make install' as well.
+ + Added experimental 'fetch' op.
+ + Added experimental 'vivify' op.
+ + The -I option now prepends item to the search path.
+ + Merged branch context_auto_attrs back to trunk.
+ + Merge convert_OSNAME into trunk.
+ + MultiSub PMCs now stringify to the name
+ of their first candidate instead of the number of candidates.
+- Platforms
+ + Started port of RTEMS.
+ + Use shared libs on NetBSD.
- Performance
+ + Use the the fixed-sized allocator in the Context and the CallSignature PMC
- Maintenance and cleanup
+ + Revamping of the parrot calling conventions
- Deprecations
+ + The last traces of the 'malloc' garbage collector were removed.
+ + The 'Parrot_call_*' functions for invoking a sub/method object from C are
+ deprecated. They are replaced by 'Parrot_ext_call'. (eligible in 2.1)
+ + Renamed Parrot_pcc_constants() to Parrot_pcc_get_constants().
+ + Deprecated from the Embedding/Extension interface were removed.
+ + The library YAML/Parser/Syck.pir has been removed.
+ + Removed the deprecated VTABLE function instantiate_str().
- Bugfix
- Tests
+ + New tests using the new test functions lives_ok() and dies_ok().
+ + Added test file t/op/annotate-old.t.
New in 1.7.0
- Functionality
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